Peter H. Westfall

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Texas Tech University
Center for Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence
Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences
Horn Professor
Texas Tech University
Center for Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence
Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences
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Mailing Address

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-2101
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (806) 742-2174
peter.westfall@ttu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Statistics, 1983.

Expertise and Research Interests

Statistics
Data Mining
Business Intelligence
Grid Computing
Informatics
Biopharmaceutical Statistics
Clinical Trials
Statistics in Medicine
Biometry
Statistical Genetics

Other Expertise

Consultant to various companies and the United States Government.

Future Research

Data mining in businesses and business intelligence.

Industrial Relevance

Pharmaceutical industry, marketing, finance.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Applied Statistics, Biometry, Biostatistics, Business Statistics, Data Analysis, Data Management Or Analysis (Medical), Data Mining, Experimental Design, Genetic Models, Genetics, Informatics, Information Science Or Systems, Management Science, Regression, Statistics.

Additional Terms:

Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Business Statistics, Clinical Trials, Data Analysis, Data Management or Analysis (Medical), Data Mining, Experimental Design, Genetic Models, Management Science, Regression.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Spanish: (Functional, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Statistical Association
Biometric Society
Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Honors and Awards

2005, Excellence in Continuing Education, American Statistical Association
2002, Horn Professor, Texas Tech University, Statistics
1997, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, The American Statistical Association, Statistics
1989, Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech University, Statistics

Funding Received

  • Pharmaceutical Company: Development of a SAS grid for Clinical Trials Simulation, $80,000, 2005 to 2006.
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS): Field Evaluation of NIOSH Lifting Equations, $550,000, 1996 to 2000.
  • Adjustments for Multiplicity in Carcinogenicity Studies, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Assoc, August 1987-August 1989, $90,000

Publications

  • Moreau AR, Westfall PH, Cancio LC, Mason AD Jr (May 2005) Development and validation of an age-risk score for mortality predication after thermal injury., The Journal of Trauma, 58 (5), 967-72 Abstract
  • Peter Westfall (2005) The Bayesian Two-Sample t Test, The American Statistician, 59 (252), 257
  • Koyama T, Westfall PH (2005) Decision-theoretic views on simultaneous testing of superiority and noninferiority., Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 15 (6), 943-55 Abstract
  • Bauer P, Chi G, Geller N, Gould AL, Jordan D, Mohanty S, O'Neill R, Westfall PH (Nov 2003) Industry, government, and academic panel discussion on multiple comparisons in a "real" phase three clinical trial., Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 13 (4), 691-701 Abstract
  • Dmitrienko A, Offen WW, Westfall PH (Aug 2003) Gatekeeping strategies for clinical trials that do not require all primary effects to be significant., Statistics in Medicine, 22 (15), 2387-400 Abstract
  • Gönen, M, Westfall, P.H, Johnson, W.O., Bayesian multiple testing for two-sample multivariate endpoints, Biometrics, 76-82, 2003
  • Zaykin DV, Zhivotovsky LA, Westfall PH, Weir BS, Truncated product method for combining P-values, Genetic Epidemiology, 22(2), 170-85, February 2002 Abstract
  • Westfall PH, Zaykin DV, Young SS, Multiple tests for genetic effects in association studies, Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, NJ), 184, 143-68, 2002
  • Zaykin DV, Westfall PH, Young SS, Karnoub MA, Wagner MJ, Ehm MG, Testing association of statistically inferred haplotypes with discrete and continuous traits in samples of unrelated individuals, Human Heredity, 53(2), 79-91, 2002 Abstract
  • Westfall, P.H, Soper, K.A., Using priors to improve multiple animal carcinogenicity tests, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 827-834, 2001
  • Westfall, P.H, Krishen, A., Optimally weighted, fixed sequence, and gatekeeping multiple testing procedures, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 25-40, 2001
  • Westfall PH, Ho SY, Prillaman BA, Properties of multiple intersection-union tests for multiple endpoints in combination therapy trials, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 11(3), 125-38, 2001 Abstract
  • Zaykin DV, Young SS, Westfall PH, Using the false discovery rate approach in the genetic dissection of complex traits: A response to Weller et al, Genetics, 154(4), 1917-8, April 2000
  • Westfall PH, Krishen A, Young SS, Using prior information to allocate significance levels for multiple endpoints, Statistics in Medicine, 17(18), 2107-19, September 1998 Abstract
  • Dempsey PG, Ayoub MM, Westfall PH, Evaluation of the ability of power to predict low frequency lifting capacity, Ergonomics, 41(8), 1222-41, August 1998 Abstract
  • Westfall PH, Soper KA, Weighted multiplicity adjustments for animal carcinogenicity tests., Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 8(1), 23-44; discussion 45, 1998 Abstract

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Last Updated: 9/9/2007

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