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Jean Opsomer
Vice President; Statistical Fellows Committee Co-Chair
Contact
JeanOpsomer@westat.comOverview
Jean Opsomer, PhD, is a senior statistician with 25+ years of experience applying statistical methods to answer research questions. He is currently responsible for the statistical methodology of several large-scale Westat survey projects. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has served on multiple panels of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and is a current member of the Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods. He is Associate Editor for Survey Methodology and for Statistical Science.
Previously, Opsomer was a faculty member in the Departments of Statistics at Colorado State University and Iowa State University. The author or coauthor of 85 peer-reviewed articles, he has developed statistical methods for calibration in surveys, model building, variable selection, and evaluation. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the recipient of the Carver Medal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association.
In recognition of his contributions to the field, Opsomer has been named a Westat Senior Statistical Fellow and co-chairs the Statistical Fellows Committee, which provides consultation on important survey statistics issues and addresses recent advances in applied statistics.
Education
- PhD, Operations Research , Cornell University
- MBA, Finance, University of Chicago
- MS, Management Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Areas of Expertise
Statistical Methods Survey Design Survey Methods Survey StatisticsTopics
Complex Surveys-
Journal Article
Statistical data integration using multilevel models to predict employee compensationCanadian Journal of Statistics
2023
A.L. Erciulescu, Jean Opsomer, B.J. Schneider
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Journal Article
Associations between ABO non-identical platelet transfusions and patient outcomes-A multicenter retrospective analysisTransfusion
2023
D.W. Bougie, S.E. Reese, R.J. Birch, Deborah Bookwalter, P.K.1713457 Mitchell, D. Roh, L.B. Kreuziger, R.G. Cable, R. Goel, J. Gottschall, R.G. Hauser, J.E. Hendrickson, E.A. Hod, C.D. Josephson, S. Kahn, S.H. Kleinman, A.E. Mast, P.M. Ness, N.H. Roubi
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Journal Article
Clinical and economic assessment in early-stage dementia by severity and amyloid-B status: A 5-year retrospective claims study of GERAS-US patientsJournal of Alzheimer's Disease
2023
J. Chandler, J. Kubisiak