Gordon Smyth Home: Talks
Presentations before 2010
1977–2001
- 1977 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- 1981 Department of Statistics, Australian National University
- 1981 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- 1982 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- 1984 Australian Statistical Conference, Brisbane
- 1986 How to fit exponentials if you must, Program in Statistics
and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1986 GLIM, Interest Group in Statistical Computing, University of
California, Santa Barbara
- 1986 Department of Statistics, Australian National University
- 1986 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- 1986 Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, USA
- 1987 Department of Statistics, Australian National University (twice)
- 1987 Department of Statistics, University of Sydney
- 1987 Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- 1987 When randomization fails: some lessons from the Minneapolis
Spouse Abuse Experiment (with R.A. Berk), Joint Statistical Meetings,
San Francisco, August 1987. (Invited talk)
- 1988 Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
- 1988 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
- 1988 Biometrics Unit, Cornell University
- 1988 Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
- 1988 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
- 1988 Program in Statistics and Applied Probability, University of
California, Santa Barbara
- 1989 Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University
- 1989 StatComp, Adelaide
- 1990 Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1990 Australia Statistical Conference, Sydney
- 1990 Some experiences in teaching consulting and data analysis,
Third International Conference and Teaching Statistics, Dunedin, August
1990. (Invited talk)
- 1991 Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1991 StatComp~91, Coolangatta
- 1992 School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
- 1992 Australian Statistical Conference, Perth
- September 28, 1993 ``Analysis of residuals and REML estimation for
Poisson-gamma generalized linear models.'' Statistics '93 (StatComp),
Wollongong.
- December 1, 1993 ``Stochastic modelling of anthracnose in Stylosanthes
scabra.'' Statistical Society of Australia, South Australian Branch.
- Informal seminar series on generalized linear models (2 hours),
Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, November 28 to December 5,
1993.
- Series of 7 talks on generalized linear models, Department
Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California,
December 24, 1993, to February 5, 1994.
- March 29, 1994 ``Double generalized linear models and other thoughts on
variance function estimation.'' School of Statistics, Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane.
- June 16, 1994 ``REML in generalized linear models: a conditional
approach.'' 26th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and
Statistics, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
- 12th Australian Statistical Conference, Clayton, Victoria, 4--8 July
1994
- JMP Statistical Software. Workshop on PC Statistical Programs,
Statistical Society of Australia, Queensland Branch. 6 July 1995, Brisbane.
- Overdispersion and Dependence. Statistical Society of Australia, South
Australian Branch. 12 July 1995, Adelaide.
- Randomized Percentile Residuals. Joint Statistical Meetings. 15 August
1995, Orlando, Florida.
- What is Overdispersion? 31 August 1995, School of Statistics, University
of Minnesota.
- A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume. 8
September 1995, American Statistical Society, Red River Branch.
- What is Overdispersion? 10 October 1995, Department of Statistics,
University of British Columbia.
- What is Overdispersion? 12 October 1995, Department of Statistics, Simon
Fraser University.
- JMP Statistical Software. 7 November 1995, Department of Operations
Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
- What is Overdispersion? 13 November 1995, Department of Statistics,
Oregon State University.
- A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume. 13
March 1996, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
- Dispersion Modelling in Non-normal Regression. 3 April 1996, Department
of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School.
- An Exact Conditional Interpretation for REML. 25 April 1996, Department
of Statistics, University of British Columbia.
- Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models. 23 May 1996, Department of
Statistics, University of British Columbia.
- What is Overdispersion? 10 June 1996, Department of Statistics,
University of Hong Kong.
- Using S-Plus to Teach Data Analysis. 1 July 1996, Department of
Mathematics, University of Queensland.
- Robust Frequency Estimation Using Elemental Sets. 9
July 1996, Sydney Statistical Congress, Sydney.
- Regression Analysis of Quantity Data with Exact Zeroes. 18 July 1996,
Second Australia-Japan Workshop on Stochastic Models, Gold Coast.
- What is Overdispersion? 3 October 1996, Department of Mathematics and
Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.
- Using S-Plus to Teach Data Analysis. 23 October 1996, Biostatistics
Discussion Group, University of Queensland.
- Using Minitab to Analyse Physiotherapy and Related Data. Department of
Physiotherapy, University of Queensland. 10 March 1997, Brisbane.
- An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Biometrics 97. 3 December
1997, Wirina, South Australia.
