SECTION NEWS
Biopharmaceutical
Section Readies for
Annual Deming Conference
T
he program for the 64th Annual pharmacodynamic modeling, optimizing group-sequential designs,
Deming Conference on Applied effective communication through graphics, analysis of recurrent
Statistics and descriptions of two event data, Bayesian data analysis, and mixed models for longitudi-
short courses following the conference are nal ordinal and nominal data.
available at
www.demingconference.com. The The two short courses are Mixed Models for Clustered and
conference—set to take place at the Tropicana Longitudinal Data, taught by Donald Hedeker of the University
Casino and Resort, Havana Tower, Atlantic City, New Jersey, from of Illinois, and Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications, taught
December 8–10, 2008—is sponsored by the American Statistical by Bimal Sinha of the University of Maryland. Attendees will learn
Association and American Society for Quality. about the most recent developments and theories in statistical meth-
This year, speakers include the authors of eight books that will odology, as well as the statistical software used for these methods,
be published or have been published in recent years. Topics for the and be ready to apply the methods when they return to work. Books
tutorial sessions cover adaptive designs in drug development, sta- can be purchased in advance for conference attendees at around a
tistics in translational medicine, sample size re-estimation in group 40% discount.
sequential trials, statistical and computational pharmacogenom- For more information about the conference, contact Walter R.
ics, regression modeling of time-to-event data, pharmacokinetic/ Young, conference chair, at
demingchair@gmail.com.n
Conference Program
Monday, December 8, 2008
Roles of Adaptive Designs in Drug Development Statistics in Translational Medicine
H. M. James Hung and Sue-Jane Wang (FDA) Dennis Cosmatos and Shein-Chung Chow (Duke University)
Sample Size Re-estimation and Group Sequential Designs Statistical and Computational Pharmacogenomics
in Clinical Trials Rongling Wu (University of Florida) and Min Lin
Keaven M. Anderson (Merck Research Laboratories) (Duke University)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Introduction to Regression Modeling of Modern Applied U-Statistics
Time-to-Event Data Jeanne Kowalski (Johns Hopkins) and Xin Tu (University
David W. Hosmer (University of Massachusetts) of Rochester)
Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling: Concepts Optimizing Group-Sequential Designs: Adaptability - with
and Methods STOPP Software
Alan H. Hartford (Merck Research Laboratories) Edward Lakatos (BiostatHaven Inc.)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Effective Communication Through Graphics
Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Recurrent
Thomas E. Bradstreet (Merck Research Laboratories)
Event Data
Richard Cook and Jerry Lawless (University of Waterloo)
Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis Using
WinBUGS and BRugs
Mixed Models for Longitudinal Ordinal and
Brad Carlin (University of Minnesota) and Tanzy Love
Nominal Data
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Donald Hedeker (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Thursday, December 11, 2008 – Friday, December 12, 2008
Mixed Models for Clustered and Longitudinal Data Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications
Donald Hedeker (University of Illinois at Chicago) Bimal Kumar Sinha (University of Maryland)
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