Students Win Section Paper Award

Donald Hedeker, Nicholas Horton, Susan Marcus, and Emily Scherer

The ASA Mental Health Statistics Section recently completed its second annual student paper award competition, organized by Susan Marcus. The first-place winner is Elisa Sheng of the University of Washington for her paper, “Estimating Causal Effects of Treatment in RCTs with Provider and Subject Noncompliance.” Honorable mentions were given to the following:

• Trang Quynh Nguyen of Johns Hopkins Department of Mental Health for “Causal Mediation Analysis with a Binary Outcome and Multiple Continuous or Ordinal Mediators: Simulations and Application to an Alcohol Intervention”
• Wenjing Zheng of the University of California, San Francisco/Berkeley for “Marginal Structural Models with Counterfactual Effect Modifiers: A Twist to a Familiar Story”
• Nicholas Henderson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison for “AR(1) Latent Class Models for Longitudinal Count Data”