This weekend, 26 middle and high school students from Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh spent their Saturday afternoon in Manchester Hall exploring Statistics and Data Science! This was one of just six Florence Nightingale Days taking place this year across the U.S. and Canada. For more […]
Dr. Emily Griffith, North Carolina State UniversityThursday, April 27 at 11:00 am in Manchester 121 Abstract: Collaborative academic statisticians are often involved in many different aspects of research and training, and are often interested in a variety of areas. In this talk, I will share […]
Distinguished Lecture in Statistics and Biostatistics Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 4:00 PMWake Forest BioTech Place Auditorium Maps: A Statistical View. Spatial statistical analysis builds upon the premise that where something happens can influence what happens, i.e., the location of observations can provide information on […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Statistics Sarah Lotspeich. She was awarded the David P. Byar Early Career Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. From the AMSTATNEWS: This year’s David P. Byar Early Career Award goes to Sarah Lotspeich, who did […]
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 […]
The Department of Statistical Sciences at Wake Forest University invites applications for two Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellows in Statistics beginning July 2023. These are one-year positions renewable up to three years total, contingent on satisfactory performance. Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellows will collaborate actively with one or more […]
Elizabeth MacDonald is the recipient of the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award for 2022. MacDonald is being recognized for her research, coursework and dedicated service, which includes mentoring of first year students and extensive outreach efforts. Kathryn Boyer is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student […]
Dr. Erin Schliep, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics Accounting for Spatio-Temporal Sampling Variation in Joint Species Distribution Models Tuesday, October 25, 11 :OOAM — 101 Carswell Hall Estimating relative abundance is critical for informing conservation and management efforts and for making inferences about […]