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Minute-level NHANES step counts released on PhysioNet

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Lily Koffman and John Muschelli released minute-level step counts and physical activity data for NHANES 2011–2014 on PhysioNet (doi:10.13026/d7sw-f662). The dataset applies…

Lily Koffman joins the University of Virginia

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Lily Koffman has joined the University of Virginia School of Data Science as an Assistant Professor of Data Science. Lily’s PhD work with WIT focused on identity recognition…

Two papers on hemodynamics in cardiac surgery in the British Journal of Anaesthesia

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With collaborators in Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, WIT members Lily Koffman, Marina Hernandez, Angela Zhao, John Muschelli, and Ciprian…

Joe Sartini completes PhD, joins Wake Forest

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Joe Sartini completed a PhD in Biostatistics, with a dissertation on Bayesian methods for functional and longitudinal data, including continuous glucose monitoring. Joe is…

New preprint: Functional Moments Regression

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Mingyuan Li, Martin Lindquist, Edward Gunning, and Ciprian Crainiceanu posted Functional Moments Regression, a new approach to functional regression with applications to…

Fast Bayesian FPCA published in JCGS

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Joe Sartini, Xinkai Zhou, Elizabeth Selvin, Scott Zeger, and Ciprian Crainiceanu published Fast Bayesian Functional Principal Components Analysis in the Journal of…

New preprint: walking fingerprinting in NHANES

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Lily Koffman, John Muschelli, and Ciprian Crainiceanu posted Walking Fingerprinting Using Wrist Accelerometry During Activities of Daily Living in NHANES, which identifies…

Video: the WIT Working Group

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The Department of Biostatistics released a short video about the WIT Working Group, in which Ciprian Crainiceanu describes how the group started, its focus on students, and…

Physical activity and incident Alzheimer’s disease in the UK Biobank

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Angela Zhao and colleagues published Objectively Measured Physical Activity Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers as a Predictor of Incident Alzheimer’s Disease in the UK Biobank i…

Comparing step counting algorithms in NHANES

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Lily Koffman, Ciprian Crainiceanu, and John Muschelli’s comparison of step counting algorithms for high-resolution wrist accelerometry in NHANES 2011–2014 was published in Me…

Evaluating step counting algorithms on sub-second wrist accelerometry

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Lily Koffman and John Muschelli published Evaluating Step Counting Algorithms on Subsecond Wrist-Worn Accelerometry: A Comparison Using Publicly Available Data Sets in the Jo…