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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CURRICULUM VITAE


MARIJA J. NORUŠIS
marija@norusis.com
Education:
Ph.D. University of Michigan (biostatistics)
M.P.H. University of Michigan (biostatistics)
B.A. University of Illinois

Professional Experience:
1992-present Statistical consultant: extensive consultation in the area of medical outcomes; supervised the data analysis for the Greater Cleveland Health Quality project and the St. Louis Health Care Alliance; general consultation to industry and to professional associations.
1981-1992 Associate Professor and Senior Biostatistician
Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center: taught graduate students, medical students and staff; provided institution wide statistical consulting.
1977-1981 Senior Statistician and Technical Director
SPSS, Inc: managed a technical staff of 50 statisticians, programmers and writers.
1973-1977 Research Associate (Assistant Professor)
Departments of Statistics and Medicine
University of Chicago: taught undergraduate and medical students; provided statistical support for the SCOR in Ischemic Heart Disease, the tumor registry, a multi-institutional study of methadone treatment for pregnant drug addicts, as well as consultation to investigators in the medical school.
1972-1973 Research Associate, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of Michigan: analyzed data for the Stroke Hypertension Cooperative Study Group.


Professional Activities:
Advisory Board: Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Computational Statistics Quarterly
American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Journal of In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer
Officer: American Statistical Association
1978-1980       Chicago Chapter, vice-president
1984-1985       Northeastern Illinois Chapter, secretary


Publications:

Pine M, Norušis M, Jones B. Thrombopoietin: Platelets on demand - Response Annals of Internal Medicine 127: (9) Nov. 1 1997.

Pine M, Norušis M, Jones B, et al. Using prolonged risk-adjusted post-operative length of stay (RAPOLOS) to measure comparative surgical performance in CABG procedures. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 29: (2) Suppl. A, Feb. 1997.

Pine, M., Norušis, MJ., Jones, B. and Rosenthal, G. Predictions of Hospital Mortality Rates: A Comparison of Data Sources. Annals of Internal Medicine. 126(5), March 1997.

Fairman, K., Teitelbaum, F., Drevets, W., Engquist, G., Kresman, J., and Norušis, MJ. Course of Antidepressant Treatment with Tricyclic Versus Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Agents: A Comparison in Managed Care and Fee-For-Service Environments. The American Journal of Managed Care. 3(3), March, 1997.

Pine M, Norušis M, Harper D. Adequacy of administrative versus physiological data for performance monitoring. Circulation 90: (4) Part 2 Oct. 1994.

Kang, SS, Wong, PWK, Susmano, A., Sora, J., Norušis, MJ. and Ruggie, N. Thermolabile Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase: An Inherited Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease. American Journal of Human Genetics, March 1991.

McPherson RS, Betz EP, Norušis M, et al. Reproducibility of Diet Histories in the Chicago Western Electric Study American Journal of Epidemiology 132: (4) Oct. 1990.

Corwin, HL., Sprague, SM., DeLaria, GA. and Norušis, MJ. Acute renal failure associated with cardiac operations. A case-control study. J Thorac. Cardiovascular Surgery 98(6), 1989.

Turner, DA., Alcorn,FS., Shorey, WD., Stelling, CB., Mategrano, VC., Merten CV., Silver, B., Economou, SG., Straus, AK., Witt, TR., and Norušis, MJ. Carcinoma of the Breast: Detection with MRe Imaging versus Xeromammography. Radiology 168(1), 1988.

Dudiak, CM., Turner, DA., Patel, SK., Archie, JT., Silver, B. and Norušis, MJ. Uterine Leiomyomas in the infertile patient: Preoperative localization with MR imaging versus US and hystero-salpingography. Radiology 167 (3), 1988.

Russell, E, Geremia, G, Johnson, C, Huckman, M, Ramsey, R, Washburn-Bleck, J, Turner, D, and Norušis, MJ. Multiple cerebral metastases: detectability with Gd-DPTA enhanced MR imaging. Radiology 165(3), 1987.

Kang, SS, Wong, PWK, and Norušis, MJ. Homocysteinemia due to folate deficiency. Metabolism, 36(5), 1987.

Gleicher, N, Boler, LR, Norušis, MJ and DelGranado, A. Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and parity. Am J Ob Gyn 154(5), 1986.

Kang, SS, Wong, PWK, Cook, H, Norušis, MJ and Messer, JV. Protein bound homocyst(e)ine. J Clin Inv., May 1986.

Taylor, SG IV, Caldarelli, DD, Norušis, MJ, Showel, JL, Hutchinson, JC, Holinger, LD, Murthy, AK and Applebaum, E. A randomized trial of adjuvant chemotherapy in head and neck cancer. J-l Clin Onc 3(5), 1985.

Shekelle, RB, Gale, M, and Norušis, MJ. JAS type A score and risk of recurrent heart disease in the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study. Am J Cardiol 56(4), 1985

Daugirdas, JT, Al-Kudsi, RR, Ing, TS and Norušis, MJ. A double blind evaluation of sodium gradient hemodialysis. Am J-l Neph 5, 1985.

Taylor, SG IV, Caldarelli, DD, Norušis, MJ, Showel, JL, Hutchinson, JC, Holinger, LD, Murthy, AK, Applebaum, E. A randomized trial of adjuvant chemotherapy in head and neck squamous cancer. In Adjuvant Therapy of Cancer IV (eds. Salmon SE, Jones SE). New York: Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1984.

