Robert William Platt
Faculty
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
McGill University
Canada
Biography
M.Sc., Statistics, 1993 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Department of Statistic M.Sc., Biostatistics, 1995 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Department of Biostatistics Ph.D., Biostatistics, 1996 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Department of Biostatistics Thesis Topic: An Evaluation of Saddlepoint Approximations in the Generalized Linear Model Supervisor: Dr. Norman Breslow
Research Interest
Biostatistics, Causal Inference, Epidemiologic Methods, Pharmacoepidemiology, Reproductive, Perinatal and Child Health,
Publications
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Schnitzer M.E., Moodie E.E.M., Platt, R.W., "Targeted maximum likelihood estimation for marginal time-dependent treatment effects under density misspecification " Biostatistics. 2013 Jan;14(1):1-14. PMID: 22797173.
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Platt RW, Brookhart MA, Cole SR, Westreich D, Schisterman EF. An information criterion for marginal structural models. Stat Med. 2013 Apr 15;32(8):1383-93. PMCID: PMC4180061.
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Schnitzer ME, van der Laan MJ, Moodie EEM, Platt RW. Effect of Breastfeeding on Gastrointestinal Infection in Infants: A Targeted Maximum Likelihood Approach for Clustered Longitudinal Data. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2014 Jan. Volume 8, Number 2 (2014), 703-725. PMID: 25505499.
