Harvard Biostatistics Colloquium SeriesThursday, November 94:00-5:00pmKresge G3M. Elizabeth Halloran, PhDProfessor, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterDepartment of Biostatistics, University of WashingtonEstimating Population Effects of Pertussis Vaccination Using … Continue reading “Harvard Biostats Colloquium with M. Elizabeth Halloran – 11/9”
Biostatistics Journal Club: Machine Learning for Imputation of Missing-not-at-Random DataWednesday, November 15, 20231:00 pm – 2:00 pmZoomMissing-not-at-random (MNAR) data frequently appears in real world scenarios, especially when the missing data … Continue reading “Biostatistics Journal Club – 11/15”
Professor Xihong Lin was elected as one of 120 new members of the National Academy of Sciences this year in recognition of her continuing achievements in original research focusing on developing and … Continue reading “Professor Xihong Lin Reflects on NAS Election and Career Highlights”
The 2023 PQG Conference: Diversity in Genetics and Genomics was held at the Joseph Martin Conference Center this past Oct 17-18. It marked an exciting return to in-person meeting for the first … Continue reading “2023 PQG Conference Tackles Diversity in the Genomics Field”
HDSI Causal SeminarThursday, Nov 2 | 4:00-5:30pmRegister hereMike BaiocchiAssociate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population HealthStanford UniversityHow to tell the difference between machine learning and (bio)statistics This talk will discuss a … Continue reading “HDSI Causal Seminar: Mike Baiocchi, Stanford University – 11/2”
Nicholas J. Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College and Harvard Biostatistics alumnus, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Mosteller Statistician … Continue reading “2023 Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award Event – 10/30”
A recent article in the Boston Globe announced the EPA’s proposal for a full ban on chemical linked to Woburn leukemia cluster. Trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, has been tied to … Continue reading “Proposed ban on chemical linked to Woburn leukemia cluster research chronicled in ‘A Civil Action’”
Harvard Biostatistics Colloquium SeriesThursday, October 264:00-5:00pmFXB 301David Benkeser, PhDEmory UniversityAssociate Professor in the department of Biostatistics and BioinformaticsExposure-Induced Confounding of Missingness in Cause of Failure with Applications in Estimating Strain-Specific Efficacy of … Continue reading “Harvard Biostats Colloquium with David Benkeser – 10/26”
Congratulations to Biostatistics Chair John Quackenbush and Alumnus Miguel Marino, PhD ’11  who were both inducted into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in a ceremony last week.  Dr. Quackenbush was named to NAM for being … Continue reading “National Academy of Medicine Induction Ceremony”
