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Hi, this is Dave's home page.

Here's some biographical information about Dave

Here are some of Dave's professional interests:

• Design and analysis of cancer clinical trials
• Epidemiology, esp. adjustment for covariates
• Measuring quality of life (QOL) in cancer trials
• Meta-analysis, specifically, modeling publication bias.
• Smoothing (although I'm no expert, smoothing is really neat to me.)
• Nonparametrics

Some of Dave's statistical and biostatistical links:

• Colorado State University Department of Stats
• University of Florida Dept of Stats
• Harvard Biostats
• University of Minn Dept of Biostats (drop a line to their new div. head!)
• University of Washington Biostats
• Penn State Dept of Stats
• Statlib at CMU
• AllStat Mailing List
• Centers for Disease Control/ATSDR
• World Health Organization
• The SAS Institute

Three statistical papers of mine (remote sites):

Bayesian assessment of publication bias in meta-analyses of cervical cancer and oral contraceptives
Author: Bonnie LaFleur, Sue Taylor, Dave Smith and Richard Tweedie
University of Colorado and Colorado State University
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Estimating and Adjusting for Publication Bias Using Data Augmentation in Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Authors: Geof H. Givens, D.D. Smith and R.L. Tweedie
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An Exact Test for Determining Elevated Risk of Disease within Contiguous Neighborhoods of High Toxin Concentration
Author: D. D. Smith
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I don't know why you'd want to look at my fave places, unless you have an unhealthy interest in how I spend my time.

My treatise on the Topologic Properties of the Keven Bacon Game. There's a small, somewhat amusing story behind this paper.

Strategic Postal Australian Rules Football (SPARF) pages

Don Henley's School of Songwriting

The Quik N' EZ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Quiz