Biostatistics Seminar | UBC Department of Statistics

D-vine copulas for repeated measurements

Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00

Speaker Claudia Czado, Professor, Technical University of Munich

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Neyman-Pearson Classification Algorithms and NP Receiver Operating Characteristics

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00

Speaker Jessica Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The Use of Probabilistic Graphical Models in Evaluating the Current Opioid Overdose Crisis

Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker Michael Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, BC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Profiling Hospital Performance Based on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Readmissions

Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker Guohai Zhou, Senior Statistician at Yale School of Medicine

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker Kieran Campbell, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics at UBC, Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer, and at the UBC Data Science Institute

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Accurate inference of DNA methylation data: statistical challenges lead to biological insights

Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker Keegan Korthauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Event Type Biostatistics Seminar

Location Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)