Glen McGee



I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. I completed my PhD in Biostatistics at Harvard University and previously received a BScH in Mathematics from Queens University.

I’m interested in developing statistical tools to solve problems in epidemiology, environmental health, and health policy.

research

Selected methods papers:

McGee, G., Wilson, A., Coull, B. A., & Webster, T. F. (2023). “Incorporating biological knowledge in analyses of environmental mixtures and health.” Statistics in Medicine.

*McGee, G., & *Stringer, S. (*Equal contribution) (2023). “Incorporating biological knowledge in analyses of environmental mixtures and health.” Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.

McGee, G., Haneuse, S., Coull, B. A., Weisskopf, M., and Rotem R. (2022). “Outcome-Dependent Sampling in Cluster-Correlated Data Settings with Application to Hospital Profiling.” Epidemiology.

McGee, G., Wilson, A., Webster, T., and Coull, B. A. (2021). “Bayesian Multiple Index Models for Environmental Mixtures”. Biometrics.

McGee, G., Perkins, N., Mumford, S., Kioumourtzoglou, M.-A., Weisskopf, M., Schildcrout, J., Coull, B., Schisterman, E., and Haneuse, S. (2020) “Methodological Issues in Population-Based Studies of Multigenerational Effects.” American Journal of Epidemiology.

McGee, G., Kioumourtzoglou, M.-A., Weisskopf, M., Haneuse, S., and Coull, B. (2020) “On the Interplay Between Exposure Misclassification and Informative Cluster Size in Multigenerational Studies.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C.

McGee, G., Schildcrout, J., Normand, S.-L. and Haneuse, S. (2020). “Outcome-Dependent Sampling in Cluster-Correlated Data Settings with Application to Hospital Profiling.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.

Coull, B., Lee, S., McGee, G., Manjourides, J., Mittleman, M., and Wellenius, G. (2019). “Corrections for Measurement Error Due to Delayed Onset of Illness for Case-Crossover Designs.” Biometrics.

McGee, G., Weisskopf, M. G., Kioumourtzoglou, M. A., Coull, B. A., and Haneuse, S. (2019). “Informatively empty clusters with application to multigenerational studies”. Biostatistics.

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teaching

Current: Not currently teaching

Causal inference and Epidemiological Studies (STAT931)
University of Waterloo
Fall 2023
Graduate level course. Calendar Description: Causal inference in health research will be covered. Methods for the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials including randomization techniques, sample size and power calculations, and specialized additional topics including missing data, noncompliance, and ethics. The design and analysis of classical and modern epidemiological studies will then be discussed for settings in which randomization is not feasible. Causal inference methodologies for the analysis of observational data include propensity scores, marginal structural models and instrumental variables. Studies will be discussed from the epidemiological literature and other sources in the public domain. Simulations and data analyses will be carried out using software (e.g. R or SAS). Students will be trained and assessed in part based on the preparation of reports and delivery of presentations. Course calendar entry

Generalized Linear Models and their Applications (STAT431/STAT831)
University of Waterloo
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 Fourth year undergraduate course (431) taught jointly with graduate course (831). Calendar Description: Review of normal linear regression and maximum likelihood estimation. Computational methods, including Newton-Raphson and iteratively reweighted least squares. Binomial regression; the role of the link function. Goodness-of-fit, goodness-of-link, leverage. Poisson regression models. Generalized linear models. Other topics in regression modelling. [Course calendar entry](https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-academic-calendar/node/7174](https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-academic-calendar/node/6244)

Applied Linear Models (STAT331/SYDE334)
University of Waterloo
Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Winter 2021 Third year undergraduate course. Calendar Description: Modeling the relationship between a response variable and several explanatory variables (an output-input system) via regression models. Least squares algorithm for estimation of parameters. Hypothesis testing and prediction. Model diagnostics and improvement. Algorithms for variable selection. Nonlinear regression and other methods.

Introductory Probability
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Summer 2018, Summer 2017
Month-long preparatory course for incoming biostatistics doctoral students. Topics: Set theory, Kolmogorov’s axioms, combinatorics, conditional probability, independence, Bayes theorem, moments, functions of random variables.

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