the Visiting Lecturer Program in Statistical Science

Participating Lecturers

John Andersen
Eli Lilly Research Laboratories
Indianapolis, IN

• Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Strategic Consulting with Decision Analysis
• The Role of the Statistician in Strategic Consulting

• Domestic Violence in Rural Minnesota
• Drug Development and Statistics: Applications to Animal Health
• Survival Analysis and Medical Research

• Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America
• The State Encounters the Household

• Utilisation des sries de Taylor en statistique bay\351sienne
• Plus ou moins 3%, 19 fois sur 20, l'estimation d'une proportion

• Ensuring Safe Food --- A Statistical Perspective
• What we know (that isn't so?) about the Gulf War Syndrome
• After So Much Progress, Why is Cancer Still a Scourge?
• Day-to-day Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Survival

• Methods in Meta-analysis
• Using meta-analysis to study child outcomes of divorce

• The Joys of Statistical Consulting: Personal Experiences at a Large Research University
• Estimating the Survival Probability of Trauma Patients
• The Bayesian and Frequentist Controversy in Statistics

• Application of Record Linkage Methods to Analyses of Sex, Drugs, and Rock-a-Bye Baby
• Sampling and Statistical Estimation in the 2000 Census

• Calculations and Comparisons of the Body Mass Index
• Probability Prior to Pascal
• London Plague Statistics in 1665

• La planification d'exp\351riences scientifiques en foresterie / Designing Scientific Experiments in Forestry
• L'chantillonnage dans les inventaires forestiers / Sampling for Forest Inventory
• Le rle du statisticien dans la publication de la recherche scientifique / The Role of the Statistician in Scientific Publication

• Of Mice and Men: A Statistician's Role in Cancer Research

• What's a nice statistician like you doing in a place like this? An Investigation of Video Lottery Terminals

• Estimating fish stock size using tagging experiments
• Estimating fish escapement from fishing gear

• How to beat the Massachusetts numbers game
• The Kennedy Assassination - A second shooter?
• Facing the graphical representation of points in n-dimensional space
• DNA fingerprinting; A problem in scientific testimony
• Optimal design for linear regression experiments

• Data Mining: Search for Hidden Knowledge or Opportunistic Hype?
• Decision Trees: Making Sense of a Forest of Models

• Examples of Bad Data Analyses
• Survival Analysis in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• How Statistics Can Help to Identify Disease Related Genes
• When is a disease cluster more than a chance occurrence?

• Trends in Infant Mortality: An Application of Spatial Statistics
• The Poisson Distribution: When the Fish Fits
• Geographic and Statistical Methods for Mapping Disease Incidence

• A Bayesian approach to Logistic regression using EXCEL
• A Robust Bayesian Does ANOVA
• Quantitatve refinements for comparisons of institutional performance
• Empirical Bayes revisited

• Using Information About Viral Genotype to Make Treatment Decisions for People Infected with HIV-1

• Statistical Issues in DNA Forensics

• Space-time Modeling for Real Estate Markets
• Relating Spatial Data Collected on Different Scales
• Explaining Patterns of Deforestation Through Population Pressure

• What is Correlation?
• Correlation and Simple Linear Regression
• Correlations computed grahically
• Location and Scale estimation with Correlations

• Statistics and Games: Rating the Chess Rating System
• The Approach to Statistics Based on Bayes Rule

• Retrospective Estimation of the Birth Prevalence for Delayed Onset Disorders: Application to Cystic Fibrosis in Nova Scotia
• Combining Nonlinear Regressions that have Unequal Error Variances and some Parameters in Common
• A Consulting Problem Involving Acceptance Sampling by Variables

• Farming, Sandbars, and Fungi: Statistics and the Environment
• A Walk in the Woods: Can a Statistician Help Biologists Find Rare Species

• How statistical issues drive the design of clinical trials: examples from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• What are clinical trials and why do we need them
• Examples of a variety of clinical trial designs

• Slumps and Hitting Streaks in Baseball: Statistical Explanations
• Quantifying Information: An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
• Understanding Cancer Through Statistical Models

• Return Period Estimation Using Extreme Value Methods
• Terrabyte-sized data sets and essential GID Displays
• Large Scale Physical Modeling of Events
• Experimental Design in the DNA sequence Assembly P Problem Using Genetic Algorithms for Global Optimization
• $tati$tical Con$ulting - You mean They Actually Pay You to Do This?

• On the use of statistical methods to screen populations for disease
• On the use of statistical methods to assess the probability of disease and to predict survival prospects after diagnosis
• On the use of statistical methods to assess the probability of `guilt' based on forensic evidence

• An Accusation of Examination Copying
• Bayesian and Classical Statistics: A Comparison
• Reasoning to a Foregone Conclusion

• Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials
• Statistics and the Globalization of Pharmaceutical Industry
• Statistics in the Federal Health Tree
• Opportunities for Statistics in Biology of the Post-Genome Era

• What is Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong
• Statistics in Your FACE, or Effects of Atmospheric CO2 on Forest Growth
• Seedling Survival in Forests

• What do Interpersonal Perception and Breeding Experiments Have in Common
• Randomness in Biological Processes: The statistical Story of Life

• The Role of Statistics in Clinical Trials
• The Role of Statistics in Epidemiological Studies

• The Classification Problem: Identifying an Object by Its Features
• Item Response Theory, or How to Grade a Multiple Choice Exam

• Reliability Modeling for Modern Composite Materials
• Statistical Process Control When Data Are Not Independent Normal Observations

• Neutralizing Antibodies and the Efficacy of Interferon Treatments in Multiple Sclerosis: A Statistical Case Study
• Statistical Design and Analysis Issues Arising in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials
• Statistical Challenges in Epidemiological Studies of Air Pollution and Human Health

• Mark Recapture Methods for the Study of Wild Animal Populations
• Use of Radio Tagging for the Study of Wild Animal Populations
• Population Dynamics Modeling of Wild Animal Populations

• Statistics and GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
• Examples of Statistical Analyses in the Natural Science

• Statistician as Ethicist: The Interface between Biostatistics and
• Bioethics in Clinical Trials
• Statistics at the Bench: Using Statistical Methods in the Laboratory Sciences
• Assessing Quality of Life: Statistics for Evaluating Pain and Discomfort

• Statistical science in genomics and molecular medicine
• Bayesian solutions to difficult problems in clinical trials

• The Value of Human Life: How is it Embedded in Statistical Analyses
• Combining Information: Meta-Analysis in Medicine
• Training Researchers in Bayesian Statistical Methods
• Bayesian Statistical Inference: What is it? Why Does it Matter?

• Applications of Probability and Statistics to Financial Modeling
• Actuarial Science as a Career
• Applications of Statistics to Business Problems

• The Geometry of Random Images / La g\351ometrie des images alatoires
• Statistics and Brain Mapping / La statistique et la cartographie ale

• Statistical Analysis of the fossil Record
• Ozone in Los Angeles Analyzed Using Graphics and Principal Components
• Graphical Analysis of Repeated Measures Data

• Waiting for a Bus and the Early Detection of Disease: what are the Common Elements
• The Woburn Story: Contaminated Drinking Water and Adverse Health Events
• How Often Should You See Your "Doc"?
• A Twentieth Century Medical Advance: Human Experimentation and Clinical Trials