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Reproducible Research – Tools and a case study with NHANES

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 18, 2025 4:00 PM HSPH FXB-301 Robert Gentleman, PhD Principal Research Scientist Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute I will discuss how new technologies and statistical methodologies can help enhance our ability to perform reproducible research. I will demonstrate how these […]

Preference Inference for Language Models Debiased by Fisher Random Walk Models

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 11 at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB-301 Junwei Lu, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Human preference alignment has been shown to be effective in training the large language models (LMs). It allows the LLM to […]

Deeper Differential Expression Analysis with Shrinkage Correction

  HBC Current Topics in Bioinformatics Jul 16, 2025 01:00 PM Register here. February's R Basics, or a working knowledge of R, is a prerequisite for this workshop. Jared Brown, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Irizarry Lab DFCI Data Science Differential expression (alternately abundance) analysis is regularly a core tool in identifying and quantifying differences between […]