CHIP Statistics Seminar
“How to Complete the Incomplete: A Statistical Antidote for Incomplete Data Sets”
Ofer Harel, PhD, Associate Professor of Statistics, UConn
3:00 – 4:15pm
Description
Missing data is a common complication in medical, sociological and public health research. Most of the time researchers tend to ignore this obvious difficulty. In this presentation, I will introduce the missing data problem, introduce several different solutions and argue that considerable thought is needed before analyzing incomplete data.
Location
CHIP Colloquium Room, 1st floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
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About the Speaker
Ofer Harel, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Harel received his doctorate in statistics in 2003 from the Pennsylvania State University; where he developed his methodological expertise in the areas of missing data techniques, diagnostic tests, longitudinal studies, bayesian methods, sampling techniques, mixture models, latent class analysis, and statistical consulting. Dr. Harel received his post-doctoral training at the University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics, where he worked for the HSR&D Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC). Dr. Harel has served as a biostatistical consultant nationally and internationally since 1997. Through his collaborative consulting, Dr. Harel has been involved with a variety of research fields including, but not limited to Alzheimer’s, diabetes, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. Dr. Harel has supervised several undergraduate and graduate students.
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