Brian J. Smith, MS, PhD

AssOCIATE Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Director, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Biostatistics Core
Director, UI/Mayo lymphoma spore Biostatistics Core

 

C22L General Hospital

200 Hawkins Drive

Iowa City, IA  52242

Phone: (319) 384-5026
Email: brian-j-smith@uiowa.edu

 

CV  /  Biosketch  /  Community of Science Profile

Courses Taught

·         Biostatistical Methods in Categorical Data (Spring 2007 Notes)

·         Applied Categorical Data Analysis

·         Applied Survival Analysis (Fall 2005 Notes)

·         Cohort Data Analysis (Fall 2005 Notes)

·         Introduction to Biostatistics

Current Research Interests

·         Bayesian statistics

·         Computational statistics

·         Spatial statistics and environmental exposure assessment

Conference Presentations

·         2007 ENAR – “Iowa Radon Leukemia Study: A Hierarchical Population Risk Model for Spatially Correlated Exposure Measured with Error”

·         2006 ASA Conference on Radiation and Health – “Geostatistical Hierarchical Model for Temporally Integrated Radon Measurements”

·         2005 JSM – “Modeling the Distribution of Environmental Radon Levels in Iowa: Combining Multiple Sources of Spatially Misaligned Data”

Software Programs

·         boa: R Package for MCMC Output Convergence Assessment and Posterior Inference

·         ramps: R Package for Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling with RAMPS

Selected Publications

Smith BJ.  boa: An R Package for MCMC Output Convergence Assessment and Posterior Inference.  (In press Journal of Statistical Software, 2007)

Smith BJ, Oleson JJ.  Geostatistical Hierarchical Model for Temporally Integrated Data Measured with Error.  (In press, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 2007)

Oleson JJ, Smith BJ, Kim H.  Joint Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Low Incidence Cancers Sharing Common Risk Factors.  (In press Journal of Data Science, 2007)

Smith BJ, Zhang L, Field RW.  Iowa Radon Leukemia Study: A Hierarchical Population Risk Model for Spatially Correlated Exposure Measured with Error.  Statistics in Medicine, 2007 Mar; [Epub ahead of print].

Smith BJ, Cowles MK.  Correlating Point-Referenced Radon and Areal Uranium Data Arising from a Common Spatial Process.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 56(3):313-326, 2007.

Smith BJ, Field RW.  Effect of Housing Factors and Surficial Uranium on the Spatial Prediction of Residential Radon in Iowa.  Environmetrics 18(5):481-497, 2006.