The Mental Health Section of the ASA recently completed its Student Paper Award Competition. In all, eleven papers were received from students world-wide. Students were eligible if they were current undergraduate or graduate students at any level, as well as those who graduated in 2015 but submitted research they conducted as students. The quality of the submissions was remarkable, with many worthy contributions. Each paper was judged in terms of the importance of the problem in mental health and the quality of the statistical methodology, application, and writing. Following a careful and deliberate review process, the section is happy to announce the following “First Place” winner of the award, and three “Honorable Mentions.”
First Place
Qing Cai, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal, Recurrent Events and Failure Time Data for Survivor’s Population
Honorable Mention
Xin Qiu, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Diagnostic Method for Optimal Personalized Treatment Rules
Samantha F. Anderson, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
Questioning kindling: An analysis of cycle acceleration in unipolar depression
Yakuan Chen, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Functional Data Analysis of Dynamic PET Data
The section offers its congratulations to these deserving awardees, and a cash prize of $500 has been awarded to the highest rated paper and $100 to each of the three honorable mentions. The awards will also be announced at the Mental Health Section Mixer at JSM 2016.