Travis Gerke, The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials ConsortiumMalcolm Barrett, Stanford University ZSR Auditorium, Thursday, March 7th 12:30pm This talk will provide a high-level overview of causal diagrams and discuss current challenges with causal AI. An emerging software platform that enables collaborative human-in-the-loop causal identification and […]
Merging uncertainty sets via majority voteAaditya Ramdas, PhD, Carnegie Mellon UniversityTuesday, February 276h 11:00am Given K uncertainty sets that are arbitrarily dependent – for example, confidence intervals for an unknown parameter obtained with K different estimators, or prediction sets obtained via conformal prediction based on […]
Jeffrey Blume, PhD, University of VirginiaZSR Auditorium. Tuesday, February 6th 11:00am Despite decades of controversy, p-values remain a popular tool for assessing when the data are incompatible with the null hypothesis. While it is widely recognized that p-values are imperfect, the consequences of ignoring their […]
Nicholas Horton, PhD, Amherst College ZSR Auditorium, Tuesday, January 23rd 11:00am 60 years ago, Fred Mosteller and David Wallace published a paper in JASA that made inferences in an important authorship problem: the Federalist papers. Notwithstanding this groundbreaking work, text continues to be an important […]
David Kline, PhDWake Forest University School of MedicineOperating under uncertainty: Statistical thinking in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic ZSR AuditoriumTuesday, November 14th 11:00am The COVID-19 pandemic impacted all of our lives and reporting on epidemiological data became almost a routine, daily occurrence. In […]
Roger Peng, University of Texas at Austin andStephanie Hicks, Johns Hopkins University ZSR AuditoriumTuesday, October 17th 11:00am The Theory of Data Analysis is a multidimensional framework that underpins effective analytic practice. Beyond statistical thinking, the integration of design thinking emerges as a pivotal aspect in […]
Eva Murphy, PhD. Wake Forest University ZSR Auditorium, Tuesday, September 12th 11:00amRefreshments provided Modeling Directional Extreme Wind Speed Using an Extreme Value Regression Approach Assessing the risk posed by high wind speeds is critical in numerous fields, ranging from structural design to energy generation and […]
Dr. Sean L. Simpson, Department of Biostatistics and Data ScienceWake Forest University School of Medicine Analytical tools for whole-brain networks: fusing statisticsand network science to understand brain function Tuesday, April 4, 11 :00AMLocation: 302 Divinity & Religious Studies Building Brain network analyses have exploded in […]
Malindi Whyte, Graduate Student – WFUThursday, February 23; 2:00 PM in Manchester 018Refreshments will be served. Political parties emerge in models for the evolution of opinions among a population when people compromise, that is, change their opinion to the numerical average after a dialogue. In […]
Dr. Tanya Garcia, University Of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will give our department seminar Thursday, February 23 at 11:00 AM in 302 Divinity & Religious Studies Building. Abstract: To select outcomes for clinical trials testing experimental therapies for Huntington disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, analysts often […]
