معرفی
Donald Hedeker is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. His expertise focuses on advanced statistical methods for clustered and longitudinal data, particularly mixed-effects models. He developed four freeware programs (MIXREG, MIXOR, MIXNO, MIXPREG) for analyzing such data. He serves as an associate editor for Statistics in Medicine and Journal of Statistical Software, and has led numerous NIH/CDC-funded research grants.
Research Interests: His work emphasizes ordinal outcomes in mixed-effects models, missing data strategies, intensive longitudinal studies (e.g., Ecological Momentary Assessment), computational statistics, and applications in tobacco/addictions research.
Awards:
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association (highest honor, 2000)
- University Scholar, University of Illinois (2000)
Grants & Roles: Principal/co-investigator on multiple NIH/CDC grants. Active in software development for statistical analysis.
