Department of Biostatistics Weekly Seminar


The department hosts weekly seminars and workshops for persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, and R. We will send e-mail announcements to those in the pertinent groups defined at SemEmail, depending on the seminar.

LOCATION: For the time being, seminars will be held virtually instead of in our usual lecture hall.
TIME: 1:30-2:30pm on the dates indicated in the calendar below (unless otherwise noted).

Contact Tawanna Peters for more information.



Fall 2020



August Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
August 05 Summer Break    
August 12 Summer Break    
August 19 Summer Break    
August 26 Polygenic risk scores: what are we measuring? Cecile Janssens  





October Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
October 07 Moving beyond the comfort zone in practicing translational statistics for clinical studies Lee-Jen Wei Robert Greevy
October 14 Building a dose-equivalence model from a Bayesian meta-analysis of published clinical trials Elizabeth Sigworth Elizabeth Sigworth
October 21 A unified approach for inference on algorithm-agnostic variable importance Brian Williamson Robert Greevy
October 28 Network dependence can lead to spurious associations and invalid inference Elizabeth Ogburn  



November Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
November 04 TBD Grace Yi Ran Tao
November 11 TBD Benjamin Ackerman Hakmook Kang
November 18 TBD Jaya Satagopan  
November 25 NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving    



December Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
December 02 TBD Chang Yu Chang Yu
December 09 TBD Scott Evans  
December 16 TBD Amber Hackstadt  
December 23 No Seminar: Winter Break    
December 30 No Seminar: Winter Break    

Spring 2021



January Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 06 No Seminar: Winter Break    
January 13 TBD Joshua Tebbs  
January 20      
January 27      



February Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
February 03      
February 10 TBD Alex Kaizer  
February 17 TBD Marie Davidian  
February 24 TBD Maria Cuellar  



March Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 03 TBD Geneviève Lefebvre  
March 10      
March 17 No Seminar: ENAR    
March 24 TBD Holly Janes  
March 31 TBD Francesca Dominici  



April Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
April 07 TBD Damla Senturk  
April 14 TBD Coleman Harris  
April 21      
April 28      



May Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
May 05 TBD Babette Brumback  
May 12      
May 19 TBD Patrick Heagerty  
May 26      

Prior Years

Seminar Instructions

Invited Presenter Itineraries

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