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Interdisciplinary Seminar: Bengt Muthen, University of California
“Recent Advances in Latent Variable Modeling,” presented by Bengt Muthen, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
– Dissertation Tentative Approval page no longer required
Greetings all. Effective 11/1/2020 Doctoral student’s no longer need to complete and submit the Tentative Approval Page prior to their defense. If a student’s committee requires a working copy of the dissertation prior to the final defense that should only be sent to the student’s committee, it should not be sent to the registrars office, […]
– PhD students Katherine Zavez, Prince Allotey, Math-Stat student Rujue Du and Yulia Sidi, ’20 PhD have won the 2020 ASA Leadership Challenge.
We very pleased to inform you that PhD students Katherine Zavez, Prince Allotey, Math-Stat student Rujue Du and Yulia Sidi, ’20 PhD have won the 2020 ASA Leadership Challenge. Congratulations!
-Katherine Zavez has won the APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics section 2020 student research paper competition.
Ph.D. student Katherine Zavez presenting her paper “Imputing racial and ethnic information in health claim databases” won this year APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics section 2020 student research paper competition (October 2020).
– 2020 New England Rare Disease Statistics (NERDS) Webinar Series
The New England Statistical Society (NESS), alongside the 2020 NERDS Organizing Committee, is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a series of virtual webinars (Nov-Dec) focused on the current state of statistical and clinical research in rare disease drug development. We had a very successful NERDS 2019 event last year on Oct 11, where we […]
– An Introduction to the UConn Statistics Cluster (November 2, 2020)
Seminar II: Only for all Graduate Students in the Statistics Department Time and Place: November 2, 4:40 pm — 5:30 pm Speaker: Daniel Parther, Administrator for the Statistics Computer Cluster Title: An Introduction to the UConn Statistics Cluster Abstract: The statistics computer cluster is available to the faculty and graduate students of the statistics department […]
2020 UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (October 10)
The UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (UCSAS) focuses specifically on students (graduate, undergraduate, and high school) who are interested in sports analytics. Organized by the UConn Statistical Data Science Lab of the Department of Statistics UCSAS aims to: 1) showcase sports analytics to students at an accessible level; 2) train students in data analytics with application […]
Paper of the Month: October 2020
Bollerslev, T. (1986) Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. Journal of Econometrics 31, 307–327.
– Marcos Prates, ’11 PhD was elected President of the Brazilian Statistics Association (ABE) for the 2020-2022 term.
Marcos Oliveira Prates, ’11 PhD and former Visiting Assistant Professor, was elected President of the Brazilian Statistics Association (ABE) for the 2020-2022 term. Larissa Avila Matos and Celso Romulo Cabral, who were Visiting Research Scholars at UConn in 2015 and 2017, were elected Secretary and treasurer, respectively.