Statistical Modeling for Medical Research
Organizer: Yangxin HUANG, University of South Florida, USA
Chair:Yangxin HUANG, University of South Florida, USA
Description: This session will consist of presentations that reflect statistical modeling in various data analysis in biological, medical and public health fields. These will include, but not limit to, mixed-effects model, hierarchical Bayesian model, semi-parametric NLME model, proportional hazard frailty model for analyzing longitudinal data, miss data, categorical data, binary data.
Speakers:
- Semiparametric Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models with Covariate Measurement Errors and Missing Data Lang Wu*, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Recursive Path Analysis for Categorical Variables Haihong Li*, University of Florida, USA
- Estimating and Testing the Variation of a Binary Treatment Effect Over Clusters in a Proportional Hazard Frailty Model Shibao Feng *, Robert A. Wolfe, and Lei Nie, Genentech, Inc. USA
- Tree-Structured Subgroup Analysis Xiaogang Su*, University of Central Florida
- A Bayesian Approach for Differential Equation Models with Application to AIDS Clinical Studies Yangxin, Huang*, University of South Florida, Hulin Wu, University Rochester