Vincent Agboto

Assistant Professor
Family and Community Medicine / School of Graduate Studies and Research


Phone: (615) 327-5570

vagboto@mmc.edu

 
 
 
 
Professional Education
Dates Attended
Institution Name
 City, State Degree/Area of Study
09/1998-07/2006
University of Minnesota
 Minneapolis, MN Ph.D./Statistics

09/1998-06/2005

 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN M.S./Statistics

09/1991-10/1995

 University of Lome Togo (West Africa) B.S./Mathematics

 
Research Interests / Specialty

1. Bayesian statistics
2. Optimal designs
3. Model robust designs
4. Sample Size and Power Analysis
5. New Paradigms for epidemiological study designs
6. Health disparity in cancer, HIV/AIDS and women health

 
Publications/Scholarly Activities
  1. Agboto V, Nachtsheim C, Li W. Screening designs for model discrimination. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Submitted).

  2. Levine R, Rust G, Pisu M, Agboto V, Baltrus P, Hennekens C. Black white disparities in United States mortality: When Life-Saving Breakthroughs Intensify Structural Inequities. American Journal of Public Health   
    (Under Revision).

  3.  Agboto V, Levine R, Samaniego V, Juarez P, Zoorob R, Goldzweig I, Horner N, Husaini B, Hull P, Hennekens C. Geographic variation in black-white firearms assault mortality among young males in the United States. American Journal of Public Health (Submitted).

 

 

 
 

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