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Leah J. Welty
Field:
Data Science, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Focus Areas:
Adolescent Health and Psychology, Data Bias, Data Science, Data Visualization, Health Disparities, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Statistics and probability
Contact:
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Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine - Biostatistics
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Biostatistics Collaboration Center
About
Areas of Focus
- Biostatistics collaboration
- Methods for conducting reproducible research
- Health needs and outcomes of delinquent youth
Work/Research
- Application of biostatistics to population health, clinical and basic sciences
- Development of software tools for reproducible research
- Development of biostatistics core resources
Career
- Development team lead for StatTag, a free, open-source software program connecting Microsoft Word to R, SAS and Stata
- Lead biostatistician for the Northwestern Juvenile Project - a large-scale longitudinal study of psychiatric disorders and risky behaviors in dlinquent youth
- Lead biostatistician for NJP: NextGen, a study of the chlidren of the original Northwestern Juvenile Project participants
- Director of the Biostatistics Collaboration Center, the core biostatistics resource for non-cancer research at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine