Dick Campbell, PhD
presents
All You Need to Know About Longitudinal Analysis:
A 90 Minute Dash
 

Richard T. “Dick” Campbell is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He earned his PhD in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he specialized in methodology and statistics.  After a post-doc at the Duke University Center for Aging and Human Development, he taught at Duke from 1975 until he moved to UIC in 1986.

At UIC, he is a member of the Statistics and Methods Core at the Institute for Health Research and Policy where he works closely with researchers in a number of areas, particularly aging.  He currently is a co-investigator on Sue Hughes’ project, “Long-term Maintenance of Exercise Behavior Among Older Adults with Osteoarthritis.”

Dick is the author or co-author of papers which have appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, the American Sociological Review, Health Psychology, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and many others.  In 1997, he received the Distinguished Career Award of the Behavioral & Social Science Section, Gerontology Society of America.

Dick has a long-term interest in the methodology of longitudinal research and says that the most interesting challenge in his work is to maximize the linkage between what investigators want to know and the statistical methods they use.  He notes that more progress has been made in methods of longitudinal analysis in the last twenty years than in the previous fifty, and is eager to help researchers cope with the onslaught of new methods.