Michael Lopez
AssOCIATE Professor of Statistics
Office:
Telephone: (518) 580-5280
Email: mlopez1@skidmore.edu
Personal webpage: Michael Lopez
VITAE
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI (2014)
- M.S., Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (2010)
- B.A. Mathematics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME (2004)
Professor Lopez teaches statistics courses for the department. He completed the requirements
for a Ph.D. from Brown University during the summer of 2014, and he will officially
receive his degree in May of 2015. Professor Lopez’s research area lies in deriving
causes and effects using observational data. For example, does reading the nutritional
labels on food items lead to healthier outcomes? Or are people who are healthier simply
read nutritional labels more often? He has twice presented on methods for causal inference
with multiple treatments at the Joint Statistical Meetings, both in Montreal (2013)
and Boston (2014). Professor Lopez is also interested in statistical methods for analyzing
sports data, and has published multiple papers on both hockey and football. In his
spare time, he keeps an active blog, and has also written for Sports Illustrated,
The Hockey News, and Deadspin.