Vincent Agboto
Assistant Professor / Biostatistician
Family and
Community Medicine
Phone: 615-327-5570
2nd Floor Old Hospital
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37208
vagboto@mmc.edu
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| Professional Education |
2006: Ph.D, Statistics, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
2005: M.S, Statistics, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
1996: Graduate Work, Applied Mathematics and Economics, School of Sciences/School of Management Sciences, University of Lome, Togo (West Africa)
1995: B.S, Mathematics, School of Sciences, University of Lome, Togo (West Africa) |
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| Research Interests |
Dr. Vincent Agboto is the new director of the biometrics core in the clinical research center and an assistant professor and biostatistician in the department of family and community medicine at the Meharry Medical College. Dr. Vincent Agboto is a statistician with over nine years of experience in applied statistical research, teaching and consulting including five years as the lead statistician in the Statistical Software Consulting Center at the University of Minnesota and two years as a research scientist at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio.
His recent research and consulting experiences include the analysis of community health data and the design and analysis of survey data from community organizations, the review and the development of statistical methodologies of effluent data for the Environmental Protection Agency and the modeling of human exposures data by linking sources of pollutants (arsenic, lead, cadmium and chromium) to biomakers (urine, blood).
His current areas of research interests include the development of new Bayesian methodologies to design experiments, the statistical analysis of women and children health data and health disparities in HIV/AIDS, cancer and diabetes patients. Dr. Agboto is involved in many current NIH and CDC funded grant collaborative research in youth violence, injury prevention, health disparities in HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer with faculty at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University. |
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| Academic Interests/Expertise |
| Dr. Vincent Agboto has worked as an adjunct instructor of Statistics and Mathematics at Columbus State Community College, Ohio Dominican University and is currently an adjunct assistant professor of biostatistics at the Ohio State University College of Public Health. He has also worked as a statistical consultant in Minneapolis. Dr. Agboto’s teachings of statistics at the University of Minnesota, Columbus State Community College, Ohio Dominican University and Ohio State University have been widely praised. Dr. Vincent Agboto is involved in the training of graduate students, medical students, residents and researchers through coursework, workshops in biostatistics and data management at the Meharry Medical College. Dr. Agboto is also skilled in various statistical software packages including SAS, SPSS, R, Matlab, Splus, Stata and Mathematica. |
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| Selected Publications |
Agboto, V. K, C. J. Nachtsheim and William Li: Screening Designs for model discrimination. Submitted to Technometrics in 12/2006. |
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