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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         

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 48: 45-50, 2007.

Ahn, H., Moon, H., Fazzari, M.J., Lim, N., Chen, J.J. and Kodell, R.L. Classification by ensembles from random partitions of high-dimensional data.  Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51: 6166-6179, 2007.

Kodell, R.L. and Chen, J.J.  On the use of probabilistic models for characterizing and managing uncertainty in risk/safety assessment.  Risk Analysis 27: 433-437, 2007.

Moon, H., Ahn, H., Kodell, R.L., Baek, S., Lin, C-J., Lee, T. and Chen J.J.  Ensemble methods for classification of patients for personalized medicine with high-dimensional data.  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 41: 197-207, 2007.

Wilkes, J.G., Hass, B.S., Buzatu, D.A., Pence, L.M., Archer, J.C., Beger, R.D., Schnackenberg, L.K., Halbert, M.K., Jennings, L. and Kodell, R.L.  Modeling and assaying dioxin-like biological effects for both dioxin-like and certain non-dioxin-like compounds.  Toxicological Sciences 102: 187-195, 2008.

Moore, M.M., Heflich, R.H., Haber, L., Allen, B.C., Shipp, A.M. and Kodell, R.L.  Analysis of in vivo mutation data can inform cancer risk assessment.  Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 51: 151-161, 2008.

Baek, S., Moon, H., Ahn, H., Kodell, R.L., Lin, C-J. and Chen, J.J.  Identifying high-dimensional biomarkers for personalized medicine via variable importance ranking.  Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 18: 853-868, 2008.

Ahn, H., Moon, H. and Kodell, R.L.  Estimation of lag time between onset of and death from an occult tumor.  Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 18: 901-914, 2008.

Kodell, R.L., Pearce, B.A., Baek, S., Moon, H., Ahn, H., Young, J.F. and Chen, J.J.  A model-free ensemble method for class prediction with application to biomedical decision making.  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 46: 267-276, 2009.

Kodell, R.L.  Replace the NOAEL and LOAEL with the BMDL01 and BMDL10Environmental and Ecological Statistics 16: 3-12, 2009.

Kodell, R.L., Lensing, S.Y., Landes, R.D., Kumar, K.S. and Hauer-Jensen, M.  Determination of sample sizes for demonstrating efficacy of radiation countermeasures.  Biometrics 66: 239-248, 2010.

Kodell, R.L. and Chen, J.J.  Is premarket identification of hepatotoxic drugs and sensitive patients possible based on high-dimensional ‘omic data?  Personalized Medicine 7: 171-178, 2010.

 

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Last updated: 07/13/2010