Tuesday July 14th, 14:30-15:30 LARGE Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health [callout align=”center”] Prof Weng Kee Wong University of California at Los Angeles “Using Animal Instincts to Design Efficient Experiments for Biomedical Studies” Abstract: Nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithms are increasingly studied and used in computer science and engineering disciplines to solve high-dimensional complex optimization […]

Friday June 12th, 14:30-15:30 LARGE Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Biomedical Campus. [callout align=”center”] Professor Frank Dudbridge London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine “Explaining heritability and predicting risk with polygenic scores” Abstract: Much of the genetic basis of complex traits is present on current genotyping products, but the individual variants […]

THIS COURSE HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED IN LIEU OF OUR ADVANCED SUMMER SCHOOL IN BIOSTATISTICS WHERE THE SAME SUBJECT MATTER WILL BE COVERED. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE REGISTER VIA THE SUMMER SCHOOL WEBPAGE. Tue 24th – Wed 25th February 2015 Two day course by John Reid, Richard Newton and Lorenz Wernisch Course Aim:- To […]

Tue 24th – Wed 25th March 2015 Two day course by Ian White, Angela Wood, Patrick Royston and Timothy Morris Course Aim:-To provide participants with the ability to analyse their own data using multiple imputation and to make them aware of the pitfalls and limitations of the technique to analyse rectangular datasets using standard regression […]