The one-week intensive summer school Biological Data Science teaches advanced computational analyses of modern molecular data types in biology and biomedicine, including single cell and spatial omics. It comprises lectures covering underlying theory and concepts, practical hands-on exercises, and
The Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua is hosting round table "What Makes a Rigorous Quantitative Social Research? A discussion with David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research" (h.10.30-12.30, Room SC 140), an event to explore key challenges researchers face in
The Department of Statistical Sciences has organized the final workshop for the research project "Childzero. Behind the childless boom in Italy: insights via experimental design". This is a project supported by the Scientific Research of Excellence 2018 initiative of the Cariparo Foundation and
The aging of the population is a growing challenge in Europe, and the SOFIA project aims to explore its implications for the health and well-being of the elderly people while simultaneously reducing the long-term costs associated with aging.The key factor investigated is the frailty, defined as the
This course aims at introducing probabilistic graphical models, which provide a unified framework for learning dependence relationships between random variables and making statistical inference under complex multivariate settings. Participants will learn the fundamentals of graphical models,
