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Zihuan Cao is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Biostatistician at The Miriam Hospital. His expertise lies in developing and applying advanced statistical methodologies to support research on health behaviors and health outcomes. Dr. Cao specializes in longitudinal data analysis, mediation modeling, propensity score methods, and Bayesian approaches. He collaborates on NIH-funded projects, providing critical support in study design, power analysis, data management, and statistical modeling. Zihuan's research focuses on effect size measures and mediation analysis involving binary and multicategorical predictors, developed during his doctoral studies. He has contributed to research at the Weight Control Diabetes Research Center and large NIH-funded trials optimizing online obesity treatment. Dr. Cao is dedicated to leveraging quantitative methods to advance research in behavioral health, with a particular focus on developing statistical tools to address complex research questions.
Department: Department of Economics