StatStart finished another successful year and held their final certificate ceremony on Friday. After undergoing an intense month of lectures from Harvard graduate students, the high school students presented their … Continue reading “Another Great Year for StatStart Program”
As part of its mandate to monitor quality teaching at the School, the Committee on Educational Policy recently reviewed student course evaluations and found that the following courses in the … Continue reading “Spring 1 & 2 Course Evaluations”
Please help us welcome Dr. Jeffrey Miller, as he joins the Department as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. Jeff has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University and … Continue reading “New Faculty Member – Jeff Miller”
The Health Effects Institute (HEI) recently published a final report of the Accountability Research Program entitled Causal Inference Methods for Estimating Long-Term Health Effects of Air Quality Regulations by Zigler … Continue reading “Cory Zigler: Study on Air Pollution & Health”
The Pipelines Into Biostatistics symposium will be taking place on July 21, 9am-4pm in Yawkey Conference Center (Room 306/307, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02115). It is the culminating event for … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Symposium”
Curtis Huttenhower and his team have received a great deal of press over the past week upon publishing their new study on the Boston subway system, “Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ … Continue reading “The Boston Subway Microbiome”
Curtis Huttenhower interviews remotely with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as part of a stream of press leading up to the publication of his lab’s new paper profiling microbial communities on … Continue reading “The Boston Subway Microbiome”
Friday, October 28, 2016 Colloquium 2:30 – 5:00 pm Reception to Follow Boston Red Sox Jimmy Fund Auditorium Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
This year marked the 30th anniversary since publication of the landmark paper “Meta-Analysis in Clinical Trials” by Rebecca DerSimonian (PhD ¹83) & Nan Laird (1986, Controlled Clinical Trials 7, 177-188). … Continue reading “30 Year Celebration of Dersimonian/Laird Paper”
Rebecca Betensky has received a grant for Statistical methods for censored and dependently truncated data. This 4-year R01 grant was awarded by the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). … Continue reading “Rebecca Betensky Receives NINDS Grant”
