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 »
**Global Grads workshops focus on support for international graduate and professional students.** Are you graduating and applying for Optional Practical Training (OPT)? Please join Amanda Mills, assistant director for student... Read more »
For international graduate and professional students. You must REGISTER for this event in advance; the Zoom link will be sent to you 15 minutes prior to the start of the... Read more »
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 »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to... Read more »
Presenters: Michael Hudgens, PhD, professor, Department of Biostatistics Bonnie Shook-Sa, DrPH, postdoctoral research associate, Department of Biostatistics SARS-CoV-2 PCR and serology tests are critical tools for identifying COVID-19 infections, modeling... Read more »
The Collaborative Core Center for Clinical Research is hosting a speaker series that highlights methodological work being conducted by researchers across the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases-funded P30 Core Centers for Clinical Research, with application to rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. Jamie Collins, PhD, is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at... Read more »
Truncated Latent Gaussian Copula Model for Zero-Inflated Data Dr. Gaynanova’s research focuses on the development of statistical methods to address the challenges associated with the analysis of modern high-dimensional biomedical... Read more »
Dr. Ramdas' main theoretical and methodological research interests include selective and simultaneous inference, sequential uncertainty quantification, and distribution-free black-box predictive inference. His areas of applied interest include neuroscience, genetics and voting. He is one of the organizers of the amazing and diverse StatML Group at Carnegie Mellon University: http://statml.cs.cmu.edu/people.html Flyer Zoom link Password to event:... Read more »
The Department of Biostatistics welcomes the remote visit of Dr. Jonathan Schildcrout, vice chair for research, biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Schildcrout's main research interests are in longitudinal... Read more »
We are welcoming Dr. Simon, who will talk about "Reframing proportional-hazards modeling for large time-to-event datasets with applications to deep learning." Dr. Simon works on machine learning (including penalized regression... Read more »
We are welcoming Dr. Saul, who will talk about "Functional programming for high-functioning statisticians." At NoviSci in Durham, Dr. Saul leads the statistics team and oversees the development of research... Read more »
In this talk we will discuss statistical challenges and opportunities with joint analysis of electronic health records and genomic data through " Genome and Phenome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS and PheWAS)".... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
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... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
Text Analysis Using R This two-day workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will introduce participants to the basics of text analysis in R. Text analysis... Read more »
Text Analysis Using R This two-day workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will introduce participants to the basics of text analysis in R. Text analysis... Read more »
Dr. Lorin Crawford is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and the RGSS Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University. His most recent work has earned him a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans list, and recognition as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.... Read more »
Computational Methods for Analyzing Big Data in the Social Sciences In this workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, participants will get an overview of various... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how... Read more »
