MODAS WS/ Point Estimates and the Concept of Standard Error
We at MODAS (Multi-Omics & Design and Analysis Studio) are excited to announce the launch of our MODAS Workshop Series (shortly MODAS WS) starting this month!
These workshops aim to introduce our ongoing activities, provide practical insights into methods and concepts that can enhance your research, and foster discussions that may lead to new collaborations and innovative directions.
We warmly invite everyone, from PIs to researchers and students, to join, engage, and enrich the discussions.
The first workshop in our series will be delivered by Prof. Mehmet Koçak, Director of MODAS on September 26, 2025, at 3:00 PM. The workshop will take place in person.
*Please fill in the participation form to attend the workshop.
Venue: Istanbul Medipol University North Campus / Building A, Senate Room
"Point Estimates and the Concept of Standard Error"
This session will introduce the fundamentals of statistical estimation, explaining how point estimates are derived and interpreted, as well as the role of standard error in assessing the reliability of research findings. The workshop will be especially valuable for researchers engaged in data analysis who wish to enhance the statistical rigor of their studies. To ensure an engaging and interactive experience, we kindly encourage participants to bring their laptops.
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kocak earned his MSc degree in applied statistics from Michigan State University and a PhD in applied statistics from the University of Memphis. He has been a study biostatistician for numerous Phase-I and Phase-II brain tumor clinical trials conducted by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from 2002-2011 and by Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) from 2002-2021. He joined the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in 2011 and supported clinical and observational studies conducted by UTHSC. Since 2021, he is serving as the professor of Biostatistics in the International School of Medicine at Istanbul Medipol University and he is the chair of the department of biostatistics and medical informatics and the director of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Analysis Unit. His areas of research have been time-course gene expression data analysis, meta-analysis of p-values, Phase-I/II clinical trial design, Survival analysis, and categorical data analysis. He is an expert in SAS programming language as well as Statistical Simulations and Graphics.