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Dr. Vance W. Berger

is an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has written or co-written dozens of papers in peer reviewed journals in medicine and statistics and regularly reviews manuscripts for many of the top scholarly journals. He has also taught in the past at Rutgers University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, lectured all over the country on his research, and served as an FDA reviewer for over four years.

Education:

BS in Biometry Cornell University

MS in Statistics Stanford University

PhD in Statistics Rutgers University

Areas of Expertise:

Biostatistics

Clinical Trials

Ordered Categorical Data

Reality Based Statistical Analysis

Selection Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials

Publications:

Selection Bias and Covariate Imbalances in Randomized Clinical Trials (John Wiley and Sons, 2005)

"Testing for baseline balance: can we finally get it right?" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2010;63(8):939-940.

"Assessing the quality of randomization and allocation concealment." Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2010;18(10):1361; author reply 1362.

"Assessing the quality of surgical trials: further insight." Ann Surg 2010 Dec 17;().

Awards:

Gertrude Cox Award (for distinguished contributions by a statistician in mid-career), Research Triangle Park and Washington Statistical Society, 2006.

Elected Member, International Statistics Institute, 2006.

Websites links:
Vance Berger

Courses:
Avoiding Selection Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials

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