Amy Herring
Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor
Statistical Science, Global Health, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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Amy Herring
Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor
Statistical Science, Global Health, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Amy H. Herring is Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Global Health, and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University. Dr. Herring received her doctorate in biostatistics at Harvard University and came to Duke from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was distinguished professor of biostatistics. Her research interests include development of statistical methodology for longitudinal or clustered data, Bayesian methods, latent class and latent variable models, missing data, complex environmental mixtures, and applications of statistics in population health and medicine. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association as the best applied public health statistician under age 40. Her research program is funded by NIH, and she holds leadership positions at the national and international level, including as Chair of the American Statistical Association's Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, as President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and as a member of the Board of the International Biometric Society.
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Rigon T, Herring AH, Dunson DB. A generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering. Biometrika. 2023 Sep 1;110(3):559–78.Ramos AM, Herring AH, Villanger GD, Thomsen C, Sakhi AK, Cequier E, et al. The association of prenatal phthalates, organophosphorous pesticides, and organophosphate esters with early child language ability in Norway. Environmental research. 2023 May;225:115508.Jin B, Dunson DB, Rager JE, Reif DM, Engel SM, Herring AH. Bayesian matrix completion for hypothesis testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Applied statistics. 2023 May;72(2):254–70.Engel SM, Villanger GD, Herring A, Nethery RC, Drover SSM, Zoeller RT, et al. Gestational thyroid hormone concentrations and risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 2023 Mar;37(3):218–28.
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