February 2012

App Stats: Pfister on "Visual Computing in Biology"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 29, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Hanspeter Pfister, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Visual Computing in Biology". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Visual Computing in Biology"
Hanspeter Pfister
School of...

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App Stats: Dominici on "Bayesian Effect Estimation Accounting for Adjustment Uncertainty"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 22, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics from the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "Bayesian Effect Estimation Accounting for Adjustment Uncertainty". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

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App Stats: Sofer on "Sparse Joint Estimation of Covariates-Dependent Covariance Matrices"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 15, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Tamar Sofer, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Sparse Joint Estimation of Covariates-Dependent Covariance Matrices". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Sparse Joint Estimation of Covariates...

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App Stats: Titiunik on "Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 8, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Rocio Titiunik, Assistant Professor from the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, will give a presentation entitled "Using Regression Discontinuity to Uncover the Personal Incumbency Advantage". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Using Regression Discontinuity to...

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