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Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

 

Department:

Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Name:

David Keyes

Phone:

(212) 854-1120

Email:

david.keyes@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.www.columbia.edu/~kd2112

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

large-scale scientific and engineering simulation, typically on based on systems of partial differential equations, typically on massively parallel computers

Projects:

A pending NSF project will apply machine-learning techniques to the tuning of large-scale simulation codes (that is, to picking values of tuning parameters in the codes that lead to efficient simulations).

Software:

Some knowledge of Matlab

Courses:

linear algebra, ODEs, PDEs, eigenanalysis, optimization

 

Department:

Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Name:

Anastasia Papavasiliou

Phone:

(212) 854-4485

Email:

pp2102@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~pp2102

Particular Expertise:

stochastic filtering, Particle Filters (Sequential Monte Carlo)

Software:

Some knowledge of Splus/R

 

Expert in Matlab

 

Department:

Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Name:

Chris Wiggins

Phone:

(212) 854-1114

Email:

chris.wiggins@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~chw2

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

statistical learning, aka machine learning. Networks, bioinformatics, information theory. biological applications of machine learning (density estimation, classifiers, etc)

Projects:

machine learning for microarray data, information theoretic measures of network modularity, machine learning for classifying network topologies (inferring growth mechanisms). reduction of graphs to modules.

Software:

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

introduction to biophysical modeling

 

Biomedical Informatics

 

Department:

Biomedical Informatics

Name:

Andrea Califano

Phone:

(212) 851-5183

Email:

califano@c2b2.columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.c2b2.columbia.edu/people/detail_califano.html

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Genetic networks, Pattern Discovery, Biostatistics

 

Bayesian statistics, Bayesian Networks, Information Theory, Machine Learning, Classification

Projects:

Analysis of Gene Expression Data, functional analysis of proteins, reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks in mammalian cells, Analysis of SNP/microsatellite data in complex diseases.

Software:

Some knowledge of Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

 

Mathematica. Mostly I build my own software for data analysis and manipulation.

 

Department:

Biomedical Informatics

Name:

Yves Lussier

Phone:

(212) 305-0939

Email:

yal8@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/lussier/

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Clinical genomics, analysis of health records & microarrays

 

Bayesian networks, factor analysis, non parametric analyses

Projects:

Knowledge Discovery in Heterogeneous Clinical Genomics Databases

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Some knowledge of Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

 

 

Department:

Biomedical Informatics

Name:

Paul Pavlidis

Phone:

(212) 851-5141

Email:

pavlidis@dbmi.columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://microarray.genomecenter.columbia.edu/pavlidis

General Expertise:

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Microarray data, bioinformatics, genomics,

 

Classification/machine learning, meta-analysis,

Projects:

Meta-analysis of gene expression data, classification of patient samples, Data mining of microarray data for functional prediction.

 

Department:

Biomedical Informatics

Name:

Andrey Rzhetsky

Phone:

(212) 851-5150

Email:

ar345@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://genome6.cu-genome.org/andrey

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

Particular Expertise:

Modeling of molecular data

 

(limited) experience in markov models and mcmc

 

Analysis of papers in molecular publications

Software:

Expert in Matlab

 

Biostatistics

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Emilia Bagiella

Phone:

(212) 305-5195

Email:

eb51@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Clinical trials, case-control studies, longitudinal studies, screening and monitoring, studies, cross-sectional studies

 

Survival analysis, mixed effects models, generalized linear models, Some Knowledge of functional analysis

Projects:

Analysis of cardiovascular data, Sensitivity of repeated EEG in epilepsy patients,

Software:

Expert in SAS

 

Expert in Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Mark Davies

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Clinical trials, measurement issues in medical diagnosis

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Manisha Deshai

Phone:

212-305-9645

Email:

md823@columbia.edu

Webpage

http://www.columbia.edu/~md823

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

Some knowledge analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise

Analysis of data from clinical trials, epidemiology studies, microarray experiments and mixture models.

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

:

Expert in SPlus/R

 

Expert in Stata

 

Department:

Biostatistics, Psychiatry

Name:

Susan Hodge

Phone:

(212) 543-5606

Email:

seh2@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/epi/gcd/

Particular Expertise:

Statistical genetics.

