Joe Sedransk

Department of Statistics

Case Western Reserve University 

Cleveland, OH  44106-7054


phone:  216-368-6941

fax: 216-368-0252

email: jxs123@po.cwru.edu


Employment:


Tenured faculty   member   at Iowa State  University   (Department  of
Statistics), University of Wisconsin (Department of Statistics), State
University of New York at Buffalo (Division of Statistical Science and
Faculty of Social  Sciences), State University of  New York  at Albany
(Department of Mathematics and  Statistics and Department of Biometry,
School of Public Health), University of Iowa (Department of Statistics
and Actuarial Science)


Visiting Professor/Scientist at Federal Reserve Board, National Center
for Health Statistics


ASA/NSF Fellow at U.S. Census Bureau


Currently Professor, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve
University and ASA/NSF Fellow at Bureau of Labor Statistics


Fellowships:


     Fellow, American Statistical Association

     Elected Member, International Statistical Institute


Professional Activities:


Editorial:

     1986 - 1988   Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association

     1983 - 1985   Book Review Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association

     1991 - 1997   Coordinating Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

     1992 -        Associate Editor, Survey Methodology

     1992 -        Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Statistics


Advisory Committees:

     1978 - 1983 U.S. Census Bureau (ASA) Advisory Committee. Chairman, 1983. 

     1989 - 1994 ASA Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Energy.       Chairman, 1993-1994.  

     1992 - 1997 Environmental Protection Agency (ASA) Committee on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program. Chairman, 1995-97.


Selected Papers, 1991 on:


Bayesian and frequentist predictive inference for the
Patterns of Care studies,   Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 1991; 86, 36-48 (with J. Calvin). 


Bayesian methodology for combining the results from different
experiments when   the specifications for pooling are uncertain,
Biometrika, 1992; 79, 593-601 (with D.   Malec).

 

Secondary analysis when there are missing observations, Journal
of the American   Statistical Association, 1992; 87, 952-961
(with R. Wang and J. H. Jinn).


Bayesian predictive inference for longitudinal sample surveys,
Biometrics, 1993;   49, 1045-1055 (with B. Nandram).


Bayesian predictive inference for a finite population proportion:  two
stage cluster   sampling, Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society B, 1993; 55, 399-408 (with B.   Nandram).


Empirical Bayes estimation for the finite population mean on the
current occasion,   Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 1993; 88, 994-1000 (with B.    Nandram).


Sequential two phase sampling, Journal of the American
Statistical Association,   1996; 91, 782-790 (with R.
Treder).


Bayesian estimation of the age composition of a fish population
incorporating order  restrictions, Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 1997; 92, 33-40 (with   B. Nandram
and S. Smith).


Small area inference for binary variables in the National Health
Interview Survey,   Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 1997; 92, 815-826 (with D.
Malec,   C. Moriarity and F. LeClere).


Statistical assessment of ecological and natural resource monitoring,
    Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1998
(with A. Olsen et al.).


Methodology for pooling subpopulation regressions when there is
uncertainty   about which subpopulations are similar,
Statistica Sinica, 1999 (with R. Evans).


Bayesian analysis of mortality rates for U.S. Health Service areas,
Sankhya, 1999   (with B. Nandram and L.
Pickle).