Robert A. Wolfe, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

M4023 SPH II
1420 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: (734) 936-0997; Fax: (734) 763-2215

E-mail: bobwolfe@umich.edu

Website(s): Personal Website

Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 103,385 KB)

Professional Summary

Robert Wolfe is a Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan after receiving his Ph.D. in statistics in 1978 from Stanford University. He has worked in various areas of statistics and biostatistics including failure time and survival analysis and medical applications in kidney disease and organ transplantation.

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, Stanford University, 1978
M.A., Mathematics, Stanford University, 1973
B.A., Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1968

Research Interest & Projects

My research interests are focused on methods to study the mechanisms and associations that underlie processes which unfold through time. Such methods include both aspects of the design of experiments and of the analysis of data from experiments and surveys. I am particularly interested in methods that help to disentangle complex sequences of information related to the natural history of specific disease processes and their treatment.
My recent collaborative work includes: (1) comparison of treatment modalities for patients with end stage renal disease, and (2) evaluation of variability in hospital admission rates among communities.

Selected Publications

Huang, X. and Wolfe, R. A. (2002). A frailty model for informative censoring. Biometrics, 58: No. 3, 510-520.

Wolfe R. A., Ashby, V.B., Milford, E.L., Ojo, A. O., Ettenger, R. E., Agodoa, L. Y. C., Held, P. J., Port, F. K. (1999). Patient survival for waitlisted dialysis versus cadaveric renal transplant patients in theUnited States. New England Journal of Medicine, 341, 1725-1730.

Lee S, Wolfe RA (1998). A simple test for independent censoring under the proportional hazards model. Biometrics, 54, 1176-82.

Wolfe, R. A., Wolfe, J. C., and Entsuah, A. R. (1997). Comparing speeds of effectiveness of two treatments. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 32, 369-75.

Wolfe, R. A. and Strawderman, R. L. (1996). Logical and statistical fallacies in the use of the Cox regression model. American Journal of Kidney Disease, 27, 124-129.

Petroni, G.R. and Wolfe, R.A. (1994). A two-sample test for stochastic ordering with interval censored data. Biometrics, 50