 

Linkage analysis, Segregation analysis.

Projects:

See web page.

Courses:

Theoretical Genetic Modeling, Population Genetics, Probability

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Bruce Levin

Phone:

(212) 305-9401

Email:

Bruce.levin@columbia.edu

Web Page:

www.columbia.edu/~bl6/

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments, Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Analysis of Categorical Data,Clinical Trials, Sequential Experimentation, Statistics in Law, Reproductive Epidemiology

 

Projects:

Clinical trials: CABG PATCH, WARSS (Warfarin/Aspirin Recurrent Stroke Study), WARCEF (Warfarin/Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction), QALS (CoQ10 for ALS patients), TNK (a better rt-PA molecule for acute stroke patients), TBI (traumatic brain injury), Risperidone withdrawal (for Alzheimer's patients), HIV/AIDS behavioral intervention trials to reduce risk behavior. Reproductive Epidemiology: spontaneous abortion risk factors, risk factors accelerating menopause, biological aging measures. Shall I go on?

Software:

I do all my computing in APL. While this programming language and environment has been around since the 1960s, it's still the most user

 

 

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Todd Ogden

Phone:

(212) 342-1247

Email:

to166@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~to166

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments, Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Brain imaging

 

Wavelets, functional data analysis, nonparametric regression, change-point problems, statistical computing

Projects:

Brain imaging at the psych institute

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Expert in Matlab

 

Java

 

Department:

Biostatistics

Name:

Myunghee Cho Paik

Phone:

(212) 305-9407

Email:

mcp@biostat.columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Longitudinal data analysis missing data generalized linear model

Particular Expertise:

neurology epidemiology

 

Software:

APL

 

 

 

Department:

Biostatistics, Psychiatry

Name:

Eva Petkova

Phone:

(212) 543-5875

Email:

ep120@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

 

Expert in SAS

Software:

Expert in Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of Stata

Courses:

Linear models, GLM

 

Department:

Biostatistics, Psychiatry

Name:

Wei Yan Tsai

Phone:

(212) 305-9402

Email:

wt5@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Clinical trials

Particular Experience:

survival analysis

Courses:

Survival Analysis

 

Business

 

Department:

Business, Finance and Economics

Name:

Jean Boivin

Phone:

(212) 854-9091

Email:

jb903@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jb903

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Factor analysis and parameter instability (structural break tests, time-varying coefficient model, regime switching models)

Software:

Expert in Matlab

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

 

Department:

Business

Name:

Raymond Fisman

Phone:

(212) 264-9195

Email:

rf250@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/rfisman/

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Firm-level surveys

 

Panel data analysis

Projects:

Speed dating project

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in Stata

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

 

Department:

Business

Name:

Marc Giannoni

Phone:

212-854-6118

Email:

mg2190@columbia.edu

Web Page:

www.columbia.edu/~mg2190

Particular Expertise:

Macroeconomics  economic modelling  time-series analysis  optimization

 

optimal monetary policy

Software:

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

Macroeconomics for MBA's

 

Department:

Business, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Name:

Paul Glasserman

Phone:

(212) 854-4102

Email:

pg20@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.paulglasserman.net

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Applied probability, Monte Carlo methods, finance

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Some knowledge of Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

Managerial Statistics

 

Computer Science

 

Department:

Computer Science

Name:

Yoav Freund

Phone:

(212) 854-0154

Email:

freund@cs.columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~freund

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Telephone transaction logs, Visual data, high-throughput biological data (micro-arrays). Natural text analysis.

 

Boosting, Support vector machines, decision trees, nearest neighbors.

Software:

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

C, Java. Perl, Signal processing (vision and speech recognition)

 

Dental

 

Department:

Dental

Name:

John Zimmerman

Phone:

(646) 772-8607

Email:

jlz4@columbia.edu

 

Earth and Environmental Engineering

 

Department:

Earth & Environmental Engineering

Name:

Marco Castaldi

Email:

mc2352@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Energy and combustion and emissions

 

Department:

Earth & Environmental Engineering

Name:

Gavin Gong

Phone:

(212) 196-6192

Email:

gg2138@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/faculty/gongCV.html

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

Particular Expertise:

Analysis of environmental data, Climate modeling

 

Ensemble simulations, Empirical Orthogonal Functions,

Projects:

Ensemble simulations using atmospheric general circulation models to investigate sources of climate variability

Software:

Some knowledge of Matlab

Courses:

IDL

 

Department:

Earth & Environmental Engineering

Name:

Klaus Lackner

Phone:

(212) 854-0304

Email:

kl2010@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.ccm.columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

I am not a statistician, and my training in experimental design, data processing arises mainly from a theoretical physics background.

