Ayala Cohen
Associate Professor
Statistics
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Biography
Professor Ayala Cohen is an applied statistician. She received her Ph.D. degree in statistics at the Johns Hopkins University in 1967. Throughout all her years at the Technion, she worked with researchers in various disciplines and, while publishing joint papers, also wrote methodological papers in statistical journals on the techniques which she developed. Her publications include joint papers with researchers in various areas, such as Behavioral Sciences and Medicine, as well as papers in statistical journals. Professor Cohen has a continuous cooperation with medical doctors and consulted for Teva Pharmaceuticals. She is a past president of the Israel Statistical Society and was a member of the advisory committee for statistical methodology nominated by the National Statistical Council. She is an expert in Applied Multivariate Analysis, Hierarchical Modeling, Biostatistics
Research Interest
Applied Statistics, Graphical Methods, Hierarchical Data, Bio-statistics
Publications
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Ayala Cohen, Inbal Nahum-Shani and Etti Doveh "Further Insight and Additional Inference Methods for Polynomial Regression Applied to the Analysis of Congruence" Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol 45(5), 428 ,2010
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Ayala Cohen, Etti Doveh and Inbal Nahum-Shani "Testing Agreement for Multi item Scales with the Indices rWG(J) and ADM(J)" Organizational Research Methods, Vol12(1), 148-164,2009