Fifteen Students Awarded Travel Grants

Some of the travel award winners during the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics. From left: Don Hedeker, ICHPS organizing committee co-chair, Zhuang Miao, George Mason University, Cheng Zheng, University of Washington, Anna Conlon, University of Michigan, Lauren Bailey, University of Illinois at Chicago and Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, ICHPS organizing committee co-chair

The following fifteen students were awarded travel grants to present in a contributed paper or poster session during the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics. The conference, which took place last month in Chicago, Illinois, was sponsored by the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.

Huitian Lei, University of Michigan
Hypothesis Testing for Personalizing Treatment (Paper)

Daniel Heard, Duke University
Bayesian Network Analysis: HIV Risk in Southern Indian Community (Poster)

Mohammed R. Chowdhury, The George Washington University
Local Box-Cox Transformation in Time Varying Coefficient Models with Longitudinal Data (Paper)

Zhuokai Li, Indiana University School of Medicine
A Semiparametric Analysis of Health Care Utilization in Patients with Heart Failure (Poster)

Khaled F. Bedair, Virginia Tech
Multivariate Frailty Model for Recurrent-Event Data with Multiple Types (Paper)

Cheng Zheng, University of Washington
Mediation Analysis with Time Failure Outcome and Error Prone Mediator (Paper)

Anna Conlon, University of Michigan
Surrogacy Assessment Using Principal Stratification When Surrogate and Outcome Measures Are Multivariate Normal (Paper)

Joseph Benitez, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Effects of a Trauma Center Closure on Health Care Outcomes and Costs: An Instrumental Variable-Based Approach (Poster)

Lauren Bailey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Overview of Estimators in Survival Analysis for Recurrent Event Data: An Application to Morbidity Outcomes in Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury (Poster)

Jing Zhang, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Network Meta-analysis with Selection Bias (Paper)

Shelley Liu, Harvard School of Public Health
Assessing the Impact of Education and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors on Cognitive Trajectories in Older Adults (Poster)

Susan Wei, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Latent Supervised Learning for Survival Data (Poster)

Zhuang Miao, George Mason University
Within Cluster Resampling Method on Clustered ROC Data (Poster)

John Paul Kuwornu, University of Manitoba
A Comparison of Statistical Models for Analyzing Episodes-of-Care Costs for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations (Poster)

Ashok Chaurasia, University of Connecticut
Model Selection with Incomplete Data Using Adjusted Variance (Poster)

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