|
The Methodology and Data Analysis Research Center is headed by Paul A. Thompson, PhD. The mission of the center is two-fold; to collaborate with clinical and research investigators on basic, clinical, and population research as well as to conduct primary research in biostatistical methods and reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology.
News
Presentations
Susan Puumala presented a poster entitled “Selection Bias in a Case-Control Study of Parental Infertility and Hepatoblastoma: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG)” at theCongress of Epidemiology meeting on June 21st 2011 in Montreal, QC.
Susan Puumala presented a poster entitled “DNA methylation levels in specific imprinting control regions in children conceived with and without assisted reproductive technology (ART)” at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting on April 4th 2011 in Orlando, FL.
James Pottala presented his research entitled “Improving Risk Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Events Using Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid Information” at South Dakota State University’s Computational Science and Statistics Seminar on March 29th 2011 in Brookings, SD.
James Pottala presented his research entitled “Grouping fatty acids by their covariance structure” at the Framingham Heart Study Research Conference, Framingham, MA, March 1st 2011.
Outreach
Ashley Miller is a Member-at-Large for the South Dakota Public Health Association
Paul Thompson and Susan Puumala discussed research with members of the University of South Dakota faculty at the invitation of Chuck Staben, Provost, USD.
James Pottala is a steering committee member for South Dakota SAS® Users Group 1997-2011.
James Pottala is a co-chair of the statistics, data mining, and analysis section for MidWest SAS® Users Group 2010-2011.
Upcoming Events
MidWest SAS® Users Group (MWSUG) Annual Conference
September 25-27, 2011
Overland Park Marriott
Kansas City, KS
www.mwsug.org/kc2011/
| 