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Purushottam W. (Prakash) Laud, PhD Professor Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin Send email to:
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Professor Laud joined the Division of Biostatistics in the spring of 1994. He was previously Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Division of Statistics at Northern Illinois University.
Professor Laud has published numerous papers in the statistical literature including in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, the Annals of Statistics and other leading journals. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and the International Biometric Society (ENAR).
Professor Laud's areas of specialization are Bayesian statistics, linear and generalized linear models, modern parametric and nonparametric Bayesian methods and Monte Carlo methods. He has general expertise in Bayesian analysis and decision theory.
Selected Recent Publications (See complete lists of Publications and Lectures/Workshops at these links)
Hanson TE, Johnson WO, Laud PW A Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Model for Survival Data with Time Dependent Covariates. In Bayesian Statistics and its Applications. S.K. Upadhyay, U. Singh and Dipak K. Dey, editors. Anamaya Publications, New Delhi, 2007;254-269.
Laud PW, Damien P, Walker SG Computations via Auxiliary Random Functions for Survival Models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 2006;33:219-226.
Johnson-Masotti A, Laud PW, Hoffmann RG, Hayat MJ, Pinkerton SG A Bayesian Approach to Net Health Benefits : An Illustration and Application to Modeling HIV Prevention. Medical Decision Making, 2004; 24:634-653.
Nattinger AB, Laud PW, Bajorunaite R, Sparapani RA, Freeman JL An Algorithm for the Use of Medicare Claims Data to Identify Women with Incident Breast Cancer. Health Services Research 2004; 39:1733-1749.
Meyer MC, Laud PW Predictive Variable Selection in Generalized Linear Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97:859-871, 2002.
George V, Laud PW A Bayesian Approach to the Transmission/Disequilibrium Test for Binary Traits. Genetic Epidemiology, 22:41-51, 2002.
Cooper RA, Getzen TE, McKee HJ, Laud PW Economic and Demographic Trends Signal an Impending Physician Shortage. Health Affairs, 21(1):140-154, 2002.
Walker SG. Damien P, Laud PW, Smith AFM Bayesian Nonparametric Inference for Random Distributions and Related Functions (with Discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 61:485-527, 1999.
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