Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
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Dr Lawson is Professor of Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, MUSC and is an MUSC Distinguished Professor Emeritus and ASA Life...
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Dr Lawson is Professor of Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, MUSC and is an MUSC Distinguished Professor Emeritus and ASA Life Fellow. His PhD was in Spatial Statistics from the University of St. Andrews, UK.
He has over 200 journal papers on the subject of spatial epidemiology, spatial biostatistics and related areas. In addition to a number of book chapters, he is the author of 10 books in areas related to spatial epidemiology and health surveillance. The most recent of these is Lawson, A.B. et al (eds) (2016) Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology. CRC Press, New York, and in 2018 a 3rd edition of Bayesian Disease Mapping; hierarchical modeling in spatial epidemiology CRC Press. In 2021. a new volume entitled Using R Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-temporal Health modeling CRC Press appeared. He has acted as an advisor in disease mapping and risk assessment for the World Health Organization (WHO) and is founding editor of the Elsevier journal Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Dr Lawson has delivered many short courses in different locations over the last 20 years on Bayesian Disease Mapping with OpenBUGS, INLA, and Nimble, and more general spatial epidemiology topics.
Within the R environment professor Lawson uses the packages Nimble, INLA and CARBayes for modeling. He also uses OpenBUGS on its own and also via the R package Brugs. Additionally he uses the R packages akima, and MBA for surface visualization and tmap, spplot, fillmap, and GGplot2 for thematic mapping. For GIS-related work he uses Quantum GIS.