Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics

Charles Rohde (), Scott L. Zeger (), Karen Kruse Thomas () and Karen Bandeen-Roche ()
Additional contact information
Charles Rohde: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics
Scott L. Zeger: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics
Karen Kruse Thomas: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics
Karen Bandeen-Roche: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biostatistics

A chapter in Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S, 2012, pp 129-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics was established in 1918, the first of its kind. This article provides an overview to its key personalities and traditions, and its accomplishments in research and education, over its long history, and it briefly surveys the Hopkins Statistics Department and its successors. Research advancements include methodologies relating to population growth, epidemic modeling, survival function estimation (e.g. Kaplan-Meier), survey sampling, longitudinal data analysis, likelihood-based inference and causal inference as well as discovery related to vaccines, the deleterious effects of smoking, the HIV epidemic, genomic and biological determinants of health, environmental determinants of health, measurements of massive dimension, and many other aspects of public health and medicine. The trajectory of the department as a leader in public health education is tracked from its inception to the present day. The department looks forward to a future that is serving up spectacular problems for statistical science.

Keywords: American Statistical Association; Public Health Education; Johns Hopkins School; Baltimore City Health Department; Finite Population Sampling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-3649-2_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781461436492

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().