We are excited to welcome Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, and Haozheng Xu to the ranks of Vanderbilt alumni with master's degrees in biostatistics, on Friday, May 8, 2026. We are proud of you and look forward to your future accomplishments! Theses will become available via Vanderbilt's Institutional Repository later this year.
Yiqing Pan
Thesis: Statistical and Deep Learning Methods for Missing Covariate Imputation with Applications to Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Advisor: Panpan Zhang
Past: BA, statistics, Mount Holyoke
Future: PhD program in epidemiology and biostatistics, Indiana University
Xin Wu
Thesis: Co-enrollment in Clinical Trials: Validating Recommendations and Guidelines Using Simulations
Advisor: Bryan Blette
Past: BS, statistics, East China Normal University
Haozheng Xu
Thesis: A Comprehensive Simulation Study on Coverage Probabilities of Double Machine Learning: Analytical versus Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals
Advisor: Qingyan Xiang
Past: BS, mathematics and business analytics (data science concentration), William and Mary
Theses will become available via Vanderbilt's Institutional Repository later this year.