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Professor Xihong Lin Elected to National Academy of Medicine
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Professor Xihong Lin, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Professor of Statistics, and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been...
Gender Diversity in Statistics Department Featured in the Harvard Crimson
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Follow this link to read the piece, highlighting challenges and progress.
David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture Available Online
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We are pleased to announce that the Fifth Biennial David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture, given by Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University, is available to view online. Please follow this link to enjoy the lecture.
Subhabrata Sen: Job Talk
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Network data: Modeling and Statistical Analysis Network data arises frequently in modern scientific applications. These networks often exhibit specific characteristics like edge sparsity, heavy-tailed degree distribution etc. Some broad challenges arising...
Jonathan Weed: Job Talk
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Large-scale Optimal Transport: Statistics and Computation Optimal transport is a concept from probability which has recently seen an explosion of interest in machine learning and statistics as a tool for analyzing high-dimensional data. However, the key...
Qingyuan Zhao: Job Talk
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Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease Mendelian randomization (MR) can give unbiased estimate of a confounded causal effect by using genetic variants as instrumental variables. The...
Fei Gao: Job Talk
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Non-iterative Estimation Update for Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Population-based Auxiliary Information With the advancement in disease registries and surveillance data, population-based information on disease incidence, survival probability...
Yiqiao (Joe) Zhong: Job Talk
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Spectral Methods and Nonconvex Optimization: A Modern Statistical Perspective Modern statistical analysis often requires integration of statistical thinking and algorithmic thinking. In many problems, statistically sound estimation procedures (e.g., the...
Pragya Sur: Job Talk
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Title: A modern maximum-likelihood approach for high-dimensional logistic regression Abstract: L ogistic regression is arguably the most widely used and studied non-linear model in statistics. Classical maximum-likelihood theory based statistical...