Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania.
Associate Scholar, Biostatistics Unit, Center for Clinical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine.
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
Editorial Appointments
Associate Editor, The American Statistician.
Associate Editor, Biometrics.
Associate Editor, Evaluation Review.
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Associate Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.
Teaching
Fall 2008: Stat 112, Introductory Statistics II.
Fall 2008: Stat 475/920, Survey Sampling.
Fall 2008: Stat 550, Mathematical Statistics.
Research Interests
Design and analysis of experiments and observational studies for
comparing treatments.
Longitudinal and multilevel data.
Applications of statistics to public health, medicine and economics.
Papers
Small, D., Gastwirth, J., Krieger, A. and Rosenbaum, P. Simultaneous
sensitivity analysis for observational studies using full matching or
matching with multiple controls. Statistics and Its Interface,
in press. Paper. Data Set (Documentation).
Small, D. and Cheng. J. Discussion of "Identifiability and Estimation
of Causal Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance and Completely
Nonignorable Missing Data." Biometrics, in press. Paper
Kurichi, J., Small, D., Bates, B., Prvu-Bettger, J., Kwong, P.,
Vogel, W.B., Bidelspach, D. and Stineman, M. Possible incremental benefits of specialized rehabilitation bed units
among veterans following lower extremity amputation. Medical
Care, in press.
Abstract
Cheng, J., Small, D., Tan, Z. and Ten Have, T. Efficient
nonparametric estimation of causal effects in randomized trials with
noncompliance. Biometrika , in press. Paper
Lai, T., Small, D. and Liu, J. Statistical inference in dynamic panel
data models. Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference, in press. Paper.
Entine, O. and Small, D. (2008). The role of rest
in the NBA home court
advantage. Journal of Quantitative
Analysis in Sports, Vol 4: Iss. 2, Article 6.
Paper.
Joffe, M., Small, D., Brunelli, S., Ten Have, T.
and Feldman, H. (2008).
Extended instrumental variables estimation for overall effects.
International Journal of Biostatistics, Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Paper.
Small, D. and Rosenbaum, P. War and wages: the strength of
instrumental variables and their sensitivity to unobserved biases.
Journal of the American Statisical Association, 103,
924-933. Paper.
Small, D., Ten Have, T. and Rosenbaum, P. Randomization inference in
a group randomized trial of treatments for depression: covariate
adjustment, noncompliance and quantile effects. Journal of the
American Statistical Association, 103, 271-279. Paper.
Small, D. (2007). Sensitivity analysis for instrumental variables
regression with overidentifying restrictions. Journal of the
American Statistical Association, 102, 1049-1058.
Paper Errata
Joffe, M., Small, D. and Hsu, C.-Y. (2007). Defining and estimating
intervention effects for groups that will develop an auxiliary outcome.
Statistical Science, 22, 74-97. Paper. Software. Link to journal
Lai, T. and Small, D. (2007). Marginal regression analysis of
longitudinal data with time-dependent covariates: a generalized method of
moments approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series
B, 69, 79-99.
Paper. Software
(Software Documentation).
Cheng, J. and Small, D. (2006). Bounds on causal
effects in three-arm
trials with noncompliance. Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society, Series B, 68, 815-836. Paper.
Software (Software Documentation).
Small, D., Gastwirth, J., Krieger, A. and Rosenbaum, P. (2006).
R-Estimates vs. GMM: A theoretical case study of validity and efficiency.
Statistical Science, 21, 363-375.
Paper. Link to journal
Small, D., Ten Have, T., Joffe, M. and Cheng, J. (2006). Random
effects
logistic models for analysing efficacy of a longitudinal
randomized treatment with non-adherence. Statistics in
Medicine, 25, 1981-2007. Paper
Apter, A., Cheng, J., Small, D., Bennett, I., Albert, C., Fein, D.,
George, M. and Van Horne, S. (2006). Asthma numeracy skill and health
literacy. Journal of Asthma, 43, 705-710. Abstract
Chen, Y. and Small, D. (2005). Exact tests for the Rasch model via
sequential importance sampling. Psychometrika, 70,
11-30. Abstract
