Each year the Mental Health Statistics Section of the holds a Student Paper Award competition.
2020 Student Paper Competition Winners
Shanghong Xie, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Conditional gaussian graphical model for estimating personalized disease symptom networks
RJ Liu, Department of Statistics, Rice University
SDRD: Statistical diseased region detection for large-scale neuroimaging studies
2019 Student Paper Competition Winner
Zhou Lan, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
A Spatial Bayesian Semiparametric Mixture Model for Positive Definite Matrices with Applications to Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Honorable Mention
Daphne Lew, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Saint Louis University
Mapping Rates of Inpatient Hospitalizations Related to Mental Disorders in the State of Missouri: A Conditional Autoregressive Model with Zip Code-Level Data
Hyung Park, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
A Functional Additive Model for Estimating Interactions Between a Treatment and a Large Number of Functional/Scalar Covariates
2018 Student Paper Competition Winner
Xiaobo Zhong, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
A gate-keeper test for selecting adaptive intervention for depression management under general SMART designs
Honorable Mention
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
2017 Student Paper Competition Winners
Gregory Vaughan, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Stagewise Generlized Estimating Equations with Applications to Suicide Prevention
Yi Zhao, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University
Granger Mediation Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Time Series
Honorable Mention
Anqi Chen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Monotone Distribution Function Estimation in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance
2016 Student Paper Competition Winner
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