Background:
Dr. Odei comes to the college with a Ph.D. in Statistics. Prior to joining the OSU College of Public Health in the Division of Biostatistics, he served as a visiting assistant professor at OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Statistics, where he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses.
His research interests include spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal modeling using Bayesian methods and hierarchical modeling and applications to ecology and health. He believes that interdisciplinary collaboration is key to making scientific progress.
Research Interests:
Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Statistics,
Environmental and Ecological Statistics,
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling,
Statistical Data Visualization,
Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB, etc.),
Environmental Epidemiology,
Statistical methods for observational studies in population health, health outcome research and social sciences,
Behavioral Medicine and Psychology,
Breast Cancer Prevention
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Selected Publications:
Odei, J.B., J. Symanzik, and M.B. Hooten (2014). "A Bayesian hierarchical model for forecasting of intermountain snowpack dynamics," Environmetrics, 25 (5), 324–340. DOI: 10.1002/ENV.2275.
Wilson, T.L., J.B. Odei, M.B. Hooten, and T.C. Edwards (2010). "Hierarchical spatial models for predicting pygmy rabbit distribution and relative abundance," Journal of Applied Ecology. 47, 401– 409. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01766.x (BBC News Feature).
