Please join us next Wednesday (9.13) at 1:30 p.m. CT for a virtual seminar on robust unsupervised multi-task and transfer learning on Gaussian mixture models by Dr. Yang Feng, associate professor of biostatistics at NYU School of Global Public Health. Contact Cierra.Streeter[at]vumc.org for access. #biostatistics #gaussian
https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/Main/YangFeng09132023

Watch R/Bioconductor Conference 2023 with @rladiesrome 🔥
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-rome/events/295173070/
When: August 28, 2023 at 4:00 PM CET / 10:00 AM EDT
Where: in Rome (more info in the link)

#rladies #rstats @Bioconductor @RLadiesGlobal @rladiesrome #biostatistics #Bioinformatics

Watch R/Bioconductor Conference 2023 with @rladiesrome 🔥
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-rome/events/295173070/
When: August 28, 2023 at 4:00 PM CET / 10:00 AM EDT
Where: in Rome (more info in the link)

#rladies #rstats @Bioconductor @RLadiesGlobal @fgazzelloni #biostatistics #Bioinformatics

Just got back from ASA’s JSM 2023 convention in Toronto. I had a great time, learned a lot of stuff and made new connections 😁 . It was so cool to see so many mid career stats professionals talk about their work. #ASA #AmericanStatisticalAssociation #jsm2023 #JSM #JointStatisticalMeetings #statistics #biostatistics

@jobsecoevo - Job ad: Full Time Teaching Prof Boston USA

My department is hiring! #Job #Boston #USA #Northeastern

Full time Assistant / Associate #Teaching Professor. We seek broadly trained candidates with expertise in #biostatistics, teaching in #Rstats, experimental design and implementation. Areas of research focus could draw from #evolution, #genomics, sustainability sciences, conservation biology https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Assistant-Associate-Teaching-Professor--Marine-and-Environmental-Sciences_R116265-1

- Job ad: Full Time Teaching Prof Boston USA

My department is hiring! #Job #Boston #USA #Northeastern

Full time Assistant / Associate #Teaching Professor. We seek broadly trained candidates with expertise in #biostatistics, teaching in #Rstats, experimental design and implementation. Areas of research focus could draw from #evolution, #genomics, sustainability sciences, conservation biology

https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Assistant-Associate-Teaching-Professor--Marine-and-Environmental-Sciences_R116265-1

Please boost!

New Event in person with live streaming for R-Ladies Rome #BioC23 Watch Party. 🛰 Come and find us 🔜 Department of Statistics of the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.

📅 When: August 28, 2023 at 4 PM CET /10 AM EDT
📌 RSVP: https://lnkd.in/dHV5SGsx

🇮🇹 Unisciti a noi per una coinvolgente R/Bioconductor watch party.

Questa è un'opportunità unica per connetterti con una comunità di appassionati di dati come te

#rladies #datascience #biostatistics #rstats #rstudio #galaxy

It is much more difficult to do an #observational cohort study well vs. an RCT. People forget that the #selection into cohort matters & that #causal assessments are more difficult (if outright impossible) with #cohorts, esp if you don't/won't grasp the mechanics of cohort generation.
#Biostatistics #epidemiology #clinicalresearch #clinicaltrials

Reminder : unadjusted survival (Kaplan Meier) curves are just Table 1 summaries for outcomes , rendered as Figure 2.
#statistics #biostatistics

RT @: Interested in learning about statistical methods and data visualisation tools for interpreting your biological data? Learn through our #OpenAccess training collection about #biostatistics: https://ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/biostatistics-introduction/… #statistics #DataAnalysis #DataInterpretation #DataScience

@cameronpat I have wondered about this too! Especially since GAMs seem like a natural progression from "ordinary" linear models. Is it the choosing of bases or interpretation of coefficients that's a turn off? But those aren't decisions specific to #biostatistics. Perhaps it's just a lack of awareness? I've found #mgcv in #rstats super easy to use.

As we approach the midpoint of our 2023 summer internship program, here's a look at this year's cohort. https://www.vumc.org/biostatistics/blog/learn-about-our-2023-summer-interns #equity #biostatistics #PaidInternships

#ThrowbackThursday Matt Shotwell teaches Machine Learning & Statistics Using R during the 2018 CQS Summer Institute. Learn about the 2023 Institute at https://www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summer-institute. #RStats #StatisticalComputing #Biostatistics #BigData

Today is the LAST DAY to apply for our joint CBW-IMPACTT Microbiome Analysis Workshop at the early-bird rate! July 5-7, 2023 at the University of Calgary. Apply here: https://bioinformatics.ca/workshops-all/2023-cbw-impactt-microbiome-analysis/

