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Paper A new paper, “Contributions of Worry and Social Anxiety to Paranoia in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Results,” by Brandee Feola, Hao Wu, Stephan Heckers, Jennifer Urbano Blackford, Neil D. Woodward, Jinyuan Liu, and Julia M. Sheffield, has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Talk Hao Wu presented “Doubly Robust Estimators of Quantile Treatment Effects With Cumulative Probability Models” at the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in the session “Causal Effect Estimation: Recent Advances.”

Paper A new paper, “Doubly Robust Estimators of Quantile Treatment Effects With Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models” , by Hao Wu, Chun Li, and Bryan E. Shepherd, is now available on arXiv.

Talk Hao Wu gave a presentation at ENAR 2026 Spring on “A Simple Augmentation of Weighted Generalized Estimating Equations for Doubly Robust Estimation in Longitudinal Data with Missingness.”

News Hao Wu has passed the PhD oral qualifying exam and is now officially a PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.

Paper Recent paper available on arXiv about Why Is the Double-Robust Estimator for Causal Inference Not Doubly Robust for Variance Estimation?

Talk Presented in the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Causal Inference Working Group (2025) on “Doubly Robust Estimators of Quantile Treatment Effects With Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models.”

Conference Presented a short course in Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM): Unlocking the Power of Semiparametric Models: A Practical Tutorial for Analyzing Complex Data with Minimum Assumptions: H Wu, T Lin, X Tu, JY Liu (2025). Augmented Weighted Generalized Estimating Equations of Longitudinal Data with Monotone Missing.