- An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Statistical Society of
Australia, Queensland Branch. 16 November 1998, Brisbane.
- An Empirical Bayes Approach to Random Effects. Department of Statistics
and Demography, Odense University. 1 February 1999, Odense, Denmark.
- A Stochastic Model for Disease Growth in a Tropical Pasture Legume.
Jutland's Society for Longitudinal Studies. 3 March 1999, Odense, Denmark.
- Extending Smoothing Splines to Non-Normal Data. Semi-parametric Study
Group, Department of Statistics and Demography, Odense University. 23 March
1999, Odense.
- Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics.
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Technology. 1 April 1999, Atlanta.
- Fitting Tweedie's Compound Poisson Model to Insurance Claims Data:
Dispersion Modelling. 52nd Session of the International Statistical
Institute, Helsinki 1999. 11 August 1999.
- Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics.
Department of Theoretical Statistics, University of Århus. 30 September
1999, Århus.
- Double Generalized Linear Models: Approximate REML and Diagnostics.
Biometrics Research Unit, Danish Institute for Agricultural Science. 1
December 1999, Foulum.
- Likelihood-Based Tests for Poisson Variation Against General
Alternatives. 35th Symposium on the Interface: Computer Science and
Statistics. 6 April 2000, New Orleans.
- Statistical Inferences from the EPA Ambient Water Data. Environmental
Protection Agency, Indooroopilly, Queensland. 3 July September 2000,
Brisbane.
- Statistical Inferences from the EPA Ambient Water Data. Statistical
Society of Australia, South Australian Branch. 21 September 2000, Adelaide.
- REML. Biometrics SA. December 2000, Adelaide.
- Censored regression trend analyses for ambient water quality data.
International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Odense, Denmark, 5 July
2001.
- Trend analyses for ambient water quality data. Australasian Biometrics
Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 December 2001.
2002
- Microarray data analysis. NHMRC Program Retreat, 26 February 2002.
- Print-order normalization of microarray data. Bioinformatics Seminar,
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 18 March 2002.
- Statistical issues in microarray data analysis, Annual General Meeting,
Statistical Society of Australia Victoria Branch, Melbourne, 26 March 2002
- Statistical issues in microarray data analysis, Department of Statistics,
La Trobe, Melbourne 24 May 2002
- Print-order normalization of microarray data, 16th Australian Statistical
Conference, Canberra, 11 July 2002
- Judging differential expression in microarray
experiments: penalized t-statistics, CBiS Microarray Workshop,
Canberra,
12 July 2002
- Quantitative quality measures, Australian Microarray Conference, Couran
Cove, 26 July 2002
- Statistical issues in microarray data analysis, School of Mathematical
Sciences, Monash University, 14 August 2002
- Identifying differentially expressed genes in
designed microarray experiments,
IIIe Cycle Genomic Days Symposium, DNA Microarrays in Biology and Medicine,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 13 September 2002, Invited Speaker
- Background correction and quality measures for microarray experiments,
Institute of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
Switzerland, 19 September 2002
- Adventures with microarrays and
transcription factors, Division of Genetics and Bioinformatics, WEHI,
Melbourne, 8 October 2002
- Statistics for Microarray Data Analysis (One Day Course), Australian
Genstat Conference, Perth, 2 December 2002, Invited Presenter (with Terry
Speed and Natalie Thorne)
- Identifying differentially expressed genes in designed microarray
experiments, Statistical Society of Australia South Australian Branch,
Adelaide, 11 December 2002
2003
- Design of microarray experiments, Analysis and Bioinformatic Issues
Relating to Microarray Expression Profiling: An ACRF Sponsored Meeting, St
Vincent’s Hospital Campus, Melbourne, 12 Feb 2003
- Identifying differentially expressed genes, Analysis and Bioinformatic
Issues Relating to Microarray Expression Profiling: An ACRF Sponsored Meeting,
St Vincent’s Hospital Campus, Melbourne, 12 Feb 2003
- Microarray data analysis, Victor Chang Institute, Sydney, 27 March 2003
- Adaptive normalization for spotted microarrays, Bioinformatics Group
Seminar, WEHI, Melbourne, 29 April 2003
- Empirical Bayes and mixed linear models for assessing differential
expression in cDNA microarray experiments, Theme Conference of the
Royal Statistical Society: Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics, Diepenbeek,
Belgium, 16 July 2003 (PDF)
- Analysing complex microarray experiments, Australian Microarray
Conference, Couran Cove, 24 July 2003
- Session Chair, Australian Microarray Conference, Couran Cove, 25 July 2003
- Analysing complex microarray experiments, Division of Genetics and
Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, Melbourne 19 August 2003
- Microarray data analysis, CRC-CGF Bioinformatics Course, University of
Melbourne, 10 September 2003
- Linear models for microarray data, Microarray Practical Session, CRC-CGF
Bioinformatics Course, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 10 September 2003
(with James Wettenhall)
- Bioinformatics in a medical research institute, Australian Undergraduate
Students' Computing Conference, University of Melbourne, 25 September 2003,
Special Guest Speaker
- Common parameters in parallel regressions: extracting information from
within-array replicate spots, Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, Melbourne 7
October 2003
- Design and Analysis of Spotted Microarray Experiments,
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics,
Australian National University, Canberra, 5 December 2003, Keynote speaker.
