Center for Health Quality, Outcomes & Economics Research
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital (152), Bldg 70
200 Springs Road
Bedford, MA 01730
voice: (781) 687-2875
fax: (617) 687-3106
e-mail: mg -at- bu -dot- edu
Education
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Statistics (1993)
M.A. in Statistics (1989)
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Statistics, Summa Cum Laude (1986)
Academic Appointments
Visiting Associate Professor - Department of
Statistics, Harvard University (Fall 2006, 2007, 2008)
Associate Professor - Department of Health Policy and
Management,
Boston University School of Public Health (2004 - Present)
Senior Statistician - Center for Health Quality,
Outcomes, and Economics Research, Veterans Administration Medical
Center, Bedford, MA (2003 - Present)
Visiting Senior Statistician - Center for Health Quality,
Outcomes, and Economics Research, Veterans Administration Medical
Center, Bedford, MA (2001 - 2003)
Assistant Professor - Dept of
Mathematics and Statistics, Boston Univ
(1995 - 2003)
Lecturer - Department of Statistics, Harvard University (1995)
Postdoctoral Fellow - Dept of Health Care Policy,
Harvard Medical School (1993 - 1995)
Teaching Fellow - Department of Statistics, Harvard University
(1987 - 1992)
Major Research Interests
Bayesian inference, paired comparison models and design, applications
to health services and medicine.
Grants
Department of Veteran Affairs.
Assessing genetic factors for disease onset from prospective
cohort studies (1998).
Principal Investigator.
NIA, National Institutes of Health .
Modeling the Effects of Apo-E Genotypes on CVD Onset Age
(2001-2003).
Principal Investigator.
Awards
Special Services Award - presented by the
Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation,
August 3, 2002
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching:
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard
University
(Fall 1987, Fall 1989, Spring 1990, Fall 1990, Spring 1991,
Fall 1991, Spring 1992, Fall 1992).
Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University (1986)
John W. Tukey Award for Excellence in Statistics -
Northern New Jersey Chapter of the American Statistical
Association (1986).
Patents
The Glicko-2 System for Rating Players in
Head-to-Head Competition, provisionally patented in
September 2000.
Other Professional Experience
Statistical Consultant - MyPerfectGig Inc. (February 2008 - present)
Statistical Consultant - Ministry of Health and
Long-Term Care of Ontario (August 2007 - March 2008)
Statistical Consultant - vetting an insurance predictive analytics
start-up firm for Core Capital Partners (September - November, 2007)
NIH grant reviewer, HSOD study section (February, 2007)
Statistical Consultant - Choicestream, Inc. (June - September, 2005)
Data and Safety Monitoring Board for NIH Grant (June 2005 - present)
Instructor on Bayesian Statistics
in Research Experience for Undergraduates program
- Department of Math and Statistics, Tulane University (June 21-25, 2004)
Developer of rating algorithm for online games on
WorldWinner.com (2002 - 2003)
Developer of statistical algorithm to predict success
of product launches - Boston University Communications
Research Center (2000 - 2001)
Lecturer on the essentials of Statistics for surgical
residents - New England Medical Center (1999)
Statistical Consultant - Ontario Medical Association,
Section on Psychiatry (1997 - 2003)
S-Plus Course Instructor - MathSoft Inc. (1996 - 1997)
External honors examiner - Swarthmore College (1997 - 2000)
Research Analyst/Consultant - Abt Associates Inc. (1988 - Present)
Statistical Expert Witness (1993 - Present)
exam cheating
admittance of polygraph exam results into evidence
patterns of response on standardized exams
statistical examination of biomechanical study
damage estimates for insurance claims
Technical Consulting for U.S. Census (1991)
Research Assistant - Center for Energy and
Environmental Studies, Princeton University (1986 - 1987)
Research Assistant - AT&T Bell Laboratories (1985)
Item writer for the Scholastic Aptitude Test -
Education Testing Service (1983)
Other Experience
U.S. Chess Federation Ratings Committee
Chairman (1992 - Present)
Committee member (1985 - Present)
Chance magazine
Editor of column ``Here's to your Health'' (2007 - present),
co-editor (2003 - 2007)
Peer-reviewed Manuscripts
Glickman, Mark E. (2008)
"Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments."
Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 138, 2117-2127.
Rao, R. Sowmya,
Glickman, Mark E.,
and Glynn, Robert J. (2008)
"Stopping rules for surveys with multiple waves of
non-respondent follow-up."
