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Every December, Vanderbilt Biostatistics is represented at the International Joint Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE) and Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics). The 18th edition of the conference will take place December 14–16, 2024, at King's College London and online. Here is this year's cohort, comprising department faculty and alumni:

• Bryan Blette, invited speaker - Exploring the nature of individualized treatment effects using a large crossover trial
• Jonathan Chipman (PhD 2019), invited speaker: Experimenting with finite to infinite populations
• Chiara Di Gravio (PhD 2023), invited speaker: Studying mortality in critically ill patients: An analysis of ordinal longitudinal data under case-control sampling (presentation co-authored by Ran Tao and Jonathan Schildcrout)
• Amber Hackstadt, invited speaker: A Bayesian approach to studying major adverse cardiovascular events: Leveraging information from clinical trials (co-authors include Cara Lwin and Robert Greevy)
• Hakmook Kang, invited speaker: Whole brain connectivity estimation by GPU-enhanced Gaussian process (co-authors include Chris Fonnesbeck)
• Dandan Liu, invited speaker: Predictive partly conditional model for longitudinal outcomes in the presence of informative dropout and death
• Bryan Shepherd, invited speaker: Design and analysis of a multi-wave two-phase study to addresses data errors in a multinational HIV research network
• Andrew Spieker
  • organizer/chair, Methodology and practice for data originating from randomized trials
  • invited speaker, Causal mediation analysis of engagement for randomized trials involving mobile health interventions
• Simon Vandekar, organizer/chair: Statistical methods for brain imaging data
• Panpan Zhang, organizer/chair: Statistical and computational methods for longitudinal and survival data