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John Hsieh, Ph.D.

Professor

Teaching	Education
Research	Publications

Contact Information

Office Number: LR 208
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone Number: (775) 682-7091
Email Address: jhsieh@unr.edu

 

Teaching
CHS 703		Epidemiological Analysis Descriptive epidemiology, measures of association, analysis of categorical data and contingency tables, pair-matched analysis, stratified analysis, power analysis and sample size determination as well as regression techniques for multivariable and multivariate analysis including analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, multiple regression, loglinear analysis, Poisson regression and multiple logistic regression. Training in SAS programming and use of statistical software packages will be an integral component of the course.
CHS 780		Biostatistics in Public Health Underlying principles and methods of biostatistics in public health research including basic probability theory and distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance, nonparametric tests, contingency table analyses, multiple linear and logistic regressions.

Education

Ph.D. in biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Research Interests

Dr. Hsieh's research work covers both methodological developments and their applications. His main research area is lifetime distribution/life table analysis. This includes construction of period life tables using spline interpolation and wavelet analysis and the development of distributional models for the two extremes of the lifespan. His current research interests are in statistical inference of point processes, particularly the counting processes martingale inference and regression analysis in survival analysis, epidemiology and demography. He is also interested in epidemiological study designs and development of statistical inference methods for different designs (including clinical trials). He has a long working experience in epidemic models, population models and demographic analysis. His research in these areas has earned him several individual awards, including National Health Scientist Award and Senior Public Health Scientist Award in Canada.

 

Statistical Consulting

For more than three decades Dr. Hsieh has provided statistical consulting services covering most areas of applied statistics including stochastic modelling, multiple, logistic and smooth regression techniques especially spline methods, linear and non-linear modelling, multivariate statistical data analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiologic studies, time series analysis, Bayesian methods, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, life table analysis, demographic methods, bootstrapping and computer simulation.

 

Recent Publications

Hsieh, JJ (2010): On the Duality of the Poisson Rate. Advances and Applications in Statistics 16 (2): 163-190.

Hsieh, JJ (2010): Asymptotic Normal Statistics for Poisson and Compound Poisson Distributions. Advances and Applications in Statistics. 17 (1): 61-77.

Hsieh, JJ (2009). Martingale Inference of Multi-State Markov Processes for Applications in Survival Analysis and Epidemiology. JP Journal of Biostatistics 3 (2): 109-144.

Hsieh, JJ, Chen, CC (2009): On the Distribution of Empirical Life Table Functions. JP Journal of Biostatistics 3 (3): 171-186.

Hsieh, JJ (2008). Exact Distributions of the Empirical Generalized Survival and Distribution Functions. Advances and Applications in Statistics 10 (1): 85-109.

Hsieh, JJ, Feng, CY (2008): Effect of Epidemiologic Study Designs on Measures of Association. JP Journal of Biostatistics 2 (2): 81-110.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Ecological Fallacy. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 297-99.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Community Trials. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology.
Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 217-18.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Clinical Trials. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 201-205.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Birth Cohort Analysis. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 97-98.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Doubling Time. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 283-84.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Life Tables. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. 2: 595-601.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. 2: 895-897.

Hsieh, J. J. (2007). Stratified Methods. In Sara Boslaugh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Vol. 2: 1001-1002.

Hsieh, J. J., Feng, C. and Wang, H. (2007). Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology. In Sarah Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. Vol. I: 261-63