Michael D. Larsen, PhD, Larsen Statistics
Michael Larsen, Ph.D., joined George Washington University in 2009 as an
Associate Professor in the Department of
Statistics and a faculty member of the Biostatistics Center.
He was promoted to full professor in 2015. He
received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University. Dr. Larsen
is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association
(2012) and an elected member of the International Statistical
Institute (2010) and was a Distinguished Scholar at the
U.S. Census Bureau (2012). For the Washington Statistical Society
he was elected to serve as president elect (2015-16), president
(2016-17), and past-president (2017-18). For the Survey Research
Methods Section of the American Statistical Association he was
elected to serve as chair-elect (2015), chair (2016), and
past-chair (2017). He was elected previously to three positions in
SRMS, including program chair (2012).
Mike's interests include survey
sampling, missing data, record linkage and administrative records,
disclosure limitation and confidentiality, Bayesian statistics,
hierarchical and mixture models, statistical modeling of complex
data, and statistics education. At the National Academy of
Sciences he is a member of the standing committee on
re-engineering decennial census operations and a panel on the
Census Bureau's annual economic surveys. He previously was a member of
the panel on Census 2010 and the steering committee of a CNSTAT
workshop for the National Science Foundation on surveying
nonprofit organization about research and development. Dr. Larsen
has engaged in extensive editorial and review work, is a
permanent member of the NIH's Biostatistical Research Methods and
Design (BMRD) study section, and was executive editor for Chance
(2008-2010). He serves as advisory editor to Chance,
associate editor for a number of
journals, and frequent reviewer for statistical and subject-area
journals.
Dr. Larsen has consulted for and collaborated with researchers
at a number of government agencies, research organizations,
companies, and academic departments. He teaches courses in
statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has
advised several master's degree students and 6 PhD students
with an additional 3 PhD students in progress.
Michael Larsen conducts consulting through his company,
Larsen
Statistics, in Rockville, Maryland.
Contact
Contact: Dr. Michael D. Larsen, PhD
Beginning in 2016: 765 Rome Hall, 801 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC,
20052
Department Office (202) 994-6356; Fax (202) 994-6917,
mlarsen at gwu . edu
Biostatistics Center, The George Washington University
6110 Executive Boulevard, Suite 750, Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 881-9260, mlarsen at bsc . gwu . edu