In 2015, Linda Valeri, PhD, was a young investigator with a doctorate in biostatistics from Harvard University and needed a lab to put her big ideas into motion.
Answering complex research questions requires the right kind of analytical tools. One of the most powerful of these tools is Bayesian modeling. But what is it exactly, and what are its advantages?
Calorie restriction, a proven intervention to slow aging in animals, showed evidence of slowing the pace of biological aging in a human randomized trial.
A daylong Data Science for Public Health Summit at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examined the critical and growing importance of emerging analytic tools.