Tuesday, October 20th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Hybrid 

Join us for the October Journal Club meeting on Tuesday, October 20th from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in Room 301 708 Broadway. For our second session, the discussion will be led by 2nd-year MPH Biostatistics students, Daniel de Leon on a 2022 JMIR mHealth and uHealth paper entitled "Comparison of Accelerometry-Based Measures of Physical Activity".

  Thursday, October 22nd | 2:00 pm & 3:30 pm | Hybrid 

2:00 PM – Power and Sample 1: The Basics

This session introduces the concepts of power and sample size calculations such as alpha levels, power, and minimum detectable effect sizes through simple calculations, both manually and using Stata's -power- commands.  This session concludes with a discussion of strategies to increase statistical power. 

3:30 PM – Power and Sample size 2 Simulations Methods

A continuation of Power and Sample Size 1, this session focuses on how to calculate power using simulation methods and how to create your own custom power calculation programs that leverage Stata's -power- command to create custom tables and graphs. We will work examples that simulate power for a t-test, the interaction term in a linear regression model, and the interaction term in a multilevel model. 

 Wednesday, October 28th | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Hybrid 

Title: "What it takes to make clinical AI work"

Presenter: Isabela Fulcher, Ph.D.; Co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Delfina Care

  Thursday, October 29th | 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Hybrid  

Title: Attention Seeking in Genome-wide Association Studies

Presenter: Heping Zhang, PhD; Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

  Friday, October 30th | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Hybrid (Rm 1001)

Presenter: Vicky Rampin, MS, MLIS; Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian

This session will cover topics including: 1) Creating a GitHub repository, 2) Cloning the repository and versioning the materials locally, 3) Showing some project sharing and manuscript writing features in the Development environment, 4) Staying in sync with partners via GitHub, when to push/pull. 

Students should bring a laptop with both Git (git-scm.com/install) and R/RStudio installed on it. Please install the following R packages ahead of time: rmarkdown, knitr, renv, here. The R code to do so is: install.packages(c("knitr", "rmarkdown", "here", "renv")).

  November 6th & 12th | Hybrid | Appointment Booking Calendar  

We invite students applying to doctoral programs this year to attend our Walk-in Hours for PhD Applications. This session offers an opportunity for students to receive individual feedback and guidance on their PhD application materials by Drs. Siyu Heng or Wen Zhou.

During walk-in hours, faculty will available to:

To ensure a productive session, students are encouraged to submit application materials in advance via email to gph.bsadmin@nyu.edu

  Wednesday, November 4th | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Hybrid  

Title: "Learning Causal Effects from Observational Factorial Studies"

Presenter: Ruoqi Yu, PhD; Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

  Wednesday, November 11th | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Hybrid  

Presenter: Melanie Mayer, PhD; Senior Statistician, Biostatistics Consultation and Collaboration Core,  NYU GPH.

 Tuesday, November 17th | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Hybrid 

Join us for the November Journal Club meeting on Tuesday, November 17h from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in Room 801 708 Broadway. This discussion will be led by 2nd-year MS Biostatistics student Sabrina Wu on the Statistical Science Journal article titled, "Struggles with survey weighting and regression modeling" published by 2. Gelman A.

  Thursday, November 19th | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Hybrid  

Please join us on Thursday, November 19th from 3:30 – 5:00pm for our Joint Biostatistics Seminar hosted by NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU School of Global Public Health. This seminar will feature our very own Dr. Gary Hettinger, PhD and Emily Zhang, PhD Candidate. More details to come!

Drs. Betenksy and Mei's office hours will be held on Mondays from 1:00pm – 2:00pm. These sessions will also be held in conjunction with our Brown Bag Luncheon. The schedule is as follows:

The Department of Biostatistics hosted the first seminar of it's inaugural lectureship series! This opening session titled "Beyond the Power Calculation: A Collaborative Statistician's Role in Clinical Research" featured our very own Dr. Alex Dahlen, where he described his day-to-day life as a collaborative statistician in academic research and gave us a walk through two case studies. Check out the photos from our event!