Statistics in Medicine, 27(12), 2196-2213.
Kressin, Nancy R.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Peterson, Eric D.,
Whittle, Jeff,
Orner, Michelle B.,
and Petersen, Laura A. (2007)
"Functional status outcomes among white and African American
cardiac patients in an equal access system"
American Heart Journal, 153, 418-425.
Govindarajulu, Usha S.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
and D'Agostino, Ralph B. (2007)
"Modeling frailty as a function of observed covariates."
Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice,
1, 117-135.
Oates, Daniel J.,
Berlowitz, Dan R.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Silliman, Rebecca A.,
and Borzecki, Ann M. (2007)
"Blood pressure and survival amongst the oldest old."
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,
55, 383-388.
Chabris, Christopher F., and
Glickman, Mark E. (2006)
"Sex differences in intellectual performance:
Analysis of a large cohort of competitive chess players"
Psychological Science, 17, 1009-1107.
Whittle, Jeff, Kressin, Nancy R.,
Orner, Michelle B.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Mazella, Marco, and
Petersen, Laura A. (2006)
"Racial differences in prevalence of coronary obstructions
among men with positive nuclear imaging studies"
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 47, 2034-41.
Philipov, Alexander, and Glickman, Mark E.
(2006),
"Factor multivariate stochastic volatility via Wishart
processes."
Econometric Reviews, 25, 311-334.
Philipov, Alexander, and
Glickman, Mark E. (2006)
"Multivariate stochastic volatility via Wishart processes."
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 24,
313-328.
Borzecki, Ann B., Glickman, Mark E.,
Kader, Boris,
Berlowitz, Dan R. (2006)
"The effect of age on hypertension control and management"
American Journal of Hypertension, 19, 520-527.
Berlowitz, Dan R., Ash, Arlene S.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Friedman, Robert H.,
Pogach, Leonard M.,
Nelson, Audrey L.,
Wong, Ashley (2005),
"Developing a quality measure for clinical inertia
in diabetes care."
Health Services Research, 40, 1836-1853.
Glickman, Mark E., Gray, Jeremy R., and
Morales, C. (2005),
"Combining speed and accuracy to assess error-free
cognitive processes"
with discussion and rejoinder.
Psychometrika, 70, 405-432.
Glickman, Mark E.,
and Kao, Mei-Fang (2005),
"Apo-E genotypes and cardiovascular diseases:
A sensitivity study using cross-validatory criteria."
The Biometrical Journal, 47, 541-553.
Glickman, Mark E., and Jensen, Shane T.(2005),
"Adaptive paired comparison design."
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,
127, 279-293.
Rao, R. Sowmya, Glickman, Mark E., and
Glynn, Robert J.(2004),
"Use of covariates and survey wave to adjust
for nonresponse."
The Biometrical Journal, 46, 579-588.
Gagnon, David R., Glickman, Mark E.,
Myers, Richard H., and Cupples, Adrienne L.(2003),
"The analysis of survival data with a non-susceptible
fraction and dual censoring mechanisms."
Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3249-3262.
Berlowitz, Dan R., Ash, Arlene S.,
Hickey, Elaine C.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Friedman, Robert,
and Kader, Boris (2003),
"Hypertension management in patients with diabetes:
the need for more aggressive therapy."
Diabetes Care,
26, 355-359.
Glickman, Mark E., and Gagnon, David R.(2002),
"Modeling the effects of genetic
factors on late-onset diseases in cohort studies."
Lifetime Data Analysis,
8, 211-228.
Glickman, Mark E.(2001),
"Dynamic paired comparison models with stochastic
variances."
Journal of Applied Statistics,
28, 673-689.
Gelman, A., and Glickman, Mark E.(2000),
"Some class-participation demonstrations for introductory
probability and statistics,"
The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,
25, 84-100.
Glickman, Mark E. and Normand, Sharon-Lise(2000),
"The derivation of a latent threshold instrumental variables model,"
Statistica Sinica,
10, 517-544.
Glickman, Mark E.(1999),
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
experiments,"
Applied Statistics,
48, 377-394.
Berlowitz, D., Ash, A., Hickey, E. C., Friedman, R. H.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Kader, B. K. and Moskowitz, M. A.(1998)
"Inadequate management of blood pressure in a hypertensive
population,"
The New England Journal of Medicine, 339, 1957-63.
