Michael M. Meyer

My main research interests are in applications of statistics, particularly applications that are computer intensive. I have had a long involvement with models for discrete (categorical) data and particularly some of the computational aspects of fitting such models. I have applied my discrete data expertise to numerous consulting problems, primarily in the social and medical sciences. One example involves models that predict how young children will verbally interact with their parents, based on several characteristics of their parents and their early development. Another, coming from Carnegie Mellon's Department of Psychology, is a study that attempts to understand why certain people have difficulty remembering the words for certain objects.

A different research interest is the application of computing and statistical methods to problems in industrial quality and government. Some recent work has involved reverse engineering an adjusted US federal census from partially released information.

I am currently the electronic co-editor for the American Statistical Association, and I am the founder and manager of StatLib.

Some Related Publications

Farah, M.J., McMullen, P.A., Meyer, M.M. (1991) ``Can recognition of living things be selectively impaired'', Neuropsychologia, 29, No. 2, pp. 185--193.

Farah, M.J., Meyer, M.M., McMullen, P.A. (1996) "The living/nonliving dissociation is not an artifact: Giving an a priori implausible hypothesis a strong test," Cognitive Neuropsychology, 13, no. 1, pp. 137--154.

Meyer, M.M. and Kadane, J.B. (1992) Reconstructing the Adjusted Census for Florida: A Case Study in Data Snooping, The Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 1, no. 4, pp. 287--300.

Meyer, M.M. and Fienberg, S.E. (eds) (1992) Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies. National Academy Press.