{"id":1616,"date":"2018-07-18T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescoscmsqa.smca.ucf.edu\/statistics\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1616"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:04:07","slug":"david-nickerson","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/person\/david-nickerson\/","title":{"rendered":"David Nickerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nickerson is a Professor Emeritus in Statistics &amp; Data Science at UCF. \u00a0He received a B.S. in Mathematics from UCF and a M.Stat. and Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at UF.\u00a0 Before joining UCF in 1990 he was an Assistant Research Scientist at UF and an Assistant\/Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.\u00a0 He has over 32 years experience as a teacher and researcher in applied and theoretical statistics and has numerous refereed papers in both mainstream statistics journals and in journals related to biology and medicine. \u00a0He was the Biostatistician on an NINR grant studying intervention programs in middle school children, and a Co-I\/Co-PI on grants from NIAMS\/NIH and DOD studying gene therapy for arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nickerson retired from UCF in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Nickerson is a Professor Emeritus in Statistics &amp; 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