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Chris Bilder studies categorical data analysis, group testing, R software, statistics in sports, and statistics education. He and his team were recognized by the American Statistical Association’s Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee in 2019 for their work examining how to increase medical testing efficiency by using multiple-disease tests together with individual risk information. A professor in the Department of Statistics, Bilder joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty in 2003.

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Chris Bilder, a statistics professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has advised the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory on its use of group COVID-19 testing. When testing materials are in short supply, he has shown how tests can be conducted in batches to accurately diagnose infections while reducing the total number of tests required. Bilder and his colleagues reported that the lab spent 58% fewer tests over its first six days of pooling, which could allow them to test 137% more people. Bilder and his colleagues developed an app to streamline this process.