My principal interest is the application of statistical theory and methods to challenges in health care management and research. Areas of particular interest include medical informatics, data mining, evidence-based medicine, and outcomes and effectiveness research.

medical informatics, data mining, evidence-based medicine, outcomes research, disease management, provider performance assessment, risk adjustment, health care cost, health policy statistics

Institutional National Research Service Award

U.S. Public Health Service, sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1991-3.

Individual National Research Service Award

U.S. Public Health Service, sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1993-4.

Robinson, J. W. (2008), "Regression Tree Boosting to Adjust Health Care Cost Predictions for Diagnostic Mix," Health Services Research, 43, 755-772.

Robinson, J. W., Zeger, S. L., and Forrest, C. B. (2006), "A Hierarchical Multivariate Two-Part Model for Profiling Providers' Effects on Healthcare Charges," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 911-923.

Robinson, J. W., and Roter, D. L. (1999), "Psychosocial Problem Disclosure by Primary Care Patients," Social Science and Medicine, 48, 1353-1362.

Robinson, J. W., and Roter, D. L. (1999), "Counseling by Primary Care Physicians of Patients Who Disclose Psychosocial Problems," Journal of Family Practice, 48, 698-705.