T32 PNA Training – Helmet Karim, PhD Assistant Professor WPIC

Topic: I'll cover elastic net, lasso, and ridge approaches (which are regularized regression approaches). These approaches work well for continuous data like cognitive function. I'll also review the following topics: feature reduction approaches, cross-validation, preprocessing, hyperparameter optimization, and a basic implementation in R. Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103

T32 PNA Training – Scott A. Malec, PhD

Topic: How to use information extracted from the literature for causal inference. Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103

T32 PNA Training – Beth Shaaban, PhD

Topic: Big Data Analytics: Basics of data visualization in R https://www.amazon.com/Data-Visualization-Introduction-Kieran-Healy/dp/0691181616 Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103

T32 PNA Training

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T32 PNA Training – Briana Sprague, PhD

Topic: EPI Methods: Conceptual intro to time-varying effects modeling. Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103

T32 PNA Training – Alina Lesnovskaya, MS

Topic: Neuroscience: Structural equations analysis of personality and cardiometabolic factors that predict cognitive function in older age. Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103

T32 PNA Training – Sara Godina, MPH

Topic: EPI Methods: Quantitative Bias Analysis Join Zoom Meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92087936103 Meeting ID: 920 8793 6103