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Ralph L. Kodell, Ph.D.

Professor

Biostatistics

College of Public Health Room 3218

Tel.: 501-686-5353

Email: RLKodell@uams.edu

 

 

Research Interests

·        Statistical models and methods for toxicology and risk assessment

·        Classification algorithms for biomedical decision making.

 

Honors

·        Fellow, American Statistical Association

·        Fellow, Academy of Toxicological Sciences

·        Academy of Distinguished Graduates, College of Science, Texas A&M University

 

Recent Publications         

Kodell, R.L., Young, J.F., Delongchamp, R.R., Turturro, A., Chen, J.J., Gaylor, D.W., Howard, P.C. and Zheng, Q.  A mechanistic approach to modeling the risk of liver tumors in mice exposed to fumonisin B1 in the diet.  Food Additives and Contaminants 18: 237-253, 2001.

Kodell, R.L. and Chen, J.J.  Inferring effects on tumor frequencies and times to observation in the analysis of tumor multiplicity data.  Biometrical Journal 43: 447-460, 2001.

Gaylor, D.W. and Kodell, R.L.  Dose-response trend tests for tumorigenesis adjusted for differences in survival and body weight across doses.  Toxicological Sciences 59: 219-225, 2001.

Chen, J.J., Chen, Y-J., Rice, G., Teuschler, L.K., Hamernik, K., Protzel, A. and Kodell, R.L.  Using dose addition to estimate cumulative risks from exposures to multiple chemicals.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 34: 35-41, 2001.

Kodell, R.L., Kang, S. and Chen, J.J.  Statistical models of health risk due to microbial contamination of foods.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics 9: 259-271, 2002.

Gaylor, D.W. and Kodell, R.L.  A procedure for developing risk-based reference doses.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 35: 137-141, 2002.

Moon, H., Ahn, H. and Kodell, R.L.  Extension of Peto’s test by attribution of tumor lethality in the absence of cause-of-death information.  Biometrical Journal 44: 982-1001, 2002.

Teuschler, L., Klaunig, J., Carney, E., Chambers, J., Conolly, R., Gennings, C., Giesy, J., Hertzberg, R., Klaassen, C., Kodell, R., Paustenbach, D. and Yang, R.  Support of science-based decisions concerning the evaluation of the toxicology of mixtures: a new beginning.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 36: 34-39, 2002.

Chen, J.J., Chen, Y., Rice, G., Teuschler, L.K., Hamernik, K., Protzel, A. and Kodell, R.L. Cumulative risk assessment for quantitative response data.  Environmetrics 14: 339-353, 2003.

Moon, H., Ahn, H., Kodell, R.L. and Lee, J.J.  Estimation of k for the Poly-k test with application to animal carcinogenicity studies.  Statistics in Medicine 22: 2619-2636, 2003.

Hsueh, H., Chen, J.J. and Kodell R.L.  Comparison of methods for estimating the number of true null hypotheses in multiplicity testing.  Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 13:  675-689, 2003.

Delongchamp, R.R., Bowyer, J.F., Chen, J.J. and Kodell, R.L.  Multiple-testing strategy for analyzing cDNA array data on gene expression.  Biometrics 60: 774-782, 2004.

Razzaghi, M. and Kodell, R.L.  Quantitative risk assessment for developmental neurotoxic effects.  Risk Analysis 24: 1673-1681, 2004.

Moon, H., Chen, J.J., Gaylor, D.W. and Kodell, R.L.  A comparison of microbial dose-response models fitted to human data.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 40: 177-184, 2004.

Moon, H., Ahn, H. and Kodell, R.L.  An age-adjusted bootstrap-based Poly-k test.  Statistics in Medicine 24: 1233-1244, 2005.

Molefe, D.F., Chen, J.J., Howard, P.C., Miller, B.J., Sambuco, C.P., Forbes, P.D. and Kodell, R.L.  Tests for effects on tumor frequency and latency in multiple dosing photococarcinogenicity experiments.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 129: 39-58, 2005.

West, R.W. and Kodell, R.L.  Changepoint alternatives to the NOAEL.  Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 10: 197-211, 2005.

Kodell, R.L.  Managing uncertainty in health risk assessment.  International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 5: 193-205, 2005.

Moon, H., Kim, H-J., Chen, J.J. and Kodell, R.L.  Model averaging using the Kullback information criterion in estimating effective doses for microbial infection and illness.  Risk Analysis 25: 1147-1159, 2005.

Kodell, R.L., Chen, J.J., Delongchamp, R.R. and Young, J.F.  Hierarchical models for probabilistic dose-response assessment.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 45: 265-272, 2006.

Moon H, Ahn H, Kodell RL, Lin C-J and Chen JJ   Classification methods for the development of genomic signatures from high-dimensional data.  Genome Biology 7: R121.1-R121.7, 2006.

Chen, J.J, Moon, H. and Kodell, R.L.  A probabilistic framework for non-cancer risk assessment. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, in press, 2007.

Kodell, R.L.  Replace the NOAEL and LOAEL with the BMDL01 and BMDL10Environmental and Ecological Statistics, accepted, 2007.

Ahn H, Moon H, Fazzari MJ, Lim N, Chen JJ and Kodell RL  Classification by ensembles from random partitions of high-dimensional data.  Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, accepted, 2007.

Kodell RL and Chen JJ   On the use of hierarchical probabilistic models for characterizing and managing uncertainty in risk/safety assessment.  Risk Analysis, accepted, 2007.

 

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Last updated: 03/01/2007