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The MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminar Series (BSU).

Seminars at the BSU are aimed at a general scientific audience and open to all.

Most seminars are now in a hybrid format, taking place at the Seminar Rooms, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR . Please notice that start and finish hours may vary. If you would like to attend virtually, please follow the Zoom registration link included in the information for each seminar.

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1 upcoming talk and 210 talks in the archive.

BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ

UserKarla Diaz Ordaz, University College London .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ

UserPeter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl

UserYu Luo, Kings College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW

UserRenate Meyer, University of Aukland.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/22b7f255-8f6c-4dce-9c83-36281a3261bf@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserJoshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93edb3b5-eb5d-4d19-b30b-1526233e3c17@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserChristian Madsen, University of Melbourne.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7045e477-b689-46bc-9ec3-fe1ed827a158@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990

UserProf Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE

UserRob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh

UserDimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3

UserMarcos Matabuena, Harvard University .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration

UserMagdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa

UserAndrew Yiu, University of Oxford.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P

UserPaul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1

UserRhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6

UserGiorgos Minas, St Andrew's University.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L

UserDan Jackson, AstraZeneca.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx

UserRichard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"

This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n

UserDr F. Javier Rubio, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS

UserSam Livingstone, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'

This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ

UserDr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi

UserMélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx

UserProf Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq

UserStef Baas, University of Twente.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF

UserProf Mats Stensrud, EPFL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254

UserDr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9

UserDr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt

UserDr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z

UserProf Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC

UserProfessor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI

UserDr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO

UserProf Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY

UserDr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"

This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo

UserLorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N

UserDavid Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne.

HouseSeminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockMonday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30

BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"

This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH

UserDr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP

UserProf William Rosenberger, George Mason University.

HouseSeminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0

UserDan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09

UserBatuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”

This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA

UserDr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath.

HouseSeminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"

This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt

UserProf Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia .

HouseThis will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt .

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"

This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357

UserMatt Tudball, University of Bristol.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”

This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917

UserDr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

UserProf Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing"

This will be a online seminar. You can register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-heejung-shim-tickets-198278104147

UserDr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 02 November 2021, 10:00-11:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction"

This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information.

UserDr Glen Martin, University of Manchester.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Ian Marschner, University of Sydney.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf David Knowles, Columbia University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserKelly Zhang, Harvard University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 15 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of spatio-temporal data’

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserAlessandra Luati, University of Bologna .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProfessor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserDr Lan Wen, Harvard University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserProf Robin Evans, University of Oxford.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”

If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information.

UserJoshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00

Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”

UserIngeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

“Squeezing the most out of ridge”

UserProfessor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

“Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”

UserHélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

UserProf Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Title TBC

UserProfessor Rebecca Steorts, Duke University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 13 September 2016, 14:30-15:30

Title TBC

UserProf Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

MRC Centenary Lecture: Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care

A summer reception to follow

UserProfessor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

ClockThursday 20 June 2013, 18:30-19:30

MRC Centenary Lecture: What's happening to the world?

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2013, 17:30-18:30

Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p

UserJérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data

UserDr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical Studies

UserDr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 14:30-15:30

Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes

UserProfessor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling

UserProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30

Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effect

UserDr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessments

UserDr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence Synthesis

UserIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design

UserJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Spatial prediction in the presence of positional error

UserThomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2010, 14:30-15:30

Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policy

UserChristl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 14:30-15:30

Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillance

UserSimon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 14:30-15:30

Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimes

UserRobin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and application

UserDan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 14:30-15:30

Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration data

UserNiels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

The Error Statistical Philosophy

UserProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30

Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement error

UserLaurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive Proposals

UserLeonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 01 July 2008, 14:30-15:30

A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of aging

UserArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Issues and controversies in life course epidemiology

UserBianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 08 April 2008, 14:30-15:30

What is the deviance information criterion?

UserMartyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer.

HouseSmall Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Joint modelling of competing risks of drug withdrawal and quality of life in epilepsy trials.

UserPaula Williamson, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 April 2007, 14:30-15:30

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