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Peter Westfall
is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Statistics, James Niver
Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences, and
Director of the Center for Advanced Analytics and Business
Intelligence at Texas Tech University. He has published 70+
articles on statistical theory and practice in journals including
Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American
Statistical Association, The American Statistician,
Biometrika, Biometrics, Statistics in Medicine,
Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology,
Human Heredity,
Pharmaceutical Statistics
and Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics; he is also
published in several business journals. He is lead author of
the books Resampling‑Based Multiple Testing: Examples and
Methods for P-value adjustment (Wiley, 1993), and Multiple
Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using the SAS® System
(SAS Book's by Users, 1999). Joint with S. Stanley Young of Glaxo
Inc., he received the 1991 "Most Outstanding Applications Paper
Award" from the American Statistical Association for developing
new multiple comparisons methodology with special application to
Pharmaceutical statistics.
Funded by a consortium of Pharmaceutical Companies, he developed
the SAS/STAT® procedure PROC MULTTEST, which is
resampling-based software used for multiple outcomes and multiple
comparisons with applications to clinical trials, preclinical
animal carcinogenicity studies, gene expression studies, and
genetic association studies. He has given numerous invited papers
and keynote addresses at major national and international
conferences, has ongoing training and consulting arrangements with
various pharmaceutical companies, periodically consults with the
United States Food and Drug Administration,
serves on data safety monitoring boards, and develops protocols
for Phase III clinical trials conducted by researchers at Texas
Tech University. His Center for Advanced Analytics and Business
Intelligence has been cited by Next-gen data center forum,
Database Trends and Applications, and Grid Today for
its contributions to grid computing technology. He served as
co-chair (with Ajit Tamhane) for the Third International
Conference on Multiple Comparisons Procedures, held in Bethesda,
MD, August 2002, and co-edited volumes appearing in Journal of
Biopharmaceutical Statistics and Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference resulting from this conference. He is
editor-elect for The American Statistician (2006-2008), has
served as associate editor for The American Statistician
and Journal of the American Statistical Association; and he
is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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