STATS@UVM interest group and talk

Dear Colleagues,

There are a large number of faculty and staff doing statistics, epidemiology and data science at UVM, some in isolation. All of us in these fields could benefit from stronger connections and community, leading to the sharing of ideas, expertise, and the current state-of-the-art practices and methodologies in our closely aligned fields.

For these reasons, we are creating a group,  tentatively titled STATS@UVM (please let me know if you have a suggestion for a better name).  You are receiving this email because we thought you might be interested in this group.  Activities of the group include a monthly journal club and colloquium series.  Please let us know if there are others not on this list that you think would want to be on the list, and if you want to be removed from the list.

Initial activities that have been scheduled include three Journal clubs and a colloquium by Ron Wasserstein, the Executive Director of the American Statistical Association.  Dr. Wasserstein's talk will be based on the article published in The American Statistician (2019) entitled, ‘Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05.”’ 

TALK BY RON WASSERSTEIN

When: October 8 from noon to 1:00

Where: Waterman Memorial lounge

Title:  p-values and significant testing

JOURNAL CLUB DATES FOR FALL 2019

All the dates are Fridays at noon, location Kalkin 001.  Note that the first meeting is September 20.  I will send the paper up for discussion soon.   We’ll also eat pizza and socialize.  Please attend to share in the Statistics/DS/Epi community here at UVM!

JOURNAL CLUB DATES

September 20, noon

October 18, noon

November 15, noon

If you have any papers you think would be good to discuss at journal club, please send them to Jeff Buzas.

We hope to see you at some or all of these activities.  If you have colloquia scheduled that you think would be of interest to this group, please let us know and we would be happy to advertise it.

Best,

Jeff and Peter

Jeff Buzas

Professor of Statistics

Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Director of Statistics

University of Vermont

Phone: 802 656 2971

Peter Callas

Director, UVM Biomedical Statistics Research Core

Phone: 802-656-3195
email: pcallas@uvm.edu