Call for Abstracts: Health Disparities and Cancer

We invite students, postdocs, residents, clinical fellows, and early career faculty to submit abstracts for consideration as a lightning talk at the 2024 Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. Submit via this form by Friday March 1st, speakers will be notified by Friday March 8th.   Friday April 5, 2024 1:00-5:30PM ET Yawkey Conference Center 450 Brookline […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics: A Framework for Personalizing the Timing of Surveillance Testing

**This seminar has been canceled. A new date will be announced shortly** Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday March 12, 2024 @ 1pm ET   Aasthaa Bansal, PhD Associate Professor, The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute, University of Washington Joint Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences Division Joint Associate Professor, Hutchinson Institute for Cancer […]

Data Integration in Statistical Inference and Risk Prediction

Joint Seminar with Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Thursday April 11, 2024 @ 4pm ET FXB Building Room 301 Yu Shen PhD Conversation with a Living Legend Professor & Chair ad interim Department of Biostatistics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In comparative effectiveness research and risk prediction for rare types […]

Cancer Risk Prediction, Early Detection and Minimal Residual Disease

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday May 7, 2024 @ 1pm ET In-person and Zoom available. Cristian Tomasetti, Ph.D. Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection, City of Hope Professor and Director, Division of Mathematics for Cancer Evolution and Early Detection, Department of Computational & Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope

Challenges of Producing High-Quality Labelled Data

Tuesday, August 13 @ 1:00PM Eastern Time Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston Peter Lipman Technical Lead & Manager Data Science & Human Computation, Google Zoom: https://bit.ly/plipman

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Hierarchical Causal Models

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 12, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 301 David Blei, PhD Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Columbia University Analyzing nested data with hierarchical models is a staple of Bayesian statistics, but causal modeling remains largely focused on "flat" models. In this talk, we will […]

Inference for Treatment-Specific Survival Curves using Machine Learning

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 19, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 313 Ted Westling, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst In the absence of data from a randomized trial, researchers often aim to use observational data to draw causal inference about the effect of a treatment […]

Empirical Bayes Matrix Factorization, and Genomic Applications

Data Science Seminar Friday, October 18, 3:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th Floor Matthew Stephens, PhD Chair, Department of Statistics; Ralph W. Gerard Professor of Statistics, Human Genetics, University of Chicago