Susan M. Paddock, Ph.D.
I am a Senior Statistician & Head of the Statistics Group at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, USA.   I am also the Editor for social science, government, & economics of Annals of Applied Statistics.
 
My CV (.pdf) .
 
My research focuses on:
 
- Health care
       Drug policy
        Substance abuse treatment and prevention
        Health services research
        Mental Health
        Medicare
          
- Statistical methodology
        Bayesian methods
        Bayesian nonparametrics
        Hierarchical models
        Missing data
        Prior elicitation