Please join us for a special presentation by a group of statisticians from the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim on Friday, December 9 at noon in the Biostats Conference Room. The group will … Continue reading “Special Seminar with Boehringer Ingelheim”
Assistant Professor JP Onnela has just launched his new HarvardX online course, Using Python for Research. This course will bridge the gap between introductory and advanced courses in Python by … Continue reading “New Online Course – Using Python for Research”
Using Historical Data for Bayesian Sample Size Determination Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:30pm – 1:30pm Bldg 2, Rm 426 – large conference room Dr. Kush Kapur Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Senior Biostatistician, … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Journal Club”
Though much attention is focused on the long-term benefits of climate change mitigation, David Hunter and Francesca Dominici’s recent article published in the online news source STAT and featured on … Continue reading “Honoring Climate Change Agreements Will Save Millions of Lives”
The huge upswing in sequencing activity over the past few years was one of the main topics discussed at the 10th annual PQG (Program in Quantitative Genomics) conference held earlier this month … Continue reading “Reviewing the 2016 PQG Conference: A Genome Every 12 Minutes”
Nominations are due Friday, December 2nd for the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. This annual award, supported by colleagues, friends and family, was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long … Continue reading “Zelen Award – Nominations Due Friday 12/2”
Using Historical Data for Bayesian Sample Size Determination Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:30pm – 1:30pm Bldg 2, Rm 426 – large conference room Dr. Kush Kapur Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Senior Biostatistician, … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Journal Club”
We are very proud to announce that Dr. Nan Laird has been selected as the 2016 Statistician of the Year by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association.  Laird is the … Continue reading “Nan Laird Named Statistician of the Year by Chicago ASA”
When asked to address the powerful group of women who attended Harvard’s inaugural university-wide Women’s Weekend (11/4-11/6), Dr. Francesca Dominici chose to take a different approach, placing the microphone in the … Continue reading “Giving a Voice to Future Leaders at Women’s Weekend”
