The primary goal for conducting clinical studies is to obtain robust, clinically interpretable results with respect to risk-benefit perspectives for individual patients in a well-defined target population via efficient and reliable … Continue reading “Short Course Explores Survival Analysis”
In honor of her achievements and career-long commitment to promoting diversity in academia, Francesca Dominici was recently selected to receive the Janet L. Norwood Award, which recognizes woman statisticians for … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici Selected for Norwood Award”
Aedin Culhane, Joe Paulson and Vince Carey have recently established a meet-up group Boston R/Bioconductor for Genomics. They invite everyone to join the new meet-up group which they hope will provide … Continue reading “Meet-Up Group: Boston R/Bioconductor for Genomics”
Why are some NIH grant applications more likely to be funded than others? A recent study of NIH criterion scores suggest that the most important predictor of funding is the … Continue reading “Gaining a Competitive Edge: Predictors of NIH Funding Outcomes”
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. Â 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”
