Damian Brzyski earns distinguished paper award

The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society awarded Damian Brzyski with the Distinguished Student Paper Award for his work on group SLOPE which he performed within the IDeAl project. Brzyski’s paper, entitled “Group SLOPE as Method for SNPs Selection with the False Discovery Rate Control,” is focused on a new method for identifying groups of variables in a linear regression model that have an impact on the considered response.