Statistical Inference for Biomedical Big Data: Theory, Methods, and Tools

该奖项支持参加研讨会“生物医学大数据统计推断：理论，方法和工具”将于2017年4月7日至8日在佛罗里达盖恩斯维尔的佛罗里达大学盖恩斯维尔校区举行。在过去二十年中，数据收集和获取技术的巨大改进使科学家能够在生物医学研究中收集大量与健康有关的数据。如果分析得当，这些数据可以扩展我们的知识，改善从诊断到预防再到个性化治疗的现代医疗服务，还可以为降低医疗成本提供见解。然而，生物医学数据可以是相当大的和复杂的，并且通常以高维、异质、高容量、高速度和高多样性的某种混合为特征。生物医学大数据分析的进展可以极大地影响生物医学科学的发展。本次研讨会将汇集一些生物医学大数据领域最杰出的统计学家和一组选定的本地生物医学研究人员，共同讨论和促进生物医学大数据分析的统计理论、方法和工具的前沿发展。该讲习班的形式旨在促进统计人员和生物医学研究人员之间的互动。为了促进研究生，初级研究人员和高级研究人员之间的交流，海报会议包括在程序中。为了传播会议的结果，计划和摘要将被广泛分发，并计划为地理位置不同的研究生，博士后和初级教师提供适度的旅行资金。有关研讨会的更多信息，请访问http://biostat.ufl.edu/seminars/biostatistics-workshop/。

This award supports participation in the workshop "Statistical Inference for Biomedical Big Data: Theory, Methods, and Tools" to be held on the Gainesville campus of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida on April 7-8, 2017. Dramatic improvements in data collection and acquisition technologies in the past two decades have enabled scientists to collect vast amounts of health-related data in biomedical studies. If analyzed properly, these data can expand our knowledge and improve contemporary healthcare services from diagnosis to prevention to personalized treatment, and can also provide insights into reducing healthcare costs. However, biomedical data can be rather big and complex, and are often characterized by some mixture of high dimensionality, heterogeneity, high volume, high velocity, and high variety. Advances in biomedical big data analysis can greatly impact the development of biomedical sciences.This workshop will bring together some of the most prominent statisticians in biomedical big data and a selected group of local biomedical researchers in a collaborative setting to discuss and foster cutting-edge developments of statistical theory, methods, and tools for biomedical big data analysis. The format of this workshop is designed to foster interactions between statisticians and biomedical researchers. To facilitate communications between graduate students, junior researchers, and senior researchers, a poster session is included in the program. To disseminate the results of the meeting, the program and abstracts will be widely circulated, and modest travel funds for a large geographically diverse group of graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty are planned. More information about the workshop can be found at http://biostat.ufl.edu/seminars/biostatistics-workshop/.