Peg Duthie
@plduthie.bsky.social
Personal account of professional biostatistics cheerleader. Exploring how things work. Standard disclaimers apply.
Congratulations @vandyatvandy.bsky.social (right, with 2025 graduate @kaidikang.bsky.social) on being named Outstanding Faculty Mentor by the Vanderbilt Biostatistics student body! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congratulations @vandyatvandy.bsky.social (right, with 2025 graduate @kaidikang.bsky.social) on being named Outstanding Faculty Mentor by the Vanderbilt Biostatistics student body! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
Interested in obtaining an MS or PhD degree in biostatistics? Vanderbilt is hosting a virtual info session with director of recruitment Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on Thursday 10/9, 6pm Central. vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Pictured: MS students Seth Young and Zongyue Teng)
September 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Interested in obtaining an MS or PhD degree in biostatistics? Vanderbilt is hosting a virtual info session with director of recruitment Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on Thursday 10/9, 6pm Central. vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Pictured: MS students Seth Young and Zongyue Teng)
Vanderbilt Biostatistics will welcome past ASA president Jessica Utts on Wed 9/24 for "Statistical Literacy and Data Science Ethics." This one-hour non-technical webinar is open to all; visit www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... to view the full description and request access.
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Vanderbilt Biostatistics will welcome past ASA president Jessica Utts on Wed 9/24 for "Statistical Literacy and Data Science Ethics." This one-hour non-technical webinar is open to all; visit www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... to view the full description and request access.
Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social is presenting a hybrid seminar on Wednesday 9/17 at 1:30 pm Central that is open to all: "Goal-Driven Flexible Bayesian Design" #ClinicalTrials www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... Photo: Erin O. Smith/VUMC
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social is presenting a hybrid seminar on Wednesday 9/17 at 1:30 pm Central that is open to all: "Goal-Driven Flexible Bayesian Design" #ClinicalTrials www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... Photo: Erin O. Smith/VUMC
Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
Vanderbilt Biostatistics prof Bill Dupont @wddupont.bsky.social (shown here at Friday's intern presentations) is on the scientific committee of the 2025 Stata Conference in Nashville July 31-August 1, right before #JSM2025: www.stata.com/meeting/us25 The venue is close to a great museum & eateries!
June 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Vanderbilt Biostatistics prof Bill Dupont @wddupont.bsky.social (shown here at Friday's intern presentations) is on the scientific committee of the 2025 Stata Conference in Nashville July 31-August 1, right before #JSM2025: www.stata.com/meeting/us25 The venue is close to a great museum & eateries!
Early registration (20% discount) for the CQS Summer Institute is open through June 17. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...
June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Early registration (20% discount) for the CQS Summer Institute is open through June 17. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...
Speaking of the Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute, this year's lineup will include new courses on adaptive clinical trials and Terra-based cloud computing (i.e., research with biomedical repositories). More details soon! All courses will be held in person in Nashville, Tennessee.
May 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Speaking of the Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute, this year's lineup will include new courses on adaptive clinical trials and Terra-based cloud computing (i.e., research with biomedical repositories). More details soon! All courses will be held in person in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Yan Yan will defend "From Risk Genes to Functional Connectivity: Multi-Dimensional Integrative Frameworks to Unravel Genetic Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease" on Monday, May 19. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #alzheimers #neuroimaging #genetics #omics
May 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Yan Yan will defend "From Risk Genes to Functional Connectivity: Multi-Dimensional Integrative Frameworks to Unravel Genetic Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease" on Monday, May 19. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #alzheimers #neuroimaging #genetics #omics
Congratulations to Kaidi Kang, PhD; Lisa Levoir, MS; and Max Rohde, PhD, on their graduations this week! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
May 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Congratulations to Kaidi Kang, PhD; Lisa Levoir, MS; and Max Rohde, PhD, on their graduations this week! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
Interested in spatial transcriptomics? Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting a virtual seminar by Dr. Xiang Zhou @umichsph.bsky.social on Wed 30 April at 1:30 pm CT, sharing recently developed computation methods for statistical analysis.
April 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Interested in spatial transcriptomics? Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting a virtual seminar by Dr. Xiang Zhou @umichsph.bsky.social on Wed 30 April at 1:30 pm CT, sharing recently developed computation methods for statistical analysis.
#ThrowbackThursday Mark Giganti (MS @uwbiostat.bsky.social; PhD biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu), shown here at his dissertation defense in 2018, is a research scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research @hsph.harvard.edu. hsph.harvard.edu/profile/mark...
