StanConnect2021: Biomedical Statistics

Repository for the Biomedical Statistics edition of StanConnect2021.

• Talk 1: "Coding the BYM2 model for disconnected graphs in Stan or how I stopped worrying and learned to love PC priors".

Speaker: Mitzi Morris (Researcher), Columbia University.

• Talk 2: "Normalized power prior models in Stan".

Speaker: Ethan Alt (PhD student), North Carolina University (Chapel Hill).

• Talk 3: "Summarising enzyme information from online databases using Stan and Arviz". [Repo].

Speaker: Teddy Groves (Postdoctoral researcher), Technical University of Denmark.

• Talk 4: "Automated kinetic modelling in Stan and its application to the methionine cycle".

Speaker: Nicholas Cowie (PhD student), Technical University of Denmark.

• Talk 5: "Hidden Markov models for disease progression data".

Speaker: Martin Modrák is a Researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

• Talk 6: "A Bayesian Approach to Representing Variability in Space in Cardiac Action Potential Properties".

Speaker: Alejandro Nieto Ramos (PhD student), Rochester Institute of Technology.

• Discussion by Professor Frank Harrell.

Organized by Luiz Max Carvalho, Lecturer at the School of Applied Mathematics, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil.

Registration can be done here.