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Biostatistics Journal Club: What is an Estimand? How do we Choose a Clinically Meaningful Estimand for a Comparative Clinical Study? – October 12
October 12, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: What is an Estimand? How do we Choose a Clinically Meaningful Estimand for a Comparative Clinical Study?
See moreBiostatistics Journal Club: Directional Testing in Mediation Analysis – November 9
November 9, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: Directional Testing in Mediation Analysis. Jonathan Dreyfuss, PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center, will discuss directional testing in mediation analysis.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Incorporating Functional Data into Statistical Models – December 2
December 2, 2022
Biostatistics short course: Incorporating Functional Data into Statistical Models. Todd Ogden, PhD, Columbia University will discuss incorporating functional data into statistical models.
See moreBiostatistics Journal Club: Statistical Considerations in Studies of Assisted Reproduction – December 7
December 7, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: Statistical Considerations in Studies of Assisted Reproduction. Laura Dodge, ScD,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will discuss statistical considerations in studies of assisted reproduction.
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Biostatistics Journal Club: Statistical Methods in COVID-Related Studies – May 4
May 4, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: Statistical Methods in COVID-Related Studies. Speaker: Wei Wang, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
See moreAnnual symposium: Translational Biostatistics – Bridging the Gap Between Complex Statistical Analyses and Clinically Actionable Information – April 29
April 29, 2022
Annual symposium: Translational Biostatistics - Bridging the Gap Between Complex Statistical Analyses and Clinically Actionable Information.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Precision Medicine – A Statistical Perspective on Estimating the Best Treatment Strategy – April 8
April 8, 2022
Biostatistics short course: Precision Medicine – A Statistical Perspective on Estimating the Best Treatment Strategy. Speaker: Erica Moodie, PhD, McGill University.
See moreBiostatistics Journal Club: The Interferon Landscape Along the Respiratory Tract Impacts the Severity of COVID-19 – April 6
April 6, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: The Interferon Landscape Along the Respiratory Tract Impacts the Severity of COVID-19. Speaker: Enju Liu, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital.
See moreBiostatistics Journal Club: Missing Data Challenges in Electronic Health Records-Based Studies of COVID and Long COVID – March 2
March 2, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: Missing Data Challenges in Electronic Health Records-Based Studies of COVID and Long COVID. Speaker: Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Bayesian Regression Trees – February 18
February 18, 2022
Biostatistics short course: Bayesian Regression Trees. Speaker: Jason Roy, PhD, Rutgers School of Public Health.
See moreBiostatistics Journal Club: Quantitative Methods and Opportunities in Implementation Science – February 9
February 9, 2022
Biostatistics Journal Club: Quantitative Methods and Opportunities in Implementation Science. Speaker: Elysia Larson, ScD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Survival Analysis Based on the Restricted Mean Survival Time – An Alternative to the Proportional Hazards Model – December 10
December 10, 2021
Biostatistics short course: Survival Analysis Based on the Restricted Mean Survival Time – An Alternative to the Proportional Hazards Model. Lu Tian, ScD, Stanford University, will lead discussion.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Enhancing Reproducibility of Neuroimaging Research with Large-Scale Open Access Datasets – December 1
December 1, 2021
Biostatistics journal club: Enhancing Reproducibility of Neuroimaging Research with Large-Scale Open Access Datasets. Lisa Nickerson, PhD, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, will lead discussion.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: A Glimpse of Statistical Methods for Vaccine Evaluation – November 17
November 17, 2021
Biostatistics journal club: A Glimpse of Statistical Methods for Vaccine Evaluation. Hang Lee, PhD, MGH, will lead discussion.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Statistical Remedies for Flawed Conventions in Medical Research – October 15
October 15, 2021
Biostatistics short course: Statistical Remedies for Flawed Conventions in Medical Research. Peter Thall, PhD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, discusses problems with a variety of statistical practices commonly used by medical statisticians and physician researchers.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Mediation Analysis to Elucidate Pathways in Randomized Trials – October 6
October 6, 2021
Biostatistics journal club: Mediation Analysis to Elucidate Pathways in Randomized Trials. Robert Glynn, PhD, ScD, will present a journal club discussion about mediation analysis in randomized control trials.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Predictability of Life Outcomes and Machine Learning Prediction in Social Sciences – April 28
April 28, 2021
Biostatistics journal club: Predictability of Life Outcomes and Machine Learning Prediction in Social Sciences. Discussion on whether framework proposed by authors can serve as a generalizable solution to predictability estimation, and from statistical point of view, the potential factors that might contribute to low estimated predictability.
