Belay Birlie Yimer
Embrace uncertainty, be adaptive, be robust, and scale well!
Teaching
- Principles of statistical inference, MSc in Biostatistics program,
Jimma University, course led 2014 - 2016 academic years
course material
- Survival analysis, MSc in Biostatistics program,
Jimma University, Co-lecturer, 2014 academic year
- Bayesian Statistics, MSc in Biostatistics program, invited lecture,
Gondar University, May 22 - 25, 2017 course syllables
- Infectious disease modelling, MSc in Biostatistics program, invited lecture,
Gondar University, May 29 - Jun 02, 2017.
- Bias and confounding, part of the Introduction to Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, and Biostatistics course,
center for epidemiology, University of Manchester, 2021 & 2022 academic year.
- Longitudinal data analysis, Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics course, center for Epidemiology, University of Manchester, 2022 academic year.
Talks at International Conferences and research Meetings
- Causal mediation analysis using Stan: a g-formula approach, Royal statistical society, September 6 - 9, 2021, Manchester, UK slide
- Short term forecasting of total number of reported COVID 19 cases in South Africa A Bayesian temporal modelling approach, 17th sub-Sharhan African network (SUSAN) conference of the international biometric society, September 5- 7, 2021, Nairobi, Kenya slide
- Transparent and efficient preparation of CPRD drug data into information on individuals' drug use over time, Manchester Digital Epidemiology Summer school, July 21-23, 2021, Manchester, UK
- Causal mediation analysis for longitudinal ordinal data, UK-RiME, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Handling Missing GPS data, Manchester Digital Epidemiology Summer school, July 18-20, 2018, Manchester, UK
- Bayesian variable selection for order restricted Dose-response modelling: Model Selection and Complexity, Annual Conference of The Belgian Statistical Society, October 13-14, 2016, Namur, Belgium slide
- Bayesian Model averaging in longitudinal studies using Bayesian variable selection methods, Ethiopian Statistical Association, May 20-22, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia slide
- Model selection and Multimodal inference in longitudinal studies using Bayesian variable selection methods, International Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, 25-26 March 2016, Haramaya, Ethiopia
- Evaluating Durability of First-line cART using Multi-State survival model, an International Conference on Statistics-2015: Theory to Practice, March 16-18, 2015, Jimma University, Ethiopia slide