PhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel Award. Congratulations! For further details, please visit the meeting page.

Sydney Louit, ’24 PhD has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Congratulations! Sydney Louit’s paper “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model” has been selected as a winner of the SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Award winners are invited to present their research in a special topic-contributed session at JSM 2025 in […]

We are delighted to announce that Neil Spencer, Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2025-December 2026). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation from Robert Makuch (’72 CLAS). Neil Spencer, PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in robust Bayesian inference, network science, […]

Once a month during the academic year, the statistics faculty select a paper for our students to read and discuss. Papers are selected based on their impact or historical value, or because they contain useful techniques or results. How to annoy a journal editor - top 10 typesetting mistakes when submitting a paper in LaTeX […]

Challenges in Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation Analysis in Mobile Health Presented by Walter Dempsey, University of Michigan Friday, 24/01/25, 11am, ET Online Webex Meeting Link Meeting # 2633 697 8890 Password: RMMESTAT Abstract: Twin revolutions in wearable technologies and smartphone-delivered digital health interventions have significantly expanded the accessibility and uptake of mobile health (mHealth) interventions […]

A practical interval estimation method for spectral density function Presented by Haihan Yu, University of Rhode Island Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Webex Meeting Link  Abstract: The spectral density function can play a key role in time series analysis, where nonparametric interval estimation of the spectral density is a fundamental issue. However, […]

  Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Recent Developments in the Techniques of Bayesian Paradigm, presented on January 6, 2025.   Congratulations!

Recent Lessons on Mixing Mail and Web Data Collection Modes in Household Surveys Presented by Kristen Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Friday, Dec 6th 11-12pm online Webex Meeting Link Meeting # 2863 522 0260 Password: RMMESTAT Abstract: Survey designs are increasingly incorporating self-administered modes – namely mail and web – to counter decreasing response rates and […]

Synthetic control removes spurious discoveries from double dipping in scRNA-seq post-clustering analyses Presented by Dongyuan Song, Asst. Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Webex Meeting Link Abstract: In […]

Prof. Dipak Dey received a new Pfizer Fellowship to support Ph.D. student Sana Gupta for the 2025-2026 academic year.  Sana will conduct her research in Pharmaceutical Statistics. Congratulations!