Dakota Biostatistics Group

The Dakota Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Group is a collaboration of statisticians and researchers across North and South Dakota.

Purpose

The Dakota Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Group has three goals:

            1) Connect researchers—working or interested in working on health-related research—together

            2) Disseminate statistical resources to researchers and clinicians

            3) Collaborate on challenging health-related research problems: design, modeling, analytics, etc.

Members

University of North Dakota

Dr. Mark Williamson, PhD (website)

Dr. Gary Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Brian Darby, PhD (website)

Dr. Xusheng Wang, PhD

University of South Dakota

Dr. Thomas Tiahrt, PhD (website)

Sanford Health

David Sturdevant, MS

Aarabhi Gurumoorthy, MPH

 

Past Events

2021 Dakota Datathon

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Summary:
  • a short event where multidisciplinary teams (Undergraduate and Open) analyzed a large, complex dataset to explore and uncover new discoveries in public health
  • Beginner workshops included
  • March 26-31, 2021
  • Co-hosted by the UND Biology club, DaCCoTA, and the Sanford Research's Research Design and Biostatistics Core
• Results:
  • Open Category: 
    • 1st Place: "Data Quest" -Mohamed Ahmed, Amin Baabol, Abdulkadir Said
    • 2nd Place: "Team Jacks" -Laura Fox, Jacob Lacker, Jordan Johnson
    • 3rd Place: "JAPKAS" -Samuel Adjei, James Young, Bundu Paudel, Kenneth Annan,                                Richard Acquah Sarpong
  • Undergraduate Category: 
    • • 1st Place: "SDSU Predictive Group" -Deepak Raj Joshi, Willy Tshiyole Ntumba, Hu Jie, Nicole Kneip, Rama Khadka
      • 2nd Place: "SdState2" -Matthew Questad, Yirong Wang, Benjamin Pond
• UND Today Article

Upcoming Events

Virtual Biostatisics Tutorials (more information soon)

Contact

Email Dr. Mark Williamson if interested.