Specialty Areas:
Data mining and knowledge discovery, data visualization, data warehousing,
machine learning, statistical classification models, data management
and collection methodologies, research design, informatics, the applications
of statistical methodologies in the study of aging, and biostatistics.
Education:
University of West Florida (B.A. [Math], B.A. [Philosophy]), Florida
State University (M.S.), The University of Alabama (M.A. and Ph.D.),
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.).
Honors, Achievements
and Affiliations: Dr. Hardin has authored or co-authored
over 80 papers in various journals including the Lancet, the
Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association, the American
Journal of Epidemiology, the American Statistician, the
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Communications
in Statistics. He is the author or co-author of over 150 abstracts
presented at national meetings and has given over 75 invited lectures
or talks. He is the author of several book chapters dealing with database
design and decision support systems. Dr. Hardin often serves as a consultant
to healthcare organizations in the areas of data mining, sampling, and
program integrity. Additionally, he is an instructor and consultant
for the SAS Institute in the areas of data mining and time series analysis.
He is Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Adjunct Professor of Health
Informatics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has served
as Scholar in Residence in the Center for Information Management, Department
of Information Systems and Operations Management, Loyola University,
Chicago, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Management and
Information Sciences and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
He is a member of numerous professional associations including the American
Statistical Association, the Biometric Society, and the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics.
Recent
Publications