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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 151-156
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His areas of research include methods for research synthesis and the use of Bayesian methods in practice. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as editorin-chief for Statistics in Medicine, associate editor for Statistics, Politics, and Policy, associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and editor of the IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and M.P.H.
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from Cornell University. DANIEL BLOWER is associate research scientist emeritus with the enterC for the Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. He has extensive experience with all primary national crash data files, and many state crash data files. His primary area of research is traffic crash causation. Past projects include investigating the crash experience of younger truck drivers, developing an event tree for heavy truck accidents, and developing statistical models relating vehicle configuration and operating environment to the probability of accident involvement. He is chair of the Michigan Truck Safety Commission.
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. He has served as associate editor for Statistics in Medicine and Journal of Statistical Software. Along with Robert Gibbons, he is coauthor of Longitudinal Data Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He received a Ph.D.
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in biostatistics from Harvard University. ROBERT SCOPATZ is a senior transportation analyst with the safety practice of VHB, Inc. His work has focused on improving safety behavior and advising states and the federal government on data quality improvement. His work in commercial motor vehicle safety includes projects for FMCSA evaluating hours of service regulations, developing predictive analyses of safety inspections and crashes, and supporting the first round of Safety Data Improvement Program grants. For the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, he conducted an evaluation of large combination vehicle safety and crash data quality. He is also secretary, past president, and long-time executive board member of the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals.
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recently retired from the Transportation Research Board, where he was the transportation safety coordinator in the board's Technical Activities Division. He served as staff to a wide range of committees, including studies of truck and bus safety, statistics in transportation, visualization in transportation, and future truck and bus safety research opportunities, as well as an international conference on
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in applied experimental psychology from Michigan State University.
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