Richard Cook |Statistics and Actuarial Science

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA N2L 3G1

(519) 888-4567, ext. 35549
FAX: (519) 746-1875

Email:
Office: Math & Computer 6012
Personal Website: www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/cook
Curriculum Vitae: (rjc091102.pdf)
Biostatistics Research Unit Website: www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/stats_navigation/BioResearch.shtml
Book: www.stats.uwaterloo.ca/cook-lawless/book.shtml

Academic Interests

My research interests include the development and application of statistical methods for public health.
Specific areas of interest include the analysis of life history data, longitudinal data, incomplete data, sequential methods, multivariate analysis, clinical trial design, and the assessment of diagnostic tests. (more)

Selected Recent Publications

COOK RJ, LAWLESS JF, LAKHAL-CHAI EBL. AND LEE K-A. Robust estimation of mean functions and treatment effects for recurrent events under event-dependent censoring and termination: Application to skeletal complications in cancer metastatic to bone (2008, Journal of the American Statistical Association - in press).
COOK RJ, ZENG L. AND LEE K-A. A multistate model for bivariate interval censored failure time data (2008, 30 pages; Biometrics - in press).
SUTRADHAR R. AND COOK RJ. Analysis of interval-censored data from clustered multistate processes: Application to joint damage in psoriatic arthritis. (2008, 39 pages; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C - in press). (more)

Book

The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events (Co-Author Jerry Lawless )

Biography

Professor Cook obtained his BSc in statistics from McMaster University before coming to the University of Waterloo for a Masters in mathematics (statistics) in 1988. He obtained his PhD in statistics in 1992 and has held various positions in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science where he is now professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methods for Health Research. He currently holds a cross-appointment with the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo, and a part-time appointment in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University.

Professor Cook engages in active collaborations with oncologists from McMaster University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Sheffield University (UK) on problems relating to the analysis of treatments for the prevention of complications arising from metastases in cancer patients. He also collaborates with faculty in the McMaster Transfusion Research Program and has co-authored several methodological and clinical papers in transfusion medicine. Professor Cook works closely with rheumatologists at the Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Disease at the University of Toronto, where contributions have been made for the characterization of rates and risk factors for disease progression in arthritis.

Professor Cook is a member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada's Disease Site Group, serves on several advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies, and has been a consultant with industry for several years.

Professor Cook has held career awards from the Medical Research Council of Canada (1995-99) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2000-05), and is currently funded by NSERC, CIHR, CRC, and industry. (more) (top)