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Nilanjan Chatterjee, the Glossary

Nilanjan Chatterjee is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the Department of Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the Department of Oncology in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.^[1]

40 relations: American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, Ballygunge Government High School, Big data, Biostatistics, Bipolar disorder, Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, Body mass index, Cancer research, COPSS Presidents' Award, Cristen Willer, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Gene–environment interaction, Genetic association, Genetic epidemiology, Genome-wide association study, Genomics, India, Indian Statistical Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Jon A. Wellner, Kolkata, Machine learning, Methodology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Norman Breslow, Oncology, Quantitative genetics, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Snedecor Award, St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Statistics, University of Washington, Whiting School of Engineering.
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American Public Health Association

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based professional membership and advocacy organization for public health professionals in the United States.

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American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States.

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Ballygunge Government High School

Ballygunge Government High School (BGHS) is a school in West Bengal, India.

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Big data

Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.

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Biostatistics

Biostatistics (also known as biometry) is a branch of statistics that applies statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships were established as part of a $350 million investment by Michael Bloomberg, Hopkins class of 1964, to Johns Hopkins University in 2013.

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Body mass index

Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person.

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Cancer research

Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure.

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COPSS Presidents' Award

The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.

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Cristen Willer

Cristen Jennifer Willer (born March 21, 1976) is an American-Canadian bioinformatician and geneticist.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

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Gene–environment interaction

Gene–environment interaction (or genotype–environment interaction or G×E) is when two different genotypes respond to environmental variation in different ways.

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Genetic association

Genetic association is when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur with a phenotypic trait more often than would be expected by chance occurrence.

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Genetic epidemiology

Genetic epidemiology is the study of the role of genetic factors in determining health and disease in families and in populations, and the interplay of such genetic factors with environmental factors.

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Genome-wide association study

In genomics, a genome-wide association study (GWA study, or GWAS), is an observational study of a genome-wide set of genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a public research university headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jon A. Wellner

Jon August Wellner (born August 17, 1945) is an American statistician known for his contributions to the fields of statistical inference, empirical process theory, and survival analysis. Nilanjan Chatterjee and Jon A. Wellner are Fellows of the American Statistical Association.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Methodology

In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods.

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National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nature Genetics

Nature Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio.

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Norman Breslow

Norman Edward Breslow (February 21, 1941 – December 9, 2015) was an American statistician and medical researcher. Nilanjan Chatterjee and Norman Breslow are Fellows of the American Statistical Association.

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Oncology

Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer.

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Quantitative genetics

Quantitative genetics is the study of quantitative traits, which are phenotypes that vary continuously—such as height or mass—as opposed to phenotypes and gene-products that are discretely identifiable—such as eye-colour, or the presence of a particular biochemical.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilanjan_Chatterjee

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