SORA-TABA Workshops

SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2021

2021 SORA-TABA Workshop

Theme: “Regression Diagnostics”

Date: May 28-29, 2021
Time: 11am-5:00pm (EDT)
Registration: Link

The event has been postponed to a future date.

John Fox is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he was previously the Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics. Professor Fox received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1972. He is the author of many articles and books on statistics, including, recently, Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition (Sage, 2016), Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R (Chapman & Hall, 2018), Regression Diagnostics, Second Edition (Sage, 2019), A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics, Second Edition (Sage, 2021), and, with Sanford Weisberg, An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition (Sage, 2019). He continues to work on the development of statistical methods and their implementation in software. Professor Fox is an elected member of the R Foundation for Statistical Computing and an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Software.

DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day 2021

This year’s Biostatistics Research Day features around 40 speed poster presentations over three 90-minute blocks.

Schedule
May 18 (Tuesday)
12:00-1:30pm (EDT): Speed Poster Presentation I
2:00-3:30pm (EDT): Speed Poster Presentation II

May 19 (Wednesday)
12:30-2:00pm (EDT): : Speed Poster Presentation III
2:00-3:00pm (EDT): Informal Social/Networking
3:00-3:30pm (EDT):  Paul Corey Awards announcements & Closing Remarks.

Location: Zoom

You are invited to attend the presentations whenever you are available. As in previous years, the best three posters will be awarded with cash prizes at the closing session. As a special note, we will present the first of the four new Paul Corey Awards that were established last fall (see here).

Prof. Paul Corey will be presenting the Paul Corey Poster Awards at 3pm on Wednesday. He and his family are also planning to join the Informal Social (2-3pm) prior to the award announcements.

SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2020

DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day 2020

This year the Biostatistics Research Day poster presentations, which would ordinarily have taken place in-person at the 2020 SORA/TABA Annual Workshop & DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day on May 22nd, will be hosted online over three sessions during the week of June 15th.

The virtual poster presentation sessions will be held on:

  • Wednesday, June 17th: 10-11:30am
  • Thursday, June 18th: 10-11:30am
  • Thursday, June 18th: 3-4:30pm

SORA-TABA Workshop

Theme: “Statistical Machine Learning for Biomedical Data”

Date: August 20-21, 2020
Time: 11am-5:30pm (EDT)
Registration: Link

Dr. Noah Simon from the University of Washington will present a 1-day intensive workshop. You’ll learn about how traditional statistical methods like logistic regression can be used for high dimensional data (data with many variables) and then move onto machine learning methods such as random forests, support vector machines, (gradient) boosting using trees and neural networks. New machine learning methods will be related to more classical statistical approaches – all designed for an audience with familiarity with statistical approaches and discussed in the context of biomedical big data and predictive modeling.

SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2019
Theme: “Regression Modeling Strategies”
The Division of Biostatistics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health is pleased to host the SORA-TABA Workshop & DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day. The event brings together regional and local statistical communities who are interested in biostatistics, financial statistics and other applied areas of statistics. In addition to the lecture presentation by Dr. Frank E. Harrell Jr., the workshop will include poster presentations by participants; students and post-docs are particularly encouraged to present their research or practicum work, and three poster awards will be given at the closing ceremony. There will also be career advice mentors in attendance who will be available to provide career-building advice, especially for graduate students.
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SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2018
Theme: “Network Meta-Analysis”
This workshop represents a joint effort between the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) and the following organizations: the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), the Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Applied Biostatistics Association, York University and McDougall Scientific.
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SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2017
Theme: “Data Visualization”
This workshop is co-hosted by the Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) with focus on data visualization. With increasing volumes of raw data being collected in, for example, health care and business analytics contexts, new graphical approaches are needed to generate hypotheses and extract actionable information. The workshop features four speakers, bringing together an electric mix of academic and professional expertise on the topic.
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SORA-TABA-BRD 2017

SORA-TABA WORKSHOP and BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH DAY 2015-2016
Theme: ” An Introduction to Causal Inference”
This workshop represents a joint effort between the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) and the following organizations: the Southern Ontario Regional Association of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), the Southern Ontario Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Applied Biostatistics Association, York University and McDougall Scientific.
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SORA-TABA-BRD 2016