Leslie McClure, PhD, professor and chair of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, will present "A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Sample Size Re-estimation: The SPS3... Read more »
Kai Zhang will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "BET on Independence." Kai Zhang, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC. Abstract:... Read more »
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... 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... 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 a scalable L0-based simultaneous variable selection and parameter estimation method for the popular Fine-Gray (1999) proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model for large competing risks time-to-event data via the... Read more »
Jan Hannig, PhD, professor of statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)." A major challenge in the age of Big Data is the integration of disparate data types into a data analysis. That is tackled here in the context of data blocks measured... Read more »
Shuangge Ma, PhD, professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence." For all... Read more »
Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and... Read more »
Jamie Perin, the 2018 James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will be presenting her award lecture for this week's biostatistics seminar. The lecture is titled, "Predicting child mortality by... Read more »
The UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health will host its spring Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 11, starting at 1 p.m. The commencement speaker will be Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. For more information, including details on parking and the post-Commencement reception, please see the official... Read more »
Susan Homes, PhD, professor of statistics and member of BioX at Stanford University, will present this week's Biostatistics seminar titled, "Robust methods for heterogeneous data collected in studies of the... Read more »
Join the Department of Biostatistics in welcoming Dr. Rudin, who directs the Prediction Analysis Lab at Duke University. Previously, Dr. Rudin held positions at MIT, Columbia, and NYU. She holds... Read more »
David Vock, PhD, assistant professor in the Divison of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, will present this week's seminar titled, "Statistical Methods for... Read more »
This week, the Department of Biostatistics is welcoming back a UNC Alumnus, Dr. Suprateek Kundu. His current research focuses on developing flexible tools for Bayesian analysis of high dimensional data... Read more »
