Pulmonary Translational Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is a passionate statistical collaborator whose research interests span a range of specialized areas, including clinical trials, infectious disease epidemiology, machine learning, model selection, interpretability, statistical computation, best practices for statistical collaboration, and missing data. He is also an active member of the Center for Innovative Design & Analysis, which provides a broad range of statistical expertise for researchers both locally and across the nation. Dr. Peterson obtained his BA in Economics at St. Olaf College, and his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa.
"A biostatistician has broad appeal in the sciences. We can help solve a lot of issues with study design and we can aid in the forming and interpretation of the results. This makes us an indispensable component of science in general."