The Hall of Hoorays
Milestones, Announcements, and Other Matters Sarah Was Excited About
August 2024
I presented on “Combining straight-line and map-based distances to quantify neighborhood-level food access and its impact on health” at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland, Oregon. [Poster]
July 2024
I delivered the keynote address "Connecting healthy food proximity and disease: Straight-line vs. map-based distances" at the conclusion of the Big Data Summer Institute at the University of Michigan. [Slides]
June 2024
I traveled to Braga, Portugal to present at my first International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics! I spoke about “Semiparametrically correcting for data quality issues to estimate whole-hospital, whole-body health from the EHR.” [Slides]
June 2024
I attended my first WNAR Annual Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado! I shared work with Ashley Mullan on “Adjusting for misclassification to quantify the relationship between diabetes and local access to healthy foods.” [Slides]
May 2024
Congratulations to lab members Ashley Mullan (left) and Abby Draeger (center) on their graduations from Wake Forest! My Wednesdays will be so much less fun without you two.
May 2024
For their final projects in probability, students brought the bivariate normal distribution to life! They created (and decorated!) 3D models using the WakerSpace laser.
April 2024
Abby Draeger presented her honors thesis "Unearthed Disparities: Exploring the Effects of Earthquakes on HIV Care Accessibility in Latin America" to a packed room of Wake Forest students and faculty. Awesome job, Abby!
April 2024
Ashley Mullan successfully defended her M.S. thesis "Adjusting for Misclassification to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Foods." Way to go, Ashley!
March 2024
I spoke about how “Extrapolation before imputation reduces bias when imputing heavily censored covariates” at the HiTec Meeting & Workshop on Complex Data in Econometrics and Statistics. [Slides]
March 2024
I was lucky enough to speak at the ENAR Spring Meeting alongside some amazing researchers about "Harnessing Surrogate Markers to Enrich Our Analyses and Study Designs." [Slides]
March 2024
Ashley Mullan presented M.S. thesis work "Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Foods" at the ENAR Spring Meeting. Thesis defense here she comes!
February 2024
I visited Davidson College to share or research on "Overcoming computational hurdles to quantify food access and its impact on health: a statistical approach." [Slides]
January 2024
I was invited to attend "Bridging Statistical Strategies for Censored Covariates" at the Banff International Research Station. It was like a winter wonderland!
January 2024
I discussed our finding that “Extrapolation before imputation reduces bias when imputing heavily censored covariates” at the Banff International Research Station. [Slides]