2004
- Analysis of replicated microarray experiments, Statistical Methods in
Microarray Analysis Tutorial, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National
University of Singapore 2 January 2004. (PDF)
- Analysis of complex microarray experiments, Statistical Methods in
Microarray Analysis Tutorial, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National
University of Singapore 3 January 2004. (PDF)
- Analysis of designed microarray experiments, Hands-On Lab, Statistical
Methods in Microarray Analysis Tutorial, Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
National University of Singapore 3 January 2004. (PDF)
- Common parameters in parallel regressions: extracting information from
within-array replicate spots, Statistical Methods in Microarray Analysis,
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 9
January 2004, Invited speaker
- Design and Analysis of Spotted Microarray Experiments, Department of
Mathematics, University of Melbourne, 26 May 2004. Presentation to honours
class.
- Statistics for Microarray Data Analysis Short Course, XXIInd International
Biometrics Conference, Cairns, 11 July 2004 (with Matthew Ritchie, Jean Yee
Hwa Yang and James Wettenhall). Invited presenter.
- Putting the Squeeze on Parameters in Microarray Data Analysis, Australian
Statistical Conference, Cairns, 13 July 2004, Keynote speaker
- Truth and Beauty in Microarray Data Analysis, Institute Talk, Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, 25 August 2004.
- Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data, Melbourne Bioinformatics Course,
16 September 2004.
- 4th Australian Microarray Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2
October 2004. Session chair.
- Bioinformatics & the Biologist, 4th Australian Microarray Conference,
Fremantle, Western Australia, 2 October 2004. Invited discussant.
- Bivariate (Individual Channel) Analysis of Two-Colour Microarray Data,
Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, Melbourne, 19 October 2004.
2005
- Analysing time course microarray experiments. Genetics and Bioinformatics Division, WEHI, 8 March 2005.
- Individual channel analysis of two-colour microarray data. Invited
Session IPM 11: Computational Tools For Microarray Analysis, 55th Session of the International Statistics Institute, Sydney, 12 April
2005. Invited speaker.
- Truth in microarray data analysis: comparing technologies and comparing
methods of analysis. Workshop on Large Scale Gene Expression Analysis,
Queensland Bioinformatics Consortium in conjunction with Bioinformatics
Australia, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, 20 April 2005. Invited
speaker.
- Parameter shrinkage and separate channel analysis of two-colour microarray
data. AMSI Symposium: Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Markov Chain Monte
Carlo, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 July 2005. Invited speaker.
- 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Sydney, 10-15 July
2005. Chair, Scientific Programme Committee.
- Microarray Statistical Analysis. 7th Melbourne Bioinformatics
Course, University of Melbourne, 21 July 2005.
- Differential expression analysis of microarray experiments. BioC2005 Bioconductor Conference, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
Seattle, 16 August 2005. Invited presenter.
- Parameter shrinkage and separate channel analysis of two-colour microarray
data. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of California, San Francisco, 18 August 2005.
- Random effects, heteroscedastic regression, algorithms and microarray
data analysis. Symposium on Optimisation and Data Analysis: In honour of Professor Mike Osborne's 70th birthday, 21-23
September 2005, Australian National University, Canberra. Keynote speaker.
- Parameter shrinkage and separate channel analysis of two-colour
microarray data. Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, 4 October 2005.