 

Interest in Bayesian approaches, maximum entropy methods, used various least squares methods, some Krieging for porous flow problems.

Projects:

I am strictly a user of such expertise. However, developed in the past some software tools to generate random distributions with spatial correlations and external constraints for porous flow simulations.

Software:

Some knowledge of Matlab

 

Department:

Earth & Environmental Engineering

Name:

Upmanu Lall

Phone:

(212) 854-8905

Email:

ula2@columbia.edu

Particular Expertise:

Earth and Environmental Science Data Analysis

 

Nonparametric Density Estimation and Regression - Kernel, Nearest Neighbor, Spline and Local Polynomial Methods, Time Series - Linear and Nonlinear, Time and Frequency Domain, Spatial Processes, Extremes

Projects:

Data Collection: New York City Environmental Data Sets, Everglades National Park Environmental Data Sets, US Hydrologic and Climate Data Sets, West Nile and Causative Factors, Analyses: Space and Time decomposition of trends and oscillatory patterns, Prediction in Spatial Fields,

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

Courses:

Probability and Statistics, Numerical Methods

 

Department:

Earth & Environmental Engineering

Name:

Peter Schlosser

Email:

schlosser@ldeo.columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/etg/

 

 

 

Economics

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Alessandra Casella

Email:

ac186@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~ac186/

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Software:

Some knowledge of Mathematica

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Mitali Das

Phone:

(212) 854-4641

Email:

md448@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~md448

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

sample selection, endogeneity, panel data, Generally, cross-sectional and panel data material used in social sciences

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in Stata

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Some knowledge of Matlab

Courses:

introduction to econometrics, microtheory, Topics in Econometrics, Graduate Econometrics II

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Rajeev Dehejia

Phone:

(212) 854-4659

Email:

rd247@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~rd247

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Program evaluation, labor training programs, causal inference, use of non-experimental data

 

Propensity score methods, Bayesian analysis, hierarchical models, econometric methods

Projects:

All of my work is empirical, but methodological work includes: Propensity score methods: http://www.columbia.edu/%7Erd247/papers/matching.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/%7Erd247/papers/w6586.pdf and frequently requested data for an illustration of propensity score methods http://www.columbia.edu/%7Erd247/nswdata.html Bayesian methods in program evaluation: Program Evaluation as a Decision Problem,  http://www.columbia.edu/%7Erd247/papers/decision.pdf Hierarchical models and evaluation problems,  http://www.columbia.edu/%7Erd247/papers/multisite.pdf

Software:

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

Topics in Econometrics (causal inference and Bayesian methods), Program Evaluation

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Lena Edlund

Phone:

(212) 854-4513

Email:

le93@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Marc Henry

Phone:

(212) 854-3690

Email:

mh530@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~mh530

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Eiichi Miyagawa

Email:

em437@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em437/

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Dan O'Flaherty

Email:

bo2@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Alexei Onatski

Email:

ao2027@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Robust control

 

Functional data analysis

Projects:

A functional auto-regression as a model of interest rate term structure

Software:

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

Introduction to Econometrics II, Econometrics of Monetary Policy

 

Department:

Economics

Name:

Bruce Preston

Phone:

(212) 854-4092

Email:

bruce.preston@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~bp2121

 

 

 

Environmental Health

 

Department:

Environmental Health

Name:

Patrick Kinney

Phone:

(212) 305-3663

Email:

plk3@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sph/ehs/plk.html

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Multiple regression.

Projects:

Assessment of potential human health impacts of climate change. Transportation, air quality, and human health., Acute effects of urban air pollution on hospital visits for respiratory diseases., Effects of urban air pollution on the development of cardiovascular disease.