Glickman, Mark E. and Stern, Hal. S.(1998),
"A state-space model for National Football League scores,"
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
93, 25-35.
Black, Nick, Griffiths, Joanne, and Glickman, Mark E.(1997),
"Regional variation in intervention rates: What are the
implications for patient selection?"
Journal of Public Health Medicine,
19, 274-280.
Normand, Sharon-Lise, Glickman, Mark E. and Gatsonis,
Constantine A.(1997),
"Statistical methods for profiling providers: Issues and
applications,"
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
92, 803-814.
Glickman, Mark E. and Noether, M.(1997),
"An examination of cross-specialty linkage applied
to the resource-based relative value scale,"
Medical Care,
35, 843-866.
Normand, Sharon-Lise, Glickman, Mark E.,
and Ryan, T.(1997),
"Modeling mortality rates for
elderly heart attack patients: Profiling hospitals in the
Cooperative Cardiovascular Project" with discussion and
rejoinder,
in the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on
Bayesian Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies,
Springer-Verlag.
Normand, Sharon-Lise, Glickman, Mark E.,
Sharma, Ram G., and McNeil, Barbara J.(1995),
"Using Admission Characteristics to Predict Short Term
Mortality from Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly:
Results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project,"
Journal of the American Medical Association,
275, 1322-1328.
Black, Nick, Glickman, Mark E., Fowler, Floyd J., Ding, Jiao,
and Flood, Ann B.(1995),
"International variation in intervention rates: What are
the implications for patient selection?"
Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care,
11, 719-732.
Book Chapters
Glickman, Mark E. and Stern, Hal S. (2005),
"A state-space model for National Football League scores."
In Anthology of Statistics in Sports
(Edited by Jim Albert, Jay Bennett, and James J. Cochran).
ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability.,
Philadelphia, PA.
ISBN 0-89871-587-3.
pp 23-34.
Glickman, Mark E. and van Dyk, David A. (2007)
"Basic Bayesian methods."
In Topics in Biostatistics (Methods in Molecular Biology).
Edited by Walter Ambrosius.
The Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ.
ISBN 1-58829-531-1.
pp 319-338.
Other Original Manuscripts
Evans, S, and Glickman, Mark E.(2008).
"New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports,"
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports,
4 (2), Article 1.
Avery, C, Glickman, Mark E.,
Hoxby, C., and
Metrick, A.(2002),
"A Revealed Preference Ranking of American Colleges and Universities,"
manuscript presented at the NBER Economics of Education and Higher
Education conference, Nov. 2002.
Glickman, Mark E.(1999),
Letter to the editor.
Chance,
12, 4, 3-5.
Glickman, Mark E.(1999),
"Rating Competitors in Online Games,"
The ISBA Newsletter, 6, 8-9.
Glickman, Mark E. and Jones, Albyn C.(1999),
"Rating the chess rating system,"
Chance,
12, 2, 21-28.
Rao, R. Sowmya, Glickman, Mark E., and
Glynn, Robert J.(1998),
"Using multiple imputation for the analysis of a multi-wave
survey with non-response,"
Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Section on Epidemiology.
Glickman, Mark E. (1998),
STATS Parodies in "Outlier..s,"
Stats , 22, 28-29.
Glickman, Mark E. (1998),
STATS Parodies in "Outlier..s,"
Stats , 21, 26-27.
Glickman, Mark E. and Jones, Albyn C. (1998),
"The United States Chess Federation Rating System:
Current issues and recent developments."
Proceedings of the 1998 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Section on Statistics in Sports.
Glickman, Mark E.(1995),
"Chess Rating Systems,"
American Chess Journal, 3, 59-102.
Glickman, Mark E.(1995),
"Becoming a chessmaster - the development
of a rating system for tournament chess players"
with discussion,
Proceedings of the 1995 Joint
Statistical Meetings: Statistics in Sports Section, 6-15.
Glickman, Mark E. and Stern, Hal. S.(1994),
"Inference from an autoregressive state-space model via
iterative simulation,"
Proceedings of the 1994 Joint
Statistical Meetings: Statistics in Sports Section, 72-76.
Hoaglin, David C. and Glickman, Mark E.(1991),
"Sensitivity analyses of potential adjustments,"
Report to the Special Advisory Panel on the Census
Undercount,
U.S. Department of
Commerce, June 21, 1991.
