Meta-Analysis in Medicine and Health Policy (PDF)

Dalene K. Stagl is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences and the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and an Adjunct Professor in the Biostatistic Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The author or coauthor of more than 60 professional publications, and the coeditor of Bayesian Biostatistics (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), Dr. Stangl is a member of the American Statistical Association, the International Society of Bayesian Analysis, the Society for Medical Decision Making, and the Caucus for Women in Statistics, among other. She has extensive experience consulting hospitals in the fields of health sciences research and developmental epidemiology. Dr. Stangl received the B.S. degree (1978) in psychology and sociology from Iowa State University, Ames, the M.A. degree (1981) in sociology from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) degrees in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Donald A. Berry is Professor and Chairman, Department of Biostatistics, and the Frank T. McGraw Memorial Chair of Cancer Research at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. A consultant to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, he is the author or coauthor of over 280 articles and papers, as well as the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 10 books, including Statistical Methodology in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Bayesian Biostatistics (both titles, Marcel Dekker, Inc.). The recipient of several research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistic, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Berry received the A.B. degree (1965) in mathematics from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and the M.S. (1967) and Ph.D. (1971)