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 and support services in International Student and Scholar Services, for an overview of the OPT program and a Q&A session. You must register for this... 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 session. In this session, participants will: Hear about the ways in which UCS continues to respond to the ever-changing needs of students. Receive updates on... 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 AIDS Research “Causal Inference: A Gentle Introduction” Wednesday, May 13 10:30 a.m. Register for this Zoom Event After registering, you will receive a confirmation email... 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 »
“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 »
“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 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 »
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... 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 is a promising new approach that uses machine learning to discover patterns, trends, and other information by using text as data. Participants will develop the... 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... 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 »
Dr. Kenneth Rice's research focuses primarily on developing and applying statistical methods for complex disease epidemiology, notably cardiovascular disease. He leads the Data Coordinating Center and Analysis Committee for the... 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 »
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 »
Gillings Virtual Fall Student Success Seminar - Thrive: Revisiting (and Revising) Your 2020 Goals with Dr. Bahby Banks UNC Gillings Student Success Seminars focus on empowering all of our students... Read more »
Barbara E. Engelhardt, an associate professor, joined the Princeton Computer Science Department in 2014 from Duke University, where she had been an assistant professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Statistical... Read more »
This course will provide an introduction to survey research methods for designing multinational and multicultural surveys. It begins with an overview of the field of comparative surveys. This will summarize their history and discuss some unique design features and implementation challenges inherent in their design and implementation. The second section discusses quality and risk management... Read more »
Dr. Yingqi Zhao is the recipient of the UNC Biostatistics 2020 James. E. Grizzle Alumni Award. Dr. Zhao earned her PhD. in 2012. With the goal of improving patient outcomes,... Read more »
On Nov. 6 from 10:30 am - noon, presenter Joeseph Ibrahim, PhD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, will speak on Bayesian sample size determination for a clinical trial in the... Read more »
Please join Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Mary Beth Knight, PhD, and fellow faculty members to learn more about the process of seeking research and related funds from private... Read more »
The Public Health Student Leadership Association presents “Leadership in Public Health”. This virtual panel will feature six Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni from diverse backgrounds. Join them for a virtual discussion and Q&A session on Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m. Panelists include: Dr. Vaughn Upshaw, Panel Moderator, Professor and Leadership in Practice Concentration... Read more »
Dr. Sandra Safo's research interests are in developing statistical methods and computational tools to help identify risk factors for complex diseases: multivariate statistical methods, statistical learning (including classification, discriminant analysis, association studies), data integration and feature selection methods for high dimensional data; currently integrative analysis of genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics to help elucidate the complex... Read more »
This online short course provides an introduction to logistic regression. Model specification, identification, estimation, hypothesis-testing, and interpretation of results are covered. Software to estimate these models is discussed, but not demonstrated. This is not a course on software, but rather a course on the concepts and uses of logistic regression. Registration required. For more information,... Read more »
