Sander Greenland is a biostatistician and epidemiologist  known for his contributions to meta-analysis

Meta-analysis

In statistics, a meta-analysis combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. In its simplest form, this is normally by identification of a common measure of effect size, for which a weighted average might be the output of a meta-analyses. Here the...

, Bayesian inference

Bayesian inference

In statistics, Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference. It is often used in science and engineering to determine model parameters, make predictions about unknown variables, and to perform model selection...

 and causal inference

Causality

Causality is the relationship between an event and a second event , where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first....

, among other topics. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

 and the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 (UCLA), he has held a professorship in epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health since 1989, and additionally a professorship in statistics at UCLA College of Letters and Science since 1999.

Greenland has published over 300 scientific papers, two of which have been cited over 500 times.
He is the co-author of one of the standard textbooks on epidemiology. He was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998.

External links

• Sander Greenland's profile at UCLA School of Public Health