Ronald Gangnon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Population Health Sciences

Email: ronald@biostat.wisc.edu

Biography:

Ronald Gangnon completed a BA degree in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (1992) and a MS (Statisics, 1994) and PhD (Statistics with emphasis in Biostatistics, 1998) from the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. He then joined the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics as a Research Scientist in 1998 and since 2005 has been an Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics.
Dr. Gangnon's research interests are in spatial epidemiology, with emphasis on detection and modeling of spatial and spatio-temporal clusters, and in syndromic surveillance. More generally, Dr. Gangnon is interested in the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiologic and clinical research. As such, Dr. Gangnon is a co-investigator on projects in a wide array of disease fields, including geriatrics, ophthalmology, dysphagia, breast, pancreatic and colon cancer and asthma. Of particular note, Dr. Gangnon serves as Director of the Biostatistics Core for the Childhood Origins of ASThma (COAST) project, a prospective birth cohort study of early childhood risk factors for the development of asthma and allergy, and as senior statistician for the Beaver Dam Eye Study and the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retionopathy. (Download CV)

Affiliations/Associations:

• International Biometrics Society
• American Statistical Association
• Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Recent Honors/Awards:

Outstanding Instructor Award, PHS Graduate Student Association, 2008

Select Publications:

Gangnon RE. Local Multiplicity Adjustments for Spatial Cluster Detection. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. In Press.

Gangnon RE and Clayton MK. (2007) Cluster Detection Using Bayes Factors from Overparameterized Cluster Models. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 14: 69-82.

Kosorok MK and Gangnon RE. (2006) Resolving the Tail Instability in Weighted Log-Rank Statistics for Clustered Survival Data. Statistics and Probability Letters. 76: 304-309.

Gangnon RE. (2006) Impact of Prior Choice on Local Bayes Factors for Cluster Detection. Statistics in Medicine. 25: 883-895.

Gangnon RE and Clayton MK. (2004) Likelihood-based Tests for Detecting Spatial Clustering of Disease. Environmetrics. 15: 797-810.

Gangnon RE and Kosorok MK. (2004) Sample Size Formula for Clustered Survival Data Using Weighted Log-rank Statistics. Biometrika. 91: 263-275.

Gangnon RE and Clayton MK. (2003) A Hierarchical Model for Spatial Clustering of Disease. Statistics in Medicine. 22: 3213-3228.

Gangnon RE and King WN. (2002) Minimum Distance Estimation of the Distribution Functions of Stochastically Ordered Random Variables. Applied Statistics. 51(4): 485-492.

Gangnon RE and Clayton MK. (2001) A Weighted Average Likelihood Ratio Test for Spatial Disease Clustering. Statistics in Medicine. 20: 2977-2987.

Gangnon RE and Clayton MK. (2000) Bayesian Detection and Modeling of Spatial Disease Clustering. Biometrics. 56(3): 922-935.

Courses Taught:

BMI/PHS 551, Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health

Contact Details:

Address: 603 WARF

Phone: 608-265-0688

Fax: 608-263-2820

Email: ronald@biostat.wisc.edu