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Jesse Islam

PhD student in Quantitative Life Sciences

McGill University

Biography

Jesse Islam is a second year PhD student at Mcgill university in the quantitative life sciences program. He is co-supervised by Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar and Dr. Robert Sladek, conducting research to improve current prognostic methods.

Interests

  • Statistics
  • Genetics
  • Dance

Education

  • PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences, (Expected) 2022

    McGill University

  • Bsc. Joint Computer Science and Biology, 2018

    McGill University

Posts

Cox model: right-censored Brier score

Describing the score and how it is calculated.
Last updated on Mar 4, 2020 7 min read Survival Analysis

SSH Tips to improve workflow

I amass a few tricks that benefit me, but forget how to do them. This way, I know exactly where to look when I need to. If someone else …
Last updated on Feb 1, 2020 2 min read Bash Scripts

Create an Academic website with R Blogdown, Netlify and github

Serves as an information source should someone attempt to create another website in a similar fashion.
Last updated on Mar 4, 2020 3 min read Webdev, Resource

Projects

SurvivalAnalysis
Website Development
Jesse Islam

Talks

UseR! 2019 Conference

A flexible approach to time-to-event data analysis using case-base sampling. [slides] [video]
Jul 12, 2019 12:00 AM Toulouse, FR