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Biography

Daniel F. Heitjan is Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Çàɬֱ²¥ and Professor of Biostatistics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  A native of Detroit, he earned a BSc in Mathematics (1981), an MSc in Statistics (1984), and a PhD in Statistics (1985) from the University of Chicago.  He served on the faculties of UCLA (1985–1988), Penn State (1988–1995), Columbia University (1995–2002), and the University of Pennsylvania (2002–2014) before moving to Texas.  Dr. Heitjan has over 200 publications in the literature of medicine and statistics.  He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1997), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2012), and the Society for Clinical Trials (2017). 

Research Interests

• Clinical trial design and analysis
• Causal modeling
• The theory of inference with incomplete data
• Applications of statistics to biology and medicine.