Dan McGee

Professor

Ph.D. 1978, The Johns Hopkins University

dan@stat.fsu.edu

Member, International Statistical Institute, 1996; Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1992; Risk Assessment Medal from Society for Preventive Medicine, 1987;  U.S. Public Health Service, Accelerated Promotion to Scientist Director, 1986; Fellow American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 1980; PHS Commendation Medal, Honor Award, 1980; Member Phi Beta Kappa, 1970.

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS
 

My major research interest is the study of disease occurrence in human populations. I presently have funding from the National Institutes of Health that allows me to examine issues in summarizing statistical results from diverse groups from around the world.  This research combines elements of meta-analysis, and data warehousing and mining.
 

I am the principal investigator of the Diverse Populations Collaboration.  The Diverse Populations Collaboration examines the analytical findings of epidemiological studies of populations from many countries and cultures to attempt to explain variation represented in these results.  The DPC studies cover wide geographically and ethnically diverse populations.  With information on over 395,000 individuals, almost 180,000 females, over 34,000 Blacks, and 13,000 are of Hispanic origin.  The age range of participants in the data is from 25 to 97, and the baseline year of the studies is from 1948 to 1990.   About 237,000 participants are from studies of U.S. participants.  Follow-up available totals 4,533,578 person-years.  The coordinating center of the DPC is in the Department of Statistics at Florida State University.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS • The Relationship of Physical Activity and Body Weight With All-Cause Mortality: Results From The Puerto Rico Heart Health program, accepted Annals of Epidemiology, with Crespo C., Garcia Palmeiri M, Perez Perdomo R., Smit E, Sempos C, Lee I, Solie P. •  Recent Changes in the Health Status of the Older U.S. Population: Findings From the 1984 and 1994 Supplement on Aging, Journal American Geriatric Society, 49:443-449, 2001, with Liao Y, Cao G., Cooper R. • A Randomized, Crossover Comparison of WArfarin Products in the Treatment of Chronic Atrial Fibrillation, Annals of Pharmacother, 34:981-988, 2000, with Weibert R., Yeager B., Witkowshi A., Bussey H., Wison D. Godwin J., Adler D., Black E., Vlasses P. • Alcohol and Mortality: Findings From the National Health Interview Surveys (1998 and 1990), American Journal of Epidemiology, 151:651-659, 2000, with Liao Y., Cao g., Cooper R.S. • Quality of the Last Year of Life of Older Adults: 1986 vs 1993, Journal of the American Medical Association, 283:512-518, 2000, with Liao Y., Cooper R.S.

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