NESS Student Research Awards 2017

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NESS Student Research Awards have a long history. The winners will be selected by the NESS Student Research Awards committee based on the overall quality of the research, and they will be acknowledged at the symposium and will receive a plaque in honor of their accomplishments. Please note that award winners from previous years are not eligible for another award.

Submission information for the 36th New England Statistics Symposium can be found here: https://symposium.nestat.org/awards.html.


Student Research Awards

Year

Sponsor

Award Committee

Recipient(s)
2017 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jacob Bien, Kun Chen, Zhiyi Chi, Forrest Crawford, Victor Hugo Lachos Davila, Beatriz E. Etchegaray Garcia, Patrick Flaherty, Yuwen Gu, Lynn Kuo, Kung-Yao Lee, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Viadimir Pozdnyakov, Fangfang Wang, Haiying Wang, Pei Wang, Jun Yan, Panpan Zhang, Yuping Zhang (Chair), Yizhe Zhao . [contact] Zach Branson, Yeongjin Gwon, Suzanne Thornton, Elizabeth Upton, Wenjie Wang

Sorted by year and student last name

Year

Student

University

Paper Title

Advisor
2017 Zach Branson Harvard University A Nonparametric Bayesian Methodology for Analyzing Regression Discontinuity Designs Luke Miratrix
2017 Yeongjin Gwon University of Connecticut Network Meta-Regression for Ordinal Outcomes: Applications in Comparing Crohn’s Disease Treatments Ming-Hui Chen
2017 Suzanne Thornton Rutgers University-New Brunswick Approximate Confidence Distribution Computing: An Effective Likelihood-Free Method With Statistical Guarantees Min-ge Xie
2017 Elizabeth Upton Boston University Bayesian Network Regularized Regression for Modeling Urban Crime Occurrences Luis Carvalho
2017 Wenjie Wang University of Connecticut Extended Cox Model by ECM Algorithm for Uncertain Survival Records Due to Imperfect Data Integration Kun Chen and Jun Yan