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Seminar: ‘Create powerful, crystal clear improvement work manuscripts using the 3 pillars of the SQUIRE Guidelines’

Dr Louise Davies, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 30 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insight

Prof Jukka Corander, University of Oslo.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry Data

Dr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”

Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data”

Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"

Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations

Prof Richard Emsley, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic fibrosis"

Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"

Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression"

Professor Richard Riley, Keele University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 December 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data"

Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

Public Health Policy Talks

Recommendations for improving care and support in advanced COPD - Cambridge

Dr Morag Farquhar, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 12:30-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Breaking non-identifiability using genetic information : an application to metabolite data and gene expression"

Benjamin Frot, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"

Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Title TBC

Professor Rebecca Steorts, Duke University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 September 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"

Dr Nanhua Zhang, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 09 September 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"A non-stationary Bayesian model for across-site heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics"

Dr Sarah Heaps, University of Newcastle.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 July 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Exploring dependence between categorical variables: Benefits and limitations of using variable selection within Bayesian clustering in relation to searching for interactions"

Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Modelling the evolution of brain signals"

Dr Mark Fiecas, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference"

Prof Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes"

Prof Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Some aspects in high-dimensional Bayesian model choice"

Dr David Rossell, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:30-15:30

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Social Health Insurance and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour - Evidence from the Chinese New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme

Dr Miaoqing Yang, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, RAND Europe.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 25 April 2016, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression"

Dr Mark van de Wiel, VU University Medical Center and VU university, Amsterdam.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Design for ABC and history matching with Gaussian processes"

Dr Richard Wilkinson, Sheffield University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"The Implications of Differential Clustering for the Analysis of Binary Outcome Measures"

Dr Chris Roberts, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Understanding the role of secondary outcomes in multivariate meta-analysis"

Professor John Copas, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models"

Dr Athina Spiliopoulou University of Edinburgh.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"An Unbiased and Scalable Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Inference for Big Data"

Dr Murray Pollock, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

"Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease & Temporal Clustering of biological, medical and wearable data"

Dr Steven Kiddle MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Title TBC

Prof Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Modelling the cost of cancer: understanding inter-relationships between types of care

Dr Paula Lorgelly, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Long term health economic modelling of screening strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention (work in progress).

Dr Stephen Kaptoge, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 01 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar

Philip Chen, PhD Student, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Quality of data and handling missing data in costing studies.

Dr Adam Wagner, Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 16 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysis

Sue Todd, University of Reading.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

The value of CStat

Trevor Lewis, Royal Statistical Society.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Semi Markov models under panel observation

Andrew Titman, University of Lancaster.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators

Rhian Daniel, LSHTM.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Large sample results for tiny significance levels

Professor Kenneth Rice, University of Washington.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 29 April 2013, 11:00-12:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Scalable network modelling for personalized medicine

Sach Mukherjee, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI).

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Signal Identification for Rare and Weak Features: Higher Criticism or False Discovery Rates

Prof. Korbinian Strimmer, University of Leipzig.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Monday 08 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Statistical inference of virus phylodynamics

Oliver Ratmann, Imperial College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variants

Dr Augustine Kong, deCODE genetics.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2013, 10:30-11:30

Immunology in medicine

Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variants

Dr. Augustine Kong, hosted by John Todd, john.todd@cimr.cam.ac.uk

Dr. Augustine Kong (deCODE).

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2013, 10:30-11:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Conditional Density Estimation through Enriched Dirichlet Process Mixture Models

Sara Wade, University of Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Causal inference and stratified medicine: an illustration of trial designs incorporating biomarker information for mechanisms evaluation

Richard Emsley, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Generating partially synthetic data to protect confidentiality in survey microdata

Robin Mitra, University of Southampton.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p

Jérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team).

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Bayesian hierarchical models and recent computational development using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, with applications to pre-implantation genetic screening in IVF

Gianluca Baio, University College, London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Mendelian Randomization: the next ten years?

Professor George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Predictive analytic modelling in clinical trials (patient recruitment, randomization and drug supply)

Vladimir Anisimov, Qunitiles.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Modelling heterogeneity in gene expression using the matrix-variate normal distribution

Anestis Touloumis, EBI, Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 October 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Modelling the growth and transmission of infectious disease by linking epidemiology and population genetics

Daniel Wilson, University of Oxford.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 September 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Optimal data combination in seamless Phase II/III clinical trials

Lisa Hampson, Lancaster University..

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Congenial multiple imputation of partially observed covariates within the full conditional specification framework

Jonathan Bartlett, LSHTM..

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Setting sample size for common designs when evaluating interventions and biomarkers

Note the earlier than usual start time

Professor Toby Prevost, Kings College London.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

How to use simulation studies in understanding and evaluating statistical methods

Ian White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Some thoughts on multi-parameter evidence synthesis

Mr. Guobing Lu, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data

Dr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Which survival model? Model selection and model averaging issues for analysis of survival and event history data

Prof. Nils Hjort, Department of Mathmatics, University of Oslo, Norway.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical Studies

Dr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 December 2011, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes

Professor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30