Robert D. Gibbons

Robert D. Gibbons is a professor in the field of statistics, with expertise in biostatistics, environmental statistics, and psychometrics. He holds the position of Blum-Riese Professor and Pritzker Scholar at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Public Health Sciences (Biostatistics), and Comparative Human Development. Gibbons is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has made contributions to statistical work spanning areas such as longitudinal data analysis, item response theory, environmental statistics, and drug safety, with over 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several books to his name.

Education Ph.D. (Statistics and Psychometrics), University of Chicago, 1981 B.A. (Chemistry and Mathematics), University of Denver, 1976

Selected Publications Gibbons R.D., Meltzer D., Duan N., Penhoet E.D., Dubler N.N., Francis C.K., Gill, B., Guinan E., Henderson M., Ildstad S.T., King, P.A., Martinez-Maldonado M., Mclain G.E., Murray J.E., Nelkin D. Spellman M.W, Pope A. and Pitluck S. Waiting for Organ Transplantation, Science, 287, 237-238, 2000. Bhaumik D.K., Amatya A., Normand S.L., Greenhouse J.Kaizar E., Neelon B., Gibbons R.D. Metaanalysis of rare binary adverse event data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 107, 555-567, 2012. Gibbons R.D., Hur K., Lavigne J., Wang J., Mann J.J. Medications and Suicide: High Dimensional Empirical Bayes Screening (iDEAS). Harvard Data Science Review, 1(2), 2019. Gibbons R.D. and Bhaumik D. Weighted random-effects regression models with application to interlaboratory calibration. Technometrics, 43, 192-198, 2001. Gibbons R.D., & Hedeker D.R. Full-information item bi-factor analysis. Psychometrika, 57, 423-436, 1992. Gibbons R.D., Hur K., Lavigne J.E., Mann J.J. Association Between Folic Acid Prescription Fills and Suicide Attempts and Intentional Self-harm Among Privately Insured US Adults. JAMA Psychiatry. 79(11), 1118-1123, 2022.

Awards Youden Prize for Contributions to Inter-laboratory Calibration (ASA, 2006) Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, University of Illinois, 2010 Distinguished Achievement Medal for the ASA's Section on Statistics and the Environment, 2016