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VA » Health Care » Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research » Siamak Noorbaloochi

Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research

Siamak Noorbaloochi

Siamak Norbaloochi, PhD (biostatistician) is currently interested in unsupervised informative dimension reduction. In addition to providing statistical support for Center projects, Dr. Noorbaloochi is also working on curse of language on statistical inference and foundational issues of deconfounding.

CURRENT POSITIONS
• Core Investigator and Senior Statistician, Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research
• Professor of Statistics, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Former Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Shahid Behshti University, Tehran, Iran

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Bayesian statistics
• Inference
• Survival analysis
• Longitudinal analysis
• Observational data analysis

EDUCATION
BSc, Statistics, Institute for Statistics and Informatics, Tehran, Iran
MSc, Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
PhD, Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

CONTACT INFO
612.467.2775
Email: Siamak.Noorbaloochi@va.gov

VA RESEARCH TOPICS
Epidemiology

LINKS
Google Scholar
University of Minnesota profile

S Noorbaloochi, BA Clothier, M Murdoch Using joint probability density to create most informative unidimensional indices: a new method using pain and psychiatric severity as examples BMC Medical Research Methodology 24, 2024

K Shafie, MR Faridrohani, S Noorbaloochi, HM Rekabdarkolaee A Global Bayes Factor for Observations on an Infinite-Dimensional Hilbert Space, Applied to Signal Detection in fMRI Austrian Journal of Statistics 50 (3), 66-76,2021

Noorbaloochi, Siamak. Meeden, Glen. On Being Bayes and Unbiasedness. Sankhya A, (2017) pp 1-16. doi:10.1007/s13171-017-0097-3

Pourahmadi, Mohsen; Noorbaloochi, Siamak. Multivariate time series analysis of neuroscience data: some challenges and opportunities. Current opinion in neurobiology. (2016) 37, 12-16.

Nelson, David; Noorbaloochi, Siamak Splice plots for generalized linear models. Comm. Statist. Theory Methods 45 (2016), no. 12, 3524–3540.

Meeden, Glen; Noorbaloochi, Siamak Hypotheses testing as a fuzzy set estimation problem. Comm. Statist. Theory Methods 42 (2013), no. 10, 1806–1820.

Nelson, David; Noorbaloochi, Siamak Information preserving sufficient summaries for dimension reduction. J. Multivariate Anal. 115 (2013), 347–358. 62G99 (62B05 62H99)

Meeden, Glen; Noorbaloochi, Siamak. Ordered designs and Bayesian inference in survey sampling. Sankhya A. 72 (2010), no. 1, 119–135.

Noorbaloochi, Siamak; Nelson, David; Asgharian, Masoud. Balancing and elimination of nuisance variables. Int. J. Biostat. 6 (2010), no. 2, Art. 6, 22 pp.

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