1. (Taken from [1]) A statistical analysis that combines information from several studies is called a metaanalysis. A meta-analysis compared aspirin with placebo on incidence of heart attack and of stroke, seperately for men and from women (J. Am. Med. Assoc., 295: 306-313, 2006). For the Women’s Health Study, heart attacks were reported for 198 of 19,934 taking aspirin and for 193 of 19,942 ta...

Data is ubiquitous in today’s society: we track our locations with GPS; we record the number of steps each day using pedometers; we digitally record daily life with pictures and videos; etc. To interpret and to understand the data requires both technical theory to find important features of the data and application expertise to interpret those features. My research is primarily in the technical...

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