The Middle TN Chapter of the American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social is hosting a half-day applied improv course in Nashville, Friday 8/14 8:30am-12:30pm w/lunch and parking included. No experience required; sign up by July 22 for 10% discount. www.eventbrite.com/e/fundamenta...

Fundamentals of Applied Improvisation for (Bio)statisticians

This half-day course introduces applied improvisation as a novel way to pursue interpersonal skills as a quantitative scientist.

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Registration closes TONIGHT (Monday 7/13, at 11:59 pm CT) for "Genomic Data Analysis" & "PyMC and Bayesian Modeling" (the latter by PyMC creator C. Fonnesbeck), and on 7/20 for "Terra-Based Cloud Computing" and "Intro to Causal Inference" in Nashville www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #shortcourses

2026 Summer Institute

Register by July 13 for courses beginning on July 20. Register by July 20 for courses beginning on July 27. Course index Monday, July 20 - Friday, July 24, 2026 9 am - noon Central Time 2525 West End ...

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Vanderbilt adjoint associate professor of biostatistics Chris Fonnesbeck is teaching about PyMC and Bayesian modeling both at the CQS Summer Institute (Nashville, July 20-24) and #JSM2026 (Boston, August 3). The last day to sign up for the Nashville course is July 13. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research news.vumc.org/2026/06/30/t... Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Zhuohui Liang is lead author, with biostatistics faculty Brad Malin, Bryan Shepherd, and Amir Asia among the co-authors of the paper @natcomms.nature.com #AI #NIHfunded

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research

A team created artificial records that statistically resemble those of real people living with HIV without including copies of real records.

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Huge congratulations to @vandyatvandy.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellow! news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/24/2...

2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows Selected

Eleven of Vanderbilt University’s most promising recently tenured faculty have been awarded spots in the 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. This year’s recipients demonstrate exceptional and inn...

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The 2026 Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute will feature four short courses this July, on genomic data analysis, PyMC and Bayesian modeling, Terra-based cloud computing, and causal inference. Register by May 31 for the early bird discount: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations to the newest Vanderbilt Biostatistics MS graduates - Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, and Haozheng Xu! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

I absolutely love this. Caregiver grants for those who need it to join @amstatnews.bsky.social JSM this year. I hope more conferences move in this direction. #academiceky #skystats #statssky #JSM2026

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Taylor Jones, graduating @vanderbilt.edu today with her PhD in biostatistics! Advisor: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Upcoming presentations by Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty include Ben French speaking Friday 4/17 on randomized trials for clinical decision support interventions. See www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... for details. Pictured: Dr. French and Dr. Amanda Mixon presenting their work in DC.

Belated congratulations to Bear (and to Vanderbilt staff biostatistician Elisa Yazdani, MS 2023, who adopted him at the start of her studies @vumedicine.bsky.social) on being chosen as Vanderbilt Health Dog of the Day! news.vumc.org/2026/03/31/v...

Interested in regression modeling? Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social will be teaching a 1-day intro to R/RStudio/Regression/rms on May 11 and a 4-day course on regression modeling strategies May 14-19. Details at hbiostat.org/course/ #Rstats #biostatistics

Yep. Funding is about a year late for a post doc program that was supporting one of my fellows. An award already made, but no dollars released. Also hearing similar things from faculty about R01s.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This story from @michaeldgreen.phd is way too common at the Trump/Bhattacharya NIH. Program staff can't give grantees clear answers; they don't have them. That is the MO: provide intentionally ambiguous guidance under threat of retaliation, creating an environment where staff over-comply out of fear

Study co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics research associate professor (and graduate) Laurie Samuels: news.vumc.org/2026/02/25/p...

Prevalence of US youth who are overweight or with obesity raises concerns: Study

Childhood obesity, which starts early, contributes to health issues throughout life. A recent study in JAMA Network Open points to 2024 prevalence.

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Vanderbilt Biostatistics paid internships for undergraduates - apply by February 23 to be considered for this six-week research program. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

On Wednesday 2/25 Vanderbilt Biostatistics will host "Statistical Modeling and Inference for Gene Networks from Single-Cell Data" by Emory Business School professor Emma Zhang, who is also @emoryrollins.bsky.social as professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

@plduthie.bsky.social one correction: I was not a co-author of the FDA draft guidance but was an advisor along with Jack Lee of @mdanderson.bsky.social; we both provided input throughout the process and are gratified to have had the opportunity. @fda.gov

New publication co-authored by a Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor. (Lots of food for thought at discourse.datamethods.org, in fact. Today the student journal club discusses FDA draft guidance on Bayesian methods, which Frank co-authored. Some comments at discourse.datamethods.org/t/fda-draft-...

Datamethods Discussion Forum

This is a place for discussions and Q&A about data-related issues and quantitative methods including study design, data analysis, and interpretation.

