Michael Chernick March 2007
Helpful votes received on reviews:
98% (18,747 of 19,200)
Location: Holland PA
Anniversary: February 29
In My Own Words:
I live in Holland Pennsylvania with my wife and two sons (Nicholas is a senior in Columbus Ohio at Ohio State University and Dan is a sophomore at University of Pittsburgh-Bradford). I work as a biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry. In August of 2008, I joined a medical research organization, the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. It is part of Philadelphia's Mainline Health Hosp… Read moreI live in Holland Pennsylvania with my wife and two sons (Nicholas is a senior in Columbus Ohio at Ohio State University and Dan is a sophomore at University of Pittsburgh-Bradford). I work as a biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry. In August of 2008, I joined a medical research organization, the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. It is part of Philadelphia's Mainline Health Hospital System Currently, I am working as the chief biostatistician and have some private consulting contracts. I also did part-time teaching and currently teach at Thomas Jefferson University. I have given short courses on a resampling statistical technique using the first edition of my book. In 2007 I switched to the second editon of my book (which went into print in November 2007) for the course. I taught the course again from 2008 through 2011. In 2012 I am switching to my new text which I coauthored with Robert LaBudde and will also teach with him at the website.
I am a Fellow and Life member of the American Statistical Association , a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Bernoulli Society, the International Biometrics Society and a Fellowship member of the Royal Statistical Society and I enjoy participating in the professional societies by serving on committees, refereeing journal articles and writing book reviews. I also have a large number of book reviews on amazon which are mostly on statistics books. I am currently using the nickname statman31147 and am writing some book reviews again particularly for new books in the biostatistics area. I also have a contract to write another biostatistics book and two short monographs (one on the resampling method and the other on variable selection).
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Dr. Good has written a number of books on permutation tests and resampling methods. One text Resampling Methods: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis was published by Birkhauser in three editions, 1999, 2001 and 2006. Because of the similarity of the title of that book and the current one under review, I decided to compare this book with the third edition of the previous one. Except for some additions and reorganization of chapters, the books look very much the same. The title and publisher are different, but otherwise the current book could be considered the fourth edition of the earlier book. I was surprised to find no mention of the other text in the Preface or the bibliography. It seems… Read more
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This book is a basic text in most of the important aspects of biostatistics that are useful in public health research. It is designed for an introductory level course most likely for undergraduate majors in public health. A valuable aspect of the book is the author's experience with the Framingham Heart Study. Many of the examples are drawn from the data in that study, Also, the author provides some background about this famous study. There are plenty of examples. Figures, tables,key ideas and formulas are displayed in block form. The author does a very good job describing various types of research studies including clinical trials. Case - control studies which are important in… Read more
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This is a book on statistical methods for pattern recognition/machine learning and data mining. The content is very similar to "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining Inference, and Prediction Second Edition" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. It differs by being (1) less technical, (2) less comprehensive and (3) attentive exclusively to biomedical applications. The book is well-written and provides nice graphics and numerous applications. The main problem I find with the book is that in an effort to be less technical, the informal description can at times be incorrect or misleading. As examples consider Chapter 10 on resampling in the sections on the bootstrap. On pages… Read more
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These are books on nonparametric regression, smoothing (e.g. LOESS), and splines
there are many books on statistical computing but what you need depends on sofware , type of students and their previous knowledge of statistics. Here is a list that runs the gamut from general to SAS. Minitab, SPSS, STATA, R, S and maybe more
My recommendation for those of you who are out of school and in industry is to sign up for an online course at statistics.com. They have courses in biostatistics, linear models, resampling and bootstrap. If you go to their site www.statistics.com you will see the available courses, the&hellip Read more
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