Fall 2017

Gastric cancer is the second deadliest cancer in the world, and incidence and mortality rates are highest in East Asia. Duke’s Meira Epplein discusses how she utilized new H. pylori multiplex serology to increase numbers of sero-positive results to six H. pylori proteins offered a possible new biomarker panel for gastric cancer risk in among urban men living in Shanghai, China.

Modeling and computation for multivariate longitudinal is challenging, particularly when data contain discrete measurements of different types. Motivated by data on the fluidity of sexuality from adolescence to adulthood, Duke's Amy Herring discusses her new nonparametric approach for mixed-scale longitudinal data.