Ph.D. in statistics, University of Minnesota
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More ExpertsClaude Messan Setodji is a senior statistician, associate research department director of the Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department at the RAND Corporation and was one of the founding members of the RAND Center for Causal Inference. His research interests include applications of statistics to public policy, especially in health care costs and care, causal inferences, sampling techniques, and data reduction, and visualization.
Setodji's current work focuses on improved quantitative methods in health and child development quality assessments and the development of statistical methods for inference on ecological momentary assessment of health and behavior intention outcomes. He is currently working on causal inference propensity score methods in the presence of measurement errors in covariates.
He recently led RAND projects including the evaluation of the redesign of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the development of small area estimation cost-effective and statistically reliable approaches for deriving estimates of the prevalence of various health risk behaviors, risk factors, and outcomes in small racial, ethnic, and other hard-to-reach populations in the United States. Setodji also has interests in international education and health care policy.
Setodji earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Minnesota.
Setodji, C.M., Martino, S.C., Dunbar, M.S., & Shadel, W.G., "An Exponential Effect Persistence Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data," Psychological Methods, 24(5), 2019
Setodji, C.M., Martino, S.C., Gong M., Kusuke, D., Sicker, A., & Shadel, W.G., "How Do Tobacco Power Walls Influence Adolescents? A Study of Mediating Mechanisms," Health Psychology, 37(2), 2018
Setodji C.M., McCaffrey D.F., Burgette L.F., Almirall D., and Griffin B.A., "The Right Tool for the Job: Choosing Between Covariate Balancing and Generalized Boosted Model Propensity Scores," Epidemiology, 28(6), 2017
Robbins M.W. and Setodji C.M., "Causal Inference Using Mixture Models: A Word of Caution," Medical Care, 52(9), 2014
Setodji C.M., Martino S.C., Scharf D., and Shadel W. G., "Quantifying the Persistence of Pro-Smoking Media Effects on College Students’ Smoking Risk," Journal of Adolescent Health, 54, 2014
Setodji C.M., Le, V. and Schaack D., "Using Generalized Additive Modeling to Empirically Identify Thresholds Within the ITERS in Relation to Toddlers' Cognitive Development," Developmental Psychology, 49(4), 2013 (forthcoming)
Setodji C.M., Elliott M.N., Abel G., Burt J., Roland M., Campbell J., "Evaluating Differential Item Functioning in the English General Practice Patient Survey: Comparison of South Asian and White British Subgroups.," Medical Care, 53(9), 2015
Cook, R.D. and Setodji, M.C., "A Model-Free Test for Reduced Ranked in Multivariate Regression," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 2002
