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Home Contact CCDOR Contact Webmaster Site Map    Home  ->  About Us  ->  CCDOR Investigators DAVID NELSON, PhD Core Investigator and Senior Statistician, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota 612.467.3490 Email  David Nelson   EDUCATION BS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN MS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN RESEARCH INTERESTS Statistical theory and methodology with emphasis in statistical inference for observational studies and Bayesian methods for finite population sampling TECHNICAL REPORTS / MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Nelson D, Noorbaloochi S. Sufficient dimension reduction summaries. Presented at the 2008 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, under revision for submission to Biostatistics. Nelson D, Meeden G. Polya Posterior Quantile Estimation for Stratified Populations In Progress (PDF, 241 KB). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Nelson D, Noorbaloochi S. Dimension reduction summaries for balanced comparisons. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2009: 139; 617-628. Noorbaloochi S, Nelson D. Conditionally specified models and dimension reduction in the exponential families. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2008: 99; 1574-1589. Lazar R, Meeden G, Nelson D. A noninformative Bayesian approach to finite population sampling using auxiliary variables. Survey Methodology 2008: 34; 51-64. Nelson D, Meeden G. Noninformative nonparametric quantile estimation for simple random samples. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2006: 136; 53-67. Nelson D, Meeden G. Using prior information about population quantiles in finite population sampling. Sankhya, Series A 1998: 60(3); 426-445. Home  |  Contact CCDOR  |  Contact Webmaster  |  Site Map