William D. Dupont

William D. Dupont, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was born in Montreal, Canada and was educated at Trinity College School, McGill University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He has been a member the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine since 1977. He is best known for his work on the epidemiology of breast cancer, but he has also published papers on power calculations, the estimation of animal abundance, the foundations of statistical inference, and other topics. He is an author of over 150 refereed papers or book chapters or book reviews; as of October, 2009, more than 8,000 academic publications have cited his work (Google Web of Knowledge). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has published papers in over 70 journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, the American Journal of Epidemiology, Biometrics, Cancer Research, Controlled Clinical Trials and Statistics in Medicine. Dr. Dupont has been the principal investigator on seven grants on the epidemiology of breast cancer that were awarded by the National Cancer Institute. He has lectured on his research in North and South America and in Europe.

His textbook, Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers, has evolved out of his experience in teaching a second semester course in Biostatistics to research physicians in the Masters of Public Health degree program at Vanderbilt University. Additional information on this text can be found at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/dupontwd/wddtext/ . Reviews of his book have been published at http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/kwp312 and at http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/ASA_TSHS/pdf/TSHSnews09spring.pdf .