The Symposium will be held at on on April 23-24, 2015. This event will be sponsored by the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Cerner Corporation, and the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Symposium Keynote Address
Title: Communications A Two-way Street
David Morganstein, MA,
President of the American Statistical Association, Vice President and Director of Westat's statistical unit
Symposium Invited Presentations
Refining the Selection of DNA Methylation Biomarkers for Cell Mixture Deconvolution: The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer
Devin Koestler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Kansas Medical Center
Individual Causal Effects and Subject-Treatment Interaction
Gary Gadbury, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
Practical Considerations to Big Data Analysis - "Journey Through Electronic Health Records"
Victor Khangulov, Ph.D.
Engagement Manager, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc
Pre-Symposium Short Course
Course title - Logistic Regression: Model Building, Model Assessment, and Presenting the Results
Thursday April 23rd 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dr. David Hosmer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus the Department Biostatistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst