Thomas Ezra Love, Ph. D.
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Hi. I’m
an Assistant Professor at the Case
Western Reserve University Department
of Operations at the I’m also the Director of the Biostatistics and Evaluation Unit at the Center for Health Care Research & Policy
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My (public version) CV is here, and my NIH-style
biosketch is here. [as of early June, 2006]
Upcoming Classes and Teaching Materials
CRSP 401: Introduction To Clinical Research (to be given in Summer
2006) [Coming in late June]
Summer 2006 Medical School Block One Materials [Coming in mid-July]
CRSP 403: Biostatistics for Clinical Research (Fall 2006) [Coming in August]
CRSP 500: Observational Studies (Spring 2006) [Coming by January]
Core Information: Some Things I Am Involved
With
American Statistical Association Health Policy
Statistics Section (I am the Section’s Secretary, effective January 2006)
American Statistical Association Cleveland Chapter (I am the Chapter’s
Vice President, and have been since 2005)
Making Statistics More Effective in
Schools of Business (I am MSMESB’s Web Editor, and have been for 11+years)
My Page of Links on Statistics and Health Care
Research (many of which are woefully out of date)
Propensity Score Methods for
Dealing With Selection Bias in Observational Studies (more to come, when I
get the chance: see presentations below)
Strategies for Using
Propensity Scores Well: A Workshop Given at the International
Conference for Health Policy Research, October 28-30, 2005
A Few of My Recent Presentations
Love TE “A Statistician’s Adventures in
Public Health Research: Balance and Design”
Department of Statistics,
Love TE “Must We Be Misled By Observational Studies?” MetroHealth Medical Center Department of
Medicine Grand Rounds, May 19, 2005.
Love TE “Economic and Statistical Concerns in
the Design of Multivariate Control Charts”
American Society for Quality Elyria/Lorain Chapter, May 18, 2005. This is joint work with Kevin
Linderman.
Love TE “What People Thinking About Quality
Improvement Should Know About Propensity Methods” American Society for Quality Elyria/Lorain
Chapter, May 18, 2005.
Love TE “Item Response Theory, Adaptive Assessment,
and Health Services Research” Louis
Stokes
Love
TE “Using
Propensity Scores Effectively” [WARNING: 97 PAGES]
Love TE,
on “Causal Inference
in Health Services Research: Taking Account of Hidden Bias”, Joint Statistical
Meetings,
Love
TE “Propensity Scores: Helping
Non-Statisticians Get The Message” Chair and Presenter, Luncheon
Roundtable, Joint Statistical Meetings,
Love
TE “Why Statistical Thinking Matters” Invited Address for
the Greater
Love TE “Propensity
Scores: What Do They Do, How Should I Use Them, and Why Should I Care?” American Statistical Association,
Love TE “Statistical Thinking and Data Awareness” Keynote Address for the
Greater
on “Data Analysis and Probability: Aligning Instruction with the
Love TE “Adaptive
Assessment of Stroke Impact”
American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section, Joint
Statistical Meetings,
Love TE “Discussing and Displaying the Effectiveness of Causal Models for
Observational Studies,” Chair and Presenter, Luncheon Roundtable, Joint
Statistical Meetings,
Love TE “Explaining Post-Propensity Score Covariate Balance” International Biometric Society – Eastern
North American Region Meeting,
Love TE “Displaying Covariate
Balance after Adjustment for Selection Bias” Section on Health Policy
Statistics, Joint Statistical Meetings,
Love TE and David Litaker “Hierarchical
Models” Center for Health Care Research and Policy Methods Seminar Series,
August, 2002. [abstract]
Love TE “Item Response Models
and Health Services Research” Center for Health Care Research and Policy
Methods Seminar Series, July, 2002. [announcement]
Love TE,
Hinrichs, C and Konrath, T, leaders, “We’ve Preached to
the Choir, Now What?” Making Statistics
More Effective in Schools and Business Workshop Session
in the “Getting
Real With Our Customers” track,
Love, TE “Statistics and the
Design of Experiments and Surveys” Guest Lecture for EPOM 409 Capstone
Course,
Love, TE “Propensity Scores for
Selection Bias Adjustment in Observational Studies” Department of
Operations, Weatherhead
Love, TE “Smoking,
Stephen Jay Gould and Convertibles: Statistical Graphics for Data Presentation
and Analysis” Center for Health Care
Research & Policy Methods Seminar, January 2002. [handout]
Love, TE “Educating Business Students and Quality: Lessons from the MSMESB Conferences” American Society for Quality, Elyria/Lorain Chapter, November, 2001.
Love, TE “Quality Improvement and
Propensity Models” Institute for Operations Research & the Management
Sciences (INFORMS) Meeting,
Love, TE “Improving
Logistic Regression Analysis: Diagnostics and Model Selection” Center for
Health Care Research & Policy Methods Seminar Series, August, 2001. [pdf of references]
Address … Phone … Etc.
Thomas E. Love
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Operations
Center for Health Care Research & Policy
Email: thomaslove at case dot edu
Phone: 216-778-1265
Fax: 216-778-3945
This page
last updated June 7, 2006
News on My Sons
– Kevin and Brian
My
Old Web Site at the Weatherhead School of Management
A Picture of Me - Posing for GQ (back when I
had lost some weight – working on it again now)
