Kristin Linn, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present: "Estimation and Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules Following Multiple Imputation" Data-driven optimal treatment strategies promise to benefit patients, care providers, and other stakeholders by improving clinical outcomes and lowering healthcare costs. A treatment decision rule is a function that inputs patient-level information…

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PhD candidate in Biostatistics, Jonathan Kim, will present: "Bayesian Modeling of Multi-Source Multi-Way Data" PhD Adviser: Eric Lock Biomedical research often involves data collected from multiple sources and these sources often have a multi-way (i.e.. multidimensional tensor) structure. Existing methods that can accommodate multi-source or multi-way data have various limitations on the exact structure of…

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Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Yuntian Zuo, will present: "Competing Risk Analysis of Adverse Events for Gemcitabine-antibacterial Treatment on Multiple Discontinued Reasons" Plan B Adviser: Dr. Benjamin Langworthy In this project, data from the MPACT cancer trial was used to study the reason patients with pancreatic cancer discontinue from the clinical trial, and whether certain adverse…

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