1. Sander Greenland was born on January 16,1951 and is an American statistician and epidemiologist with many contributions to statistical and epidemiologic methods including Bayesian and causal inference, bias analysis, and meta-analysis.
11 Facts About Sander Greenland
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Sander Greenland's focus has been the extensions, limitations, and misuses of statistical methods in nonexperimental studies, especially in postmarketing surveillance of drugs, vaccines, and medical devices.
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Sander Greenland received honors Bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Regent's and National Science Foundation Fellow in Mathematics, and then received Master's and Doctoral degrees in epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was Regent's Fellow in Epidemiology.
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Sander Greenland moved to Emeritus status in 2012 and the following year he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Medicine by the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Dr Greenland has published over 400 scientific papers and book chapters, over a dozen of which have been cited over a thousand times and several over two thousand times, including and one of which was chosen as a discussion paper by the Royal Statistical Society.
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Sander Greenland is the co-author of a leading advanced textbook on epidemiology.
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Sander Greenland was made a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1993 and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998, and has received numerous teaching and service awards.
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Sander Greenland has been an invited lecturer at over 200 scientific institutions worldwide including Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, and Erasmus universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
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Sander Greenland has served as a consultant to US governmental agencies including the National Academy of Sciences, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well the World Health Organization.
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Sander Greenland has further served as an editor for statistical and epidemiologic journals and books including the Dictionary of Epidemiology sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association.
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Sander Greenland is a leading critic of arbitrary significance thresholds in science and has drawn attention to misunderstandings of p-values.