At this year’s Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics, Stanford’s Robert Tibshirani unveiled UniLasso, a two-stage approach that preserves the signs of the univariate coefficients and leverages their magnitude.
Donna Brogan
Donna Brogan
Over nearly four decades, Brogan made significant contributions to biostatistics, particularly in sample survey design and public health research, including work that informed breast cancer studies and population-level health data.
2021 COPSS Presidents’ Award Winner Presents 2024 Donna J. Brogan Lecture
Jeff Leek, vice president and chief data officer of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, presented the 2024 Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics on April 15.
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Subha Chakraborti earned the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award, and F. DuBois Bowman presented the Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics.
What I Learned at the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference
“The Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Conference is a great venue for young, female statisticians like myself to build and strengthen connections.” ~ Comment from a graduate student who attended WSDS
In this recap, Donna LaLonde, ASA’s director of strategic initiatives and outreach, shares what she learned at the conference, which took place this past October in La Jolla, California. She also wants to know what you learned, so please send your comments to her or add your comments here.
Women in Statistics and Data Science Is Headed to the West Coast
Building on the success of last year’s conference, which welcomed more than 300 attendees and 25 sponsors and exhibitors, the 2017 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference will be held in sunny La Jolla, California—its first time on the West Coast—October 19–21.