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No Journal Club meeting during August, preparing for JSM
Date Topic Speaker(s) Time & Location Presentation
Thursday,
November 2, 2009
Methods of Moving SAS Output into Word and PDF John Keighley, PhD 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
Monday,
October 5, 2009
"Optimal two-stage designs for phase II clinical trials" by Simon, controlled clinical trials, 1988 Dr. Jo Wick and Dr. Jonathan Mahnken 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
Monday,
September 14, 2009
Parameter estimation for differential equations:a generalized smoothing approach Dr. Francisco Diaz 11:30 a.m.  
Monday,
September 7, 2009
    5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
 
Monday,
August 3, 2009
    5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
 
Monday,
July 6, 2009
Practice Session for JSM : 3 Talks Karin Bauer & Courtney Bokenkroger, Henry Yeh & Wendy He 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
 
Monday,
June 1, 2009
"Learning From Near Misses In Medication Errors: A Bayesian Approach"   5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
 
Monday,
May 4, 2009
    5030 Robinson Conference Room,
11:30-12:30
 
Tuesday,
April 6, 2009
The surprisal matrix and applications to exploration of very large discrete data sets Dr. Steve Simon 5030 Robinson Conference Room
11:30 - 12:30
 
Monday,
March 2, 2009
"A Modified Approach for Obtaining Sieve Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Time Series" Purna Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. 5030 Robinson Conference
11:30-12:30
 
Monday,
February 2, 2009
"Mixed Models Incorporating Intra-Familial Correlation Through Spatial Autoregression" An-Lin Cheng, Ph.D.,UMKC 5030 Robinson Conference
12:30-1:30
Monday,
January 5, 2009
"A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003."   5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30-1:30
 
Monday
December 1, 2008
"Modeling and Simulation to Adjust p Values in Presence of a Regression to the Mean Effect." Byron Gajewski, Ph.D 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday
November 3, 2008
"Sample Size Estimation for Longitudinal Designs with Attrition; Comparing Time - Related Contrasts between Two Groups." John Keighley, Ph.D 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday,September 8, 2008 "Developing a Biostatistical Collaboration Course in a Health Science Research Methodology Program Jianghua (Wendy) He, Ph.D 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Monday, July 7, 2008 "Center Member JSM 2008 Talks" Jo Edmonds, Ph.D., Byron Gajewski, Ph.D.,
and Jonathan Mahnken, Ph.D.
5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 2:00 PM
 
Monday, June 2, 2008 "The Analysis of Multiple Outcome Variables Part II (cont'd discussion)"   5030 Robinson,
12:30 PM
 
Monday, April 7, 2008 "Bayesians in clinical trials: Asleep at the switch" Jonathan Mahnken, Ph.D. 5030 Robinson,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday, February 11, 2008 "The Post=Modern Assault on Evidence Based Medicine" Steve Simon, Ph.D., Childrens Mercy Hospital 3018 SoN,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday, January 7, 2008 "Safety Evaluations in Transportation Research" Karen Richard (Midwest Research Institute) 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Monday, December 3, 2007 "Sample size calculation for
the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test"
  5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday, November 5, 2007 "The Application of The Bayesian
Dynamic Survival Model for Medical and Epidemiological Research"
  5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday, October 1, 2007 "Current Controversies in Data Monitoring for Clinical Trials"   4030 Robinson,
12:30 - 1:30 PM
 
Monday, September 10, 2007 "Aspects of Statistical Consulting
not Taught by Academia by academia"
  4030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, July 9, 2007 "JSM Presentations:
Distribution of Cronbach's Alpha for Ordinal Data: A Bayesian-Based Approach"
Byron Gajewski, Ph.D., Jonathan Mahnken, Ph.D.,
and John Keighley, Ph.D.,

"Evaluating SEER-Medicare Linked
Database Completeness for Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer",
Simon and Gajewski,
"Predicting Accrual in Clinical Trials: Bayesian
Posterior Predictive Distribution"
5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, June 18, 2007 "Performance of the Kenward-Roger Method
when the Covariance Structure is Selected Using AIC and BIC"
  5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, May 7, 2007 "Median Splits and Extreme Groups" Kristopher J. Preacher (KU Department of Psychology) G011 School of Nursing,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, April 2, 2007 "The Merits of Breaking the Matches:
a Cautionary Tale (p 2036-2051)"
Allan Donner, monica Taljaard,
Neil Klar
4030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, March 5, 2007 "The Use of Statistics in Medical Research:
A Comparison of The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine"
Alexander M. Strasak, Qamruz Zaman,
Gerhard Marinell, Karl P. Pfeiffer,
and Hanno Ulmer
5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, February 5, 2007 "New Developments in Latent Variable
Panel Analyses of Longitudinal Data"
Todd D. Little, Department of Psychology 3018 School of Nursing,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Monday, January 8, 2007 "Bayesian Clinical Trials By Don Berry"   5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Sunday, January 7, 2007 "Safety Evaluations in Transportation Research" Karen Richard, Midwest Research Institute 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, December 4, 2006 "Adaptive, group sequential and decision theoretic approaches to sample size determination
(p 3250-3269) by Cyrus R. Mehta, Nittin R. Patel"
  5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, Novermber 6, 2006 "A sequential Procedure for Monitoring Clinical Trials Against Historical Controls"   5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, October 2, 2006 "Varying Relationship Between BMI and All-Cause Death" Jianghua He, PhD
Florida State University
1026 Orr major,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Sunday, September 3, 2006 "No Meeting"      
Sunday, September 3, 2006 "No Meeting"      
Monday, July 17, 2006 "Calculating Power for Generalized
Linear Models Using the Wald Test"
Jonathan Mahnken, PhD 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, July 17, 2006 "A Comparison of Different Methods for
Identifying Outliiers in MRS Data"
Sandra Hall, PhD 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Monday, July 17, 2006 "Inter-Rater Reliability of Pressure Ulcer Staging:
Ordinal Prohibit Bayesian Hierarchical Model That Allows for Uncertain Rater Response"
Byron Gajewski, PhD 5030 Robinson Conference Room,
12:00 - 1:00 PM