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Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Daniel LiDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"Regularized Best Subset Selection: Concepts for Polygenic Risk Scores and Prediction"ABSTRACT: We will talk about recent developments with regularized best subset selection. We will go over empirical and theoretical results, and discuss important ideas and concepts for applications with a focus on polygenic risk scores. Event Url https://ems.sph.harvard.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5kCl%2fsdVicuh2HS3V1FSx%2bOywFz%2b%2bsHGske57UtT3x23nPhEMBCNQH
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PQG Working Group
Caitlin CareyPost-Doctoral FellowAnalytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Mass General Hospital and Broad InstituteGenetic architecture of phenome-wide latent factors in the UK BiobankLarge-scale biobanks and electronic health records can offer unprecedented insight into the genetic architecture of a wide range of traits in the general population. However, the high dimensionality of phenotypic data, with thousands of … Continue reading "PQG Working Group"
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If Not Us, Who? When Researchers Become Activists, or Vice Versa
The Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series:If Not Us, Who? When Researchers Become Activists, or Vice VersaSpeaker:Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPhKolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthOpen to the public. Refreshments will be provided. Event Url https://ems.sph.harvard.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6t3LHrBZPb4BgHHLld74I5B4BECQeTy%2f4B59HixU64%2f7v0Rv0a2HY5
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Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Cathy WangDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"Multi-Study Semi-Supervised Learning: A First Look"ABSTRACT: In many machine learning applications, the gold standard label is difficult or expensive to obtain. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods leverage unlabeled data to improve a model’s performance when only limited labeled data is available. We investigate the replicability of the performance of … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
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PQG Seminar
PQG Seminar
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HIV Working Group
HIV Working Group
Di Shu, Ph.D. and Lan Wen, Ph.D.Research Fellows, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School"Estimating Population Level Effects of Interventions that Increase the Chance of Treatment in Low Treatment/High Risk Subgroups"ABSTRACT: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV has been shown highly effective in preventing HIV in randomized controlled trials. Unfortunately, in practice some individuals with high … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
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Environmental Statistics Group
Environmental Statistics Group
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Lightning Talks and Happy Hour
Lightning Talks and Happy Hour
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Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
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PQG Working Group
PQG Working Group
Giulio Genovese Senior Computational BiologistHarvard Medical School Chromosomal phasing improves aneuploidy determination in non-invasive prenatal testing at low fetal fractions Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to detect fetal aneuploidy by sequencing cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in maternal plasma has been broadly adopted. To detect fetal aneuploidies from maternal plasma – where fetal DNA is mixed with far-larger … Continue reading "PQG Working Group"
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Willows Seminar Series
Willows Seminar Series
Elysia Larson, PhD, will present, "Targeting mental health among pregnant women living with depression and HIV: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in urban Tanzania."
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Harvard C-CHANGE Spotlight Series: David Jones and Sunil Amrith
Harvard C-CHANGE Spotlight Series: David Jones and Sunil Amrith
This monthly spotlight series highlights leaders at Harvard University to discuss their careers and what drives their work.How do historians view environmental challenges such as climate change? Hear an introduction to environmental history, history of science and medicine, and history of policy to understand this problem from Professors David Jones and Sunil Amrith of Harvard … Continue reading "Harvard C-CHANGE Spotlight Series: David Jones and Sunil Amrith"
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HIV Working Group
HIV Working Group
Kaitlyn CookDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"Stratified Proportional Hazards Models for Multivariate Interval-Censored Data with Time-Dependent Covariates"ABSTRACT: In clinical trials of infectious disease prevention methods, community-level randomization represents a natural study design choice: it enables researchers to rigorously evaluate interventions that are defined and implemented at a supra-individual level, while also reducing the possibility … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
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Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Amy ZhouDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"Dirichlet Process Mixture Modeling"ABSTRACT: The Dirichlet process mixture modeling is a Bayesian nonparametric method. In this talk, I will present an overview of the DPMM, and discuss its application to clustering problems in cancer research. Going forward, starting with the March 23 meeting, please download and import the … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
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PQG Seminar
PQG Seminar
This event has been canceled, but due to a calendar sync problem, we can not remove it from the schedule now.
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Marvin Zelen Symposium: Data Science 2020
Marvin Zelen Symposium: Data Science 2020
The topic of this year's Marvin Zelen Symposium has to do with the year itself — 2020. This first year of a new decade brings with it statistical spectacles on a massive scale. From the Decennial Census and the Presidential Election in the US, to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, to the Summer Olympics … Continue reading "Marvin Zelen Symposium: Data Science 2020"
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Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar
Maya RamchandranDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"A Clustered Cross-validation Weighted Generalization of Random Forest"ABSTRACT: This project considers extending the general multi-study ensembling framework proposed by Parmigiani and Patel (2017) to single datasets, with Random Forest as the learner. Specifically, we look at using clustering algorithms to first split a dataset into regions that maximize … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
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COVID-19 Data Science Zoomposium
COVID-19 Data Science Zoomposium
COVID-19 Data Science ZoomposiumThursday April 2, 20202:00-3:30PMhttps://dfci.zoom.us/j/363273371Participants:Caroline Buckee, Department of Biostatistics Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthMichael Mina, Department of Epidemiology Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthNatalie Dean, Department of Biostatistics, University of FloridaAlexis Madrigal, The AtlanticSponsored by the Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, … Continue reading "COVID-19 Data Science Zoomposium"
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HIV Working Group
HIV Working Group
Lee Kennedy-ShafferDoctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University"Talk Title TBD" Going forward, starting with the March 13 meeting, this working group will be meeting remotely until further notice. The meeting Zoom ID below is a recurring meeting.This working group is accessible online by password, and you should contact the working group organizers (gloewinger@g.harvard.edu or ljh916mail.harvard.edu) … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
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Lightning Talks and Happy Hour
Lightning Talks and Happy Hour
This event has been canceled, but due to a calendar sync problem, we can not remove it from the schedule now.
