Ph.D. in statistics, Pennsylvania State University
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More ExpertsMadhumita (Bonnie) Ghosh-Dastidar is a senior statistician and director of the Statistical Advisory Center at the RAND Corporation. She works in several areas including HIV intereventions and population health. Her statistical expertise includes sampling, survey methods, evaluations, missing data adjustment, and analysis of longitudinal and multilevel data. Ghosh-Dastidar's current interests center around several natural experiments evaluating the effect of neighborhood-level changes on residents' health behaviors (e.g. diet, physical activity, sleep) and health outcomes (e.g. obesity). She has worked on multiple large scale data collection studies such as the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a study of children and outcomes in 65 communities in Los Angeles, and the Singapore Mental Health study. Ghosh-Dastidar became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2016. She currently serves as chair of the ASA Council of Sections Governing Board, and vice chair of the Committee for Women in Statistics. Ghosh-Dastidar received her Ph.D. in statistics from Pennsylvania State University.
Dubowitz, T., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Eibner, C., Slaughter, M.E., Fernandes, M., Whitsel, E.A., Bird, C.E., Jewell, A., Margolis, K.L., Li, W., Michael, Y.L., Shih, R.A., Manson, J.E., Escarce, J.E., "The Women's Health Initiative: The Food Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Blood Pressure," Obesity, 20(4):862-871, 2012
Shih, R., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Margolis, K.L., Slaughter, M.E., Jewell, A., Bird, C.E., Eibner, C., "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function in Women," American Journal of Public Health, 101(9):1721-1728, 2011
Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Elliot, M.N., Haviland, A., Karoly, L.A., "Composite Estimates from Incomplete and Complete Frames for Minimum-MSE Estimation in a Rare Population: An Application to Families with Young Children," Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(4):761-784, 2009
Ghosh-Dastidar, B., and Schafer, J.L., "Outlier Detection and Editing Procedures for Continuous Multivariate Survey Data," Journal of Official Statistics, 22(3):487-506, 2006
Ghosh-Dastidar, B., and Schafer, J.L., "Multiple Edit/Multiple Imputation for Continuous Multivariate Survey Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98(464), 2003
Wagner, G., Ghosh-Dastidar, B, Garnett, J., "Impact of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy on Depression and Mental Health Among HIV Clients in Uganda," Psychosomatic Medicine (forthcoming)
Rendall, M., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Weden, M., Nazarov, Z., "Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation with Incomplete Regressors in One but not Both Surveys," Sociological Methods and Research (forthcoming)
