Jon Wakefield
Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington
Research interests
I am a statistician working at the intersection of methodology and global health, with particular interests in:
- Spatial demography — see the Impact page
- Small area estimation
- Spatial epidemiology
- Space–time models for infectious disease data
- Estimating under-five mortality in low- and middle-income countries
- Hierarchical models for survey data
- Estimating national and subnational disease burden
- Ecological inference for non-infectious and infectious disease data
- The links between Bayesian and frequentist procedures