Overview
Peter F. Thall is a biostatistician (MD Anderson Cancer Center; formerly George Washington University), known for Bayesian adaptive clinical-trial design and for longitudinal-data methodology.
Key Contributions / Features
- Covariance models for longitudinal counts (Thall-Vail 1990): a GEE/quasi-likelihood family for overdispersed correlated count data, with a second estimating equation for the variance-covariance parameters; the epileptic-seizure benchmark.
- Extensive work on Bayesian adaptive and dose-finding clinical-trial designs.
Related