I’m tentatively scheduled to give a webinar for the Consulting Section of the American Statistical Association on May 2. They wanted a short biography of me that they could use as an introduction. Here is one, updated from a similar biography I wrote in 2016.
Steve Simon received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Iowa in 1982. He currently runs a small consulting business, P.Mean Consulting, as a sole proprietorship. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, four of which have won major awards. He has written one book, Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials, and a book chapter, R for Big Data Analysis, in Big Data Analysis for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Discoveries. He is the author of a major website and blog about Statistics, Research Design, and Evidence Based Medicine, with well over 2,000 pages. It is currently being consolidated under a uniform format using blogdown. He is president of the Kansas City R Users Group and is looking for speakers for future Zoom meetings. His current research interests include using Bayesian models to forecast patient accrual in clinical trials and examining data sharing practices in peer-reviewed articles.