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Students and alumni at JSM 2024
Aug. 7, 2024—The annual Joint Statistical Meetings draw more than five thousand attendees from over fifty countries every year. The 2024 edition of this conference is taking place in Portland, Oregon, with more than two dozen department members and alumni making the trip to Rose City to discuss “Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation,”...
Yuqi Tian is first author of JASA paper
Jun. 21, 2024—Congratulations to Yuqi Tian (PhD 2022), former associate professor Chun Li (now at University of Southern California), soon-to-graduate doctoral candidate Shengxin Tu, Nathan T. James (PhD 2022), and professors Frank Harrell and Bryan Shepherd on the publication of “Addressing Multiple Detection Limits with Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models” in Journal of the American Statistical Association. The article first...
Jamie Gudeon Joseph dissertation defense – June 20
Jun. 13, 2024—PhD candidate Jamie Gudeon Joseph will defend her dissertation on Thursday, June 20, at 11 a.m. Central Time. Her advisor is Andrew Spieker. All are invited and encouraged to attend. The defense will be held in the department’s large conference room on the 11th floor (suite 1100, room 11105) at 2525 West End Avenue. It...
Max Rohde is first author of Statistics in Medicine tutorial
Jun. 11, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Maximilian Rohde on the publication of Bayesian transition models for ordinal longitudinal outcomes in Statistics in Medicine. The paper was co-authored by professor Benjamin French, adjoint professor Thomas G. Stewart, and professor Frank Harrell. In the words of the tutorial abstract: “Ordinal longitudinal outcomes are becoming common in clinical research, particularly in the...
Jiangmei Xiong is first author of Bioinformatics paper
Jun. 9, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Jiangmei Ruby Xiong on the publication of GammaGateR: Semi-automated marker gating for single-cell multiplexed imaging in Bioinformatics on June 4. The paper was co-authored by assistant professor Siyuan Ma and associate professor Simon Vandekar, with colleagues in Vanderbilt’s Program of Chemical and Physical Biology and its Epithelial Biology Center, as well as...
Julia Thome dissertation defense – June 21
Jun. 7, 2024—PhD candidate Julia Thome will defend her dissertation on Friday, June 21, at 10 a.m. Central Time. The defense will be held in the department’s large conference room on the 11th floor (suite 1100, room 11105), at 2525 West End Avenue. Her advisor is Bryan Shepherd. All are invited and encouraged to attend. Assessing the...
Julia Thome is first author of Public Health Reports paper
May. 29, 2024—Congratulations to PhD candidate Julia Thome on the publication of Reporting of Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Southern State in the United States in Public Health Reports last week, online ahead of print. The paper was co-authored by associate professor Rameela Raman and colleagues at the Vanderbilt Center of Excellence for Children in...
Congratulations to our May graduates
May. 8, 2024—We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of Nate Dowd, Kenneth Liao, Cara Lwin, and Nick Micheletti, as well as welcoming back several recent graduates who will also march in Friday’s Commencement ceremony. Here are details about our four newest Masters of Science in Biostatistics – click their names for more information and to read...
Shengxin Tu dissertation defense – May 10
Apr. 26, 2024—PhD candidate Shengxin Tu will defend her dissertation on Friday, May 10, at 8 a.m. Central Time, at 2525 West End Avenue, in the 11th floor large conference room (suite 1100, room 11105). Her advisor is Bryan Shepherd. All are invited and encouraged to attend. Rank-Based Analyses and Designs with Clustered Data Clustered data are...
Yeji Ko is first author of Annals of Epidemiology paper
Apr. 18, 2024—Congratulations to PhD student Yeji Ko on the publication of Adjustment for duration of employment in occupational epidemiology in the June 2024 issue of Annals of Epidemiology (appearing online ahead of print this week). Professor Ben French, who was recently elected to the National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements, is the paper’s corresponding author. Ko,...