Past Activities

     

• October 27, 2011 Fall 2011 Chapter Meeting
  • Title: The ASA: Recent Activities and Future Plans
  • Presenter: David Morganstein, PhD, Westat
  • Location: KUMC

 

• October 27, 2011 ASA Traveling Course
  • Title: Analysis of Sample Data
  • Presenter: David Morganstein, PhD, Westat
  • Location: KUMC
  • Co-sponsor: KUMC

 

• April 28, 2011 Spring Chapter Meeting
  • Title: Simple Modeling Strategies for Biological Data
  • Presenter: James Booth, PhD Cornell University
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 7-8, 2011 Symposium on "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
  • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
  • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 7, 2011 Pre-Symposium Short Course
  • Title: Regression Modeling Strategies
  • Presenter: Frank E. Harrell Jr. Vanderbilt University 
• Fall 2010 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. Keith Muller of the University of Florida
  • Title: A Good N Despite a Bad Start: A Practical Guide to Easy Internal Pilots:
  • Date: October 20, 2010
  • Location: KUMC (The dinner will be held in Hixson Atrium with the chapter meeting in Wahl Hall East)

 

• April 8-9, 2010 Symposium on "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
  • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
  • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 8, 2010 Pre-Symposium Short Course
  • Title: Introduction to the design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials
  • Presenter: Allan Donner, PhD FRSC, University of Western Ontario

 

• Spring 2010 Chapter Meeting
  • Speaker: Karen Kafadar, University of Indiana
  • Title: Effect of Length Biased Sampled Sojourn Times on the Survival Distribution from Screen-Detected Diseases
  • Date: March 11, 2010
  • Location: Holiday Inn, Manhattan

 

• Fall 2009 Chapter Meeting  
  • Speaker: Dr. peter Austin, University of Toronto
  • Title: Statistical issues in provider profiling: optimal decisions about provider performance and assessing variability
  • Date: November 17, 2009
  • Location: KU Med Center, School of Nursing

 

• Spring 2009 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. Howard Hogan, US Bureau of the Census
  • Title of Presentation: "Population Change Using the American Community Survey"
  • Date: April 13, 2009
  • Location:Washburn University Union, Topeka, KS

 

• April 2-3, 2009
  • Symposium on "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
  • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
  • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• April 2, 2009 Pre-Symposium Short Course
  • Title: Evaluating Probability of Success for Internal Decision Making in Early Drug Development
  • Presenters: Narindra Nangia PhD, Martin King PhD, and Jane qian, PhD Abott Laboratories

 

 

 

• Fall 2008 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. Jianqing Fan, Department of Operation Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
  • Title of Presentation: "Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Semiparametric Estimation of Covariance Function"
  • Date: October 17, 2008
  • Location: KUMC School of Nursing Room 1050

 

• October 10, 2008-ASA sponsored short course
  • Presenter: Suzanne May
  • Course title: Applied Survival Analysis
  • Location: MU Medical Center, KC

 

• April 28, 2008
  • Symposium on "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
  • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
  • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

• Spring 2008 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. David Banks, Department of Statistics, Duke University
  • Title of Presentation: "Statistical Issues in Metabolomics"
  • Date: March 27, 2008
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• Fall 2007 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  • Title of Presentation: "The True meaning of i.i.d. in (Applied) Statistics"
  • Date: October 17, 2007
  • Location: MU Medical Center, KC

 

• Spring 2007 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dr. Allan Rossman, Cal Poly
  • Title of Presentation: "Introducing Students to Statistics"
  • Date: April 5, 2007
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• Fall 2006 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Morgan C. Wang, University of Central Florida
  • Title of Presentation: "Maximum Likelihood Regression Trees"
  • Date: October 16, 2006
  • Location: Kansas City, MO 

 

• Spring 2006 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Shane Reese, Brigham Young University
  • Title of Presentation: "Hierarchical Models for Permutations"
  • Date: April 27, 2006
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 14, 2006 - ASA sponsored short course
  • Presenter: Scott Berry, Ph.D., Berry Consultants
  • Course Title: Bayesian Clinical Trials
  • Location: University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

 

• Fall 2005 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Alex Dmitrienko, Global Statistical Science, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Title of Presentation: "Sequential Hypothesis Testing with Applications to Clinical Trials"
  • Date: October 19, 2005
  • Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• Spring 2005 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
  • Title of Presentation: "Bayesian Clinical Trials"
  • Date: April, 2005
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• Fall 2004 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Alan Agresti, University of Florida
  • Title of Presentation: "A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis"
  • Date: September 13, 2004
  • Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• Spring 2004 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Jim Albert, Bowling Green State University
  • Title of Presentation: "A New Look at an Old Baseball Statistic"
  • Date: April 15, 2004
  • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

• April 2, 2004 - ASA sponsored short course
  • Presenter: Charles Davis, Ph.D., Elan Pharmaceuticals
  • Course Title: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Repeated Measurements
  • Location: Helzberg School of Management, Rockhurst University

 

• Fall 2003 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Donald Rubin, Harvard University
  • Title of Presentation 1: "Causal Inference Through Potential Outcomes: Application to Quality of Life Studies with 'Censoring' Due to Death"
  • Date: October 30, 2003
  • Title of Presentation 2: "Multiple Imputation for Item Nonresponse: Current Theory and Examples"
  • Date: October 31, 2003
  • Location: Kansas City, MO

 

• Spring 2003 Chapter Meeting 
  • Speaker: Dick DeVeaux, Williams College
  • Title of Presentation: "Successful Data Mining in Practice: Where Do We Start?"
  • Date: March 26, 2003
  • Location: Manhattan, KS