A Glimpse into Mark Glickman's World!

How to contact me:

Prof. Mark E. Glickman
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economics Research
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital (152), Bldg 70
200 Springs Road
Bedford, MA 01730

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management
at the Boston University School of Public Health.

email: mg -at- bu -dot- edu

phone: (781) 687-2875

fax: (781) 687-3106
My Curriculum Vitae
I can be hired for short-term statistical consulting

What's New?

The book "Topics in Biostatistics" (edited by Walter Ambrosius) has been published July 2007. It contains a chapter on basics Bayesian methods coauthored by me and David van Dyk of UC Irvine. The book can be purchased from amazon.com.

I was co-organizer (along with Harvard School of Public Health Senior Research Scientist Scott Evans) of the conference, "2007 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports", which was held at the Harvard University Science Center on Saturday, September 29, 2007.
An article about the conference appeared in the October 4, 2007 issue of the Harvard Gazette.
The Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports has published the proceedings of the conference in its April 2008 issue.
Here is a video of the opening remarks from the conference.

The paper Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments has been accepted to the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.

The Boston University Daily Free Press wrote an article on September 21, 2007, about recent collaborative work on college rankings.

On February 14, 2008, I gave the talk Differential Item Functioning in a Graded Response IRT Model: A Bayesian Approach to Item Discrimination at the 2008 HSR&D National Meeting, the annual health research meeting of the Department of Veterans Affairs, having taken place in Baltimore, MD.
The talk involved showing a sequence of plots as a movie to demonstrate the results of an MCMC posterior simulation.

I will be presenting Separating the best from the rest: Scheduling a tournament as a Bayesian locally-optimal design at 5:00pm on July 23, 2008 at the 9th World Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, held on Hamilton Island, Australia.

I will be giving a talk (topic TBA) at 4:00pm on July 29, 2008, at the Department of Statistics, University of Auckland (New Zealand). Details to come.

Getting to know me!

Check out my vanity page where you can look at lots of pictures of me, my family and my friends. Actually, the pictures are mostly of me.

And speaking of vanity, I've posted some video clips in which I'm interviewed on TV, and performing magic tricks (the latter not shown on TV... yet).

I am currently the chairman of the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) ratings committee. Here are some recent USCF ratings reports and other assorted ratings-related items.

My glicko ratings page (once www.glicko.com), which describes two rating systems I created, now resides on this site.

My research interests include Bayesian statistics, paired comparison models, and statistical methods applied to health services research. I've made some of my papers available on-line.

My musical interests include listening to eclectic rock music, playing piano, guitar and bass guitar, and songwriting. My music page currently contains several original songs, statistics song parodies (both recorded music and lyrics) and MIDI files I created.

I created a Macromedia Flash application for the game "Family Feud" for math undergraduates and grad students at Boston University. Feel free to try it out yourself.

Visitors since August 3, 1997:

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