Shesh N Rai, Ph.D., F.A.S.A.

Biostatistics & Informatics Facility Core Director

About

Professor
Department of Bioinformatics & Biostatistics
Wendell Cherry Chair in Clinical Trial Research                                                                                                                                               
Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Facility, Brown Cancer Center
Director, Sample and Data Management Core, Superfund Research Center
Director, Biostatistics and Informatics Core, Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences
Executive Member, Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics
Member, Cancer Science and Research Committee, and Data Monitoring and Safety Board
Thoroughly experienced in designing (SAMPLE SIZE) and analyzing preclinical and clinical studies; pursue developing statistical methods with real applications in heterogeneity in CLINICAL STUDIES, threshold DOSE-RESPONSE models, SURVIVAL ANALYSIS with incomplete and correlated data, efficient estimation in MIXED effects (REPEATED measure) models, robust estimation in high-dimension data (BIOINFORMATICS), effects of SAMPLING weights in log-linear models, and characterization and estimation of POPULATION RISK.

Research Keywords: biostatistics, bioinformatics, preclinical design, clinical design, population studies