I am a PhD student in Biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, studying causal inference (with Laura Balzer) and cluster-randomized trials (with Ken Kleinman).
Before entering the PhD program, I was a high school math teacher (and chainsaw safety enthusiast) for 8 years.
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Power calculations for individually randomized group treatment trials
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Comparing approaches to nested frailty models in survival analysis
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Investigating bias in penalized quasi-likelihood (PQL) estimation for generalized linear mixed models with dichotomous outcomes (paper in process)
