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Ager, Joel, Ph.D Departmental Role Dr. Joel Ager received his Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in behavioral statistics and measurement from Syracuse University. From 1958 to 1998 he was a member of Wayne State University Psychology department where he taught graduate courses in statistics and measurement as well as provided methodological consultation for a wide variety of research projects in the department, the college of Nursing, the Medical School, as well as for other units in the University. From 1995 to 2005 he served as a senior statistician in the Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Research (CHER) in the School of Medicine. In 2006 he moved to the Department of Family Medicine when CHER was merged with that department. In the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Science he is currently serving as Interim Director of the newly formed Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. During his career at WSU, Dr. Ager has served as PI on four NIH grants in the area of family planning service provision and as Co-PI on numerous other grants including several in the area of effects of fetal toxic substance exposure on child development. Currently his main methodological interests are in specification of control variables in regression analyses and in development of non-parametric analogues to Analysis of Variance. |
