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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Babubhai V. Shah''' (born 6 February 1935), professor of statistics, was a chief scientist at [[Research Triangle Institute]] (RTI) from 1966 till he retired in 2003. He held several positions with RTI and [[Research Triangle Park]] for over four decades. B. V. Shah was responsible for the development of the [[SUDAAN]] software;<ref>[CITATION] SUDAAN user's manual, release 7.5 BV Shah, BG Barnwell, GS Bieler - Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle …, 1997<br />
- Related articles</ref> to recognize his contributions, RTI has dedicated the current release of SUDAAN (9.0) to B. V. Shah. During that time, he was also part of the academia of biostatistics department, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], N.C.<br />
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Shah received his Ph.D. in statistics from [[University of Mumbai]] in 1960 under the guidance of professor [[M. C. Chakrabarti]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mu.ac.in/science/Statistics/alumni.html |title=Shah's Ph.D. from statistics department of the University of Mumbai |access-date=2010-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128064553/http://mu.ac.in/science/Statistics/alumni.html |archive-date=2010-11-28 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref><br />
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==Honors==<br />
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* American Statistical Association, Fellow<br />
* [[International Statistical Institute]], Fellow<br />
* Royal Statistical Society, Fellow<br />
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==Selected peer-reviewed publications==<br />
* 1958, On balancing in factorial experiments. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 29:766-779.<br />
* 1969. A note on predicting failures in a future time period. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Reliability, p.&nbsp;203-204.<br />
* 1979. Language design for survey data analysis. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, p.&nbsp;273-292.<br />
* (with R.W. Haley), 1981. Nosocomial infections in U.S. Hospitals, 1975-1976: estimated frequency by selected characteristics of patients. The American Journal of Medicine 70:947-959<br />
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==Books and Book Chapters==<br />
* Myers, L.E., N. Adams, L. Kier, T.K. Rao, B. Shah, and L. Williams (1991). Microcomputer Software for Data Management and Statistical Analysis of the Ames/Salmonella Test. In Krewski, D. and C. Franklin (Eds.), Statistics in Toxicology. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, pp.&nbsp;265–279.<br />
* LaVange, L.M., B.V. Shah, B.G. Barnwell, and J.F. Killinger (1990). SUDAAN: A comprehensive package for survey data analysis. In G.E. Liepins and V.R.R. Uppuluri (Eds.), Data Quality Control. New York: Marcell Dekker, Inc., pp.&nbsp;209–227.<br />
* Shah, B.V. and R.P. Moore (1977). National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972: Sample Design Efficiency Study—Effects of Stratification, Clustering, and Unequal Weighting on the Variances of NLS Statistics. National Center for Education Statistics. Sponsored Reports Series, Stock No. 017-080-01692-3, GPO.<br />
* Shah, B.V. (1974). On Mathematics of Population Simulation Models. In B. Dyke and J.W. MacCluer (Eds.), Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies. New York: Academic Press, Inc., pp.&nbsp;421–434.<br />
* Shah, B.V., A.V. Rao, Q.W. Lindsey, R.C. Bhavsar, D.G. Horvitz, and J.R. Batts (1974). The Evaluation of Four Alternative Family Planning Programs for Poland, a Less Developed Country. In B. Dyke and J.W. MacCluer (Eds.), Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies. New York: Academic Press, Inc., pp.&nbsp;261–304.<br />
* Shah, B.V., D.G. Horvitz, P.A. Lachenbruch, and F.G. Giesbrecht (1971). POPSIM, A Demographic Microsimulation Model. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Monograph Series 12, pp.&nbsp;45–68.<br />
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