Past Activities

  • April 28th – 29th, 2016  Symposium

o    9th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Gregory Campbell, PhD., President of GCStat Consulting and Former Director of Biostatistics at FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health

o    Keynote Address: “Statistical Innovations  in Medical Device Clinical Trials”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 28th, 2016 Pre-Symposium Short Course
    • Presenter: Maura Stokes, PhD,  SAS
    • Title:Modelling Longitudinal Categorical Response Data

 

  • March 31st, 2016 Spring Chapter Meeting

o   Presenter : James V. Zidek, PhD,  University of British Columbia, Canada

o   Title: “Getting to the US 2008 0.075ppm Standard for Ozone and Beyond: The Statistician’s Story”

o   Location: Manhattan, KS

  • October 29th, 2015 Fall Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Susanne May, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
    • Title:The Rise and Fall of Hypertonic Saline(With Sugar on Top)”
    • Location: Overland Park, KS

 

  • October 29th, 2015 ASA Traveling Course
    • Presenter: Susanne May, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
    • Title: “Introduction to Clinical Trials”
    • Location: Overland Park, KS
    • Co-sponsor: KU Med Center

 

  • April 23rd – 24th, 2015  Symposium

o    8th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: David Morganstein, MA, President of the American Statistical Association, Vice President and Director of Westat’s Statistical Unit

o    Keynote Address: “Communications A Two-way Street”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 2nd, 2015 Spring Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: KyungMann Kim, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Title:Drug Safety and Vioxx® Controversy”
    • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

  • October 23rd, 2014 Fall Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Ronald L Wasserstein, PhD, Executive Director on the American Statistical Association
    • Title:Energizing the Future of the Statistics Profession”
    • Location: University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Nursing Atrium

 

  • April 24th – 25th, 2014  Symposium

o    7th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Scott Berry, Ph.D, President and Senior Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants, LLC

o    Keynote Address: “Innovation in Trial Design: Who let the Bayesians in?”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Overland Park, KC

 

  • April 24th, 2014 Pre-Symposium Short Course
    • Presenter: Simon Sheather, PhD,  Texas A&M University
    • Title:Modern Regression Methods for Predictive Business Analytics Using SAS JMP

 

  • April 10th, 2014 Spring Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Sudipto Banerjee, PhD, University of Minnesota
    • Title:On Complex Spatial Dependencies: Low-Rank Cross-Covariance Models”
    • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

  • October 17th, 2013 Fall Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Richard De Veaux, PhD Williams College
    • Title:Examples of Data Mining in Sports”
    • Location: Overland Park, KS

 

  • October 17th,  2013 ASA Traveling Short Course
    • Presenter: Richard De Veaux, PhD Williams College
    • Title:Successful Data Mining in Practice”
    • Location : Overland Park, KS

 

  • April 18th – 19th, 2013  Symposium

o    6th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Sharon-Lise T. Normand, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health

o    Keynote Address: “Statistical Methods for Assessing the Comparative Safety and Effectiveness of Medical Devices: Distributed Networks, Auxiliary Data Sources, and Learning Curves”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 18th, 2013 Pre-Symposium Short Course
    • Presenter: Thomas Love, PhD,  Case Western Reserve University
    • Title:Using Propensity Scores to Design and Analyze Observational Studies

 

  • April 4th, 2013 Spring Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter:  Hui Zou, PhD, Stanford University
    • Title:  “Variable Screening and the Kolmogorov Filter”
    • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

  • October 11th, 2012 Fall Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Xiaotong Shen, PhD University of Minnesota
    • Title:Simultaneous Supervised Clustering and Feature Selection Over a Graph”
    • Location: Diastole Scholar's Center, UMKC

 

  • May 3rd, 2012 Spring Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: Noel Cressie, PhD The Ohio State University
    • Title: The Statistical Nature of Satellite Retrievals”
    • Location: Manhattan, KS

 

  • April 26th – 27th, 2012  Symposium

o    5th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Richard Simon, PhD, Chief of the Biometric Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute

o    Keynote Address: “Biostatistics for Discovery, Prediction, and Decision Making in Biomedical Research”

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 26th, 2012 Pre-Symposium Short Course
    • Presenter: Bradley Carlin, PhD,  University of Minnesota
    • Title:Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials

 

  • October 27th, 2011 Fall Chapter Meeting
    • Presenter: David Morganstein, MS, Westat
    • Title: “The ASA: Recent Activities and Future Plans”
    • Location: KU Med Center
  • October 27th, 2011 ASA Traveling Course
    • Presenter: David Morganstein, MS, Westat
    • Title: “Analysis of Sample Data”
    • Location: KU Med Center
    • Co-sponsor: KU Med Center

 

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

 

  • April 7th – 8th, 2011  Symposium

o    4th Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

o    Keynote Speaker: Paula  Roberson, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Science

o    Keynote Address: Translational Science: Challenges for Biostatisticians

o    Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation

    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 7th, 2011 Pre-Symposium Short Course
    • Presenter: Frank E. Harrell Jr. Vanderbilt University 
    • Title:Regression Modeling Strategies

 

  • October 20th, 2010 Fall 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”
    • Location: KU Med Center

 

  • April 8th-9th, 2010 - Symposium

o   3rd Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"

    • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
    • Keynote Speaker: David L. DeMets, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
    •  Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 8th, 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  • April 2nd-3rd , 2009 Symposium
    • 2nd Annual "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
    • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael H. Kutner, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University.
    • Keynote Address: Analysis of Fixed Effects ANOVA Models with Missing Cells”
    • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

  • April 2nd, 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

 

·         October 17, 2008 Fall 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"
    • Location: KUMC School of Nursing Room 1050

 

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

 

  • May 8-9th, 2008 Symposium
    • 1st  "Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods"
    • Keynote Speaker 1: Dallas E. Johnson, Ph.D., Dept. of Statistics, Kansas State University.
    • Keynote Address: Some Messy Experimental Designs”
    • Keynote Speaker 2: Walter W. Stroup, Ph.D. Dept. of Statistics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    • Keynote Address: Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models To Design Studies and Assess Power”
    • Co-sponsored by ASA Chapter, KU Medical Center, and Cerner Corporation
    • Location: Cerner Vision Center, KC

 

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

 

  • October 17th, 2007 Fall 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"
    • Location: MU Medical Center, KC

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  • April 14th, 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

 

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

 

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

 

  • September 13th, 2004 Fall Chapter Meeting 

o    Speaker: Alan Agresti, University of Florida

o    Title of Presentation: "A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis"

o    Location: Kansas City, MO

 

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

 

  • April 2nd, 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

 

  • October 30th – 31st, 2003  Fall 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"
    • Title of Presentation 2: "Multiple Imputation for Item Nonresponse: Current Theory and Examples"
    • Location: Kansas City, MO

 

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