Alaattin Erkanli, PhD

Department:
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Email Address:
al@psych.mc.duke.edu

Address:
DUMC Box 3454

Durham, NC 27710

Telephone:
9196874686

Research Interests:
Areas of research interests include Bayesian hierarchical models for longitudinal data, Bayesian optimal designs, finite mixtures and Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes, Markov transition models, nonparametrics smoothing and density estimation, survival analysis for recurrent-event data, biomarker selection and detecting early ovarian cancer.

Publications:
2006 -- Pubmed # 16416403 -- Erkanli A, Sung M, Jane Costello E, Angold A. Bayesian semi-parametric ROC analysis.  Stat Med.  2006 Jan 13.

2006 -- Pubmed # 16452240 -- Erkanli A, Taylor DD, Dean D, Eksir F, Egger D, Geyer J, Nelson BH, Stone B, Fritsche HA, Roden RB. Application of Bayesian modeling of autologous antibody responses against ovarian tumor-associated antigens to cancer detection.  Cancer Res.  2006 Feb 1;66(3):1792-8.

2005 -- Pubmed # 16273316 -- Eaves L, Erkanli A, Silberg J, Angold A, Maes HH, Foley D. Application of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling to item-response theory modeling of multi-symptom genetic data.  Behav Genet.  2005 Nov;35(6):765-80.

2004 -- Pubmed # 15527663 -- Eaves L, Silberg J, Foley D, Bulik C, Maes H, Erkanli A, Angold A, Costello EJ, Worthman C. Genetic and environmental influences on the relative timing of pubertal change.  Twin Res.  2004 Oct;7(5):471-81.

2004 -- Pubmed # 15283950 -- Sung M, Erkanli A, Angold A, Costello EJ. Effects of age at first substance use and psychiatric comorbidity on the development of substance use disorders.  Drug Alcohol Depend.  2004 Sep 6;75(3):287-99.

2003 -- Pubmed # 12837018 -- Eaves L, Erkanli A. Markov Chain Monte Carlo approaches to analysis of genetic and environmental components of human developmental change and G x E interaction.  Behav Genet.  2003 May;33(3):279-99.

2003 -- Pubmed # 14531583 -- Eaves L, Silberg J, Erkanli A. Resolving multiple epigenetic pathways to adolescent depression.  J Child Psychol Psychiatry.  2003 Oct;44(7):1006-14.

2002 -- Pubmed # 12365876 -- Angold A, Erkanli A, Farmer EM, Fairbank JA, Burns BJ, Keeler G, Costello EJ. Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002 Oct;59(10):893-901.

2001 -- Pubmed # 11241574 -- Erkanli A, Soyer R, Angold A. Bayesian analyses of longitudinal binary data using Markov regression models of unknown order. Stat Med. 2001 Mar 15;20(5):755-70.

2000 -- Pubmed # 10939226 -- Angold A, Erkanli A, Egger HL, Costello EJ. Stimulant treatment for children: a community perspective. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000 Aug;39(8):975-84; discussion 984-94.

1999 -- Pubmed # 11315060 -- Erkanli A, Soyer R, Costello EJ. Bayesian inference for prevalence in longitudinal two-phase studies. Biometrics. 1999 Dec;55(4):1145-50.

1997 -- Pubmed # 9179978 -- Erkanli A, Soyer R, Stangl D. Bayesian inference in two-phase prevalence studies. Stat Med. 1997 May 30;16(10):1121-33.

1996 -- Erkanli A, Meller P, & West M (1996) Bayesian curve fitting using multivariate normal mixtures. Biometrika, 3, March.

1995 -- Burns BJ, Costello EJ, Angold A, Tweed D, Stangl DK, Farmer EMZ, & Erkanli A (1995) Children's mental health service use across service sectors. Health Affairs, 14,3 (fall):147-159.

1994 -- Erkanli A (1994) Laplace approximations for posterior expectations when the mode occurs on the boundary of the parameter space. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89:250-258.

1993 -- Erkanli A, Genz A, & Kass R (1993) Adapting subregion-adaptive integration software to problems in Bayesian inference. Interface 24th Annual Proceedings.