Schwager, Steven J.
Associate Professor
My professional activities are centered on the application of statistical methodology to research questions from a wide range of areas in the biological, physical, and social sciences and business. This can involve the use of existing methods and techniques, the development of new methods better suited to the questions of interest, or a combination of the two. I am interested in statistical approaches and techniques for collecting the proper data, including experiment design and sampling design, and for analyzing data in order to draw appropriate conclusions through statistical inference.
research
research and scholarship focus
The focus of my research is the development and application of statistical methodology suitable for a variety of research questions from a wide range of areas in the biological, physical, and social sciences and business. Current research includes analysis of presence-absence data through null model tests (used primarily in ecology, but applicable to data from other fields), characterization and control of disease spread in epidemiology, and analysis of data on osteoarthritis in a canine model of hip dysplasia. Recent research has investigated the presence of organic contaminants in farmed salmon and the quantitative analysis of benefits and risks of salmon consumption.
research areas
- bioacoustics | collaborative research area (CALS)
- biomedical sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- biometry | collaborative research area (CALS)
- disease control | collaborative research area (CALS)
- ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- nutritional sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- risk analysis and assessment | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Global Assessment of Contaminants in Farmed and Wild Salmon, and Resulting Health Risks | 2005 Impact statement
- Global assessment of contaminants in farmed and wild salmon | 2004 Impact statement
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB) | Cornell department
- Statistical Science (STSCI) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Biometry | graduate field
- Computational Biology | graduate field
- Epidemiology | minor graduate field
- Statistics | graduate field
- Tri-Institutional Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM) | graduate program
other Cornell affiliations
- Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit | consulting
teaching
teaching focus
My current instruction centers on the theory of probability and the theory of statistics, at an upper undergraduate / beginning graduate level.
teaches
- BTRY 4970 - Undergraduate Individual Study in Biometry and Statistics (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 4980 - Undergraduate Supervised Teaching (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 4990 - Undergraduate Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 6970 - Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 7900 - Graduate-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 7980 - Graduate Supervised Teaching (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 9900 - Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- BTRY 4100 - Techniques of Multivariate Analysis (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 4970 - Undergraduate Individual Study in Biometry and Statistics (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 4980 - Undergraduate Supervised Teaching (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 4990 - Undergraduate Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 6970 - Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 7900 - Graduate-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 7980 - Graduate Supervised Teaching (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- BTRY 9900 - Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
background
featured in
- Stick to wild salmon unless heart disease is a risk factor, risk/benefit analysis of farmed and wild fish shows | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
linked articles
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: data analysis, epidemiology, experiment design, multivariate analysis, sampling design, statistical computing, statistical consulting, statistics