Professor Naihua Duan is Professor of
Biostatistics (in Psychiatry) in the Departments
of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at Columbia
University, and the Director of the
Division of Biostatistics in the New York
State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI).
Professor Duan received a B.S. in mathematics from National
Taiwan University, an M.A. in mathematical
statistics from Columbia University,
and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford
University. He is an accomplished
practicing biostatistician with research
interests in health services research,
prevention research, sample design and
experimental design, model robustness,
transformation models, multilevel modeling, nonparametric and
semi-parametric regression methods, and
environmental exposure assessment. Professor Duan has led the statistical
work on a number of prominent field
studies, including the Health Insurance
Experiment, the HIV Costs and Service Utilization
Study, the National Latino and Asian American
Study, the Recovery After Initial
Schizophrenic Episode
study, and the Optimizing Treatment
for Complicated Grief study.
Professor Duan has published
more than 160 papers in leading journals
in statistics, psychiatry, public health,
and epidemiology. He is an elected fellow
of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
and a former associate editor for the Journal
of the American Statistical Association. |
