Other Affiliations
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Marvin Zelen
Lemuel Shattuck Research Professor of Statistical Science and Member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biostatistics
655 Huntington Avenue
Building II Room 443
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
617.432.4914
zelen@jimmy.harvard.edu
Research
Dr. Zelen's scientific interests include the creation of probability models of disease, new statistical methods for the planning and analysis of clinical trials, length biased sampling and the development of the theory for the early detection of disease. Current research includes models for the early prediction of mortality for early detection clinical trials , optimal scheduling of early detection screening programs for public health programs,estimating the future mortality of breast cancer in the U.S., relationships between randomization and the Poisson distribution with reference to low frequency outcomes.