Designing Web Surveys

Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The focus of this course is on the design of web survey instruments, appropriate choice and design of input tools, address layout and formatting of the instrument, including alignment of questions and response options, typeface, background color, the design of grids or matrix questions, as well as the design implications of browser-based mobile web surveys.... Read more »

Development of Bayesian Software in SAS

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Chen of the SAS Institute in Raleigh will talk about the "Development of Bayesian Software in SAS." Dr. Chen manages the Advanced Statistical Methods group in SAS and is overseeing software development in mixed models, generalized linear mixed models, nonlinear random-effects models, causal inferences, survival analysis, Bayesian hierarchical models and discrete choice models.

Advanced Topics in Qualtrics

Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This training will cover advanced features in building surveys in Qualtrics. Participants must already have a university Qualtrics account and solid working knowledge of Qualtrics. Some portions will be hands-on;... Read more »

Design for Health

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Gillings is excited to host a panel discussion with local public health professionals who practice design thinking in their applied work. These professionals represent five different organizations, including RTI, Male... Read more »

Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium

G100 Bondurant Hall 321 South Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The UNC School of Medicine, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and UNC Center for Health Equity Research are hosting the Inaugural Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium on March 5, 2020 to... Read more »

Validation and Annotation for Single-Cell Data Clustering

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Department of Biostatistics welcomes Dr. Lynn Lin, who will speak about Validation and Annotation for Single-Cell Data Clustering. A Duke University Alumni, her research interests include a range of... Read more »

“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... 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 »