WYSO Stories

Stats + Stories: How Do You Measure Frailty

WYSO | By John Bailer,

Rosemary Pennington, Richard Campbell

Published June 22, 2019 at 11:45 AM EDT

Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD is a statistician / gerontologist who currently chairs the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

WYSO is partnering with Stats and Stories, a podcast produced at Miami University.

In this Stats and Short Stories episode, John Bailer, Chair of the Department of Statistics at Miami University, and colleagues Rosemary Pennington and Richard Campbell, Professors in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film, are joined by Karen Bandeen-Rouche, Hurley Dorrier Professor, and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at John Hopkins University. She’s a statistical leader in geronmetrics, the measurement of constructs of aging and talks about establishing valid measurements of hard-to-measure concepts.

Stats and Stories is a partnership between Miami University's Departments of Statistics and Media, Journalism and Film and the American Statistical Association. You can follow us on Twitter or iTunes. If you'd like to share your thoughts on our program, send your e-mail to statsandstories@miamioh.edu and be sure to listen for future editions of Stats and Stories where we discuss the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics.