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Strawderman, Robert
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- Professor, Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) - 2012
- Professor, Statistical Science (STSCI), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) - 2012
Research Areas
- animal science
- biomedical sciences
- biometry
- environmental sciences
- genomics
- natural resources
- new life sciences
- nutritional sciences
- water resource management
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Affiliations
member of graduate field
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Research
co-principal investigator on
- CORNELL POPULATION PROGRAM awarded by NATL INST OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, NIH 2008 - 2013
- ELECTRONICALLY-MEDIATED WEIGHT INTERVENTIONS FOR PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN awarded by NATL HEART LUNG & BLOOD INST, NIH 2009 - 2014
keywords
- biostatistics
- computational statistics
- evaluating the cost and quality of care
- recurrent events
- statistical methods for point process data
- survival analysis
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- A flexible two-part random effects model for correlated medical cost data. Journal of Health Economics. 29:110-123. 2010
- Adaptive Bayesian adaptive B-spline estimation in proportional hazards frailty models. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 4:606-642. 2010
- MM algorithms for minimizing nonsmoothly penalized objective functions. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 4:1258-1299. 2010
- The effect of Johne’s disease status on reproduction and culling in dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science. 93:3513-3524. 2010
- Conditional GEE for recurrent event gap times. Biostatistics. 10:451-467. 2009
- Decomposing trends in nonmarital fertility among Latinos. Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health. 41:166-172. 2009
- Induced smoothing for the semiparametric accelerated failure time model: asymptotics and extensions to clustered data. Biometrika. 96:577-590. 2009
- Predictors and outcomes of emergency department visits within 30 days following percutaneous coronary intervention. American Journal of Cardiology. 99:197-201. 2007
- A note on the Breslow survival estimator. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. 18:45-46. 2006
- A regression model for dependent gap times. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 2:1557-4679. 2006
- Bayesian estimation of input parameters of a nitrogen cycle model applied to a forested reference watershed. Water Resources Research. 18:45-46. 2006
- Polymorphisms in cytoplasmic serine hydroxymethyltransferase and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase affect the risk of cardiovascular disease in Men. Journal of Nutrition. 135:1989-1994. 2006
- Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed health care: Bayesian inference for a two-part hierarchical model. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 101:934-945. 2006
- Use of the probability integral transformation to fit nonlinear mixed-effects models with nonnormal random effects. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 15:39-57. 2006
- Bayesian estimation of input parameters of a nitrogen cycle model applied to a forested reference watershed, Hubbard Brook Watershed Six . Water Resources Research. 41:3007-3023. 2005
- The accelerated gap times model. Biometrika. 92:647-666. 2005
- Effects of diseases on reproductive performance measures in Swedish Red and White dairy cattle. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 66:113-126. 2004
- Clinical significance of histological classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. European Respiratory Journal. 19:275-283. 2002
- Flexible hazard regression models for medical cost data. Biostatistics. 3:101-118. 2002
- Quantifying the physician contribution to managed care pharmacy expenses: a mixed effects approach. Medical Care. 40:650-661. 2002
- Using a Standardized Donor Ratio to Assess the Performance of Organ Procurement Organizations. Health Services Research. 37:1329-1344. 2002
- A simple GCV method of span selection for periodogram smoothing. Biometrika. 88:1186-1192. 2001
- Histopathologic variability in usual and nonspecific interstitial pneumonias. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 164:1722-1727. 2001
- Nonparametric estimation with recurrent event data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 96:1299-1315. 2001
- Prognostic Value of Fibroblastic Foci in Patients With Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. CHEST. 120. 2001
- Steroids in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: prospective assessment of adverse reactions, response to therapy, and survival. American Journal of Medicine. 110:278-282. 2001
- Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of serum albumin in hemodialysis patients. Kidney International. 58:2119-2128. 2000
- Estimating the mean of an increasing stochastic process at a censored stopping time. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 95:1192-1208. 2000
- Higher-order asymptotic approximation: Laplace, saddlepoint, and related methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 95:1358-1363. 2000
- Respiratory response during arm elevation in isolated diaphragm weakness. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 160:480-486. 1999
- Approximately exact inference for the common odds ratio in several 2 x 2 tables (with discussion and rejoinder). Journal of the American Statistical Association. 93:1294-1306. 1998
- Simple nutritional indicators as independent predictors of mortality in hemodialysis patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 31:997-1006. 1998
- Accurate bootstrap confidence limits for the cumulative hazard and survivor functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 92:1356-1375. 1997
- Accurate confidence limits for quantiles under random censoring. Biometrics. 53:1399-1415. 1997
- An asymptotic analysis of the logrank test. Lifetime Data Analysis. 3:225-249. 1997
- Growth and development of pediatric dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 30:193-203. 1997
- Vascular access survival among incident hemodialysis patients in the United States. American Journal of Kidney Diseases I. 30:50-57. 1997
- Discussion of “Statistical Inference and Monte Carlo Algorithms” by G Casella. TEST. 5:322-326. 1996
- Logical and statistical fallacies in the use of Cox regression models. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 27:124-129. 1996
- On consistency in parameter spaces of expanding dimension: an application of the Inverse Function Theorem. Statistica Sinica. 6:917-924. 1996
- On the asymptotic properties of a flexible hazard estimator. Annals of Statistics. 24:41-63. 1996
- Practical small sample asymptotics for regression problems. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 91:643-655. 1996
- Using USRDS generated hospitalization tables to compare facility-specific ESRD hospitalization rates to national rates. Kidney International. 50:571-578. 1996
