Congratulations to our two BERD Methods Pilot Awardees, Byron C. Jaeger, PhD, and Jaime Lynn Speiser, PhD, MSc! These awards will encourage and support the development of new methodologies for Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design and the novel application of existing methods into new areas of research. Again, congratulations to each of our recipients!
2022 BERD Methods Pilot Recipients
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Byron C. Jaeger, PhDDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science
“Variable Importance for Oblique Learning Ensembles of Trees (VIOLET)” |
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Jaime Lynn Speiser, PhD, MScDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science “Benchmarking Random Forest Variable Selection Methods for Continuous Outcomes with Open Source Data“ |