Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, April 23, 2021 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
MLE and the EM Algorithm for Log-Concave Mixtures: Minimax Results
Speaker:
Constantine Caramanis, (UT Austin)
Abstract:
The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used tool for computing the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) in statistical inference with latent variables. Since the... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 11am – 12:45pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on Open Source Software in Pharma.
Overview
Use of open... more
Event Date:
Friday, April 16, 2021 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Causal Inference for Panel Data with General Treatment Patterns
Speaker
Vivek Farias, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Abstract
We consider the problem of causal inference for panel data with general treatment patterns, a paradigm with broad applications in areas ranging from program... more
Event Date:
Thursday, April 15, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Flying the Plane While Improving It – Learning from COVID Patient Data in Close to Real Time
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data... more
Event Date:
April 14, 2021 12 - 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Non-Clinical Statistics
We will use the opportunity of this webinar to introduce to the students the drug research and development process and how non-... more
Event Date:
Monday, April 12, 2021 - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Conference Theme
Cluster Randomized Clinical Trials: Challenges and Opportunities
Save the Date!
Registration is open January 6th!
Event Date:
Friday, April 9, 2021 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Global Convergence of EM?
Speaker
Harrison Zhou, (Yale University)
Abstract
In this talk I will first discuss a recent joint work with Yihong Wu: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10935. We show that the randomly initialized EM algorithm for parameter estimation in the symmetric two-component Gaussian... more
Event Date:
Friday, April 2, 2021 - 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
A Law of Robustness for Two-layer Neural Networks
Speaker
Sebastien Bubeck, (Microsoft Research)
Abstract
I will present a mathematical conjecture potentially establishing overparametrization as a law of robustness for neural networks. I will tell you some of the things that we already know about... more
Event Date:
Thursday, April 1, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Pandemics, Poverty and Public Health
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series is co-organized by the Committee of the... more
Event Date:
March 30, 2021 3-4 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
The NISS Graduate Student Network invites you to a virtual meet-up on computing tools that would be valuable to statistics or biostatistics Ph.D. students... more