McGill University
Biostatistics Reading Group
We would like to thank all session leaders and participants for the past year. We look forward to seeing you in the fall!
Winter 2013 (Mondays 12-1:15 pm, Purvis 48)
Dendukuri2012.pdf
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January 14, 2013
Dr. Benjamin Rich
Schneeweiss2009.pdf
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Background Reading:
Rosenbaum_Rubin1983.pdf
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Brookhart2006.pdf
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January 21, 2013
Dr. Erica Moodie
Zhang2012.pdf
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Tutorial:
Chakraborty2011.pdf
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January 28, 2013
Dr. Ashley Naimi
Robins1992.pdf
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February 4, 2013
Dr. Olli Miettinen
Epidemiological Research: An Introduction
Chapter 5 Etiologic Studies' Essentials
Chapter 6 Etiologic Studies' Typology
February 11, 2013
Dr. David Stephens
Griffin_Stephens.pdf
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Green1995.pdf
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February 18, 2013
Dr. Tibor Schuster
The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman)
Chapter 7 Model Assessment and Selection
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn
February 25, 2013
Dr. Olli Miettinen
Epidemiological Research: An Introduction
Chapter 11 Studies on Screening for a Cancer
March 11, 2013
Dr. William Astle
Falush2003.pdf
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Hoggart2003.pdf
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March 18, 2013 (12:30-1:45 pm)
Dr. Robert Platt
Commentaries and Featured Articles:
March 25, 2013
Dr. Andrea Benedetti
How to Program Simulations in SAS
April 8, 2013
Dr. David Buckeridge
Tokars2009.pdf
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Kleinman2006.pdf
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TBA, 2013
Dr. Robert Platt
Fall 2012 (Wed. 12:30-13:55 at Purvis 24)
September 12, 2012
Dr. Erica Moodie
Zeger1988.pdf
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Background Reading:
September 19, 2012
Dr. James Hanley
Background Reading:
Background Stories:
"This week is the 32nd anniversary of my introduction to ROC analysis. At home in Natick, Mass, on the evening of Aug 27, 1980, while the intervals between
AnnMarie's contractions were getting shorter, I was reading the manual for the FORTRAN program by Dorfman and Alf, as Barbara McNeil has contacted me to ask how to deal with the fact that 1 of
the 4 radiology readers in the 'is a radiologist more accurate if (s)he reads CT scan with patient's history in hand vs. if not?' study had not used all 5 rating categories. At 4 a.m. on the
28th, we went to Framingham Union Hospital, where Stephen (already 9 days late, with McGill calling every day to know when was I going to show up to teach EPIB607) arrived that p.m. We arrived in
Montreal on Sept. 10th, 1980, so 607 started a bit late.
Barbara gave me two very helpful papers for orietation, the (now very heavily cited) one by Charles Metz,
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/07/10/charles-metz-pioneer-imaging-science-1942-2012
http://radiology.uchicago.edu/page/metz-roc-software
who died this summer, and one by John Swets, whom I consider the founder of ROC analysis, and whose book
http://metz-roc.uchicago.edu/MetzROC/publications/review-of-john-swets-new-book
I must get and read.
I attach both of these papers as background reading, along with (as the primary reading) my own 1st roc paper, which I developed in 1980-1981 while I was still
relatively unknown and not yet involved in that many activities at McGill. For the computations, carried out in FORTRAN, I did not have any grant money to pay the mainframe computing bills, so I
used some of the small amount of computing money I was allocated for teaching 607 that Fall, and 621 (data analysis for epi students, Winter '81) while the usual teacher (Stan Shapiro) was on
sabbatical in Boston in 80-81. Programming steps and data were entered on punched cards.
Some reasons that 1st roc paper of mine became a citation classic: it was self contained; it had a worked example; it was distribution-free and was easy to explain
to, and be used by radiologists; it came at a time when VisiCalc (first spreadsheet, developed at MIT for repetitive 'what if' calculations in case studies in business plan projections;
forerunner to Quattro, and ultimately, when Bill Gates saw how much $$ he could make form it, Excel) was becoming popular on Apple II personal computers and liberated users from the mainframe and
FORTRAN.."
Jim, 2012-08-31
September 26, 2012
Please note that at the beginning of this meeting, Professor Andrew Piper, from the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has been invited to briefly talk about his work (http://literarytopologies.org/) and how statistics can be useful in his area of research.
Luc Villandré
Lewis2008.pdf
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October 3, 2012
Dr. Robert Platt
Pencina2012.pdf
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Background Reading:
October 10, 2012
Dr. David Stephens
DLR1977-JRSSB.pdf
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MengVanDyk1997-JRSSB.pdf
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October 17, 2012
Dr. William Astle
Yang2010.pdf
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October 24, 2012
Dr. Russell Steele
Seaman2001.pdf
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Carpenter2006.pdf
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October 31, 2012
Dr. Olli Saarela
Bartholomew1995.pdf
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November 7, 2012
Dr. Benjamin Rich
Dorresteijn2011.pdf
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Background Reading:
November 14, 2012
Dr. Andrea Benedetti
Benedetti2004.pdf
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Gurrin2005.pdf
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November 21, 2012
Dr. Aurélie Labbe
Brookfield2010.pdf
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Lambert2012.pdf
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November 28, 2012
Dr. Celia Greenwood
Benjamini1995.pdf
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