Vanderbilt Biostatistics at ENAR 2025

Posted by duthip1 on Friday, March 21, 2025 in News.

The ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting is taking place in New Orleans from March 23 through March 26. Here are some of the sessions our students, staff, faculty, and alumni are involved with:

Sunday, March 23

8:00 pm – Posters: Clinical Trials

• Max Rohde (PhD 2025): Increasing Statistical Efficiency Using Ordinal Transition Models: A Simulation Study
• Lan Shi (PhD candidate): Statistical Power Considerations of Ordinal Composite Endpoints in Clinical Trials. Co-authored by associate professor Dandan Liu.
• Ashley Mullan (PhD student): Visualizing Cost Effectiveness Analysis with Second-Generation Acceptability Curves

Monday, March 24

8:45 am – Benchmarking Spatial Co-Localization Methods for Single-Cell Multiplex Imaging Data with Applications to High-Grade Serous Ovarian and Triple Negative Breast Cancer

• Contributed talk by SyBBURE Searle intern Ishaan Gadiyar; co-authored by associate professor Simon Vandekar and assistant professor Siyuan Ma

8:55 am – The “Why” behind including “Y” in your Imputation Model

• Invited talk by Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (PhD 2018)

9:45 am – Facilitating Valid Statistical Inference in Biomedical Image Synthesis

• Contributed talk by PhD candidate Jiangmei (Ruby) Xiong; co-authors include Simon Vandekar and Siyuan Ma.

10:00 am – Data Harmonization: A Comparative Study Between Robust Standard Errors and ComBat

• Contributed talk by SyBBURE Searle intern Gina Yu; co-authors include Kaidi Kang (PhD 2025) and Simon Vandekar

10:30 am – Modern Statistical Challenges of Electronic Health Records Data

• Invited session organized by professor Benjamin French and chaired by assistant professor Gustavo Amorim
• 10:55 am – Methods for Addressing Missing Data for Real-Time Prediction in Electronic Health Records
  • Invited talk by PhD candidate Yeji Ko; co-authors include professor Jonathan Schildcrout, lead biostatistician Hank Domenico, and Benjamin French

11:30 am – A Unified Effect Size Reporting Tool for Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

• Contributed talk by Kaidi Kang; co-authored by Simon Vandekar

11:30 am – Predicting Access, Preventing Disparities: Imputation Solutions for Quantifying Food Access

• Contributed talk by Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021); co-authors include Ashley Mullan and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.

1:45 pm – Collaboration 101: What a Scientist Seeks in a Statistician vs What a Statistician Seeks in a Scientist

• Invited panel organized by Ashley Mullan and Jiangmei (Ruby) Xiong (current members of the Council for Emerging and New Statisticians)

2:10 pm – Design and Analysis of a Multi-Wave Two-Phase Study to Address Data Errors in a Multinational HIV Research Network

• Invited talk by professor Bryan Shepherd; co-authors include Gustavo Amorim and PhD candidate Joshua Slone

5:30 pm – CENS Networking Mixer (for all students and recent graduates)

7:00 pm – Department social (organized by associate professor Andrew Spieker and Simon Vandekar)

Tuesday, March 25

11:20 am – Improving the IPW Estimator in Two-Phase Designs

• Invited talk by Gustavo Amorim; co-authors include associate professor Ran Tao, Joshua Slone, 2024 summer intern Naij Taylor, and Bryan Shepherd

Wednesday, March 26

11:30 am – Multivariate BWAS Correlation Estimators Based on Influence Functions

• Contributed talk by PhD candidate Megan Jones; co-authors include PhD student Xinyu Zhang and Simon Vandekar

11:45 am – Semiparametric Confidence Sets for Arbitrary Effect Sizes in Longitudinal Neuroimaging

• Contributed talk by Xinyu Zhang; co-authors include Kenneth Liao (MS 2024) and Simon Vandekar

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