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HPSS STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD COMPETITION for JSM 2010
DEADLINE EXTENSION!


Sponsored by the Section on Health Policy Statistics, American Statistical Association


The Health Policy Statistics Section of ASA announces its annual competition for student and postgraduate papers to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in 2010. Winners of the competition will receive a certificate of merit and a subsidy of up to $800 for actual expenses to support their attendance at the JSM in Vancouver, BC on August 1-5, 2010. They will present their papers at a topic-contributed session of the meeting and be recognized the Section's business meeting.

Papers entered in the Student Competition should involve a methodological innovation or a creative application of statistical analysis to an issue in health policy. Current undergraduate or graduate students at any level, as well as those graduating in 2009 who wish to present research they conducted as students, are eligible to participate. Up to five prizes will be awarded. Students who receive multiple travel awards for JSM 2010 can only accept one award.

This is an excellent opportunity for students to present their work and begin to launch their professional careers, and we have received submissions of very high quality. If you have a teaching or mentoring role, please bring this to the attention of your students and encourage them to apply. The deadline for applications is December 18, 2009. For further information contact the Program Chair-Elect to whom applications should be submitted.

Applications should include (1) a cover letter including name, current affiliation and status including actual or intended date of graduation, and contact information (address, telephone, e-mail) of the applicant, (2) an abstract of up to 300 words, (3) a draft paper, and (4) a letter from the adviser certifying student status (or completion of degree within the past year). Applications must be received by December 30, 2009. Winners will be notified in mid January and must register for the meetings by January 31.

Applications must be submitted by email (text and PDF files preferred).

For further information or to apply, contact:

Recai Yucel (HPSS Program Chair-Elect, 2010)
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health
State University of NewYork at Albany
One University Place, GEC 139
Rennselaer, NY 12144
EMAIL: ryucel AT albany DOT edu


We are pleased to remember the previous winners of the HPSS student paper competitions:



2009 winners:

    Jessica Myers, Johns Hopkins University
    Learning from Near Misses in Medication Errors: A Bayesian Approach

    Carrie Hosman, University of Michigan
    Sensitivity analyses for omitted variable bias in multiple regression in a study of right heart catheterization

    Sandrah Eckel, Johns Hopkins University
    Surrogate screening models for determining low physical activity in the Cardiovascular Health Study

    Rui Wang, Harvard University
    Nonparametric Inference Procedure for Percentiles of the Random Effects Distribution in Meta Analysis

    Sean Devlin, University of Washington
    Identification of ovarian cancer symptoms in health insurance claims data

    2008 winners:

      Shoshana Daniel, University of Pennsylvania
      An algorithm for optimal tapered matching, with application to disparities in survival

      Wen Gu, University of Washington
      Estimating the capacity for improvement in reisk prediction with a marker

      Nan Hu, University of Washington
      A new synthesis method for multiple linear regression

      Megan Othus, Harvard University
      A class of semiparametric mixture cure survival models with dependent censoring

      James Perin, University of North Carolina
      Semi-parametric efficient estimator for incomplete longitudinal binary data with application to smoking trends

      2007 winners:

        Benjamin French, University of Washington
        Analysis of Longitudinal Data to Evaluate a Policy Change

        Ying Huang, University of Washington
        Evaluating predictive capacity of continuous biomarkers

        Michael Law, Havard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare
        Is Newer Always Better? Re-evaluating the Benefits of Newer Pharmaceuticals

        Charles Minard, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
        Testing for Trends in a Two-State Markov Model with Applications in Smoking Cessation Studies

        Qing Pan, University of Michigan
        Evaluating Bias Correction in Weighted Proportional Hazards Regression



        2006 winners:

        • Kate Stewart (Harvard Medical School), "Understanding Self-Reported Disability Among the Elderly: A Novel Use of Anchoring Vignettes"
           
        • Haijun Ma (University of Minnesota), "Hierarchical and Joint Site-Edge Methods for Medicare Hospice Service Region Boundary Analysis"
           
        • Ulysses Diva (University of Connecticut), "Extending the Capture-Recapture Methodology to Estimate Disease Subpopulation Sizes in the Presence of Disease Cross-Classification"
           
        • Justin Timbie (Harvard University), "Methods for Profiling the Value of Hospital Care Following Acute Myocardial Infarction"
           
        • Philip Dinh (University of Washington), "Nonparametric Statistical Methods for a Cost Effectiveness Analysis"
           


        2005 winners:

        • John Robinson (John Hopkins University), "A Hierarchical, Multivariate, Two-part Model for Profiling Providers' Effects on Health Care Charges"
           
        • Eloise Kaizar (Carnegie Mellon University), "Do Antidepressants Cause Suicide in Children? A Bayesian Metaanalysis"
           
        • Hai (Kevin) Lin (The University of Texas), "A Comparison of Estimators of Population Slope under Informative Dropout"
           
        • Rebecca Boehm (Medical University of South Carolina), "On the Utility of Estimators of Stochastic Models of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"
           
        • Manuela Buzoianu (Carnegie Mellon University), "Optimal Bayesian Design for Patient Selection in a Clinical Trial"
           


        2004 winners:

        • Douglas Levy (Harvard U), "Covariate Adjustment in Clinical Trials with Nonignorable Missing Data and Noncompliance"
           
        • Yulei He (U Michigan), "Handling Missing Longitudinal Covariates in Child-development Study: A Functional Multiple Imputation Approach"
           
        • Marianne Bertolet (Carnegie Mellon U), "Inclusion of Sampling Weights in Mixed-Effects Models: A Comparison of Two Methods"
           
        • Jeff M. Allen (ACT and U Iowa), "Comparison of Fixed and Random-effects Methods for Predicting Cancer Incidence in Iowa Counties Using SEER Data"
           
        • Maria E. Montez (Boston U), "Statistical Model Comparisons for Prediction of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Cost in the Veterans Health Administration"
           


        2003 winners:

        • I-Chan Huang (John Hopkins U), "Application of a propensity score approach for risk adjustment in multiple physician group profiling on asthma care"
           
        • Min Zhang (Cornell U), "Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed care: Bayesian inference for a 2-part hierarchical model"
           
        • Roberto Leon (U York), "Mental Health and Wages: An Empirical Analysis"
           
        • Anirban Basu (Chicago U), "Estimating Marginal and Incremental Effects on Health Outcomes using Flexible Link and Variance Function Models"
           
        • Alex R. de Leon (U Calgary; PhD from U Alberta), "General mixed-data model: Extension of general location and grouped continuous models"
           


        2002 winners:

        • Doug Schaubel (UNC), "Regression Modelling of Gap Time Hazard Functions for Serial Failure Time Data"
           
        • Bingming Yi (NCSU), "A Factorial Design to Optimize Cell-Based Drug Discovery Analysis"
           
        • Rivka Yanetz (Bar-Ilan U.), "Application of the Proportion Explained to the Analysis of Length of Stay in Hospital after Surgery"
           


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