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Professor, PhD, Biostat Division Chief, Vice Chair - Public Health Sciences
Phone: 530-754-7161
Website(s):Personal Webpage |
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Research Interests & Recent Projects | | Longitudinal data, correlated processes, Chronic diseases, Alzheimer's, cancer, Director: Statistics and Data Management Core, UCD Alzheimer's Disease Center, Director: Biostatistics Shared Resource, Cancer Center
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Education | | PhD, Statistics, Stanford University | | MS, Statistics, Stanford University | | BA, Mathematics, Pomona College |
Courses Taught | | EPI-208: Analysis and Interpretation of Epidemiologic Data | | PHS-444: Mentored Clincal Traning | | STA/BST-224: Longitudinal Data Analysis | | STA/BST-225: Clinical Trials |
Selected Publications | | Smith L and Diaconis P (1988) Honest Bernoulli Excursions. Journal of Applied Probability, 25, 464-471. | | Evans D, Scherr P, Cook N, Albert M, Funkenstein H, Smith L, Hebert L, Wetle T, Branch L, Chown M, Hennekens CH and Taylor JO (1990) Estimated Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease in the United States. Milbank Quarterly, 68, 267-289. | | Beckett, LA and Diaconis, PW (1994) Spectral Analysis for Discrete Longitudinal Data. Advances in Mathematics, 103, 107-128. | | Beckett LA, and Tancredi, DJ (2000) Parametric empirical Bayes estimates of disease prevalence using stratified samples from community populations. Statistics in Medicine, 19, 681-695. | | Beckett LA (2000) Community-based studies of Alzheimer's disease: Statistical challenges in design and analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 19, 1469-1480. | | Beckett, L A, Tancredi, DJ and Wilson, RS (2004) Multivariate longitudinal models for complex change processes. Stat Med, 23(2):231-9. |
Professional Affiliations/Awards | | Fellow, American Statistical Associaton, 2004 | | Outstanding Faculty Award, Graduate Group in Epidemiology, 2003 | | Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2002 |
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