Biostatisticians in action, #BNP13, Puerto Varas (Chile)

Some guiding principles that I've found useful for transitioning from being a user of statistical software to developing statistical software (mostly MCMC for implementing my bayesian methods in R/C++):

Accuracy of Maternal Reports of Young Children’s #Dentaldisease Status: Avon Longitudinal Study of #Parents and #Children Dipankar Bandyopadhyay From: Virginia Commonwealth University VCU University of Florida College of Dentistry UF College of Dentistry mdpi.com/2304-6767/8/1/8 MDPI

Wisdom!

As an academic writing coach, here are the 7 mistakes I see supervisors and PIs make in the process of co-writing a paper with their PhD students or mentees. A thread. 🧵 #AcademicChatter #newPI #PhDchat

You can connect Zotero with your Google Drive if you don't want to pay $ for extra storage. But most folks don't know how to go about it. Here's how to connect Zotero with Google Drive 👇 A step-by-step tutorial with screenshots 🧵

Argentina is world champion after a penalty shootout master class. At the core of their performance is goalkeeper Emi Martinez' mind games. Martinez dominated the French penalty takers, forcing two misses. Here’s a step-by-step description of his tricks in the final. Thread. 1/

NEW PAPER Overview of performance measures for time to event prediction models. Comes with elaborate R and SAS code Journal version (paywall) 👉 doi.org/10.7326/M22-08… Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

For 2023, want to write a fundable grant? Awesome. Grants let you call the shots and gain control over your career. Here are 7 things scholars need to know about grant writing. OpenAcademics PhD_Genie

The skewed Bernstein-von Mises theorem is online arxiv.org/abs/2301.03038. With Francesco Pozza and Botond Szabo we derive a new limiting law given by tractable generalized skew-normals that remarkably improves the convergence rate (and practical accuracy) of the classical BvM result!

In my residential school (in West Bengal), I was served 2 para(n)thas in my 5th grade (grade I got admitted). I was also served 2 para(n)thas in my final year of Bachelors (in Statistics)! --- Coming from a paratha lover

Found this, right after teaching a semester's worth of Survival Analysis!

Postdoctoral position (on Transplant Medicine) available VCU Biostatistics. I will ensure the best possible experience. forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-job…

Certainly, a historic move, and recommendation! NIH advisory group recommends $14,000 boost in postdoc pay | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Positives from a sabbatical: The restart button nature.com/articles/d4158…

K-16 Data Literacy in action @ Denver! Thanks to @ghoshd for chairing the panel, and the invited panelists.

Timely discussions on impact factors, and the productivity rat race! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nutrition labels for academic papers? nature.com/articles/d4158…

My first co-advised PhD student from Bangladesh, Urmi, defended her dissertation last Friday. She proposed nonparametric feature evaluation, under high-dimensionality, for right-censored endpoints. Check out her R package DSFDRC, available at github.com/urmiaf/DSFDRC

Thank you Dean Sheppard Vanessa B. Sheppard, PhD! I am truly honored with this recognition by the APHS Section of the APHA APHA , as we embark on our journey within the freshly minted VCU School of Public Health.