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 […]