Software:

Expert in SAS

 

Some knowledge of Splus/R

Courses:

Air Pollution and Health; Climate Change and Health

 

Epidemiology

 

Department:

Epidemiology

Name:

Ezra Susser

Phone:

(212) 342-2133

Email:

ess8@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in Conducting Surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Epidemiologic study design, observational studies as well as interventions, special experience with long term follow-ups

Projects:

Yes,  longitudinal data analysis of long term follow-ups

 

Health Policy and Management

 

Department:

Health Policy and Management

Name:

Alison Cuellar

Phone:

(646) 769-0542

Email:

ac2068@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

analysis of individual-level administrative data, e.g., health care services data or arrest records

 

natural experiments & causality, survival analysis,

Projects:

Project to determine the causal relationship between physician-specific and hospital-specific caseloads and changes in quality of patient care. Project to assess the effect of criminal justice contact on longitudinal patterns of mental health services and evidence-based mental health treatment. Project to examine whether or not Medicaid policies affecting mental health care directly contribute to improvements in mental health as measured by suicide rates.

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in Stata

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

Courses:

Research Methods for Health Care Mgmt students

 

History

 

Department:

History

Name:

Herbert S. Klein

Phone:

(212) 854-2434

Email:

hsk1@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

Particular Expertise:

Secondary analysis of survey data done by others over the past thirty years.

 

Most experience with regressions and factor analysis

Projects:

1. Population History of the United States (completed book project - Cambridge University Press, 2004) but continuing interest in basic demographic change. 2. Social Change in Latin America since 1945 (new project already begun with concentration on demographic change and social welfare issues), 3.Fiscal History of the Spanish Empire 1492-1825 (book published but continued ongoing research on theme)., 4. The Atlantic Slave Trade (published both a book and data CD with Cambridge University Press) - ongoing work - mostly on mortality in the slave trade. 5. Slavery in Brazil, Population and Economic Census materials 1750-1850 (numerous articles on slavery in Minas Gerais and S„o Paulo in this period, plus a book published with Stanford University Press,  2003), 6. Demographic History of Mexico City, 1790-1842 (based on unpublished census materials (book published in Spanish with Ed. Porrua 200 plus several articles in English and Spanish on theme).

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in SPSS

Courses:

Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Historical Research; Demographic History; Demographic History of the United States

 

Law School

 

Department:

Law

Name:

Jeffrey Fagan

Phone:

(212) 854-2624

Email:

jaf45@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in Conducting Surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Social (face-to-face) surveys, Telephone surveys, Life history research, Natural experiments, Policy experiments,

 

Mixed or hierarchical models,

Projects:

Death penalty research, Research on community courts, Research on neighborhood effects on violence, Panel studies on incarceration

Software:

Expert in SAS

 

Some knowledge of Stata

 

Expert in SPSS

 

Some knowledge of Winbugs

Courses:

Law and Social Science

 

Department:

Law

Name:

James Liebman

Phone:

(212) 854-3423

Email:

jliebman@law.columbia.edu

Projects:

(1) calculating and explaining death penalty error rates (2) methods of assessing the probability of convicting the innocent

 

 

 

Department:

Law School

Name:

Edward Morrison

Phone:

(212) 854-9205

Email:

Particular Interests:

 

 

 

emorri@law.columbia.edu

Collection, coding, and analysis of legal documents (especially bankruptcy court files); analysis of survey data (especially small business data).

OLS; limited and discrete dependent variables; survival analysis, including split population survival ("cure") models; panel data.

Projects:

 

 

 

(1) "Optimal Timing of Judicial Decisions in Bankruptcy: The Shutdown Decision Chapter 11" (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=189128) (2) "Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcy" (available on request)

Limited experience with Limdep.

