A few times every semester, students and faculty members in the Statistics and Biostatistics program meet to discuss a journal article over pizza. One of the participants leads the discussion, and everyone is invited to join in a lively discussion of the article.
To propose a paper for discussion, please contact the organizers at <jeff.buzas@uvm.edu>.
Upcoming events
March 2nd, 2026
Presenter: TBA
Article: TBA
Location: Lafayette L407
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM (noon) Eastern Time.
March 30th, 2025
Presenter: TBA
Article: TBA
Location: Lafayette L407
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM (noon) Eastern Time.
April 22n, 2025
Presenter: TBA
Article: TBA
Location: Votey 305
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM (noon) Eastern Time.
Past events
November 19th, 2025
Presenter: Barnabas Amlalo
Article: Steve G Robison. “Addressing Immunization Registry Population Inflation in Adolescent Immunization Rates.” Public Health Reports 130 (2015).
October 27th, 2025
Presenter: Dan Hagborg
Article: Dobriban, Edgar, and Zhanran Lin. “Joint coverage regions: Simultaneous confidence and prediction sets.” arXiv:2303.00203 (2023).
October 6th, 2025
Presenter: Olivia Varricchione
Article: Topalian, Suzanne L., et al. “Five-year survival and correlates among patients with advanced melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, or non–small cell lung cancer treated with nivolumab.” JAMA Oncology 5 (2019).
March 6th, 2023
Presenter: Jean-Gabriel Young
Article: Carlos Fernández-Loría, Foster Provost: “Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same… and Why It Matters.” INFORMS J. Data Sci. 1 (2022).
November 28th, 2022
Presenter: Jeffrey S. Buzas
Article: M. Rubin and C. Donkin, “Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests,” Philos. Psychol. (2022)
October 3rd, 2022
Presenter: Jean-Gabriel Young
Article: K. M. Gostic et al., “ Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt,” PLOS Comput. Biol. 17 (2020)