The Mental Health Statistics Section of the ASA recently completed its Student Paper Award Competition. In all, twelve papers were received from U.S. students. Students were eligible if they were current undergraduate or graduate students at any level, as well as those who graduated in 2017 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 winner of the award as the highest rated paper.
Winner
Xiaobo Zhong, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
A gate-keeping test for selecting adaptive intervention for depression management under general SMART designs
In addition, we would like to give honorable mention to other papers that were reviewed very favorably.
Hyung Park, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Single-index models with multiple links
Thomas Greene, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
A novel non-parametric method for ordinal propensity score stratification and matching
Ming Sun, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Constructing concurrent network of biomarker processes using dynamical systems
Xuefei Cao, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Sparse causal dynamic network modeling of fMRI
The section offers its congratulations to the deserving awardee, Xiaobo Zhong, and a cash prize of $1000 has been awarded to cover his JSM 2018 expenses. The winner will present his research at JSM 2018. The award will also be announced at the Mental Health Statistics Section Mixer at JSM 2018.