Bio
Roger D. Peng is a Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin. Previously, he was Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab. His current research focuses on developing theory and methods for building successful data analyses and on the development of statistical methods for addressing environmental health problems. He is the author of the popular book R Programming for Data Science and 10 other books on data science and statistics. He is also the co-creator of the Simply Statistics blog where he writes about statistics for the public, the Not So Standard Deviations podcast with Hilary Parker, and The Effort Report podcast with Elizabeth Matsui. Roger is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is the recipient of the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association, which honors a statistician who has made outstanding contributions to public health. Roger received a PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
I am recruiting postdoctoral fellows in data science and environmental biostatistics.
Recent Work
Association of a Housing Mobility Program With Childhood Asthma Symptoms and Exacerbations, with many others.
A dynamic spatial filtering approach to mitigate underestimation bias in field calibrated low-cost sensor air-pollution data with Claire Heffernan, Drew Gentner, Kirsten Koehler, and Abhirup Datta.
Diagnosing Data Analytic Problems in the Classroom with Athena Chen, Eric Bridgeford, Jeff Leek, and Stephanie Hicks.
Design Principles for Data Analysis with Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Stephanie Hicks.
Books
R Programming for Data Science
Tidyverse Skills for Data Science in R, with Stephanie Hicks, Shannon Ellis, and Carrie Wright
The Art of Data Science, with Elizabeth Matsui.
Exploratory Data Analysis with R
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Former Students and Postdocs
| Name | Degree | Current |
|---|---|---|
| Xinyu (Sindy) Du | ScM, Biostatistics | Harvard University |
| Jia Coco Liu | Postdoctoral Fellow | Meta |
| Kayleigh Keller | Postdoctoral Fellow | Colorado State University |
| Helen Powell | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Maryland |
| Katherine Freeland | ScM, Biostatistics | Sandia National Labs |
| Amber Hackstadt | Postdoctoral Fellow | Vanderbilt University |
| Brooke Anderson | Postdoctoral Fellow | Colorado State University |
| Jenna Krall | PhD Biostatistics | George Mason University |
| Detian Deng | ScM, Biostatistics | ByteDance |