Biostatistics for better science

REDCapCon
REDCap convention for applied biostatisticians

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RoSE Network - RoSE eConference 2025 RoSE e-CONFERENCE 2025

Researchers of Statistics Education (RoSE) Network eConference 2025

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ACTS 2025
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Date: June 9-28, 2025 Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Short Skills-Based Courses Statistical Reasoning in Public Health I & II Intro to R for Public Health Researchers AI for Improved Patient Outcomes AI Programming in Python for Public Health Data Analysis Workshop I Leveraging EHR Data Data Visualization Practical Genomics Advanced Data Analysis and more... REGISTER TODAY Online, Hybrid & On-Campus Options Available

Advance your public health expertise this summer by signing up for Graduate Summer Institute classes. The 43rd Summer Institute runs June 9-28 and offers courses ranging in length from 4-hours to 2-weeks. View our full course list online: publichealth.jhu.edu/academics/gr...

ASA Community The ASA Community is an online gateway for member collaboration and connection.

The ASA Statement on p-values Seminar Series
The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association and Division of Biostatistics at Medical College of Wisconsin invite you to the chapter's 2025 Annual Meeting

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Celebrating Women's History Month

3 of our Biostatistics faculty, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Marie Diener-West, and Mei-Cheng Wang, are spotlighted in
@amstatnews.bsky.social's cover story this month celebrating women in statistics, biostatistics, and data science! Read more about them online: magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/03...

YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University Scott Zeger -- Using Biostatistics to Inform Clinical Decisions

#FlashbackFriday: Hear @slzeger.bsky.social talk about how biostatistics informs important clinical health decisions. Scott is the co-director of Hopkins inHealth, a @jhu.edu wide collaboration to use medical data more intelligently to improve the health outcomes of patients:

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Webinar on real-world insights

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Opportunity for Statistician Advisory board

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Conference on statistical practice in clinical trials

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Special Issue on New Frontiers in Reliability and Risk Analysis: A Tribute to Nozer Darabsha Singpurwalla: Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry is a journal at the interface of stochastic modelling, data analysis, & applications in business, finance & industry.

Special issue on reliability and risk analysis

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Ron Wasserstein on LinkedIn: Monday’s termination of scores of Department of Education contracts… Monday’s termination of scores of Department of Education contracts includes virtually all contracts that the National Center for Education Statistics relies…

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Biostatistics Seminar Series Feb 10 Peter Mueller is a professor of statistics and mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Feb 17 Keri Martinowich is a senior investigator at Lieber Institute, and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Feb 24 Lin Chen is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. Mar 3 Miguel Marino is a professor of biostatistics at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Public Health. Mar 10 J. Sunil Rao is a professor of biostatistics and the Director of Biostatistics, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health Mar 31 Jane Pinelis is the Chief Scientist, Special Operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Wolfe St/Zoom 12:05-1:20 PM

Our Biostatistics Seminar Series, led by biostatistics experts covering a wide-range of topics, starts back up in 1 week. View our full list, and pre-register via Zoom, on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Making the most of your public health program Podcast Episode · Pathways to Public Health: Inside the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · 01/03/2025 · 15m

Hear 2nd year ScM Biostats student Yuhan Xiao speak about her academic journey and how she prioritizes her work, engages with fellow students, and balances her research interests. The "Pathways to Public Health" podcast showcases the graduate experience @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium (CSAS)

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Priors and decision thresholds in phase 2 and phase 3 randomized controlled trials evaluating drug efficacy using Bayesian methods: a systematic review - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education Volume 33, Issue 1 of Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

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Sample size for developing a prediction model with a binary outcome: targeting precise individual risk estimates to improve clinical decisions and fairness When developing a clinical prediction model, the sample size of the development dataset is a key consideration. Small sample sizes lead to greater concerns of overfitting, instability, poor performanc...

Developing a prediction model?

Ever wondered how to target sample size to improve model fairness and precision of risk estimates?

Check out our new pre-print & software package pmstabilityss
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Alumni Spotlight: Qier Meng, ScM ’22 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Qier Meng, ScM ’22, is a senior computational statistician at Eli Lilly and Company, where she works to address complex health-related research questions.

Qier Meng, ScM '22, is a Senior Computational Statistician at Eli Lilly and Company where she works to address complex health-related research questions. Learn more about Qier's work and her time at @jhubiostat.bsky.social, on our website:

Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

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All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

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Very helpful reference list to tackle "Common statistical myths". Will now be saved in my favourites! 😊 #medstats #stats

Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations Misinterpretation and abuse of statistical tests, confidence intervals, and statistical power have been decried for decades, yet remain rampant. A key problem is that there are no interpretations of t...

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This Simple Trait Is the Key to Longevity Scientists crunched the numbers to come up with the single best predictor of how long you’ll live—and arrived at a surprisingly low-tech answer

Read Outside magazine’s story citing research from Hopkins Biostats alum Erjia Cui, faculty John Muschelli and Ciprian Crainiceanu, and colleagues, which shows daily physical activity as a better predictor of mortality than age or smoking. www.outsideonline.com/health/train...

Statistics Behind The Headlines John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington · Audiobook

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Easier said than done, but recommend telling them blatantly that your placental tissue is does not belong to them and it's your decision and your body. Further, this seems like a major conflict of interest.

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