S2E4 - 5 Burning Questions to Ask a Statistician

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021
Episode 4 dives into Statistics with guest, Dr. Jaya Satagopan. Hosts Dr. Sabah Kadri and Arshi Arora asked FIVE burning questions in statistics involving degrees of freedom, intercepts, hypothesis testing and more. Listen to Dr. Satagopan explain complex concepts using simple examples. Let us know what is your favorite statistical summary metric too. After a hiatus of 2 months, we are back with a new schedule of an episode every 2 weeks.

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Guests

5 burning questions to ask a statistician

5 burning questions to ask a statistician

A statistician by training, Jaya enjoys engaging with all kinds of data, especially health data. She is passionate about space exploration and is a life-long juggling aficionado.

Hosts

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora is a Research Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a double Masters of Science degree in Computational Biology and Biostatistics from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University respectively. Her interests lie in creating elegant solutions to biological and clinical questions via simple yet compelling statistical models. She is a minimalist and follows an intense recycling waste regimen.

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Dr. Sabah Kadri has a background in Computer Engineering with a PhD in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kadri leads a team of bioinformaticians and scientists to design, develop and implement cloud-based computational infrastructure and containerized bioinformatics software in clinical diagnostic services for germline and somatic next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. She has experience building clinical diagnostics pipelines and systems for adult and pediatric diseases and continues to work on informatics solutions and research questions for translational ‘omics’ and biomedical research to promote personalized medicine.

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