“Not that kind of epidemiologist”: The value of social and chronic disease epidemiology in data science

This event is powered by Zoom. The Department of Biostatistics welcomes Dr. Whitney Robinson, who will shed light on biostatistical analysis in epidemiology, with special coverage of the current COVID-19 outbreak. Dr. Robinson's research explores why various sociodemographic groups (by gender, ethnicity, state of residence, sexual orientation, etc.) experience greater burdens of non-communicable diseases than... Read more »

Nonparametric Deconvolution Models

In this talk, Dr. Allison J.B. Chaney will describe nonparametric deconvolution models (NDMs), a family of Bayesian nonparametric models for collections of data in which each observation is the average over the features from heterogeneous particles. For example, these types of data are found in elections, where we observe precinct-level vote tallies (observations) of individual... Read more »

Working as a biostatistician: my life in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Science Institute (NC TraCS)

Dr. Feng-Chang Lin will present "Working as a biostatistician: My life in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Science Institute (NC TraCS)." He is heavily engaged in collaborative research in biomedical fields. His primary area of research is in the development of novel statistical methods for modeling recurrent events that frequently appear in biomedical studies;... Read more »

Avoiding two pitfalls in data analysis of gene expression

Dr. Michael Love's talk, "Avoiding two pitfalls in data analysis of gene expression" will conclude the 2020 Biostatistics Spring Seminar series. Dr. Love's research concerns statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. He has developed a number of open-source software packages for the analysis of... Read more »

Causal Inference: A Gentle Introduction

Thurston Arthritis Research Center/UNC Center for Core Clinical Research Speaker Series Michael Hudgens, PhD Professor, Department of Biostatistics UNC-Chapel Hill Director of the Biostatistics Core of the UNC Center for... Read more »