Stephen D. Kachman

Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0963

Location: 354B Hardin Center
Office: (402) 472-7302
FAX: (402) 472-5179

skachman@unl.edu

Areas of Expertise 

• Mixed Linear Models 
• Generalized Linear Mixed Models 
• June 18-29, 2001 GLMM Short Course, at Iowa State University
  Information
• June 13-15, 2001 Graybill Conference on Linear Models
  Genetic Evaluation of Livestock with Generalized Linear Mixed Models
• Kachman, S. D. 2000, An Introduction to Generalized Linear Mixed Models, In: Proc. of a Symposium at the Organizational Meeting for a NCR Coordinating Committee on "Implementation Strategies for National Beef Cattle Evaluation," Oct 20-21, Athens, GA. 59-73.
• Oct. 26, 1998 Animal Breeding Seminar
  A "Survivable" Introduction to Survival Analysis 
• Nov. 2, 1998 Animal Breeding Seminar
  An Application of Survival Analysis to a Simmental Data Set 
• 1998 WCC100 Presentation on Survival Analysis 
  Slides 
• 1998 ADSA/ASAS Presentation on Survival Analysis 
  Slides
  Kachman, S. D. 1999, Applications in Survival Analysis, J. Anim. Sci., Vol. 77:147-153
• Statistical Computing 
• October, 2003 Bioinformatics Seminar
  Self-Organizing Maps: An Introduction
• Sept. 18, 2002 Biometry Seminar
  Application of the Metropolis--Hastings Algorithm to Variable Dimensional Models
• 2001 NCR199 Presentation
  Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models with MATVEC
• 1995 Presentation on AIREML
  Does the ``AI'' in AI--REML stand for Artificial Intelligence?
• Breeding and Genetics 
• Jan. 16, 2001 Animal Breeding Seminar
  Marker Assisted Selection: Computational Issues
• Kachman, S. D. 2000, Genetic Evaluation of Survival Traits, In: Proc. of a Symposium at the Organizational Meeting for a NCR Coordinating Committee on "Implementation Strategies for National Beef Cattle Evaluation," Oct 20-21, Athens, GA. 27-31.

Courses Taught

• Statistical Modeling
  • Fall 2006
  • Fall 2005
  • Spring 2004
  • Spring 2002
  • (GLMM 1998) Overheads 
• Variance Component Estimation
  • Fall 2005 
  • Spring 2003 
  • Spring 2001 
  • Spring 1999 
• Linear Models
  • Spring 2006
  • Spring 2005
  • Fall 2003
  • Fall 2002
  • Fall 1999
  • Fall 1998
  • Fall 1997
    • Overheads  
    • IML Modules 
• Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
  • Spring 2005 
  • Spring 2003 
• Statistical Genomics
  • Fall 2004 
  • Fall 2002 
  • Fall 2000 
• Experimental Design 
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2000
• Stat & Applications 
• Fall 2003
• Distribution Theory 
• Fall 2006
• Statistical Inference 
• Statistical Methods for Researchers 

Software

• Matvec