The Department of Mathematics and Statistics’ Shoemaker Lecture Series will feature Dr. Zhezhen Jin, a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics and College of Public Health at Columbia University, for a pair of free, public on-campus lectures.
Jin will discuss biostatistics from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 11, and from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 12, in University Hall Room 4010.
Jin’s research interests include survival analysis, resampling methods, longitudinal data analysis, and nonparametric and semiparametric models. Jin has also collaborated on research in the areas of cardiology, neurology, cancer and epidemiology.
His April 11 presentation will focus on commonly used statistical methods for assessing agreement or concordance: intra-class correlation coefficient, Bland-Altman plot, Cronbach’s alpha, Cohen’s kappa and more.
His April 12 presentation will feature a real example from an Alzheimer’s disease study on the item selection and assessment. It is based in a 40-item test by the standardized University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test of olfactory function, for screening patients for the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Both lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Qin Shao, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at qin.shao@utoledo.edu.
