Division of Biostatistics Holiday Party, Fran’s Upper Deck, December 10, 2019.

Thank you everyone for coming out and celebrating the end of the semester with us! Be sure to keep an eye out for more events coming in the new year.

Introduction to MCMC and Bayesian modeling with WinBUGS

Omid Aghababaei Jazi is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Eleanor Pullenayegum within Child Health Evaluative Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children. Omid obtained his PhD in Statistics from McGill University in 2019 with research focuses on longitudinal data analysis, biased sampling and variable selection methods.

Mixing R and C++: an introductory tutorial for (bio)statistics students

Luc Villandré is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Patrick Brown at the Centre for Global Health Research. Luc obtained his PhD in Biostatistics from McGill University in 2018 and has been using R for over 15 years, as well as Rcpp for the last 8 years. His current work focuses on scalable Bayesian methods for spatiotemporal data.

• Speaker: Luc Villandré

• Date: Friday, November 8, 2019

• Time: 2pm-4pm

• Location: Room 696, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street

Division of Biostatistics Halloween Potluck, Health Sciences Building, October 31, 2019.

Thank you to everyone who came out and to those who brought food. We hope everyone had fun, and look forward to seeing you at our next event!

Division of Biostatistics Welcome Picnic, High Park Picnic Area #24, September 21, 2019.

Thanks again to those that came out to the Welcome Picnic on Saturday! We had a great turn out his year and hopefully you’ve all gotten a chance to get to know your peers, upper year students and professors a little bit more!

2019 Biostatistics Bootcamp, Health Sciences Building, Toronto. September 7-8, 2019.

Thank you to all the incoming MSc/PhD students who attended the bootcamp, as well as faculty and volunteers whom took time out of their weekend to make this 2-day workshop possible!