Dr. Margaux Delporte

Research

Dr. Margaux Delporte is a biostatistician who develops and applies statistical methods to address questions in public health. Her research focuses on joint modeling, longitudinal data analysis, high-dimensional data, and false discovery rate control. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from KU Leuven in Belgium, where her doctoral work focused on joint models for complex longitudinal data, and completed postdoctoral research at Cornell University.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine
Ph.D., KU Leuven, Belgium
M.Sc., KU Leuven, Belgium
B.Sc., KU Leuven, Belgium

Selected Publications

  • Delporte, M., Verbeke, G., Fieuws, S., & Molenberghs, G. (2025). Accelerating Computation: A Pairwise Fitting Technique for Multivariate Probit Models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 203. 108082.
  • Delporte, M., Aerts, M., Verbeke, G., & Molenberghs, G. (2025). Analysing matched continuous longitudinal data: A review. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 34(1), 170-179. 
  • Delporte, M., Molenberghs, G., Fieuws, S., & Verbeke, G. (2025). A joint normal-ordinal (probit) model for ordinal and continuous longitudinal data. Biostatistics, 26(1), 1-13. 
  • Delporte, M., De Witte, D., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G., Demarest, S., & Hoorens, V. (2025). Recent Personal and Vicarious Experience With COVID-19 Affect Personal, but not Comparative Optimism. A Large Longitudinal Study. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 
  • Delporte, M., Verbeeck, J., Brambilla, I., Zimmermann, G., Molenberghs, G., Nabbout. R., & Residras Collaboration Group. (2025). Dravet Syndrome: Insights into Seizure and Speech Progression from Registry Data. Epilepsy & Behavior. 170,110456. 
  • Delporte, M., De Witte, D., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G., Demarest, S., & Hoorens, V. (2023). Do Health Beliefs About COVID-19 Predict Morbidity? A Longitudinal Study. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(11). e12852.
  • Delporte, M., De Coninck, D., d’Haenens, L., Luyts, M., Verbeke, G., Molenberghs, G., & Matthys, K. (2023). A longitudinal perspective on perceived vulnerability to disease during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. Health Promotion International, 38(2). 
  • Delporte, M., Luyts, M., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G., Demarest, S., & Hoorens, V. (2023). Do optimism and moralization predict vaccination? A five-wave longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 42(8), 603-614. 
  • Delporte, M., Fieuws, S., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G., Wanyama, S.S., Hatziagorou, E., & De Boeck, C. (2022). A joint normal-binary (Probit) model. International Statistical Review, 90, S37-S51.