 

 

 

Department:

Law

Name:

Katharina Pistor

Phone:

(212) 854-0068

Email:

Website:

Particular Interests:

kpisto@law.columbia.edu

www.law.columbia.edu/faculty

face to face interviews with company managers and fund managers in Russia and other transition economies; instruction of survey group for running survey

Projects:

analysis of bankruptcy data from Russia and other transition economies - cross-country data collection and analysis on the role of employees in corporate governance

Courses:

corporate law; european business law, legal issues in emerging markets, law and capitalism

 

Department:

Law School

Name:

Catherine Sharkey

Phone:

(212) 854-0769

Email:

Website:

Particular Interests:

cshark@law.columbia.edu

www2.law.columbia.edu/sharkey

OLS regression analysis

Projects:

Analysis of NCSC (National Center for State Courts) nationwide trial court (jury and bench verdicts) data to demonstrate (1) effect of caps on punitive damages in civil cases on noneconomic damages; and (2) effect of noneconomic damages caps on compensatory damages in medical malpractice cases

 

 

 

Department:

Biomedical Informatics

Name:

Ilya Nemenman

Phone:

851-5469

Email:

nemenman@genomecenter.columbia.edu

Web Page:

www.menem.com/~ilya

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Physics/neuroscience/genomics experimental data analysis

 

Information theory  entropy and mutual information estimation  graphical models  nonparametric Bayesian inference

Projects:

Entropy and mutual information estimation  nonparametric inference  graphical models

Software:

Expert in Splus/R

 

Expert in Matlab

Courses:

GSL  GMP

 

School of Medicine

 

Department:

Medicine

Name:

Steven Heymsfield

Phone:

(212) 523-3561

Email:

sbh2@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.NYORC.org

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Mathematical modeling; analysis of large epidemiological databases

Projects:

We have a large database of whole body MRI scans that is being developed with NIH support. We also have a database of subjects throughout the entire age range with completed body composition data. We often use NHANES and other available databases in our work.

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Some knowledge of Stata

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

Courses:

Clinical research methods

 

Political Science

Department:

Political Science

Name:

David Epstein

Phone:

(212) 206-8094

Email:

de11@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~de11

Particular Expertise:

voting rights, democratic transitions, Congress and vote analysis,

 

qualitative dependent variable models (logit, probit, nested logit, conditional logit, ordered probit, etc.), Markov transition models, factor analysis, ecological regression, survival analysis, time-series, time-series/cross-section analysis, treatment effects/case-control/propensity scores

Projects:

Voting Rights and substantive representation, Democratic Transitions, Delegation from Congress to Executive, State sponsorship of terrorism, Ethnic factions & violence

Courses:

Mathematica, Various network analysis programs,  Ecological Inference,  Ox/Gauss

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Tanisha Fazal

Phone:

(212) 256-4094

Email:

tmf2001@columbia.edu

Particular Expertise:

Not sure what you mean by this - I usually work with extant data on international relations and comparative politics.

 

Survival analysis

Projects:

1. For a project on state death, I've added country-years to the Correlates of War project for states (or country-years) that are not included in CoW, but should be.

2. Page Fortna and I have a grant to collect data on war initiation and termination (this is for very specific variables, such as the issuance of formal declaration of wars, settlement of specific issues, etc).

Software:

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Page Fortna

Phone:

(212) 854-0021

Email:

vpf4@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

Particular Expertise:

international relations and civil war data

 

duration (aka hazard or survival) analysis

Projects:

a study of the effects of peacekeeping on the duration of peace after civil wars, , a study of changes in war termination over time, a (completed) study of duration of peace after interstate war

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Erik Gartzke

Phone:

(212) 854-2208

Email:

eg589@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~eg589

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Most of my work uses existing data., I know the available data on interstate conflict, macro economic data, etc.

 

MLEs, two-stage estimation.

Projects:

development, globalization, and militarized disputes, economic interdependence and conflict, the democratic peace, military alliances, intergovernmental organizations and peace,

Software:

Some knowledge of SPSS

Courses:

Mathematica

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Lucy Goodhart

Phone:

(212) 854-9727

Email:

lmg2005@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge in conducting surveys

 

some knowledge of analyzing survey data

Particular Expertise:

Analysis of cross-sectional  time series data on political economy subjects

Projects:

Currently collecting cross-national panel data on income and inequality.

Software:

Getting to know Eviews.

