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Joseph B. Lang

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

207 Schaeffer Hall ◄
Dept of Statistics and Actuarial Science ◄
University of Iowa ◄
Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

phone: +1(1)-319-335-3129
email: joseph-lang@uiowa.edu

Teaching | Research | Software | Professional

Teaching (Current/Recent Courses Only)

22S:162 Applied Generalized Regression, Fall 2007
ALPHA Seminar, Fall 2007
22S:002 Statistics in Society, Summer 2007
22S:220/171:262 Analysis of Categorical Data, Spring 2007

Research Interests

Improved confidence intervals for contingency table parameters
Homogeneous linear predictor (HLP) regression modeling
Multinomial-Poisson homogeneous (MPH) models for contingency tables

ROC analysis using correlated data

Analysis of crime and justice panel data

Modeling multivariate categorical response data

Generalized Linear Models

Bayesian models for ordinal data

Software/Documentation

mph.fit An R program for maximum likelihood fitting of multinomial-Poisson homogeneous (MPH) models for contingency tables.
ci.table An R program for computing Score, Likelihood-Ratio (aka Profile Likelihood), Power Divergence, and Wald confidence intervals for contingency table parameters.

Professional

Statistical Modelling--An International Journal (Associate Editor)
Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, American Statistical Association (Member)
Iowa Chapter of the American Statistical Association (Secretary/Treasurer)

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