Chicago professor to present Myra Samuels lecture in statistics
April 3, 2014
Peter McCullagh of the University of Chicago will discuss statistical approaches to analyzing patient survival Monday (April 7) in the Department of Statistics' Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture.
McCullagh will give his talk, titled "Survival Models and Health Sequences," at 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239. It is free and open to the public. A refreshment time will precede the lecture at 9:15 a.m. in Haas Hall, Room 111.
The speaker is the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. In his lecture, he will speak of a general technique called temporal realignment for constructing statistical models for survival processes. A survival process is a sequence of random length accompanied by a survival time. A related document is at www.stat.uchicago.edu/~pmcc/reports/revival.pdf.
Myra Samuels was associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in Purdue's Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and associate director of statistical consulting in the Department of Statistics. The author of a still popular textbook, "Statistics for the Life Sciences," she taught at Purdue for 24 years before her death in 1992.