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Biostatistics Seminar: Adventures in Sparsity and Shrinkage with the Normal Means Model
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The Department of Biostatistics will host Dr. Stephens, a statistician and data scientist who has made seminal contributions to the practice and applications of statistics in genetics. The seminar is titled Adventures in Sparsity and Shrinkage with the Normal Means Model. His research interests include analysis of population structure, analysis of genetic association studies (including both complex traits and molecular phenotypes, such as gene expression and chromatin accessibility), large-scale regression, and multiple testing. His lab distributes several widely used software packages for statistical analysis.
Contact anneli@unc.edu with questions.
Presenter:
Matthew Stephens, D.Phil., Professor in Statistics and Human Genetics, University of Chicago
