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

Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Michael Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, BC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia
Biostatistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Statistical Inference for Cataloging the Visible Universe

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Jeffrey Regier, Postdocoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Accurate inference of DNA methylation data: statistical challenges lead to biological insights

Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
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
Biostatistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Preferential attachment and neutral random graphs: statistically useful generative models of network data

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
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
Biostatistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Non-iterative Estimation Update for Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Population-based Auxiliary Information

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00
Fei Gao, Senior Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Support points – a new way to reduce big and high-dimensional data

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Simon Mak, Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease

Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Connections between optimization and sampling

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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