Biostatisics Students

Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics and Data Science (SIBDS) Program

December 21, 2022

This innovative, hybrid summer training program introduces fundamental principles of biostatistics and data science to promising undergraduate students. Students are engaged in research under the supervision of a faculty member.  

SIBDS: 11 students  

Schools they came from:  

  • Amherst College  
  • Bryn Mawr College  
  • Carnegie Mellon University  
  • Colorado State University  
  • Georgetown University  
  • Marist College  
  • Northwestern University  
  • St. Louis University  
  • UC-Davis  
  • UMass-Dartmouth  
  • University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign  

Research Projects:  

  • Detecting Causal Relationships Among Synaptic Proteins in Patients with Dementia  
  • Impact assessment of expanded access to HIV treatment in Lesotho between 2014 and 2016 using integrated data from multiple surveys and scraped data  
  • Testing Antipsychotic Medications for Patients with Schizophrenia: Olanzapine vs Perphenazine  
  • Preparing Data for an Investigation of Preterm Birth  
  • Uncovering the Relationship Between Maximum Speed and Year of Occurrence in Hurricanes in the North Atlantic Region between 1950 and 2000  
  • Predicting Time to COPD with Survival Analysis Techniques  

See also: Summer Program Opens the Door to a Future in Data Science 


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