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Matthias Schonlau

Statistician, Head RAND Statistical Consulting Service

Pittsburgh Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, University of Waterloo, 1997

Fields

Web surveys, Propensity score methods for Causal Inference, Data mining, Data Visualization

Policy Areas

Health: program evaluation; chronic diseases; eliciting data from web surveys; assessing racial bias

Recent Projects

  • Internet Interviewing and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
  • Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation
  • Assessing potential racial bias in federal death sentencing procedures

Previous/Other Positions

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
  • Rutgers University, Lecturer
  • AT&T Labs Research and National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Queen's University, Statistical Consultant

Selected Publications

Boosted Regression (Boosting): An introductory tutorial and a Stata plugin — 2005

The Stata Journal, 2005; 5(3), 330-354.
Schonlau M.

An evaluation of an adult asthma BTS collaborative and the effect of patient self-management — 2005

Annals of Family Medicine. Ann Fam Med 2005 3: 200-208.
Schonlau M, Mangione-Smith R, Rosen M, Chan K, Louis T, Wu S, Keeler E.

A comparison between a propensity weighted web survey and an identical RDD survey - 2004

Social Science Computer Review. 2004; 22(1): 128-138
Schonlau M, Zapert K, Payne Simon L, Sanstad K, Marcus S, Adams J, Spranca M, Kan H-J, Turner R, Berry S.

Visualizing Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Cluster Analyses with Clustergrams - 2004

Computational Statistics: 2004; 19(1): 95-111
Schonlau, M.

Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-nested Samples in Health Services Research - 2003

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 2003; 4(3): 151-167
Adams JL, Schonlau M, Escarce J, Kilgore M, Schoenbaum M, Goldman DP

Conducting Research Surveys via Email and the Web - 2002

Schonlau, M., Fricker R., Elliott, M.

Pharmacy Compliance With California’s Prescription Drug Discount Program for Medicare Beneficiaries - 2002

The New England Journal of Medicine. 2002;346(11):830-835
Lewis JH, Schonlau M, Muñoz J, Asch SM, Rosen MR, Yang H, Escarce JJ

Computer intrusion: Detecting masquerades - 2001

Statistical Science. 2001;16(1):58-74
Schonlau M, DuMouchel W, Ju W, Karr A, Theus M, Vardi Y
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