Statistics Department Seminar Series: Jingshu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Mendelian Randomization for Causal inference of heritable phenotypic risk factors"
Abstract: Understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of common diseases is a fundamental goal of clinical research. As randomized controlled...
Statistics Department Seminar Series: James Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
"Clinical trials for AI and AI for clinical trials"
Abstract: Clinical trials are the gatekeeper and bottleneck of medicine. In the first half of the talk, I discuss lessons learned from our...
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Richard Zemel, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
"Quantile Risk Control: A Framework for Flexible Bounds on the Probability of High-Loss Predictions"
Abstract: Learning-based predictive algorithms have tremendous potential to reduce costs and improve outcomes in a breadth of domains...