Chapter Meetings

April 26th, 2018 Spring Chapter Meeting
Presenter  : Soumendra N. Lahiri, PhD, North Carolina Stat University. 
Title           : “A Statistical Analysis of Crowd Sourced Mobile Data”
Location    : Manhattan, KS

April 26th, 2018 Seminar (Pre-Spring Chapter Meeting)
Presenter  : Soumendra N. Lahiri, PhD, North Carolina Stat University. 
Title           : “A Frequency Domain Empirical Likelihood Method for Irregularly Spaced Spatial Data”
Location    :  Manhattan, KS
Co-sponsor: Kansas State Uni.

September 29th, 2017 Fall Chapter Meeting
Presenter  : Walter Stroup, PhD, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 
Title              : “From graduate student at Kentucky to “gray hair” on the Nebraska faculty: How I got from there to here and what I learned along the way”
Location       : KU-Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS
Co-Sponsor  : University of Kansas, Dept. of Biostatistics

September 29th, 2017 Short-Course
Presenter  : Walter Stroup, PhD, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 
Title              : “GLMM-Based Tools for Planning and Design of Research Studies”
Location       : KU-Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS
Co-Sponsor  : University of Kansas, Dept. of Biostatistics

April 6th, 2017 Spring Chapter Meeting
Presenter  : Jeffrey M. Albert, PhD, Case Western Reserve University. 
Title           : “Causal Mediation Analysis: Recent Trends and Controversies”
Location    : Manhattan, KS

April 6th, 2017 Seminar (Pre-Spring Chapter Meeting)
Presenter  : Jeffrey M. Albert, PhD, Case Western Reserve University. 
Title           : “Continuous Time Causal Mediation Analysis”
Location    :  Manhattan, KS
Co-sponsor: Kansas State Uni.

November 11th, 2016 Fall Chapter Meeting
Keynote Speaker    : Andrea B. Troxel, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Location                  : KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS

November 11th, 2016 ASA Traveling Course
Presenter  : Andrea B. Troxel, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Title           : “Pragmatic Clinical Trials”
Location    : KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS
Co-sponsor: KU Med Center

March 31st, 2016 Spring Chapter Meeting

Presenter  : James V. Zidek, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Title           : “Getting to the US 2008 0.075ppm Standard for Ozone and Beyond: The Statistician’s Story”
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 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 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 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

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

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

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           : "Population Change Using the American Community Survey"
Location    :Washburn University Union, Topeka, KS


October 17, 2008 Fall Chapter Meeting
Speaker    : Dr. Jianqing Fan, Department of Operation Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Title           : "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
Title           : "Applied Survival Analysis"
Location    : MU Medical Center, KC

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

October 17th, 2007 Fall Chapter Meeting
Speaker    : Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Title           : "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           : "Introducing Students to Statistics"
Location    : Manhattan, KS

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

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

April 14th, 2006 ASA sponsored short course
Presenter    : Scott Berry, Ph.D., Berry Consultants
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             : "Sequential Hypothesis Testing with Applications to Clinical Trials"
Location      : Kansas City, MO

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

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

April 15, 2004 Spring Chapter Meeting
Speaker      : Jim Albert, Bowling Green State University
Title             : "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
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 1          : "Causal Inference Through Potential Outcomes: Application to Quality of Life Studies with 'Censoring' Due to Death"
Title 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            : "Successful Data Mining in Practice: Where Do We Start?"
Location     : Manhattan, KS​