Department of Biostatistics

Category: New Research

Natalie Dean Exner Lecture – 4/11

Alumna Natalie Exner Dean, PhD ’14, will visit Harvard on April 11th to give a lecture at the Infectious Disease Epi Spring Seminar Series on “Applying the test negative design … Continue reading “Natalie Dean Exner Lecture – 4/11”

Lee Kennedy-Shaffer Published in American Statistician

The American Statistical Association recently released a special edition of the American Statistician on “Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05” in which the lead … Continue reading “Lee Kennedy-Shaffer Published in American Statistician”

Rebekka Burkholz Wins NetSci Young Initiative for Best Talk Pitch

Congratulations to postdoc Rebekka Burkholz who received 2nd place in the NetSci Society Young Initiative for Best Talk Pitch for Tree distribution approximation for finite networks. The Young Initiative is meant to … Continue reading “Rebekka Burkholz Wins NetSci Young Initiative for Best Talk Pitch”

The Abandonment of Evidence in Air Pollution Policy

In a recent paper published in Science, Dr. Francesca Dominici and Gretchen Goldman of the Union of Concerned Scientists raise the alarm regarding proposed changes to the EPA’s methods for … Continue reading “The Abandonment of Evidence in Air Pollution Policy”

HDSI Industry Talk with Adam Vogel – 3/28

Industry Talk: Adam Vogel, Managing Director of Data Science at SignalFire The Harvard Data Science Initiative is delighted to announce that the next speaker for our Data Science in Industry seminar … Continue reading “HDSI Industry Talk with Adam Vogel – 3/28”

Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science – 3/21

Thursday, March 21 – 10:00 AM Warren Alpert Bldg., Room 563 – Harvard Medical School Elias Bareinboim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Purdue University “Causal Inference and Fusion” Causal inference is usually dichotomized into … Continue reading “Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science – 3/21”