Education, Collaboration, Leadership: It’s What We Do Leslie McClure, PhDDean, College for Public Health and Social Justice, St Louis UniversityBiotech Auditorium Room 151; Tuesday, April 16th 4:00pm The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a statistician as: “one versed in or engaged in compiling statistics.” However, the role […]
Flexible Regression Models for Dispersed CountData Kimberly Sellers, NC State University ZSR Auditorium, Tuesday, March 26th 11:00am Poisson regression is a popular tool for modeling count data and is applied in a vast array of disciplines. Real data, however, are often over- or under-dispersed relative […]
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 […]
Ashley Mullan has been selected by the Department of Statistical Sciences as the recipient of the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Statistical Sciences for 2024. Melita Wiles has been selected by the Department of Statistical Sciences as the recipient of the 2024 […]
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 […]
Dr. Sarah Lotspeich was selected as a recipient of a Wake Forest Intercampus Collaborative Grant with Dr. Joe Rigdon (in Biostatistics at Wake) entitled “Overcoming Data Challenges to Estimate Whole Person Health in the Academic Learning Health System”. This Grant is a new initiative to foster interdisciplinary […]