- A note on necessary and sufficient conditions for proving that a random symmetric matrix converges to given limit. Statistics and Probability Letters. 21:367-360. 1994
- On the validation of exact tests for nonparametric inference. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 14:263-266. 1992
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chapter
- A weak convergence result relevant in recurrent and renewal models. Recent Advances in Reliability Theory: Methodology, Practice, and Inference. 493-514. 2000
- On a semiparametric bootstrap for extreme order statistics and a useful saddlepoint approximation. Handbook of Statistics (Order Statistics and Their Applications). 441-462. 1998
- The relationship of CD4 counts over time to survival in patients with AIDS: is CD4 a good surrogate marker?. AIDS Epidemiology: Methodological Issues. 1992
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- The accelerated gap times model 2003
- Computing tail probabilities by numerical Fourier inversion: the absolutely continuous case 2002
- Profiling pharmacy expenditures in managed health care: Bayesian inference for a two-part hierarchical model 2002
- A note on the Breslow estimator of survival 2001
- Flexible hazard regression models for medical cost data 2001
- Nonparametric estimation with recurrent event data 2001
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review
- "Projecting Statistical Functionals'' by T Rychlik. 659. 2002
- "Blind Estimation Using Higher Order Statistics'' by AK Nandi. 1532. 2001
- "Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Volume 1, 2nd edition'' by S Kotz, N Balakrishnan, and NL Johnson. 782-783. 2001
- "Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics'', edited by S-C Chow. 1141. 2001
- "Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics,'' by M Newman and G Barkema. 778. 2001
- "Stochastic Population Models: A Compartmental Perspective'' by JH Matis and TR Kiffe. 1530. 2001
- "Stochastic Processes in Epidemiology: HIV/AIDS, Other Infectious Diseases and Computers'' by CJ Mode and CK Sleeman. 1530. 2001
- "A Dictionary of Inequalities'' by P Bullen 2000
- "A Probability Path'' by S Resnick. 342. 2000
- "Fast Reliable Matrices for Matrices with Structure,'' edited by T Kailath and AH Sayed. 1019. 2000
- "Fourier Analysis and Applications: Filtering, Numerical Computation, Wavelets'' by C Gasquet and P Witomski. 349. 2000
- "Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Stochastic Simulation for Bayesian Inference'' by D Gamerman. 346. 2000
- "Measuring the Prices of Medical Treatments," edited by J Triplett. 1382. 2000
- "Perplexing Problems in Probability; Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kester,'' edited by M Bramson and R Durrett. 689. 2000
- Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach'' by K Burnham and K Andersen. 341. 2000
- "Numerical Analysis: A Second Course'' by J Ortega. 350. 1999
- "Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability'' edited by N Balakrishnan. 658. 1999
- "The Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem'' by B Parlett. 657. 1999
- Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms'' by N Higham. 349-350. 1999
- Regression Analysis of Count Data'' by A Cameron and PK Trivedi. 984-985. 1999
- The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform'' by W Briggs and V Henson. 349. 1999
- Continuous-Markov Chains and Applications: A Perturbation Approach'' by G Yin and Q Zhang. 1529. 1998
- United States Renal Data System 1998 Annual Data Report: An Introduction 1998
- United States Renal Data System 1997 Annual Data Report: An Introduction 1997
- United States Renal Data System 1996 Annual Data Report: An Introduction 1996
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Teaching
teaching activities
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2013
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2012
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Spring 2012
- BTRY-7270: Advanced Survival Analysis - Spring 2012
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Spring 2012
- BTRY-8900: Master's Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2012
- BTRY-3080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
- BTRY-5080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
- BTRY-6970: Individual Graduate Study in Biometry and Statistics - Fall 2011
- BTRY-7900: Graduate-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2011
- BTRY-7980: Graduate Supervised Teaching - Fall 2011
- BTRY-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- BTRY-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2011
- ILRST-3080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
- ILRST-5080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
- STSCI-3080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
- STSCI-5080: Probability Models and Inference - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- American Statistical Association Fellow of the ASA 1992 -
- American Statistical Association Member 1992 -
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics Member 1992 -
- International Biometric Society Member 1992 -
- Biostatistics Candidacy Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1999 - 2000
- Biostatistics Curriculum Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1999 - 2000
- Biostatistics Seminar Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1999 - 2000
- Research Council, University of Michigan School of Public Health Member 1999 - 2000
- Advisory Committee on Academic Programs, University of Michigan School of Public Health Committee Member 1998 - 1999
- Biostatistics Faculty Search Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1998 - 1999
- Biostatistics Candidacy Committee, University of Michigan Chairperson 1997 - 1999
- Regional Advisory Board, International Biometric Society Committee Member 1996 - 1998
- Biostatistics Admissions Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1996 - 1997
- Biostatistics Candidacy Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1995 - 1997
- Biostatistics Faculty Search Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1994 - 1995
- Biostatistics Seminar Committee, University of Michigan Chairperson 1993 - 1995
- Biostatistics Seminar Committee, University of Michigan Committee Member 1992 - 1993
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Background
education and training
- Harvard University 1992
- Harvard University 1990
- B.A. in Mathematics, Rutgers University (Rutgers College) 1988
awards and honors
- Distinguished Scholars Lecturer, 2009
- Distinguished Alumni Award, 2008
- Elected Fellow, 2006
- Special Invited Paper, 1998
- Robert Reed Prize, 1992
- John Van Ryzin Award, 1992
- Harvard University Teaching Fellow, 1992
- Harvard University Teaching Fellow, 1991
- Top ScD qualifying exam performance, 1990
- Harvard University Teaching Fellow, 1990
- Training Grant, 1990
- Harvard University Teaching Fellow, 1989
- Training Grant, 1989
- Magna Cum Laude, 1988
- Training Grant, 1988
Other
college
- CALS
research keyword
- biostatistics
- computational statistics
- evaluating the cost and quality of care
- recurrent events
- statistical methods for point process data
- survival analysis
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- Professor