# Applications and Broader Impact: Latent Variables and Variational Inference

:::{admonition} Draft chapter
:class: warning
This chapter collects the broader-impact discussion and readings that accompanied Part III in AM207 (Harvard, Fall 2021). It will be expanded into a full chapter.
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## Readings

**Applications and Broader Impact**

- [We Don’t Have Enough Women in Clinical Trials — Why That’s a Problem](https://www.healthline.com/health-news/we-dont-have-enough-women-in-clinical-trials-why-thats-a-problem)
- [Why Are Health Studies So White?](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/why-are-health-studies-so-white/487046/)
- [Characterizing the Uncertainty of Climate Change Projections Using Hierarchical Models](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.142.9377&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
- [Groove Radio: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Personalized Playlist Generation](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa17/cse291-b/reading/GrooveRadio.pdf)
- [Replication of Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci in Whites and African Americans Using a Bayesian Approach](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895095/)