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Learning, knowledge, maximum entropy, and maximum likelihood

D.A. Pachon, R. Gallegos, O. Hossjer and J.S. Rao
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J. Sunil Rao's interests are in applied statistics, biostatistics, small area estimation and machine learning. His current research focuses on cancer, health disparities and opioid relapse. He has also developed software packages with various students and collaborators.

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Research Interests:

High throughput cancer genomic data modeling;
Health disparity estimation;
Opioid relapse prediction;
Machine learning;
High dimensional modeling; Bayesian model selection; Mixed model selection
and prediction;
Small area estimation; Bump/mode hunting;
Robust estimation;
Precision medicine;
Modeling of
pharmacogenomic data

Books

CHAPMAN AND HALL/CRC BIOSTATISTICS SERIES

Statistical Methods for Health Disparity Research

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Software Sites

PRIMsrc

Implements a unified treatment of the “Bump Hunting” task in high-dimensional space.
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Publications and Articles

Publication

V.K. Gupta Endowment Award Lecture 2024: Modernizing linear mixed model prediction

J.S. Rao
Statistics and Applications (to appear)
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Article

Mixed model selection with applications to small area estimation

J.S. Rao and J.N.K. Rao
Statistics and Applications, Special Issue In Memory of Prof. C.R. Rao (to appear)
Article

Predicting cervical cancer DNA methylation from genetic data using multivariate classified mixed model prediction

H. Zhang, X. Chen, R. Balise, J. Jiang, N. Ayad and J.S. Rao
J. Sunil Rao, Ph.D.

Professor, Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
Director of Biostatistics, Masonic Cancer Center
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


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