GRADUATE STUDENT HONORS AND AWARDS 2001-2003

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Winners of National Student Paper Competitions

2001

Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, and Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Association

Kristin Blenk Duncan, "Using propensity scores to control coverage bias in telephone surveys"

Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association

Satoshi Miyata, "Adaptive free knot splines"

2002

Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, and Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Association

Chen Quin (Eric) Lam, "Handling undecided voters: using missing data methods in election forecasting"

Statistical Computing Section and Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association

Subha Guha, "Benchmark estimation for Markov Chain Monte Carlo samples"

2003

Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, and Section on Survey Research Methods of the American Statistical Association

Jessica Kohlschmidt, "Handling missing data: union formation issues and those lost to follow-up"

Xiang Ling, "Missing data imputation and a hierarchical approach for the change of support problem in the Buckeye state poll"

Statistical Computing Section and Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association

Yufeng Liu, "Multicategory support vector machine and psi-learning"

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Center for Survey Research/College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Research Award Winners

2001

Kristin Blenk Duncan, "Small area estimation of victimization prevalence using hierarchical logistic regression"

Chen Quin (Eric) Lam, "Handling undecided voters: using missing data methods to improve election forecasting"

2002

Jessica Kohlschmidt, "Handling missing data: union formation issues and those lost to follow-up"

Xiang Ling, "Missing data imputation and a hierarchical approach for the change of support problem in the Buckeye state poll"

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Student Travel Awards to Present Research at Conferences

2001

Pankaj Choudhary
Jeff Lehman
Yuqun Luo

2002

Roxana Alexandridis
Swati Biswas
Yufeng Liu - 3 awards for 3 different presentations
Martina Pavlicova

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Student Research Presentations

2001

Pankaj Choudhary, "Approaches for assessing satisfactory agreement in method comparison studies", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001 (joint with Haikady Nagaraja)

Kristin Blenk Duncan, "Using propensity scores to control coverage bias in telephone surveys", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001 (joint with Elizabeth Stasny)

Tena Katsaounis, "Irregular factorial designs", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001

Jessica Kohlschmidt, "Exact run length for one-sided exponential mixture CUSUM charts", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001

Jeff Lehman, "Sequential design of computer experiments for constrained optimization", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001 (joint with Tom Santner, Bill Notz, and Brian Williams)

Yuqun Luo, "Two-gene modeling of complex traits via Markov Chain Monte Carlo", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001 (joint with Shili Lin)

Yonggang Zhao, "Linear regression analysis of survival data based on the random sieve likelihood", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2001 (joint with Xiaotong Shen and Dennis Pearl)

2002

Roxana Alexandridis, "Classification of tissue samples using mixture modeling of microarray gene expression data", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2002 (joint with Shili Lin)

Swati Biswas, "An alternative approach to the A-test for obtaining unbiased estimates of the linkage parameters in the presence of heterogeneity", Workshop on Developments and Challenges in Mixture Models, Bump Hunting, and Measurement Error, June 2002 (joint with Shili Lin)

Haiying Chen, "Ranked set sampling for estimating a population proportion: how to do the ranking?", 2002 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002 (joint with Elizabeth Stasny and Douglas Wolfe)

Pankaj Choudhary, "Selecting the instrument closest to a gold standard", ENAR Spring Meetings, March 2002 (joint with Haikady Nagaraja)

Pankaj Choudhary, "Selecting the instrument closest to a gold standard", IISA International Conference on Statistics, Probability, and Related Areas, June 2002 (joint with Haikady Nagaraja)

Liyan Hua, "Estimating the finite population mean by judgment post-stratification", 2002 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002 (joint with Elizabeth Stasny and Steve Mac Eachern)

Gardar Johannesson, "Dynamic spatial change-of-resolution modelling", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2002 (joint with Noel Cressie)

Tena Katsaounis, "On information matrices of irregular factorial designs", 2002 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002

Yufeng Liu, "K-circulant supersaturated designs", Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002 (joint with Angela Dean)

Yufeng Liu, "K-circulant supersaturated designs", Quality and Productivity Research Conference, June 2002 (joint with Angela Dean)

Yuqun Luo, "Information gain for genetic parameter estimation with incorporation of marker data, The 25th Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop, May 2002 (joint with Shili Lin)

Sumithra Mandrekar, "Statistical modeling of the differences between successive heart periods", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2002 (joint with Gary Bernston and Haikady Nagaraja)

Babis Papachristou, "Effects of incomplete marker polymorphism on accuracy of confidence sets", The 25th Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop, May 2002 (joint with Shili Lin)

Martina Pavlicova, "Application of enhanced FDR to fMRI data", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2002 (joint with Noel Cressie and Tom Santner)

Shiling Ruan, "Statistical modeling of minimum intergranular corrosion path length in high strength aluminum alloy", 2002 Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002 (joint with Weilong Zhang, Jerry Frankel and Doug Wolfe)

Zachary Skrivanek, "Linkage analysis with sequential imputation", Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2002 (joint with Mark Irwin and Shili Lin)

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Whitney Research Awards

2001-2002

Pankaj Choudhary
Jeff Lehman
Yuqun Luo

2002-2003

Gardar Johannesson