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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reviewing proofs for a recently accepted paper on a train to the Scottish Highlands? Yes, please. #sabbatical

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Sep 3

Such fun bringing stats and crafts together!! And lovely meeting you Lucy 😊

Lucy Teece | Stats Enthusiast @stateecetics.bsky.social · Sep 3

Had to snap a *crafty* pic with #SignificanceMagazine competition finalist @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social and the fabulous crochet cardigan

#Skye🦄 #RSSConf2025 #RSS2025Conf

Sarah wears a rainbow coloured daisy crochet granny square cardigan, I'm in a bright yellow full length dress showing off my purple and blue unicorn mascot

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 6

Huge congratulations to two of my favorite colleagues @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & Staci Hepler on their SUCH well deserved CWS awards at #JSM2025 👏 👏

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thank you! 😊

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jul 31

Rescheduled for Friday, September 19 so there’s still time!

Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jul 30

🎙️: "Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape"

🗓️: Friday, Aug 1st, 2–3PM EST

🔗: Register online at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...

Abstract: Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people. Identifying low-access, high-risk communities for targeted interventions i...

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jul 30

👋 Want to hear about our recent work on measurement error in food access measures? Sign up for this Friday's North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association Webinar! It's free, and I'd love to see you there!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rerouting Our Thinking: Computationally Simple Measures Misrepresent the Food Access Landscape. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...

Abstract: Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people. Identifying low-access, high-risk communities for targeted interventions i...

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jun 9

Love these!! A *significant* addition to the post!

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · May 21

How many stats puns as slide titles is too many? Asking for a friend...

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Ashley Mullan @ashleymullan.bsky.social · May 12

🆕 I'm excited to share a new arXiv preprint with Anh Nguyen and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social on "Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence." I couldn't have asked for a better duo to help my first first-author paper come together! 😊

🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2505.01465

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hi Annie! A great question. The data pull for this work was done a year or so ago, but we definitely need to be mindful of data quality and availability going forward. I’m not aware of any other global options but if you are I’d love to know about them! I honestly haven’t looked for them yet.

Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Apr 21

⚡️ Kind, knowledgable collaborators who shared my vision and amplified my energy.

🗺️ Funds to let my map-loving heart run a little wild and chase a hypothesis.

📈 High-quality public health datasets from CDC that enable research like this.

📄 The most pleasant, constructive peer-review process.

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Apr 21

🙏 I'm grateful for a lot with this paper, and I'm excited about all of the future directions that are already underway.🧵

Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Apr 21

🆕 New week, new pub! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) published in Statistics in Medicine with @wakeforest.bsky.social colleagues @ashleymullan.bsky.social (MS alum, now PhDing @vanderbilt.edu), @lucystats.bsky.social (Assistant Prof), and Staci Hepler (Vice Chair/Associate Prof).

Combining Straight‐Line and Map‐Based Distances to Investigate the Connection Between Proximity to Healthy Foods and Disease

Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people than others. This disparity in food access may lead to disparities in well-being, po...

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Peg Duthie @plduthie.bsky.social · Apr 14

#NRC2025 The 2025 New Researchers Conference, sponsored by Institute of Mathematical Statistics and hosted by Vanderbilt Biostatistics, welcomes applications from early-career researchers (PhDs earned 2018-2025). Space is limited; apply by May 15 to be considered for an invite. nrc2025.github.io

Home | 2025 IMS New Researchers Conference

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Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Mar 24

🎙️ Today at 11:30 AM (Central) @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) will be discussing an imputation solution to accurately and efficiently measure access to healthy foods and its relationship to obesity at #ENAR2025. See more 👇

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Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Mar 23

🎙️ Catch Ashley Mullan (Masters Alum) and Cassandra Hung (Undergrad Researcher) at tonight's #ENAR2025 poster session (8-11PM CT). Ashley will discuss visualizing cost-effectiveness for cancer treatment, and Cassandra's work evaluates the impact of measurement error on health disparities models.

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thank you so much!! It’s really my honor 🥹

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Mar 21

🤗 Looking forward to connecting with everyone next week, and especially excited for Cassandra Hung’e and @ashleymullan.bsky.social’s poster presentations on Sunday night!

Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Mar 21

🎷 Next week, Wake Stats is heading to New Orleans for the 2025 Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring Meeting! Six of our incredible faculty, students, and alums will be sharing their research. Stay tuned for details on each of their presentations!

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Mar 14

Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05380 This project definitely took a village, and I'm immensely grateful to our collaborators for making it such a success! Also, I think this paper has my prettiest figures yet. 👩‍🎨

Overcoming data challenges to measure whole-person health in electronic health records

The allostatic load index (ALI) is a composite measure of whole-person health. Data from electronic health records (EHR) present a huge opportunity to operationalize the ALI in the learning health sys...

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Mar 14

🆕 I'm excited to share our recently completed work on "Overcoming data challenges to measure whole-person health in electronic health records," for which Joe Rigdon and I received one of the first intercampus collaborative grants from Wake Forest University and Wake Forest School of Medicine.

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Mar 10

🤩 Lucky to be your classmate. Even luckier to be your colleague. Yay, Lucy!!

Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Mar 10

👏 Huge congratulations to Assistant Prof @lucystats.bsky.social for her Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies!

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Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Feb 26

🎉 Last night two of our faculty attended the NC ASA Annual Dinner to hear from Ron Wasserstein about improbability, mingle, and receive awards! Robert Erhardt (Chair and Prof) received the Senior Statistician Award and @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) received the Service Award.

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Peg Duthie @plduthie.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Vanderbilt Biostatistics paid summer internship program for undergraduates (stipend of up to $4500, May 12 - June 20) is extending its application deadline to February 17 since its website is down. Access the application form directly at redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=A...

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jan 15

That moment when your mentee catches bugs in her R code that would've taken you so long to find! @ashleymullan.bsky.social, you always make me so proud 🤩

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Sarah Lotspeich @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social · Jan 10

There’s still time! Apply to join us!

Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · Jan 10

🖐️ There are five days left to apply to our M.S. in Statistics program at @wakeforest.bsky.social! Our teacher-scholar faculty would love to review your apps to join our small, collaborative program with thesis/non-thesis routes, generous funding opps, optional data science cert, and more!

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