Upcoming events:
Topic: Data Science in R Software Carpentry Session
Gabriel Odom, Ph.D., Th.D, and Cameron Riopelle, Ph.D.
Date: Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, 2019
Location: University of Miami, Richter Library
Guest speaker: Dr. Marina Vannucci, Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics, Rice University
Date: Monday, March 18, 2019, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Guest speaker: Dr. Robert Magari, Global Director of Biostatistics, Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Past events:
Topic: Structural and Practical Identifiability Analysis of Zika Epidemiological Models
Guest speaker: Necibe Tuncer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019, 11:45 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: The Days in the Life of a Collaborative Biostatistician
Guest speaker: Emir Veledar, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Florida International University
Date: January 24, 2019, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Challenges in modeling cognition and Dementia
Guest speaker: Terry M. Therneau, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Student Mentoring
Hadley Wickman
Date: November 12, 2018
Topic: Analysis of Longitudinal Data without Pre-Specifying Correlation Structure
Guest speaker: Xin Yan, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, University of Central Florida
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Micro/Nanoscale Platforms for Disease Management
Guest speaker: Waseem Asghar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
Date: Monday, October 15, 2018
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Data Science in R Software Carpentry Session
Gabriel Odom, Ph.D., Th.D and Kalan Dawson, B.S.
Date: October 11-12, 2018
Link: https://ccs.miami.edu/software-carpentry-medical-campus/
Topic: Model Building Strategies and Methods: Purposeful Selection of Covariates in Logistic Regression Revisited
Guest speaker: Zoran Bursac, Ph.D., MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Bayesian approaches for dose-response analysis for epidemiological studies and information extraction in meta-analysis and Interval Estimation for measure for reproducibility
Guest speaker: Deukwoo Kwon, Ph.D., Scientist, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Constructing Tumor-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Samples With Tumor Purity Heterogeneity
Guest speaker: Pei Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Metric-Based Function Registration and Its Applications in Biostatistics
Guest speaker: Wei Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 692
