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.
Location: Old Mill Annex A206
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM (noon) Eastern Time.
To propose a paper for discussion, please get in touch with the organizers at <jean-gabriel.young@uvm.edu>.
Upcoming events
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).
October 27th, 2025
Presenter: Dan Hagborg
Article: Dobriban, Edgar, and Zhanran Lin. “Joint coverage regions: Simultaneous confidence and prediction sets.” arXiv:2303.00203 (2023).
November 19th, 2025
Presenter: Barnabas Amlalo
Article: Shi, Haolun, and Guosheng Yin. “Reconnecting p-value and posterior probability under one-and two-sided tests.” The American Statistician 75 (2021).
Past events
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)