“Machine Learning Prediction Modeling for Longitudinal Outcomes in Older Adults,” presented by Dr. Jaime Lynn Speiser, Wake Forest University
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Interdisciplinary Seminar: Jerry Reiter, Duke University
“How Auxiliary Information Can Help Your Missing Data Problem,” presented by Dr. Jerry Reiter, Duke University
Makuch Distinguished Lecture featuring Susan A. Murphy, 11/10 @ 4pm
Robert W. Makuch Distinguished Lecture in Biostatistics Featuring Susan A. Murphy Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute Harvard University Inference Using Adaptively Collected Data Bandit algorithms are increasingly used in real-world sequential decision-making problems. Associated with this is an increased desire to be able to use the resulting datasets […]
Paper of the Month: November 2021
Bradley Efron (2020) Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution.pdf, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 115:530, 636-655, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2020.1762613.
PhD students Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Jing Wang and Ganchao Wei receive awards at the 34th NESS Symposium
Congratulations to our PhD students Md Tuhin Sheikh for receiving the IBM Student Paper Award and Jing Wang, Ganchao Wei for receiving Munich Re/HSB Student Poster Award at the 34th New England Statistics Symposium hosted by the University of Rhode Island on September 30-October 2, 2021.
Paper of the Month: October 2021
Leon Bottou. Online learning and stochastic approximations. In D Saad, editor, Online Algorithms and Stochastic Approximations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998.
Career Update: Karthik Bharath ’12 Ph.D.
Dr. Karthik Bharath ’12 Ph.D. has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Fan Li, Duke University
“Overlap Weighting for Causal Inference,” presented by Dr. Fan Li, Duke University
UConn Student Volunteers are recognized by ISBA for their hard work and great effort helping to organize the 2021 ISBA World Meeting
The ISBA thanks UConn students Soumik Banerjee, Eric Baron, Zhiduo Chen, Simiao Gao, Yuen Tsz Abby Lau, Aolan Li, Daeyoung Lim, Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Wei Shi, Patrick Toman, Meiruo Xiang, Wenlin Yuan, Katherine Zavez, Yiming Zhang, and Haiwei Zhou for volunteering at the 2021 ISBA world meeting http://events.stat.uconn.edu/ISBA2021. Read more about the ISBA World meeting. Great […]
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Susan Murphy, Harvard University
“Assessing Personalization in Digital Health,” presented by Dr. Susan Murphy, Harvard University