Mark van der Laan
Born
Mark Johannes van der Laan

1967 (age 56–57)
Netherlands
Alma materUtrecht University (PhD)
AwardsCOPSS Presidents' Award (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Biostatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
Websitestatistics.berkeley.edu/people/mark-van-der-laan

Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference.[4] He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood estimation methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.

Education

He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993, with a dissertation titled "Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models".[2]

Career and research

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005.[5][6]

Publications

  • Van Der Laan, M.J.; Robins, J.M. (2003). Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-95556-9.
  • Van Der Laan, M.J.; Rose, S. (2011). Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-441-99781-4.
  • Dudoit, S.; Van Der Laan, M.J. (2008). Multiple Testing Procedures with Applications to Genomics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-49316-9.

References

  1. ↑ Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, CF Jeff, eds. (2012). Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. xxxi–xxxiii. ISBN 9781461455448.
  2. 1 2 3 Mark van der Laan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Pollard, Katherine Snowden (2003). Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data. berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 937442296. ProQuest 305339168.
  4. ↑ "Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Mark van der Laan, PhD, is Recipient of 2004 Spiegelman Award". Spring 2005. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Van Dantzig Award". Retrieved 2 June 2014.
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