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 […]
The Unlikely Methodologist: A hodge-podge talk about my research and lessons learned along the way Dr. Jaime Speiser, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine October 11; 11am – 12pm in Carswell 101 Abstract: In this seminar, I […]
An educator’s perspective of the tidyverseDr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistical Science, Duke UniversityMonday, September, 26 at 12-1PM in Kirby 120. Computing makes up a large and growing component of data science and statistics courses. […]
Dr. Daniel Beavers received funding from the National Institute on Aging as MPI for the “Exercise and Bisphosphonate Use to Minimize Weight Loss Associated Bone Loss among Older Adults” (BEACON) clinical trial, along with fellow MPI Dr. Kristen Beavers in Health and Exercise Science. BEACON is […]
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been restructured into two academic departments effective July 1, 2022. Continuing will be the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistical Sciences. Dr. Sarah Raynor will continue as Chair of the Department […]