Doctoral Thesis
Glickman, Mark E.(1993),
"Paired comparison models with time-varying parameters,"
Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Statistics, Harvard
University.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Van Cott, Anne C.,
Cramer, Joyce A.,
Copeland, Laurel A.,
Zeber, John E.,
Steinman, Michael A.,
Dersh, Jeffrey J.,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Mortensen, Eric M.,
Amuan, Megan E.,
Pugh, Mary Jo. (2008)
"Reassessing suicidality in older patients on anti-epileptic
drugs: Data from clinical practice."
Under review.
Glickman, Mark E.,
Seal, Pradipta, and
Eisen, Susan V. (2008)
"Posterior predictive p-values for detecting differential
item functioning in IRT models."
Under review.
Eisen, Susan V., Seal, Pradipta,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Cortes, Dharma E., Gerena, Mariana,
Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio,
Febo, Vivian,
Soto, Jesus,
Magana, Cristina, Canino, Glorisa (2008)
"Psychometric properties of the Spanish BASIS-24 mental
health survey."
Under review.
Rosen, Amy K.,
Chatterjee, Sharmila,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Seal, Pradipta,
Spiro III, Avron,
Eisen, Susan V. (2008).
"Improving risk adjustment for mental health:
What approach works best?"
Under review.
Avery, Christopher,
Glickman, Mark E.,
Hoxby, Caroline,
Metrick, Andrew (2004)
"A revealed preference ranking of U.S. colleges and
universities"
Glickman, Mark E., and Chabris, C.(1996),
"Using chess ratings as data in psychological research."
Glickman, Mark E.(1994),
"An efficient Gibbs sampler for fitting a
normal state-space model,"
Technical Report,
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Glickman, Mark E.(1991),
"A Bayesian paired comparison model for rating chess
players,"
Technical Report,
Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
Selected Presentations
"Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Statistics, University of Auckland (New
Zealand), July, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Separating the best from the rest: Scheduling a tournament
as a Bayesian locally-optimal design" -
9th World Conference of the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia, July, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Chess ratings: An insider's perspective" -
Boylston Chess Club (Somerville, MA), April, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital
(Boston, MA), March, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Differential item functioning in a graded response IRT model:
a Bayesian approach to item discrimination" -
HSR&D 2008 National Meeting (Baltimore, MD),
February, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health (Baltimore, MD), February, 2008.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary
Statistics and Combinatorics (Greensboro, NC),
October, 2007.
Invited plenary talk.
"It's all fair game: Consulting for an online competitive
entertainment company" -
- Joint Statistical Meetings (Salt Lake City, Utah),
August, 2007.
Invited talk.
"Differential item functioning in a graded response IRT model:
a Bayesian approach to item discrimination" - Department of
Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
March, 2007.
Invited talk.
"Differential item functioning in a graded response IRT model:
a Bayesian approach to item discrimination" - International
Biometrics Society (ENAR) 2007 Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
March, 2007.
Invited talk.
"Selected topics in Bayesian Statistics" -
Yale Center for Clinical Investigations,
Yale School of Medicine.
February, 2007.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Statistics,
Harvard University.
December, 2006.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Mathmatics and Statistics,
San Diego State University.
September, 2006.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
Department of Statistics,
University of California, Irvine.
September, 2006.
Invited talk.
"Combining speed and accuracy to assess error-free cognitive
processes" - Joint Statistical Meetings (Seattle, Washington),
August, 2006.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian optimal design of knockout tournaments" -
International Chinese Statistical Association 2006
Applied Statistics Symposium,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian design of knockout tournaments" -
Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics,
Benidorm, Spain.
June, 2006.
Poster session.
"Incorporating magic tricks into probability and statistics
lectures" -
Department of Mathematics,
Smith College.
October, 2005.
Invited talk.
"Classification and Regression Trees: An important
statistical tool for health researchers"
- HSR&D 2005 National Meeting, Baltimore.
February, 2005.
Invited workshop.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
Department of Statistics,
University of Georgia.
November, 2004.
Invited talk.
"Apo-E genotypes and cardiovascular diseases: A sensitivity
study" - Joint Statistical Meetings (Toronto, Ontario),
August, 2004.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
poster session at
the 2004 World Meeting of the
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (Vina del Mar, Chile),
May, 2004.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
Los Alamos National Labs,
New Mexico.
April, 2004.
Invited talk.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
Statistics and Sports - IMS Meeting,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
November, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
Harvard School of Public Health,
Bayesian Methodology Working Group.
November, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Adaptive paired comparison design" -
Boston University,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
September, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Measuring the effect of Apo-E genotypes on cardiovascular
disease events in the Framingham Heart Study" -
poster session
at the 2003 Bayesian
Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003.
"Adaptive paired comparison design: Separating the best from
the rest"
- Joint Statistical Meetings (San Francisco, California),
August, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Measuring the effect of Apo-E genotypes on cardiovascular
disease events in the Framingham Heart Study" - National
Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
June, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Measuring the effect of Apo-E genotypes on cardiovascular
disease events in the Framingham Heart Study" - International
Biometrics Society (ENAR) 2003 Spring Meeting, Tampa, FL.
April, 2003.
"Combining speed and accuracy to assess error-free cognitive
processes" - Government/Statistics seminar series,
Harvard University.
February, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Combining speed and accuracy to assess error-free cognitive
processes" - Department of Biostatistics, Boston University
School of Public Health.
January, 2003.
Invited talk.
"Missing data tutorial: How to analyze what's not there" -
post-doc seminar series,
Center for Health Quality,
Outcomes and Economics Research, Bedford MA.
December, 2002.
Invited talk.
"Multivariate stochastic volatility via Wishart random
walks" - poster session at the First Cape Cod Workshop on
Monte Carlo Methods, September 2002.
"Inferring response times of a latent, error-free cognitive
process" - Rand Corporation.
July, 2002.
Invited talk.
"Rating colleges through choice modeling"
- poster session at the 7th Valencia
International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 4, 2002.
"Inferring response times of a latent, error-free cognitive
process" - North Carolina State University,
Department of Statistics.
May, 2002.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - University of New Mexico,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
April, 2002.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Williams College, Department of Mathematics.
February, 2002.
Invited talk.
"Inferring response times of a latent, error-free cognitive
process" - Harvard School of Public Health,
Bayesian Methodology Working Group.
December, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Live action statistics: Enhancing statistics classes with
magic tricks and songs" - Department of Statistics, Harvard
University.
December, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" -
Center for Health Quality,
Outcomes and Economics Research, Bedford MA.
November, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Inferring response times of a latent, error-free cognitive
process" - University of Chicago,
Department of Statistics.
October, 2001.
Invited talk.
"ESP, Telepathy, and Probability:
Learning how to Read Minds in Three Easy Steps" -
Mathematics Field Day at Boston University.
October, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Rating colleges through choice modeling" -
poster session
at the 2001 Bayesian
Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2001.
"Magic tricks in the probability and statistics classroom"
- Joint Statistical Meetings (Atlanta, Georgia),
August, 2001.
"How good am I? Rating competitors in games and sports" -
Williams College, Department of Mathematics.
April, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Statistics.
April, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Dynamic paired comparison models with stochastic
variances" -- Department of Statistics, University of
Missouri - Columbia.
March, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Division of Biostatistics,
Yale University.
February, 2001.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Center for Statistical
Sciences, Brown University.
February, 2001.
Invited talk.
"ESP, Telepathy, and Probability:
Learning how to Read Minds in Three Easy Steps" -
Newton South High School.
January 2001.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - MAVERIC Seminars in
Epidemiology (Boston, MA).
January 2001.
Invited talk.
"Simplified algorithms for fitting dynamic paired comparison
models" - Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences,
Duke University.
December 2000.
Invited talk.
"How good am I? Rating competitors in games and sports" -
Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Evening Lecture series.
November, 2000.
Invited talk.
"ESP, Telepathy, and Probability:
Learning how to Read Minds in Three Easy Steps" -
Mathematics Field Day at Boston University.
October, 2000.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Statistics in the 21st
Century (Orono, Maine).
July, 2000.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - The 6th World Meeting of the
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (Hersonissos, Crete).
June, 2000.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - New England Statistics
Symposium (Providence, Rhode Island).
April, 2000.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Department of Statistics,
University of California, Davis.
March, 2000.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - Department of Health Care
Policy, Harvard Medical School,
February, 2000.
Invited talk.
"Modeling the effects of genetic factors on late-onset
diseases in cohort studies" - McGill University,
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
March 1999.
Invited talk.
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
experiments" - University of Montreal, Department
of Mathematics and Statistics,
March 1999.
Invited talk.
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
experiments" - University of New Hampshire, Department
of Mathematics,
November 1998.
Invited talk.
