Statistical/Biostatistical Methods

Benz, L. “Adjusting for Selection Bias due to Missing Eligibility Criteria in Emulated Target Trials.” Invited oral presentation at International Biometric Society Eastern North American Regions, New Orleans, LA (March, 2025). (Slides)
Benz, L. “Adjusting for Selection Bias due to Missing Eligibility Criteria in Emulated Target Trials.” Oral presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR (August, 2024). (Slides)
Benz, L., Haneuse, S., and Levis, A. “A Simulation Study to Compare Causal Inference Methods for Point Exposures with Missing Confounders.” Oral presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, ON, Canada (August, 2023). (Slides)
Benz, L., “Launch and Demonstration of the NIST Homogeneity Assessor.” National Institutes of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Colloqium, Gaithersburg, MD (August, 2018). (Slides)
Benz, L., “Combining Results in Collaborative Studies When Reported Uncertainties are Unreliable.” National Institutes of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Colloqium, Gaithersburg, MD (August, 2017). (Slides)

Benz, L. “Adjusting for Selection Bias due to Missing Eligibility Criteria in Emulated Target Trials” Presented at Society of Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (June 2025).
Liu, J., Allen, P., Benz, L., Blickstein, D., Okidi, E., and Shi, X. “A Machine Learning Approach for Recruitment Prediction in Clinical Trial Design.” Extended Abstract, Machine Learning for Health (ML4H): a workshop at NeurlIPS 2021. (Paper, Poster)

Clinical Applications

Allen, P., Abba, I., Ahlberg, C., Benz, L., Lau, H., Liu, J., Melham, F, Fisseha, N., and Floria, H. “Identifying Predictive Factors of Patient Dropout in Alzheimer’s Disease Clincal Trials”, Presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 26–30, 2021, Denver, Colorado, United States and Online. (Poster)
Benz, L., Senders, J., Wefel, J. and Claus, E. “The International Low Grade Glioma Registry-Patient Reported Quality of Life.” Presented at Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018. (Poster)

Benz, L. “Panel Discussion: Sport Analytics for Life: Many Different Paths.” Invited Panelist. Sports Analytics Symposium (University of Connecticut, April 2024).
Benz, L. and Lopez, M. “Estimating the Change in Soccer’s Home Advantage During the COVID-19 Pandemic using Bivariate Poisson Regression.” Invited talk presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting. (October, 2021). (Slides)
Benz, L. and Lopez, M. “Estimating the Change in Soccer’s Home Advantage During the COVID-19 Pandemic using Bivariate Poisson Regression.” Oral presentation at New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports. (October, 2021). (Slides)
Benz, L., “An Examination of Timeout Value, Strategy, and Momentum in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Bas- ketball.” Plenary talk presented at Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference. (November, 2019). (Video)
Benz, L. and Lopez, M. “Estimating the Change in Soccer’s Home Advantage During the COVID-19 Pandemic using Bivariate Poisson Regression.” Invited talk presented at Harvard Sports Analytics Lab Seminar. (April, 2021). (Slides)

Benz, L. “Schedule Path Ratios: A Graph-Based Approach to Quantify Schedule Balance.” Presented at Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium (Yale University, April 2025) (Poster)
Bliss, T., Benz, L., and Lopez, M. “A Comprehensive Survey of the Home Advantage in American Football.” Presented at New England Symposium of Statistics in Sports, Boston, MA, 2023. (Poster)
Benz, L. “An Examination of Timeout Value, Strategy, and Momentum in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball.” Poster presented at New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, Boston, MA, 2019. (Undergraduate Senior Thesis, Poster)