Robert L. Strawderman, ScD

Department Chair
 Donald M. Foster, MD Distinguished Professor  of Biostatistics

Contact Information

University of Rochester
Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
265 Crittenden Blvd., CU 420630
Rochester, New York 14642-0630

Office: Saunders Research Building 4122
Phone: (585) 275-6688
Fax: (585) 273-1031
E-mail: Robert_Strawderman@URMC.Rochester.edu

Research Interests

My major research area is survival analysis. More generally, I am interested in semiparametric methods for missing and censored data; statistical learning methods for risk and outcome prediction in medicine, epidemiology and public health; statistical and computational methods for high dimensional data; statistical methods for evaluating the cost and quality of health care; and, applications in cancer, psychiatry (e.g., suicide) and neurological disease (e.g., Huntington’s Disease).

Selected Publications

Statistical Methods

• Jones J, Ertefaie A, McKay JR, Oslin DW, Strawderman RL (2026). Valid post-selection inference in Robust Q-learning. Biometrics, to appear.
• Satten GA, Li M, Zhao N, Strawderman RL (2026). R-Estimation with censored data. Lifetime Data Analysis, to appear.
• Strawderman RL, Ertefaie A (2026). Comments on: Randomized clinical trials and the proportional hazards model for recurrent events. TEST, 35, 696-701.
• Jones JJ, Ertefaie A, Strawderman RL (2025). Causal Mediation Analysis: Selection with Asymptotically Valid Inference. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 87, 678-700.
• Strawderman RL, Baer BR (2024). On the Role of Volterra Integral Equations in Self-Consistent, Product-Limit, Inverse Probability of Censoring Weighted, and Redistribution-to-the-Right Estimators for the Survival Function. Lifetime Data Analysis, 30, 649-666.
• Baer B, Strawderman RL, Ertefaie A (2023). Discussion on “Instrumental variable estimation of causal hazard ratio" by Linbo Wang, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Torben Martinussen, and Stijn Vansteelandt. Biometrics, 79, 554-558.
• Ertefaie A, Strawderman RL (2021). Robust Q-Learning. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116, 368-381.
• Rice J, Strawderman RL, Johnson BA (2019). Modeling the rate of HIV testing from repeated binary data amidst potential never-testers. Biostatistics, 20, 183-198.
• Steingrimsson J, Diao L, Strawderman RL (2019).  Censoring unbiased regression trees and ensembles.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114, 370-383.
• Ertefaie A, Strawderman RL (2018). Constructing dynamic treatment regimes over indefinite time horizons. Biometrika, 105, 963-977. 

Applications

• Dzikowicz DJ, Aktas MK, Horna R, MacKecknie B, Cutter K, Mykins B, Cenname K, Miller E, McNitt S, Couderc JP, Strawderman RL, Zareba W, Steinberg JS (2026). Symptom-Triggered 6-Lead ECG Monitoring Significantly Increases Arrhythmia Detection Beyond Traditional Ambulatory Monitoring. Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances, Volume 5, No. 9.
• Goldenberg I, Zareba W, Ezekowitz J, Albert C, Alexis JD, Anderson L, Behr ER, Daubert J, Di Palo KE, Ellenbogen KA, Dzikowicz DJ, Harrington JM, Hsich E, Huang DT, Januzzi JL, Jawaid A, Kutyifa V, Lala-Trinidade A, Nakonechnyi A, Onwuanyi A, Pi˜na IL, Sandhu RK, Sears S, Sroubek J, Baykaner T, Strawderman RL, Zareba W, Butler J (2025). Rationale and Design of the Comparative Effectiveness of ICD Versus Non-ICD Therapy in Contemporary Heart Failure Patients at a Low Risk for Arrhythmic Death (CONTEMP-ICD) trial. American Heart Journal, Vol. 291, pp 162-174.
• Tankut SS, Huang DT, Zareba W, Aktas MK, Rosero SZ, Steinberg J, Henchen J, Kutyifa V, Strawderman RL, Goldenberg I (2023). Insertable Cardiac Monitor-Guided Early Intervention to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation Burden Following Catheter Ablation: Study Design and Clinical Protocol (ICM-REDUCE-AF Trial). Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/anec.13043
• Maeng D, Tsun ZY, Lesch E, Jacobowitz D, Strawderman RL, Harrington DK, Li Y, Weisman RL, Lamberti JS (2022+). Affordability of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment Programs: a Return-on-Investment Analysis. Psychiatric Services, 4:358-364.
• Desa DE, Strawderman RL, Wu W, Hill RL, Smid M, Martens JWM, Turner BM;, Brown EB (2020). Intratumoral heterogeneity of second-harmonic generation scattering from tumor collagen and its effects on metastatic risk prediction. BMC Cancer, 20(1):1217.
• Desa D, Bhanote M, Hill R, Majeski J, Buscaglia B, D’Aguiar M, Strawderman RL, Hicks D, Turner B, Brown E (2019). Second-Harmonic Generation Directionality is Associated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Breast Cancer Core Needle Biopsies. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 24, 086503-1 – 086503-9.