Distinguished Lecture in Statistics & Biostatistics
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 […]
Colloquium: Flexible Regression Models for Dispersed Count Data
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 […]
Colloquium: Catalyzing the Causal Validation Flywheel
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 […]
Colloquium: Merging uncertainty sets via majority vote
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 […]
Congratulations to Grad Students Mullan and Wiles
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 […]
Colloquium: What is a second-generation p-value, and why should you care?
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 […]
Colloquium: Text analytics and data acumen
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 […]
Colloquium: Operating under uncertainty:Statistical thinking in the earlystages of the COVID-19 pandemic
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 […]
Colloquium: A Discussion on the Theory of Data Analysis
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 […]