"The error-free mean reaction time as a measure of human
performance" - poster session at the 6th Valencia
International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 1998.
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
experiments" - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department
of Mathematics,
March 1998.
Invited talk.
"Comparing chess players"
- 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania),
February, 1998.
Invited talk.
"Modeling speed versus accuracy"
- presentation for Statistics/Psychology lunchtime seminar
at Harvard University,
January, 1998.
Invited talk.
"Predicting football scores using state-space models"
- Joint Statistical Meetings (Anaheim, California),
August, 1997.
Discussion of "Comparing predictive performance for binary
outcome models: Logistic regression, classification trees,
and neural networks" - Joint Statistical Meetings
(Anaheim, California),
August, 1997.
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
models" - New Researchers Conference (Laramie, Wyoming),
July, 1997.
Invited talk.
"Bayesian Methods I" - an introduction to Bayesian
Statistics for BIO269 at the Harvard School of Publich Health,
April, 1997.
Invited talk.
"Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison
models" - Harvard University, Department of Statistics,
October 1996.
Invited talk.
"The development
of a rating system for tournament chess players" -
University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Statistics, September 1996.
Invited talk.
"Probabilistic rating systems for tournament chess players
- How to beat your sister at chess" -
Boston University, Department of Mathematics, April 1996.
Invited talk.
"Becoming a chessmaster - the development
of a rating system for tournament chess players" -
University of Maryland Baltimore County,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, March 1996.
Invited talk.
"Modeling mortality rates for
elderly heart attack patients; Profiling hospitals in the
Cooperative Cardiovascular Project" - 1995 Bayesian
Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University. Invited talk (with Sharon-Lise
T. Normand and Thomas Ryan)
"Becoming a chessmaster - the development
of a rating system for tournament chess players" -
1995 Joint Statistical Meetings, Orlando.
Invited talk.
"A latent threshold framework for instrumental
variables models" - Abt Associates Inc., 1995.
Invited talk.
"A latent threshold framework for instrumental
variables models" - Boston University,
Department of Mathematics, 1995.
Invited talk.
"A latent threshold framework for instrumental
variables models" - University of Minnesota,
Division of Biostatistics, 1995.
Invited talk.
"Towards the construction of a chess rating system" -
Yale University Department of Statistics consulting seminar,
1994.
Invited talk.
"Causal inference from observational data using an
instrumental variables approach" - University of
Connecticut Department of Statistics colloquium, 1994.
Invited talk.
"Causal inference from observational data using an
instrumental variables approach" -
Bayesian working seminar,
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 1994.
Invited talk.
"Inference from an autoregressive state-space model via the
Gibbs sampler" - poster session at the 5th Valencia
International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, 1994.
"Inference from stochastic simulation: Rejection sampling,
the Metropolis algorithm, and the Gibbs sampler" - Abt
Associates Inc., 1993.
Invited talk.
"Efficient Gibbs sampling for the analysis of normal
state-space models, with an application to the prediction of
NFL scores" -
Bayesian working seminar,
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health,
1993.
Invited talk.
"Time-varying parameters in paired comparison models" -
contributed paper session at the 1992 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Boston.
"Paired comparison models with time-varying parameters" -
Harvard statistics Department colloquium, 1993.
"A critical evaluation of the linkage procedure used in
development of the
resource-based relative value scale" - Stanford University
Department of Biostatistics, 1993.
Invited talk.
Conference Organizing
New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports.
Co-organizer (with Scott Evans).
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 29, 2007.
Statistical consulting for games and sports organizations.
Session organizer.
Invited paper session at the 2007 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Measuring competitive ability: Current trends in rating
systems for games and sports.
Session organizer.
Invited paper session at the 1998 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Dallas, Texas.
Journal Refereeing
1993 Workshop on Bayesian Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies
1997 Workshop on Bayesian Statistics in Science and Technology: Case Studies
American Journal of Public Health
The American Statistician
Biostatistics
Circulation
Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods
Proceedings of the 2000 Meetings of the International Society of
Bayesian Analysis
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy
Journal of Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Statistics Education
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
Learning and Individual Differences
Lifetime Data Analysis
Psychometrika
Sankhya
Statistical Papers
Statistics in Medicine
Statistics in Society (JRSS-A)
Professional Societies
American Statistical Association
(Chair of Section in Statistics in Sports (SIS), 2002; JSM Program Chair for
SIS, 2007)