Past Events
Event Date:
June 21-24, 2021
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Conference Theme: Nonclinical Statistics in the Age of Data Science
The conference organizing committee welcomes you to the ASA-BIOP Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference!
Registration for the 2021 NCB Conference is open!
Take a look at the conference program below, which shows the ASA... more
Event Date:
Friday, June 18th, 11am ET
Some Recent Developments in Machine Learning for Addressing Multiple Outcomes in Data Driven Decision Support
Speaker
Michael Kosorok, (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Abstract
In this presentation, we will discuss some recent developments in machine learning based precision health for estimating dynamic... more
Event Date:
June 12-13, 2021 12 - 5 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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The NISS Graduate Student Network is very excited to announce a two-day graduate student research conference!
This two-day event will take place on June 12 and 13, 2021, from noon... more
Event Date:
June 11th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Distributionally Robust Two- and Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming
Speaker
David Morton, Northwestern University
Abstract
Distributionally robust optimization allows decisions from a stochastic optimization model to hedge against a range of distributions, characterized by an ambiguity set. We... more
Event Date:
Thursday, June 10, 2021 12-1 pm ET (9-10 pm PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Insights on Vaccine Hesitancy and Healthcare Inequity from a Survey of Millions of Individuals in the US and Worldwide
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science... more
Event Date:
June 4, 2021 1-3 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Background
Excessive use of force by police presents an urgent problem of concern to sociologists, statisticians, policymakers, and the general public. Topics of... more
Event Date:
Friday, June 4th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
The Role of Complexity Bounds in Optimization
Speaker:
Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Abstract:
Complexity analysis in optimization seeks upper bounds on the amount of work required to find approximate solutions of problems in a given class with a given algorithm, and also lower... more
Event Date:
Thursday, May 27, 2021 12-1 pm ET (9-10 pm PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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A Seat at the Table: The Key Role of Biostatistics and Data Science in the Pandemic
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series is co-organized by... more
Event Date:
Friday, May 21st, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
On Binscatter
Speaker
Matias Cattaneo, (Princeton University)
Abstract
Binscatter methods are popular in economics and other social and behavioral sciences. They provide a flexible, yet parsimonious way of visualizing and summarizing large data sets in regression, quantile and other nonparametric... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11:00 am - 12:45 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Teaching Statistics vs. Data Science in Grades K-12?
Where do YOU stand?
How to define statistics education and data science education in grades K-12? Statistics or data science? ... more