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Neal Grantham defends his thesis

Neal Grantham earns his PhD! Neal Grantham defended his thesis “Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional, Spatially-Distributed Microbiome Data from Next-Generation Sequencing.” His thesis work was supervised...

Singh wins ASA Statistical Significance Poster Contest

Susheela Singh has won the 2017 ASA Statistical Significance Poster Contest! Susheela’s poster entitled “Agents of Change: a Spatial Multivariate Bayesian Test to Identify Factors...

Jennifer Wei defends her thesis

Jennifer Wei earns her PhD! Jennifer Wei defended her thesis “Bayesian variable selection using continuous shrinkage priors for nonparametric models and non-Gaussian data”. Her thesis...

Farjat’s work featured by the ASA

Application of New Statistical Method Shows Promise in Mitigating Climate Change Effects on Critical Pine Plantations in Southern US. On Earth Day, 2017, the dissertation...

Wei receives ENVR honorable mention

Jennifer Wei has won Honorable Mention in the 2017 ASA-ENVR Student Paper Competition. Jennifer’s paper entitiled “Sparse Bayesian Nonparametric Regression with Application to Health Effects...