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My bachelor's degree was in Mathematics from the University of Washington,
Seattle in 1972, I received a Master's Degree in Statistics from the
California State University as Hayward in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Statistics
with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
in 1979. I joined the Department of Statistics at UC Davis in 1979 and was chair of the graduate
group in Epidemiology from 1997 to 2002.
My research interests are eclectic. I am mainly interested in developing Bayesian statistical methods for biostatistical and epidemiologic applications. I am currently involved with collaborative efforts to develop asymptotic posterior distribution theory for mixed models, Bayesian methods for assessing diagnostic test accuracy and for estimating prevalence when no gold standard is available, Bayesian semi parametric survival analysis methodology for the accelerated failure time and proportional hazards models, risk analysis models in veterinary epidemiology, sample size determinations in the context of risk assessment, semi parametric models and methods for the analysis of hormone profile data and for joint longitudinal-survival data.. I also have a general interest and expertise in the areas of regression diagnostics, prediction, multivariate analysis, models for correlated binary data, asymptotics and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. My curriculum vitae gives more details. |