Kaidi Kang
PhD candidate
Delivery Address
2525 West End Avenue
Room / Suite
1100
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
Advisor: Simon Vandekar
MS, Biostatistics, Georgetown University
Research interests include: Alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging
Honors include: Best Data Blitz, 2023 Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day; Student Research Award, 36th New England Statistics Symposium, for “Double anchoring events-based sigmoidal mixed model for longitudinal memory decline in Alzheimer’s disease”
Publications include:
- "Differences in health professionals' engagement with electronic health records based on inpatient race and ethnicity" (JAMA Network Open 2023)
- "Study design features that improve effect sizes in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association studies" (first author; preprint at bioRxiv)
- "Accurate confidence and Bayesian interval estimation for non-centrality parameters and effect size indices" (first author; Psychometrika 2023)
- "A novel methodological approach to measure linear trends in health inequalities: Proof of concept with adolescent smoking in Europe" (American Journal of Epidemiology 2023)
R packages include: {RESI} (Robust Effect Size Index Estimation), 2022