Daugirdas, JT, Ing, TS, Chen, WT, Vestal, RE, Izzo, JL, Hano, JE, and Norušis, MJ. Hemodynamic responses to volume depletion in acutely uremic dogs. Am J Physiol 247(2 Pt 2), 1984.

Popli, S, Stroka, G, Ing, TS, Daugirdas, JT, Norušis, MJ, Hano, JE, Gandhi, VC. Transdermal clonidine for hypertensive patients. Clin Ther 5(6), 1983.

Nie, N and Norušis, MJ. More on evaluating computer programs. Amer Stat 36, 1982.

Kinias, P, Fozzard, HA, and Norušis, MJ. A real time pressure algorithm. Comp Bio Med 11(4), 1981.

Norušis, MJ, and Wang, C. Comment on : Evaluation of ANOVA programs. Amer Stat 35, 1981.

Norušis, MJ, and Wang, C. The SCSS conversation system. Amer Stat 34, 1981.

Herbst, AL, Cole, P, Norušis, MJ, Welch, WR, and Scully, RE.Epidemiological aspects and factors related to survival in 384 registry cases of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix. Amer J Ob Gyn 135, 1979.

Herbst, A, Norušis, MJ, Rosenow, P, et al. Recurrence and survival in patients with clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina and cervix. Gynecol Onc 7, 1979.

Nie, N, Fry, J, Jenkins, J., and Norušis, MJ. Comment on: Review of the manuals for BMDP and SPSS. JASA 73, 1978.

Kinias, P, Norušis, MJ, and Fozzard, HA. A dual processor computer for arrhythmia analysis. Med Inst 12, 1978.

Amarose, AP, and Norušis, MJ. Cytogenetics of methadone-managed and heroin-addicted pregnant women and their newborn infants. Amer J Ob Gyn 124, 1976.

Jacquez, JA, and Norušis, MJ. The importance of symptom nonindependence in diagnosis. In Decision Making and Medical Care: Can Information Science Help (Eds. de Dombal and Gremy) Amsterdam, New York: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976.

Norušis, MJ, and Jacquez, JA. Diagnosis I: Symptom nonindependence in mathematical models for diagnosis. Comp Biomed Res 8, 1975.

Norušis, MJ, and Jacquez, JA. Diagnosis II: Diagnostic models based on attribute clusters: a proposal and comparisons. Comp Biomed Res 8, 1975.

Stroke Hypertension Cooperative Study Group. The effect of anti-hypertensive treatment on stroke recurrence. JAMA 229, 1974.

Norušis, MJ. A note on Bahadur's expansion in Bayesian diagnostic algorithms. Int J Biomed Comp 4, 1973.

Jacquez, JA, and Norušis, MJ. Sampling experiments on the estimation of parameters in heteroscedastic linear regression. Biometrics 29, 1973.

Textbooks:

Norušis, MJ, SPSS 13.0 Advanced Statistical Procedures Companion. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Norušis, MJ, SPSS 12.0 Statistical Procedures Companion. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Norušis, MJ, SPSS 13.0 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2005.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS 10.0 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS 9.0 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS 8.0 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS 7.5 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS 6.1 Guide to Data Analysis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Norušis, MJ. The SPSS Guide to Data Analysis. for SPSS/PC+.Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1991.

Norušis, MJ. The SPSS Guide to Data Analysis. for Release 4. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990.

Norušis, MJ. The SPSS Guide to Data Analysis. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1986.

Norušis, MJ., SPSS/PC+ Studentware for Business. Chicago: SPSS Inc. 1991.

Norušis, MJ. SPSS Introductory Statistics Student Guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc. 1990.

Norušis, MJ. SPSS Advanced Statistics Student Guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc. 1990.

Norušis, MJ. Studentware. Chicago: SPSS Inc. 1988.

Norušis, MJ. SPSS-X Advanced Statistics Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Norušis, MJ. SPSS-X Introductory Statistics Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.

Norušis, MJ. SPSS: An Introduction to Statistics and Operations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Software Manuals:

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Regression Models. 9.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Professional Statistics. 7.5. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Base System Users Guide. Release 6.1. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Advanced Statistics Release 6.1. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Professional Statistics. Release 6.1. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Base System Users Guide. Release 6.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Advanced Statistics Release 6.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Professional Statistics. Release 6.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Base System Users Guide. Release 5.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Advanced Statistics Release 5.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc., SPSS for Windows Professional Statistics. Release 5.0. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC+ Base Manual Release 5.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1992.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Statistics. Release 5.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1992

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Advanced Statistics. Release 5.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1992.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS Base System Users Guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990.

Norušis, MJ. and SPSS Inc. SPSS Advanced Statistics Users Guide. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC+ Base Manual Release 4.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Statistics. Release 4.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Advanced Statistics. Release 4.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1990.

Norušis, MJ. Statistik mit SPSS. Edited by G. Frenzel and D. Hermann, Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1989.

Norušis, MJ. dBASE Stats. Ashton-Tate, 1989.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC+ Update Release 3.0 and Release 3.1 Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1989.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Update Release 3.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1988.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC+ Base Manual Release 2. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1986.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Advanced Statistics. Release 2. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1986.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC+. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1985.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS,Inc. SPSS PC+ Advanced Statistics. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1985.

Norušis, MJ and SPSS Inc. SPSS PC. Chicago: SPSS Inc., 1984.

Nie, N, Hull, C, Franklin, M, Jenkins, J, Sours, K, Norušis, MJ, and Beadle, V. A User's Guide to the SCSS Conversational System. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Norušis, MJ. Statistical Algorithms in SPSS. Chicago: SPSS Inc. 1979.




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