April 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#ThrowbackThursday Mark Giganti (MS @uwbiostat.bsky.social; PhD biostatistics @vanderbilt.edu), shown here at his dissertation defense in 2018, is a research scientist at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research @hsph.harvard.edu. hsph.harvard.edu/profile/mark...
My colleagues are very much looking forward to @jsm2334.bsky.social's visit this month! Dr. Morris leads biostatistics @pennmedicine.bsky.social www.vumc.org/biostatistic...
April 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My colleagues are very much looking forward to @jsm2334.bsky.social's visit this month! Dr. Morris leads biostatistics @pennmedicine.bsky.social www.vumc.org/biostatistic...
Dr. Bill Dupont (@wddupont.bsky.social) has been teaching statistical analysis to Vanderbilt Master of Public Health students for 28 years. Here's the latest Biostatistics II cohort at the conclusion of this year's course.
April 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dr. Bill Dupont (@wddupont.bsky.social) has been teaching statistical analysis to Vanderbilt Master of Public Health students for 28 years. Here's the latest Biostatistics II cohort at the conclusion of this year's course.
#ThrowbackThursday 2019 student party, including several now-PhDs who will receive their hoods on May 9, 2025! #VU2025
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#ThrowbackThursday 2019 student party, including several now-PhDs who will receive their hoods on May 9, 2025! #VU2025
Wenpin Hou, assistant prof of biostatistics @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, is visiting Vanderbilt Biostatistics today and tomorrow. Her interests include genomics data, LLMs & foundation models. A recent paper in Nature was on using ChatGPT to annotate sc data:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wenpin Hou, assistant prof of biostatistics @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, is visiting Vanderbilt Biostatistics today and tomorrow. Her interests include genomics data, LLMs & foundation models. A recent paper in Nature was on using ChatGPT to annotate sc data:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ThrowbackThursday Mario Davidson, associate professor of biostatistics (third from left), is honored at the 2022 Academy for Excellence in Education banquet as the winner of the Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education. www.vumc.org/aet/academy-...
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#ThrowbackThursday Mario Davidson, associate professor of biostatistics (third from left), is honored at the 2022 Academy for Excellence in Education banquet as the winner of the Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education. www.vumc.org/aet/academy-...
Last but absolutely not least, professor Leena Choi described Bayesian clinical trial design for rare diseases. (11/n)
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Last but absolutely not least, professor Leena Choi described Bayesian clinical trial design for rare diseases. (11/n)
The 6th presenter was research assistant professor Sheau-Chiann Chen, who would love to work with a Vanderbilt Biostatistics student this summer on developing an R package for robust Sufficient Dimension Reduction (rSDR). (10/n)
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The 6th presenter was research assistant professor Sheau-Chiann Chen, who would love to work with a Vanderbilt Biostatistics student this summer on developing an R package for robust Sufficient Dimension Reduction (rSDR). (10/n)
Next up: associate professor Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on help his team needs with updating the RESI R package & evaluating different models. #PublicationPotential Apparently this group has a great time, including biweekly lunches. :) (9/n)
April 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Next up: associate professor Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on help his team needs with updating the RESI R package & evaluating different models. #PublicationPotential Apparently this group has a great time, including biweekly lunches. :) (9/n)
The 3rd presenter was assistant professor Qingyan Xiang (PhD biostatistics @bostonu.bsky.social and associate editor of Journal of #AlzheimersDisease), on causal machine learning - especially double machine learning and its extensions. (6/n)
April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The 3rd presenter was assistant professor Qingyan Xiang (PhD biostatistics @bostonu.bsky.social and associate editor of Journal of #AlzheimersDisease), on causal machine learning - especially double machine learning and its extensions. (6/n)
The second faculty presenter was research associate professor Laurie Samuels, who listed topics she would be interested in pursuing. (4/n)
April 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The second faculty presenter was research associate professor Laurie Samuels, who listed topics she would be interested in pursuing. (4/n)
This year's talks were organized (and are being very capably moderated) by Biostatistics Graduate Student Association vice president Lisa Levoir. (2/n)
April 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This year's talks were organized (and are being very capably moderated) by Biostatistics Graduate Student Association vice president Lisa Levoir. (2/n)
Congratulations to Kaidi Kang (@kaidikang.bsky.social; soon PhD 2025 @vanderbilt.edu) on winning the 2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... He is pictured here (left) with Tianyi Sun (PhD 2024) and Shengxin Tu (PhD 2024 and a past Pathbreaking Discovery winner)
March 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congratulations to Kaidi Kang (@kaidikang.bsky.social; soon PhD 2025 @vanderbilt.edu) on winning the 2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... He is pictured here (left) with Tianyi Sun (PhD 2024) and Shengxin Tu (PhD 2024 and a past Pathbreaking Discovery winner)