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.