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Collaborative Core Center for Clinical Research Speaker Series – Statistical Methods to Machine Learning: Methods for Learning from Data

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 »

Biostatistics Seminar – Online Multiple Hypothesis Testing

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... Read more »

Online Stata Three-Part Short Course: Part 1

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 »

Online Stata Three-Part Short Course: Part 2

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 »

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Biostatistics Seminar: Adventures in Sparsity and Shrinkage with the Normal Means Model

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 titled Adventures in Sparsity and Shrinkage with the Normal Means Model. His research interests include analysis of population structure, analysis of genetic association studies (including... Read more »

Online Stata Three-Part Short Course: Part 3

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 »

Event Series Text Analysis Using R

Text Analysis Using R

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 »

Event Series Text Analysis Using R

Text Analysis Using R

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 »

Biostatistics Seminar – Statistical Frameworks for Mapping 3D Shape Variation onto Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation

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

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 aspects of computational research methods. Specifically, this session will provide a brief overview of the most frequently-used computational methods in communication and media research, as... Read more »