BIOMETRICS SECTION NEWSLETTER, March 2012

Edited by Songthip Ounpraseuth, Biometrics Section Publications Officer

JSM session chairs needed!

Want to get more involved in JSM but aren't planning to submit an abstract? How about volunteering to chair a session? Chairing a session is an important responsibility and a great way to meet people. If you are interested in chairing a session, please contact the 2012 JSM Biometrics Section Program Chair, Timothy D. Johnson, at (tdjtdj@umich.edu).

Exciting Program at the 2012 JSM

The Biometrics Section is pleased to sponsor the following four CE courses and six invited sessions at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, CA:

CE Courses

1. Yuedong Wang (UC Santa Barbara): Smoothing Splines: Methods and Applications

2. Hongzhe Lee and Wei Pan (U Penn and U. of Minnesota): Statistical Methods for Genome-Wide Association, Copy Number Variants and Rare Variants Analysis

3. Rod Little and Trivellore Raghunath (U. of Michigan): Statistics Analysis with Missing Data

4. Tianxi Cai and Yingye Zheng (Harvard and Fred Hutchinson): Design and Analysis of Biomarker Studies for Risk Prediction

Invited Sessions

1. Recent Methodology Developed for the Design of Early-Phase Clinical Trials, Organizer: Thomas Braun

2. Statistical challenges and innovative solutions for correlated data, Organizer: Peiyong (Annie) Qu

3. Statistical methods for high-dimensional complex-structured object data, Organizer: Veera Baladandayuthapani

4. Biomarkers for Risk Prediction, Disease Detection, and Treatment Effect Estimation: Statistical Issues, Organizer: Layla Parast

5. Shrinkage estimation: Unifying different perspectives, Organizer: Bhramar Mukherjee

6. New Methodological Advances in Network-Based Analysis of Omics Data, Organizer: Ali Shojaie

The Biometrics Section thanks Annie Qu, our JSM Continuing Education Chair, and Timothy D. Johnson, our JSM Program Chair, for their wonderful job in organizing these courses and sessions.