Trent
Buskirk received
his Ph.D. in Statistics from Arizona State University in 1999.
Prior to joining the faculty at SLU-SPH, Dr. Buskirk served as
a consultant and graduate faculty member of Eastern Virginia Medical
School. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Buskirk served as the Director
of Sampling and Statistics at the National Home Office of the
American Cancer Society. While at ACS Dr. Buskirk provided statistical
expertise on two national, state-registry-based samples of cancer
survivors to better understand the quality of life of cancer survivors
from various stages of survivorship.
Dr. Buskirk’s main research foci include survey sampling
statistics and survey research methods. In particular, Dr. Buskirk
has research interests in the development of methodologies that
can be used to visualize sample survey data. Dr. Buskirk has also
developed methods for linking state and national survey data to
improve estimates of lifetime drug use. Most recently, Dr. Buskirk
has been developed interests in methodologies surrounding sampling
mobile phones in probability samples as well as survey mode effects,
in general. Dr. Buskirk has published work in a variety of methodological
and applied journals including The Journal of Statistical Planning
and Inference, The Journal of Official Statistics, The Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Field Methods, Cancer
and Clinical Anatomy.
While he is not writing, consulting
or teaching, you can find Dr. Buskirk spending time with his toddler or playing racquetball.
Education
PhD- Arizona State University
Courses
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BST 500: Introductory Biostatistics
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BST 510: Introduction to General Linear Modelling
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BST 542: Sampling and Survey Research in Public Health
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BST 503: Statistical Computing using SAS
