2019
Statistics Colloquium: David M. Blei
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
DAVID M. BLEI, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University
“The Blessings of Multiple Causes”
Statistics Colloquium: Gregory Valiant
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
GREGORY VALIANT, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
“When Your Big Data Seems Too Small”
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Statistics Colloquium: Mark Van Der Laan
4:30–4:30 pm Eckhart 133
MARK VAN DER LAAN, Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Targeted Minimum Loss Estimation with the Highly Adaptive Lasso: Applications in Causal Inference”
Statistics Colloquium: Jeff Leek
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JEFF LEEK, The Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab & Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Data Science Education as a Scalable Economic and Public Health Intervention”
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Statistics Colloquium: Pragya Sur
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
PRAGYA SUR, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A Modern Maximum-Likelihood Approach for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression”
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Statistics Colloquium: Jonathan Weed
4:00–5:00 pm
JONATHAN WEED, The Statistics and Data Science Center & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Fast Rates and Fast Algorithms for the Wasserstein Distance”
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Statistics Colloquium: Subhabrata Sen
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
SUBHABRATA SEN, Microsoft Research Lab – New England & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Network Data: Modeling and Statistical Analysis”
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Statistics Colloquium: James Johndrow
1:00–2:00 pm Kent 120
JAMES JOHNDROW, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Bayes Shrinkage at GWAS Scale”
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Statistics Colloquium: Jingshu Wang
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JINGSHU WANG, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
“Data Denoising for Single-cell RNA Sequencing”
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Statistics Colloquium: Eugene Katsevich
4:00–5:00 pm
EUGENE KATSEVICH, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Multiple Testing for Modern Data: Structure, Curation, and Replicability”
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