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 […]