The Quality and Productivity Section recently awarded two Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships at the 2014 Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Technology, which was held June 24–26 in Seattle, Washington. Each Natrella scholarship recipient gave a research presentation at the conference and received a $3,500 scholarship, plus $500 for travel expenses and complimentary registration for the conference and pre-conference short course.
The recipients for 2014 are Erica Goodrich, an MS candidate in the biostatistics program at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and Nathaniel Stevens, a PhD candidate in the department of statistics and actuarial sciences at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Goodrich was recommended for the award by Robert Downer and Jason Gillikin of Priority Health. Her presentation at the conference was titled “Exploration of Repeated Measures Logistic Regression for Medication Adherence.”
Stevens was recommended for the award by Stefan Steiner and Jock MacKay. The title of his presentation was “Design and Analysis of Measurement System Comparison Studies.”
The winners were chosen for their outstanding teaching, community service, mentoring, leadership, scholarship, and committment to the pursuit of quality improvement through the use of statistical methods.
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