Biography:Robert D. Gibbons

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Short description: American statistician
Robert D. Gibbons
Born (1955-06-28) June 28, 1955 (age 70)
OccupationBlum-Riese Professor of Biostatistics
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Denver
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineStatistician
Sub-disciplineBiostatistics, environmental statistics, psychometrics
InstitutionsThe University of Chicago

Robert D. Gibbons is a professor in the field of statistics, with expertise in biostatistics, environmental statistics, and psychometrics.[1] He holds the position of Blum-Riese Professor and Pritzker Scholar at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine,[2] Public Health Sciences (Biostatistics),[3] and Comparative Human Development.[4] Gibbons is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has made contributions to statistical work spanning areas such as longitudinal data analysis, item response theory, environmental statistics, and drug safety, with over 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers[5] and several books[6][7][8][9] to his name.

Education

  • Ph.D. (Statistics and Psychometrics), University of Chicago, 1981
  • B.A. (Chemistry and Mathematics), University of Denver, 1976

Selected Publications

  • Gibbons R.D., Meltzer D., Duan N., Penhoet E.D., Dubler N.N., Francis C.K., Gill, B., Guinan E., Henderson M., Ildstad S.T., King, P.A., Martinez-Maldonado M., Mclain G.E., Murray J.E., Nelkin D. Spellman M.W, Pope A. and Pitluck S. Waiting for Organ Transplantation, Science, 287, 237-238, 2000.[10]
  • Bhaumik D.K., Amatya A., Normand S.L., Greenhouse J, .Kaizar E., Neelon B., Gibbons R.D. Metaanalysis of rare binary adverse event data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 107, 555-567, 2012.[11]
  • Gibbons R.D., Hur K., Lavigne J., Wang J., Mann J.J. Medications and Suicide: High Dimensional Empirical Bayes Screening (iDEAS). Harvard Data Science Review, 1(2), 2019.[12]
  • Gibbons R.D. and Bhaumik D. Weighted random-effects regression models with application to interlaboratory calibration. Technometrics, 43, 192-198, 2001.[13]
  • Gibbons R.D., & Hedeker D.R. Full-information item bi-factor analysis. Psychometrika, 57, 423-436, 1992.[14]
  • Gibbons R.D., Hur K., Lavigne J.E., Mann J.J. Association Between Folic Acid Prescription Fills and Suicide Attempts and Intentional Self-harm Among Privately Insured US Adults. JAMA Psychiatry. 79(11), 1118-1123, 2022.[15]

Awards

  • Youden Prize for Contributions to Inter-laboratory Calibration (ASA, 2006)[3]
  • University of Illinois at Chicago - Distinguished Faculty Award, 2009[3][16]
  • Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, University of Illinois, 2010[3]
  • Pritzker Scholar, University of Chicago, 2011[3][2]
  • Endowed Chair University of Chicago – The Blum-Riese Professorship, 2016[3][17]
  • Distinguished Achievement Medal for the ASA's Section on Statistics and the Environment, 2016[3][18]

References

  1. "Robert D. Gibbons" (in en-US). https://www.cornerstone.com/experts/robert-gibbons/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Robert Gibbons | Profiles RNS". https://profiles.uchicago.edu/profiles/display/38559. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "| Public Health Sciences | The University of Chicago" (in en). https://pbhs.uchicago.edu/faculty/robert-gibbons-phd. 
  4. "Robert Gibbons | Department of Comparative Human Development". https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/Robert-Gibbons. 
  5. "Robert D. Gibbons". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkK_OWsAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  6. "Item Response Theory | Wiley" (in en-in). https://www.wiley.com/en-in/Item+Response+Theory-p-9781119716686. 
  7. "Longitudinal Data Analysis | Wiley" (in en-us). https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Longitudinal+Data+Analysis-p-9780471420279. 
  8. "Statistical Methods for Groundwater Monitoring, 2nd Edition | Wiley" (in en-us). https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Statistical+Methods+for+Groundwater+Monitoring%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780470549933. 
  9. Amatya, Robert D. Gibbons, Anup (2015-07-23). Statistical Methods for Drug Safety. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. doi:10.1201/b18698. ISBN 978-0-429-09968-7. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/b18698/statistical-methods-drug-safety-robert-gibbons-anup-amatya. 
  10. Gibbons, Robert D.; Meltzer, David; Duan, Naihua (2000-01-14). "Waiting for Organ Transplantation". Science 287 (5451): 237–238. doi:10.1126/science.287.5451.237. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 10660422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5451.237. 
  11. Bhaumik, Dulal K.; Amatya, Anup; Normand, Sharon-Lise T.; Greenhouse, Joel; Kaizar, Eloise; Neelon, Brian; Gibbons, Robert D. (2012). "Meta-Analysis of Rare Binary Adverse Event Data". Journal of the American Statistical Association 107 (498): 555–567. doi:10.1080/01621459.2012.664484. ISSN 0162-1459. PMID 23734068. PMC 3665366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2012.664484. 
  12. Gibbons, Robert; Hur, Kwan; Lavigne, Jill; Wang, Jiebiao; Mann, J. John (2019-11-01). "Medications and Suicide: High Dimensional Empirical Bayes Screening (iDEAS)". 1.2. doi:10.1162/99608f92.6fdaa9de. 
  13. Gibbons, Robert D; Bhaumik, Dulal K (2001). "Weighted Random-Effects Regression Models With Application to Interlaboratory Calibration". Technometrics 43 (2): 192–198. doi:10.1198/004017001750386305. ISSN 0040-1706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/004017001750386305. 
  14. Gibbons, Robert D.; Hedeker, Donald R. (1992). "Full-information item bi-factor analysis". Psychometrika 57 (3): 423–436. doi:10.1007/bf02295430. ISSN 0033-3123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02295430. 
  15. Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan; Lavigne, Jill E.; Mann, J. John (2022-11-01). "Association Between Folic Acid Prescription Fills and Suicide Attempts and Intentional Self-harm Among Privately Insured US Adults". JAMA Psychiatry 79 (11): 1118–1123. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.2990. ISSN 2168-622X. PMID 36169979. PMC 9520442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.2990. 
  16. "Faculty Awards | College of Medicine | University of Illinois College of Medicine" (in en-US). https://medicine.uic.edu/office-of-faculty-affairs/faculty-awards/. 
  17. "UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships | University of Chicago News" (in en). 2016-02-17. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-faculty-members-receive-named-distinguished-service-professorships-0. 
  18. "ASA Community" (in en). https://community.amstat.org/.