February 2001 Charleston SCASA Meeting

February 23, 2001
Charleston SCASA Meeting

Location: North Towne Grill and Seafood
2093 Eagle Landing Blvd., North Charleston

6:00 pm Registration and Happy Hour (cash bar)
7:00 pm Dinner (Greek Buffet) $12 non-students, $8 students
8:00 pm Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Slate
Department of Biometry and Epidemiology
Medical University of South Carolina

Models for Disease Markers
(a talk for a general statistical audience )

Many diseases have associated longitudinal biomarkers that may provide some indication of disease onset and progression. This talk is an overview of a number of statistical models that have been proposed and used for biomarkers. Emphasis will be given to some recent approaches used for evaluating the relationship between prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer. These methods include a Bayesian model for dynamically assessing the probability of disease onset and latent class models for discovering structure in the joint biomarker-onset time distribution.

Contact Jason Liao for more information.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 21st