I am a fourth year PhD student in the Biostatistics department at the University of Washington. I am studying stepped wedge cluster randomized trials under the guidance of my advisor Dr. James Hughes, in collaboration with Dr. Patrick Heagerty. Currently, I am interested in mis-specification of random effects in mixed models and how that impacts inference about treatment effects in stepped wedge trials. Our goal is to understand how different sources of variation might be exchanged in a mixed model, and help researchers choose which random effects to include in their models. I have also been updating and extending the swCRTdesign package and developing a Shiny app to do stepped wedge power calculations, with the goal of making stepped wedge simulation and analyses easier in R and more accessible to researchers who prefer not to use R.
Before moving to Seattle for graduate school, I lived in Minnesota. I graduated from St. Olaf College in 2016, where I spent two years working in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, studying the randomness of head direction cells in anesthetized rats. I also attended the University of Minnesota SIBS program in 2015.
In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, baking, and screen printing, and I play the euphonium.
I am a fourth year PhD student in the Biostatistics department at the University of Washington. I am studying stepped wedge cluster randomized trials under the guidance of my advisor Dr. James Hughes, in collaboration with Dr. Patrick Heagerty. Currently, I am interested in mis-specification of random effects in mixed models and how that impacts inference about treatment effects in stepped wedge trials. Our goal is to understand how different sources of variation might be exchanged in a mixed model, and help researchers choose which random effects to include in their models. I have also been updating and extending the swCRTdesign package and developing a Shiny app to do stepped wedge power calculations, with the goal of making stepped wedge simulation and analyses easier in R and more accessible to researchers who prefer not to use R.
Before moving to Seattle for graduate school, I lived in Minnesota. I graduated from St. Olaf College in 2016, where I spent two years working in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, studying the randomness of head direction cells in anesthetized rats. I also attended the University of Minnesota SIBS program in 2015.
In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, baking, and screen printing, and I play the euphonium.