Statistics in Epidemiology
Roundtables, Short Courses
Highlight This Year’s JSM
Bill Barlow, Section Program Chair, and Dylan Small, Section Publications Officer
T
he Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE)
Section is pleased to serve as primary
Attention Students
sponsor of two short courses, four If tickets for roundtables with coffee or lunch are still available at the start of JSM, you
invited sessions, six topic-contributed ses- may purchase tickets for those sponsored by the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
sions, 15 contributed sessions, four round- and be reimbursed. Contact Bill Barlow at
williamb@crab.org for details.
tables with lunch, and three roundtables
with coffee at this year’s Joint Statistical
Development of biomarkers and medical
Moving Forward After 60 Years of
Meetings in Denver. We encourage our
diagnostic devices has accelerated. Their
Following A-Bomb Survivors
members and other interested persons to
rigorous evaluation is a high priority for
attend these courses and sessions. Here are
research, yet principles and techniques for
Topic-Contributed Sessions
the details:
the design and analysis of these studies are Sunday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Short Courses
not widely known. There are fundamental Methodological Challenges Encountered
differences among methods for therapeutic at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
Sunday, August 3, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
and etiologic studies. Moreover, much basic and Prevention in the Division of HIV/
Design and Analysis of Epidemiologic
methodology has developed recently. We AIDS Prevention
Studies of Gene-Environment Interactions,
will cover estimation and comparison of
by Raymond Carroll of Texas A&M
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)
Monday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
University and Nilanjan Chatterjee of the
curves and describe extensions to adjust
New Statistical Methods and Challenges in
National Cancer Institute.
for covariates that affect biomarker/test
Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Most common human diseases have a measurements. For assessing factors associ- Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
multifactorial etiology involving a com- ated with test performance, we will present Statistical Issues in Biomarker and Imaging
plex interplay of genetic and environmen- ROC regression methods. We also will con- Studies
tal exposures. Understanding how genetic sider how to evaluate the benefit of a new
Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
and environmental exposures interact and test when standard tests or clinical variables
Multimarker Analysis in Genetic
jointly influence the risk of a complex dis- exist. Second, we will consider the design of
Association Studies
ease can be important for both biological case-control studies most common in this
and public health purposes. We will present field. We will present sample size calcula-
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.–
the state of the art of efficient design and tions and optimal choice of case-control
12:20 p.m. Counting the Dead in Iraq
analysis for studies of gene-environment ratio and discuss the attributes and limita- Thursday, August 7, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
interaction by statisticians, epidemiologists, tions of matching controls to cases. Third, Assessing Bias in Pre-Clinical and Clinical
and geneticists. Topics covered will include we will consider prospective studies. Finally, Diagnostic Studies
population- and family-based case-control we will discuss problems incurred when the
designs, stratified sampling designs, mod- gold standard reference test is, itself, subject
Contributed Sessions
ern semiparametric methods for analysis of to error. A suite of freely available Stata pro-
Sunday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
case-control data, estimation of haplotype- grams will implement analyses. Prerequisite:
Spatial Variation and Risk Factors for
environment interactions, and flexible introductory statistics.
Disease
modeling approaches to empirical Bayes
methods. We will blend theory and applica-
Invited Sessions
Sunday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Applications of Survival Time Models
tions with illustrations using real examples
Monday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
and software implementation.
Current Issues in Molecular Epidemiology:
Sunday, August 3, 4:00 p.m.–5:50 p.m.
Monday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Heterogeneity and High Dimensionality
Models for Longitudinal Data
Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests and
Tuesday, August 5, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Monday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
Biomarkers for Classification, by Margaret
Causal Inference in Vaccine Studies
Model-Fitting
S. Pepe and Holly Janes of the Fred
Wednesday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
Monday, August 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Hutchison Cancer Research Center
Disease Prediction and Model Validation:
Genetic Association Studies
and Todd A. Alonzo of the University
Tools for the Real World
Monday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m.
of Southern California Keck School of
Medicine
Thursday, August 7, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Variations on Designs
Radiation Exposure Effects Research:
Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m.
Modeling Mortality
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