Linear Regression Modeling for Health Data

Bhramar Mukherjee holds the John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished Professorship and serves as a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Additionally, she is the Associate Director for Quantitative Data Sciences at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Her research focuses on statistical methods for analyzing electronic health records, gene-environment interactions, Bayesian methods, shrinkage estimation, and high-dimensional exposure data analysis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bhramar and her team actively modeled the trajectory of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in India, gaining recognition in major media outlets such as Reuters, BBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, Australian National Radio, and The Times of India. With over 360 co-authored articles in statistics, biostatistics, medicine, and public health, she is also the founding director of the University of Michigan's Summer Institute on Big Data. Bhramar is a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she has received numerous awards for her scholarship, service, and teaching, including the Gertrude Cox Award from the Washington Statistical Society in 2016 and the L. Adrienne Cupples Award from Boston University in 2020. In 2021, she was honored with the Distinguished Woman Scholar Award from Purdue University, the Janet L. Norwood Award from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Sarah Goddard Power Award from the University of Michigan Academic Women’s Caucus. Most notably, she was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Medicine in 2022 and received the Karl E. Peace Award for her statistical contributions toward societal betterment from the American Statistical Association in 2023.

Phil is a faculty member and biostatistician in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He studied Mathematics and Political Science at Calvin College (now Calvin University) in Grand Rapids, MI and received his MS and PhD in Biostatistics in 2009 and 2012, respectively, from the University of Michigan. He loves teaching biostatistics and R and collaborating with physicians and scientists, especially in research related to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and oncology. When he’s not coding or doing statistics, you will often find him playing board games with his family and friends.