See moreBiostatistics symposium: Precision Medicine – Statistical Opportunities and Challenges – April 14
April 14, 2021
Symposium: Precision Medicine – Statistical Opportunities and Challenges. Annual symposium featuring speakers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Pfizer, and other experts.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data – March 24
March 24, 2021
Biostatistics short course: Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data. Short course providing an introduction to joint modelling through real applications.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Statistical Challenges in COVID-19 Clinical Research – March 3
March 3, 2021
Statistical Challenges in COVID-19 Clinical Research will be presented by Andrea S. Foulkes, ScD, Chief of Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
See moreBiostatistics short course: Group-Based Trajectory Modeling – An Overview and Recent Advances – February 12
February 12, 2021
Biostatistics short course: Group-Based Trajectory Modeling - An Overview and Recent Advances. Daniel S. Nagin, PhD, Carnegie Mellon, will provide an overview of group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) with a focus on applications in medicine and epidemiology and discuss recent advances in this area.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: p-Values and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – February 3
February 3, 2021
Biostatistics journal club: p-Values and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Review of the NEJM 2019 statistical reporting guidelines and accompanying editorial with a focus on elimination of all p-values in manuscripts except those for a pre-specified primary analysis and multiplicity-adjusted analyses of secondary outcomes.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Variance Modeling of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Mobile Health Data – December 4
December 4, 2020
Biostatistics short course: Variance Modeling of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Mobile Health Data. Workshop focusing on an adolescent smoking study using EMA at both one and several measurement waves, where interest is on characterizing changes in mood variation associated with smoking.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Practicing Translational Statistics – November 18
November 18, 2020
Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Practicing Translational Statistics will be discussed by Lee-Jen Wei, PhD, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Senior Statistician, Statistical and Data Analysis Center; Director, Industry Partnership Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Adjusting for Treatment Effects in Studies of Quantitative Traits – Anti-Hypertensive Therapy and Systolic Blood Pressure – October 28
October 28, 2020
Biostatistics journal club: Adjusting for Treatment Effects in Studies of Quantitative Traits – Anti-Hypertensive Therapy and Systolic Blood Pressure. Discussion of paper led by Bernard Rosner, PhD, Harvard Medical School. Registration required.
See moreBiostatistics short course: Modeling Ordinal Categorical Data – October 2
October 2, 2020
Biostatistics short course: Modeling Ordinal Categorical Data. Intermediate level course presenting models for analyzing categorical response variables that have a natural ordering of categories.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: In-Hospital Mortality by Pump Type for Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using a Multi-Center Registry Data – Is the Propensity Score and Outcome Model Correct? – September 16
September 16, 2020
Biostatistics journal club: In-Hospital Mortality by Pump Type for Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using a Multi-Center Registry Data – Is the Propensity Score and Outcome Model Correct? Discussion based around evaluating the association of pump type with in-hospital mortality using data from a multi-center registry.
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Statistical Errors in Current Phase III Oncology Trials: Are We Managing Them Appropriately? – April 8
April 8, 2020
Statistical Errors in Current Phase III Oncology Trials: Are We Managing Them Appropriately? will be discussed by Changyu Shen PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Statistical Director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
See moreBiostatistics journal club: Novel Mediation Analysis of Human Plasma Proteome and Metabolome Reveals Mediators of Improved Glycemia After Gastric Bypass Surgery – March 11
March 11, 2020
Journal club: Novel Mediation Analysis of Human Plasma Proteome and Metabolome Reveals Mediators of Improved Glycemia After Gastric Bypass Surgery will be discussed by Jonathan Dreyfuss PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core, Joslin Diabetes Center
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