We have three talks coming up to bring some of our team members closer to their educational goals.
• Thursday, November 30, 2017, 1:30PM, Health Science Building E214 — Yunqi Bu PhD general exam
• Monday, December 4, 2017, 11:30AM, Padelford Hall C14A — David Gold Master’s thesis defense
• Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 10:30AM, Padelford Hall C301 — Rui Zhuang PhD general exam
Come if you can.
Rui has received the “Senior Post Award” at this year’s biostats retreat. The project can be found here. Congratulations, Rui!
Software geniuses Ben and Saba have uploaded the backend of our online computing project here on GitHub. World-class JavaScript and Python skills, guys! ♔
We have uploaded a paper titled “Maximum Regularized Likelihood Estimators: A General Prediction Theory and Applications” here on arXiv. We discuss “slow” rates for MRLEs in a wide range of settings. Cool stuff, Rui! ✌
Find information about the course STAT 311 on Canvas and in the teaching section.
We have established inference for two-stage regression models, with both stages high-dimensional. The paper is available here. Awesome work, David! ⛰
