Biostatistics Seminars - Fall 2023
Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development. The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.
Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.
Biostatistics Seminars - Fall 2023 will be held either hybrid (in-person/Zoom) or virtual (Zoom) on WEDNESDAYS at 2001 McGill College; Room 1140 from 3:30-4:30PM. Please refer to announcements for details.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Recording |
| Sept 6, 2023 |
Zhihua Su (U of Florida) |
Envelope-Based Partial Least Squares |
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| Sept 13, 2023 |
Rui Duan (Harvard T.H. Chan SPH) |
Federated and Transfer Learning for Healthcare Data Integration |
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| Sept 20, 2023 |
Michael Wallace (U of Waterloo) |
To Find Out More, Press Play: Creating Accessible Statistics Videos |
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| Sept 27, 2023 |
Kevin Lin (U of Washington) |
Tilted-CCA: Quantifying Common and Distinct Information in Multi-Modal Single-Cell Data via Matrix Factorization |
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| Oct 4, 2023 |
Paul Gustafson (U of British Columbia) |
Statistical modelling of threats to validity: Inference, sensitivity analysis, or stuck in the middle with Bayes? |
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| Oct 11, 2023 |
NO SEMINAR - FALL BREAK |
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| Oct 18, 2023 |
Silvia Calderazzo (DKFZ-Heildelberg) |
External information borrowing in clinical trial hypothesis testing: a frequentist-Bayesian view |
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| Oct 25, 2023 |
Jessie X. Jeng (NC State U) |
Transfer learning with false negative control improves polygenic risk prediction |
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| Nov 1, 2023 |
Aya Mitani (U of Toronto) |
Analysis of complex multilevel dental data with informative tooth loss |
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Nov 8, 2023
In-Person (JOINT EBOH/CORE SEMINAR) |
Sebastien Haneuse (HSPH Harvard) |
Double sampling for informatively missing data in EHR-based comparative effectiveness research |
Recording |
| Nov 15, 2023 |
Linbo Wang (U of Toronto) |
The synthetic instrument: From sparse association to sparse causation |
N/A |
| Nov 22, 2023 |
James Hanley (McGill) & Supratik Roy (U College Cork - Ireland) |
Prob [Down Syndrome | Parents' Ages]: Statistical Sudoku and Analyses of Penrose's Data (J. Genetics 1933)
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Nov 29, 2023
In-Person |
Jessica Gronsbell (U of Toronto) |
Life after machine learning in health and medicine |
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