Biostatistics Events

This week's biostatistics seminar will be presented by Nathan Kallus, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell Tech and Cornell University. Kallas will present a seminar titled "Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement." Abstract: Since observational data no matter how rich will have some unobserved confounding, methods for individualized decision making that assume unconfoundedness... Read more »

Chuanhai Liu, PhD, professor of statistics at Purdue University, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "A Multithreaded and Distributed R for Big Data Analysis." Abstract: The computer software R is one of the most popular computing tools for data analysis. In the past decade or so, tremendous efforts have been made to make R useful for... Read more »

Nancy Zhang, PhD, professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics." Abstract: Cells are the basic biological... Read more »

Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops... Read more »