William G. Cumberland

Professor and Chair of Biostatistics

Tel: (310) 206-9621		Room 51-236B CHS
Fax: (310) 267-2113		Department of Biostatistics
		UCLA School of Public Health
E-mail: wgc@ucla.edu		Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Education

B.S. Honors Mathematics (1968) McGill University Montreal, Canada.

M.A. Statistics (1972) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ph.D. Statistics (1975) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,Maryland.

Research & Interests

My long-term interests are in the areas of finite population sampling and biomedical applications of stochastic processes. My research in sampling falls under the heading of model based estimation, and it shows that relying solely on the sampling plan can lead to very misleading inferences. Through the use of models, better estimates of standard errors have been developed. My interest in sampling has led to collaborative work in health services research in the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, concentrating on the analysis of NCHS and CPS data in the study of health insurance. My work in stochastic processes has led to models for progression of CD4 counts in HIV. I have been active in biostatistical applications in tumor immunology, especially in AIDS research. My collaborative work in cancer is through the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and in AIDS through the Biostatistics Core of the UCLA AIDS Institute. To learn about the UCLA Biostatistics AIDS Training Grant click here.

Courses

Biostat 110B	Winter 2001-08	Basic Biostatistics
Biostat 233	Spring 2008	Statistical Methods in AIDS
Biostat 245	Spring 2000 & 04, Fall 2001 & 04	Advanced Seminar in Biostatistics
Biostat 288	Winter 2001, 06-08, Spring 00-02	Seminar: Statistics in AIDS Research
Biostat 404	Spring 2001, 03, 05	Principles of Sampling

Links

NIH Biosketch (MS Word format or PDF format).

CFAR Science

UCLA AIDS Institute