Contact

E-mailaddona@macalester.edu


Office:  Olin Rice 235


Office Hours Spring 2024:

Monday: 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Tuesday: 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Wednesday: 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Thursday:  10:00 - 11:00 am

Friday:   2:30 - 3:30 pm

Teaching

Fall 2023

STAT 125-01: Epidemiology

STAT 155-01: Intro to Statistical Modeling


Spring 2024

STAT 155-01: Intro to Statistical Modeling

STAT 155-02: Intro to Statistical Modeling


For information on my classes, please send me an e-mail message, visit me during office hours, or visit the Moodle site if you are enrolled in the course.

Reseach

I completed my PhD in Statistics at McGill University in 2006.

My research interests are in survival analysis and other medical applications of statistics. My thesis, "Stationarity in a prevalent cohort study with follow-up", examines the analysis of survival data obtained from prevalent cases, that is, individuals who have already experienced some initiating event (e.g. onset of a disease) when they are recruited into a study. Such individuals are known to be long-survivors relative to incident, or new, cases. Here is a paper which I co-authored on testing the assumptions for the analysis of survival data arising from a prevalent cohort study. Here is a more recent publication which proposes a stacked survival estimator (combining non-parametric and parametric estimators) based only on residual lifetime data, that is, only on data observed from recruitment into a study until the study's end.

I am also interested in sports statistics. I have worked with various undergraduate students on numerous projects, including adjusted plus-minus ratings in the NBA, the relative age effect (RAE) phenomenon, and quantifying the effects of steroid usage in Major League Baseball. Here are some related papers: RAE in the NHL, age effects in the Major League Baseball draft, and the quarterback prediction problem.

For a complete list of publications, please see my CV.

Personal

I was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and I am the son of Italian immigrants. I am thus fluent in both French and Italian. My wife, Isadora, is from Golden, Colorado, and she completed her PhD in School Psychology at the University of Minnesota. We have two kids: Fabian (10 years old) and Lucia (8 years old). We love spending time together as a family (with our cat, Grigia), making each other laugh, watching movies and sports, playing board games, and rewriting popular song lyrics in silly ways ...


As a proud Canadian, I am a huge hockey fan (Isadora loves the Colorado Avalanche and my favorite team is the Montreal Canadiens, of course). I also love football (NY Jets), baseball (although I've never been able to adopt a new team after the departure of my beloved Montreal Expos), and soccer.

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