SCASA 21st Annual Workshop in Applied Statistics
Friday, April 19th
8:30am - 4:00 pm
Gary G. Koch
Biography
Gary G. Koch, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Hon), is Professor of Biostatistics and Director
of the Biometric Consulting Laboratory at The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, where he has served on the faculty since 1968. He received
the BS in Mathematics and the MS in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio
State University, the Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of North Carolina,
and the D. Sc. (Honorary) from De Montfort University. His principal
research interest is the development of statistical methodology for the analysis
of categorical data and its corresponding applications to a wide range of
settings in the health sciences. He has an extensive record of publication
in statistics and in collaborative work in health sciences research.
The topics which are addressed by his publications include crossover studies,
multi-center studies, longitudinal (multi-visit) studies, rank methods for
ordered outcomes, covariance analysis and adverse experience data analysis.
He has previously served on the editorial boards of The American Statistician,
Biometrics, Drug Information Journal, and Technometrics, and he is currently
a member of the editorial boards for Statistics in Medicine and The Journal
of Biopharmaceutical Statistics.