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Building Data Analysis Proofs

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday April 30 at 4:00pm HSPH, FXB 301 Roger Peng, PhD, Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas at Austin Data analyses are often constructed in an imperative manner, where commands representing actions taken on the data are issued sequentially. The publication of these commands, along […]

Evidence Triangulation in Dementia Research

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday April 23 at 4:00pm HSPH, FXB 301 Maria Glymour, ScD, Chair and Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health Research on cognitive aging, including development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, is fraught with causal inference challenges. This talk will briefly review why identifying the […]

When Large p Is a Blessing

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday April 9 at 4:00pm HSPH, FXB 301 Zhijin Wu, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University Biomedical research has benefited tremendously from the breakthroughs in biotechnology in the last two decades that enabled simultaneous quantifications of a large number of biomolecules (DNA/RNA/proteins). Such data collected at the -omics […]