#bioinformatics #workshop #16S #18S #sequencing #shotgunsequencing #metagenomics #genomics #transcriptomics #metatranscriptomics #longread #markergene #functionalannotation #tutorial #statistics #biostatistics #microbiome #microbiota #microbialecology #diversity #betadiversity #differentialabundance

Our April newsletter is out! See our backlog of newsletters and subscribe so you never miss an update: https://impactt-microbiome.ca/newsletter-archive/

#microbiome #bioinformatics #omics #newsletter #symposium #workshop #microbiota #biostatistics

Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics of new types of transcriptomic data @Bgeedb

#Postdoc on the #bioinformatics / #biostatistics of new types of #GeneExpression data in Bgee database: #SingleCell, isoforms, etc

https://jobrxiv.org/job/universite-de-lausanne-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-bioinformatics-of-new-types-of-transcriptomic-data/?feed_id=44124

#Scienc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/universite-de-lausanne-27778-postdoctoral-position-in-bioinformatics-of-new-types-of-transcriptomic-data/?feed_id=44124

Love the concluding section in this

"If the authors of versions 1-5 ever read this post, please know we appreciate how hard you tried to make the truth about this data known."
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/evolution-of-florida-vaccine-analysis?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

#mRNA #florida #antivax
#epiverse

#biostatistics
#epidemiology

At 1:30 pm today (4.26), our department will host a seminar with Sharon Xiangwen Xie (professor of biostatistics at Penn). The talk is open to all; contact Cierra.Street[at]vumc.org for access. #Parkinsons #biostatistics https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/Main/SharonXiangwenXie042623

On #research, and #dreams, and what I do all day.

Nearly all of my work consists of using absolutely standard #bioinformatics and #biostatistics techniques. These methods were long ago worked out in excruciating detail by people much more knowledgeable in their subspecialties than I’ll ever be. Although I grumble about the quality of #scientific #software (and there’s a lot to grumble about) I almost always use mostly-reliable packages rather than writing my own. There are only so many hours in a day, days in a year, and years in a career.

The truth is, that’s the way most #science jobs are, at least in #biology and #medicine—I’m honestly not sure about others. #Methodological research, working out entirely new ways to do things, is largely a privilege of dewy-eyed grad students and slightly more cynical but still idealistic postdocs. #Faculty get to do some, but less the higher up the food chain they get: full #professorship is at least half administration and half overseeing other people’s research and half #grantwriting, and if you’re thinking that’s one too many halves, you’re right. There are probably a couple of other halves in there I don’t even know about.

#Industry scientists like me? The #PhD is an entry-level qualification. We’re not paid to come up with new ways to do things better. We’re paid to use old ways to do things faster. Ultimately, the goal is something new, sure, usually a new #drug for a particular #disease. The process of making that happen is a bunch of painstaking and carefully programmed steps. There’s about as much room for creativity as there was when I was in the service—which BTW is more than people often assume, but with pretty sharp limits. And almost always, the clock is ticking. Loudly.

This may all sound kind of bitter. Yes, there’s some bitterness, but I know I have plenty of company.

No one goes into science for the money or the prestige: without any false modesty at all, I can say that anyone who is capable of becoming a #scientist is capable of doing lots of other things too, and most of those things pay better and get more respect. We start our long and winding road because we see, or think we see, something at the heart of reality no one else has seen before. We think we can bring that into the light and show it to the world. We can make a difference. We believe.

Eventually we come around. It’s not just an adventure, it’s a job.

My point—I swear I have one—is that we grumble about this, and think back wistfully to the days when we could sink into one project, and recall with tolerant amusement our conviction that we alone could reveal the Truth unto the world … and mostly accept it. Do the work, be the cog in the machine, and small-t truth will be revealed. Not just by us alone, no. By us and by everyone who came before us in the chain and everyone after, and a year or five or twenty down the line, someone who would have died will live. They’ll never know our names, and we’ll never know theirs. It’s okay.

And every once in a while, in the middle of this daily grind, we realize that what we have to do to solve this particular problem, get at this particular small truth, no one else has ever done.

So we do it.

We do it, and go back to the grind. Nobody else may ever know we did it. If they do, it will probably be buried in the methods section of a multi-author article in a mid-tier journal. If ten people in the world ever read it, we’ll be pleasantly surprised. A citation, and we’ll be over the moon. And there’s no guarantee of even that much. Locked away in a tech report gathering e-dust, just as likely.

But we know. And sometimes we dream again, for a little while.

If you were wondering how to measure inter-rater reliability for any number of raters and any degree of missing data...

Then you're looking for Krippendorff's alpha.

And... if you then wonder: gee, how can I ensure statistical significance with this measure?

You want to bootstrap for 1000 iterations or more.

The end.

#biostatistics #epidemiology