 

Expert in Stata

Courses:

W4912 Multivariate Political Analysis

 

Department:

Political Science (Barnard)

Name:

Lorraine Minnite

Phone:

212-854-4385

Email:

lcm25@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in conducting surveys

 

Expert in analyzing survey data

Particular Expertise:

telephone surveys  exit polls  instrument design and question construction  survey data analysis  Census and other government data analysis

 

basic experience up to regression analysis - nothing fancy  sorry

Projects:

research on voting and civic participation in New York  focusing on foreign born residents: telephone surveys of New York State and City residents (late 1990s); exit polls of New York City Voters (2000  2002); analysis of Current Population Survey data

Software:

Expert in SPSS

Courses:

Research Seminar in American Politics

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Andrew Nathan

Phone:

(212) 854-6909

Email:

ajn1@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

Particular Expertise:

Cross-national comparative survey work, problems of questionnaire formulation and translation, sampling, implementation, cross-national scale construction, cross-national comparison of regression models

 

Factor analysis, Scaling

Projects:

1993 survey research in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong on political participation and political culture, Asiabarometer -- eight Asian nations surveyed in 2002 on attitudes toward democracy, anticipated 16 nation survey in 2005

Software:

Some knowledge of SPSS

Courses:

Qualitative Methods

 

Department:

Political Science, SIPA

Name:

Sharyn O'Halloran

Phone:

(212) 854-3242

Email:

so33@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

time series, cross sectional data, non-linear, election data, congressional roll call, voting data, event history, simulations, factor analysis etc.

Projects:

districting, voting,  terrorism, trade, institutions of government,

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Expert in Splus/R

 

Expert in Stata

 

Expert in SPSS

 

Some knowledge of Winbugs

Courses:

Introduction to Statistical Analysis; Integrated Data Analysis

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Robert T. Shapiro

Phone:

(212) 854-3944

Email:

rys3@columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in Conducting Surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of conducting experiments

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Public opinion survey design and analysis. Mass media and document content analysis. Analysis of, data on public policy.

 

Basic multivariate regression analysis and, problems with OLS regression. Measurement issues, and research design.,

Projects:

Ongoing analysis of survey data on domestic and foreign policy issues. Studies of the, effects of political leadership on public opinion, and the effects of public opinion on public, policy. Have surveys at very stages of development and progress.

Software:

Some knowledge of SAS

 

Some knowledge of Stata

 

Expert in SPSS

Courses:

PS W4910-W4911 Intro. and advanced data analysis

 

Department:

Political Science

Name:

Gregory Wawro

Phone:

(212) 854-8540

Email:

gjw10@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbia.edu/~gjw10

General Expertise:

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Some knowledge of analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

Analysis of political data; legislative behavior and institutions; voting behavior.

 

Models with qualitative and limited dependent variables. Models for repeated observations (panel data, time-series cross-section).

Projects:

Redoubtable Weapon: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (with, Eric Schickler). Book manuscript. Lagging the Dog?: The Robustness of Panel Corrected Standard Errors in the Presence, of Serial Correlation and Observation Specific Effects (with Ida Pagter Kristensen)., , The Filibuster in Theory and Practice (with Charles Cameron). Working paper., , Is All Politics and Economics Local? National Elections and Local Economic Conditions, (with Charles Himmelberg).

Software:

Expert in SAS

 

Expert in Splus/R

 

Some knowledge of Stata

Courses:

Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods: Limited and Qualitative Dependent Variables, (Fall 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003).

 

Psychology

 

Department:

Psychology

Name:

Geraldine Downey

Phone:

(212) 854-8718

Email:

gdowney@psych.columbia.edu

General Expertise:

Expert in Conducting Surveys

 

Expert in Analyzing Survey Data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

survey, questionnaire design, experiments

 

general linear model

Projects:

rejection sensitivity and social relations, sensitivity to gender and race-based rejection and the transition to college

Software:

Expert in SAS

 

Some knowledge of SPSS

 

Department:

Psychology

Name:

Eugene Galanter

Phone:

(212) 280-4382

Email:

eg53@columbia.edu

Web Page:

http://www.columbua.edu/~eg53

General Expertise:

Some knowledge of conducting surveys

 

Some knowledge of analyzing survey data

 

Expert in conducting experiments

 

Expert in analyzing experimental data

Particular Expertise:

psychometrics

 

factor analysis, psychophysics

Projects:

psychophysical (vision, hearing, motor control) assessment over uncontrolled channels

Software:</