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2008 Student Paper Competition

The Section on Bayesian Statistical Science congratulates the winners of the 2007 Student Paper Competition:

(Photos from JSM 2007 award ceremony)

  • Wei Chen, University of Michigan "Bayesian Variable Selection with Joint Modeling of Categorical and Survival Outcomes: An Appplication to Individualizing Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer"
  • Yeonseung Chung, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Local Dirichlet Process"
  • Feng Guo, University of Connecticut "On Detecting Stabilizing or Divergent Selection Using Patterns of Variation at SNP Loci"
  • Joo Yeon Lee, Brown University "Expert Opinion, Informative Priors and Sensitivity Analysis for Longitudinal Binary Data with Informative Dropout"
  • Natesh Pillai, Duke University "Characterizing the Function Space for Beyesian Kernal Models"
  • Abel Rodriguez, Duke University "The Nested Dirichlet Process"
  • Christian Röver, University of Auckland "Coherent Bayesian Inference on Compact Binary Inspirals Using a Network of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors"
  • Shiling Ruan, Ohio State University "The Dependent Poisson Race Model and Modeling Dependence in Conjoint Choice Experiments"
  • Donatello Telesca, University of Washington "Bayesian Hierarchical Self-Modeling Warping Regression"
  • Anton Westveld, University of Washington "A Bayesian Mixed Effect Model for Longitudinal Social Network Data"

CONGRATULATIONS! The winners will each receive a certificate and partial travel support to attend the meeting. THANKS to the 2007 Student Award Selection Committee members:

Mike Daniels (University of Florida)
Christopher Hans (Ohio State University)
Athanasios Kottas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
Dalene Stangl (Duke University)
David van Dyk (University of California, Irvine)


 
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mhchen at stat.uconn.edu) February 15, 2008