User:Pdbailey

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Education Bachelors G This user is a student or alumnus of Grinnell College. This user is a chemist. Math Classes NYU This user attends or attended New York University This user is a mathematician. Masters in Statistics This user attends or attended the University of Chicago. This user is a statistician. Economics Ph.D. (hopeful) This user is a student or alumnus of the University of Maryland. other This user is a member of WikiProject Statistics. This user is a member of the WikiProject Economics. 1,000+ This user has made over 1,000 contributions to Wikipedia. oran ook

I am a graduate of Grinnell College with a BA in Chemistry. While there, I did research in Physical Chemistry. For three years after that I worked as a physicist focusing on ionising radiation and took classes in Applied Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I then continued to work on ionising radiation while attending the University of Chicago as a masters student in statistics. I am now an Economics Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park.

Contents 1 My work 1.1 Statistics 1.2 Radiation effects 2 Requested articles

[edit] My work

I spend most of my time here editing Grinnell College and less related article (i.e. relating to the alumni of the college).

[edit] Statistics

I've contributed significantly to

• Exponential family,
• an older version of Generalized linear model

and made figures for a few PDFs and CDFs.

I would like to contribute significantly to

• binomial regression,
• logistic regression,
• probit,
• probit model,
• Ordered Probit,
• Ordered Logit,
• Multinomial logit,
• Linear probability models.

I also attempt to monitor the above highly related (in name) functions/methods to make sure that readers can tell quickly if they are on the page to get to the information they were looking for. Problems arise because people call various forms of binomial regression "probit" instead of "probit model" or "probit analysis." et cetera.

[edit] Radiation effects

While there is a core of excellent workers in the effects of radiation who do great work and have great journals that they share their findings in, there is also very large amount of very poorly done papers suggesting that radiation is either good for you or not bad for you so long as the dose is low enough. This theory has never been accepted by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP), and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) despite it's recent and careful consideration by expert panels on the topic.

In addition, there appears to be only a few Wikipedia editors who are familiar with radiation effects and even fewer who are approve of the findings of the NAS, NCRP, and UNSCEAR (which are very unpopular in the field of radiation protection). Because of this, I've spent quite a while monitoring and improving some articles which are often rewritten (by authors who are upholding many of Wikipedia's best policies such as the encouragement to be bold and definitely editing in good faith). The articles are:

• Radiation hormesis
• Linear no-threshold model
• Hormesis

[edit] Requested articles

• Robinson Crusoe economy