Professor, Biostatistics
Director of PhD Graduate Program, Biostatistics
Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Statistics
7118 Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 R-znvy: jnurq@cvgg.rqh Primary Phone: 967-179-8508 Web site: http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/abdus-s-wahed
My current major research interest is in personalized medicine – development of statistical methods for testing dynamic treatment regimes (adaptive treatment strategies) through sequentially randomized designs, for screening viable treatment regimes from observational data, and for identifying important variables for forming dynamic treatment regimes. Other methodological research interest includes multivariate ordinal longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis in the presence of misclassified events, and analysis of variance for censored survival data, length biased data, and joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data measured with error. My collaborative research interest includes development of multi-stage depression treatment regimes, sequential treatment decisions in depression treatment, development of risk scores for complications in bariatric surgery, analysis of outcomes in hepatitis B and C clinical trials and cohort studies, and weight loss in young adults.
Ph.D., Statistics (2003), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC M.A., Mathematical Statistics (2000), Ball State University, Muncie, IN M.Sc., Statistics (1994), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh B.Sc., Statistics (1992, Minor: Economics and Mathematics), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Linear Models
Estimation Theory
Likelihood Theory
Longitudinal and Clustered Data Analysis
Missing Data in Clinical Studies
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