- Two colour microarrays: a calibration data set for evaluating
microarray platform accuracy. BioInfoSummer 2005, Australian National
University, Canberra, 1 December 2005. Invited speaker.
- Analysis of microarray time course experiments.
International Statistics Conference “Statistics in the Technological Age, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29 December 2005. Invited speaker.
2006
- Calibrating microarray platform accuracy, Discovery Science and Biotechnology, Melbourne, 3-5 May 2006. Invited speaker.
- Evaluating Microarray Accuracy (and Comparing Platforms), Statistics for gene and protein expression, Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 10-12 May 2006. Invited speaker.
- Parameter Shrinkage and Separate Channel Analysis of Two-Colour
Microarray Data, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton,
Cambridge, 15 May 2006. Invited seminar.
- Serial analysis of gene expression: improving tests of differential
expression by parameter moderation, ASC/NZSA 2006, Australian
Statistical Conference/ New Zealand Statistical Association 2006, Auckland, 3-7 July 2006. Invited
speaker.
- A two-colour microarray RNA pooling experiment, WEHI
Bioinformatics Division, 22 August 2006.
- Statistical analysis of microarray data, 8th Melbourne
Bioinformatics Course, 7 September 2006.
- Microarrays in biomedical research, Genetics for Epidemiologists and Epidemiology for Geneticists,
15th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Epidemiological
Association, 17-19 September 2006. Invited speaker.
- Analysis of time-course microarray experiments, ComBio2006, Brisbane, 24-28 September 2006. Invited speaker.
- Finding patterns in microarray expression data,
Australian Health and Medical Research Congress,
Melbourne, 26 Nov-1 Dec 2006. Invited speaker.
2007
- Repeatability of microarray experiments, Bioinformatics Division
Seminar, WEHI, 20 March 2007.
- Borrowing strength in microarray data analysis, Bioinformatics Winter School
in Mathematical and Computational Biology, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, 28 June 2007.
Invited speaker.
- Hard and soft parameter shrinkage in microarray data analysis, Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City,
USA, 1 Aug 2007.
Invited speaker (in Contributed Topic session).
- Differential expression analysis of microarray experiments.
BioC2007
Bioconductor Conference, Seattle, USA, 6 August 2007. Invited short course
presenter.
- Moderated statistical tests for digital gene expression data, Statistics Seminar, University of Melbourne, 23 August 2007.
- Moderated statistical tests for digital gene technology. School of Mathematics
Symposium, University of Adelaide, 19 October 2007.
Invited speaker.
- Differential expression analysis of microarray data.
University of Copenhagen, 6 November 2007. Invited short course presenter.
- Microarrays, Linear Models and Medical Biology. Bioinformatics
workshop "From Bioinformatics to Medical Systems Biology", German Cancer
Research Center, Heidelberg, 13 November 2007. Keynote speaker.
- Borrowing strength in microarray data analysis. BioInfoSummer
2007, Australian National University, Canberra,
13 December 2007. Invited speaker.
2008
- Model-based background correction for two-colour microarray data,
Bioinformatics Division Seminar, WEHI, 15 April 2008.
- Repeatability of microarray experiments, Australian Statistical Conference, Melbourne, 3 July 2008. Invited
speaker.
- Practical design issues for microarray experiments, International
Biometrics Conference, Dublin, 13-18 July 2008. Invited speaker.
- Half-day workshop on Bioconductor, AMATA 2008 Conference, Otago, New
Zealand, 15 November 2008. Invited workshop presenter.
- Statistical analysis of microarray expression data throws light on
the immunological profile of early multiple sclerosis, NSW Bioinformatics Research Symposium, University of Sydney, 26 November
2008. Keynote Speaker.
- Gene set tests for designed microarray experiments (with an
application to multiple sclerosis), 4th World Conference of the International Association for Statistical
Computing, Yokohama, Japan, 5-8 December 2008. Invited speaker.
2009
- Gene set enrichment analysis for designed microarray experiments: two
case studies, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, 21 April
2009.
- Statistical analysis of microarray expression data throws light on
the immunological profile of early multiple sclerosis, Biosciences /
Infection and Immunity Research Domain Technology Forum, University of
Melbourne, 17 July 2009.
Invited speaker.
- Gene set enrichment analysis for designed microarray experiments: two
case studies, Bioinformatics Division Seminar, WEHI, 1 September 2009.
Talks 2010 and later