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Lynn E. Eberly Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Public HealthDivision of Biostatistics

Address Division of Biostatistics 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 303 Minneapolis MN 55455 United States Work Phone: 612-624-1436 Website: http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~lynn

Biography

Lynn Eberly earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University. Her research interests involve methods for correlated data, including time-to-event, clustered, and longitudinal data. She holds particular interest in medical imaging, clinical/intervention trials, environmental exposure studies, pharmacoepidemiology, and related applications. She was a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health during 2006 – 2007 in the Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Eberly is director of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) Coordinating Center.

  • Ph.D., Statistics, Cornell University, 1997

Professional Experience:

Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, June 2004–Present. Visiting Scholar, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, August 2006–July 2007. Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, August 1997–May 2004.

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 1990. Delta Omega, inducted 1999. Leonard M. Schuman Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2002. American Statistical Association Chapter Recognition Award, Twin Cities Chapter, 2004.

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Research Interests:

Methods for correlated data, including time-to-event, clustered, and longitudinal data; medical imaging, cancer clinical/intervention trials, environmental exposure studies, pharmaceopidemiology, ecology, and related applications

Research Projects

Incidence of Epilepsy/Seizure and Outcomes in Nursing Homes: A 5 Year Cohort
Principal Investigator: Lynn E. Eberly
Funding Agency: ASSN OF SCHOOLS OF PUB HEALTH
Incidence of Epilepsy/Seizure and Outcomes in Nursing Homes: A 5 Year Cohort

Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program – Data Analysis Center
Principal Investigator: Lynn E. Eberly
Funding Agency: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program – Data Analysis Center

Selected Publications:

  • Eberly LE (2004). “Consequences of event rate heterogeneity across non-randomized study sub-groups,” Statistics in Medicine, 23(13):2023-2036.
  • Eberly LE and Thackeray LM (2005). “Using Standard Tests of Normality with Lange and Ryan’s Plotting Technique for Diagnosing Non-Normality of Random Effects,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 75:77-85.
  • Eberly LE, Prineas R, Cohen JD, Vazquez G, Zhi X, Neaton JD, and Kuller LH for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group (2006). “Metabolic Syndrome: Risk factor distribution and 18-year mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial,” Diabetes Care, 29(1):123-130.
  • Harms SL, Garrard J, Schwinghammer P, Eberly LE, Chang Y, and Leppik IE (2006). “Ginkgo Biloba Use in Nursing Home Elderly with Epilepsy or Seizure Disorder,” Epilepsia, 47(2):323-329.
  • Gilby IC, Eberly LE, and Pusey AE (2006). “Ecological and social influences on the hunting behaviour of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii),” Animal Behaviour, 72:169-180.
  • Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Davey Smith G, and Neaton JD. “ZIP-code-based versus tract-based income measures as long-term risk-adjusted mortality predictors,” American Journal of Epidemiology, 164(6): 586-90.
  • Sinner P, Folsom AR, Harnack L, Eberly LE, Schmitz KH (2006). “The association of physical activity with lung cancer incidence in a cohort of older women: The Iowa Women’s Health Study,” Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 15(12): 2359-2363.

Technical Reports:

  • rr2003-012.pdf
    Zhi X and Eberly LE
    Model selection for clustered recurrent event data using nested gamma frailty models
    Research Report 2003-12, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 2003
    Biometrics
  • rr99-005.pdf
    Eberly, L.E. and Carlin, B.P.
    Identifiability and convergence issues for Markov chain Monte Carlo fitting of spatial models
    Research Report 1999-5, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1999
    To appear Statistics in Medicine.
  • rr98-008.pdf
    Pamela A. Ohman and L.E.Eberly
    Relating Sick Building Symptoms to Environmental Conditions and Worker Characteristics
    Research Report 1998-8, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1998
    Indoor Air, 1998, Volume 8, p.172-179
  • rr98-001.pdf
    L.E.Eberly and George Casella
    Convergence of Bayesian Credible Interval Estimators
    Research Report 1998-1, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1998
  • rr97-018.pdf
    Eberly, L.E. and Casella, George
    Bayesian estimation of the number of unseen studies in a meta-analysis
    Research Report 1997-18, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1997
    To appear, Journal of Official Statistics
  • rr97-015.pdf
    Eberly, L.E. and Casella, George
    Bayesian Interval Estimates for Cases of Clinical Mastitis
    Research Report 1997-15, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, 1997
    Submitted.
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