As we approach the holiday season, I would like to express my warmest appreciation to faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, alumni, and friends of the Harvard Biostatistics Department for your … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin”
The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core had another productive year under the leadership of Shannan Ho Sui. We were excited to recruit Dr. Victor Barrera from Madrid with his expertise in epigenetics and pipeline … Continue reading “Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core – 2016 Summary”
In a recent hearing on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) of the Senate Commerce Committee, the Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew Moore, … Continue reading “Statistics as a Building Block for Artificial Intelligence”
Please visit the BSCC website for more information! Doctoral student Emily Slade received a grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching to create the Biostatistics Student Consulting Center … Continue reading “Biostatistics Student Consulting Center”
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”
In August, Dr. Donna Spiegelman attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, IL to give an invited talk entitled “Estimation and inference for the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for censored survival … Continue reading “Updates from Donna Spiegelman”
REGISTER The Program in Quantitative Genomics will host its 10th Annual Conference, “Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis: Comprehensive Capture of Genetic Variants” on November 3-4, 2016 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center … Continue reading “PQG Conference – Register Now!”
Marginal Association Measures for Clustered Data Tuesday, November 22, 2016 12:30pm – 1:30pm Bldg 2, Rm 426 – large conference room Dr. Bernard Rosner Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics) Harvard Medical School Please … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Journal Club”