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Frank Harrell@f2harrell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/2 Nail in the coffin of dichotomania: @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social 's paper with @stephensenn.bsky.social and myself just published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with extended discussion at discourse.datamethods.org/t/dichotomiz... #Statistics #StatsSky #rct #clinicaltrial

On Wed 2/18 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Invariance and Inversion in Medical Machine Learning" by assistant professor of computer science Daniel Moyer. The online seminar is open to the public: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

One week left to apply for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates program. 6 weeks, $4000 stipend. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Applications are now open for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates. Apply by Feb. 23. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... (Pictured: 2025 intern Lauryn Holmes with her final project)

On Wed. 2/11 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Statistics in the Age of AI: Theory, Methods, and Data," an online talk by Dr. Didong Li, at 1:30 pm CT. Learn more about the presentation and Dr. Li at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs

Congratulations to Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Alexis Fleming on her appointment to the editorial board of Child Maltreatment, a peer-reviewed journal. At Gustavus Adolphus College and now VU, Fleming has excelled in service, teaching, and research. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Vanderbilt Health senior biostatistician Tess Stopczyński (MS statistics @uvmvermont.bsky.social) and associate professor Andrew Spieker among experts calling for better adherence to guidelines for antiviral prescribing for children at higher risk of severe influenza news.vumc.org/2025/12/11/e...

Experts call for better adherence to guidelines for antiviral prescribing for children at higher risk of severe influenza

Antiviral prescribing for children at higher risk of severe influenza dropped dramatically during the late COVID-19 pandemic period.

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Congratulations to Dr. Ruby Jiangmei Xiong (advisers: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social & Siyuan Ma) on her graduation! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #machinelearning #statisticalimaging #healthinformatics @cens-enar.bsky.social #datascience

December graduation: Ruby Jiangmei Xiong, PhD

We are thrilled to celebrate the graduation of Ruby Jiangmei Xiong, whose distinguished career as a doctoral student at Vanderbilt officially came to a close last Saturday, December 13. Her dissertati...

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Do you want to report effect sizes for any brain-behavior association? Do you want to include spatial confidence intervals for effect sizes? This paper, by Xinyu Zhang has the methods and software you need! with @aarona-b.bsky.social @neilwoodward.bsky.social and others :)

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xinyu Zhang, Simon Vandekar, et al: Semiparametric confidence sets for cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroimaging doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

First author Xinyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt Biostatistics. Second author Kenneth Liao is a 2024 MS graduate of the program. Senior author Simon Vandekar is associate professor and director of graduate recruitment. Congratulations to all!

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xinyu Zhang, Simon Vandekar, et al: Semiparametric confidence sets for cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroimaging doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Sessions include @f2harrell.bsky.social with "Tips for Biostatisticians Collaborating with Non-Biostatistician Medical Researchers." $25 for ENAR members, $45 for non-members. www.enar.org/education/in...

Education - ENAR Webinar Series

Eastern North American Region. International Biometric Society.

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ENAR@enar-ibs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ENAR is taking their popular Spring Meeting Roundtables on the road…well, at least onto Zoom! Check out the very first Roundtable Day on 11/5/25 at 10 am. Open to all, but members receive a discounted rate. Space is limited within each topic, so sign up early! More details at www.enar.org

Participants include Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD students Hannah Klinger and @ashleymullan.bsky.social, professor Rameela Raman, and alumni Sarah Lotspeich, Lucy McGowan, and Jacquelyn Neal. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #CausalInference #StudentResearch #PublicHealth

Students, alumni, and faculty participating in IDWSDS 2025

The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science is hosting a free virtual conference this week, from 7:00 pm Central Time (00:00 UTC) on Monday, October 13, to 7:00 pm Central Time on October 14, ...

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Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science@cwstat.org · 10mo ago

Last Call for the IDWSDS Conference! Last chance to register for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science Conference! It’s a free, global, online conference on October 14th! We have 5 amazing keynote speakers, plus over 60 talks from 25 countries. www.idwsds.org/registration/

Jiangmei Xiong will defend her dissertation, "Statistically Guided Improvement of Medical Imaging Analysis," on Monday 10/27 at 9 am Central Time, in Nashville and online. Her advisors are @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and Siyuan Ma. #Rstats #biomedical #AppliedStats www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Dissertation defense: Jiangmei (Ruby) Xiong

PhD candidate Jiangmei (Ruby) Xiong will present her dissertation on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 9 a.m. Central Time, in the 10th floor conference room and online. Her advisors are Simon Vandekar and...

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ENAR@enar-ibs.bsky.social · last yr.

Wrapping up our AAPI Heritage Month Spotlight Series: Meet Jiangmei Xiong, a PhD student in Biostatistics at Vanderbilt and a current ENAR CENS Committee Member. Jiangmei finds great joy in working with fellow CENS members and supporting the next generation of statisticians! #AAPIHeritageMonth #ENAR