Rebecca A Betensky
Rebecca Betensky
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
Professor of Biostatistics
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Professional overview
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Prior to NYU, Dr. Betensky was Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was director of the Harvard Catalyst (Clinical and Translational Science Award) Biostatistics Program; director of the Data and Statistics Core for the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; and director of the Biostatistics Neurology Core at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, she was the Biostatistics Program Leader for the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
Dr. Betensky’s research focuses on methods for the analysis of censored and truncated outcomes and covariates, which frequently arise from the subsampling of cohort studies. She has a long-time interest in clinical trials, and has written on the evaluation of biomarkers and the use and interpretation of p-values. She has collaborated extensively in studies in neurologic diseases, and serves as statistical editor for Annals of Neurology.
Dr. Betensky was awarded, and directed for 15 years, an NIH T32 training program in neurostatistics and neuroepidemiology for pre- and post-doctoral students in biostatistics and epidemiology and for clinician-scientists. She previously directed Harvard’s Biostatistics programs to promote and support diversity at all levels in the field of quantitative public health. She was also a member of the BMRD Study Section for review of NIH statistical methodology grants; on committees for the Institute of Medicine; and a co-chair of the technical advisory committee for the scientific registry of transplant recipients.
Dr. Betensky an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the International Statistical Institute, and is a past recipient of the Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for Clinical Science and Epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute.
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Education
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AB, Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAPhD, Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Areas of research and study
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BiologyBiostatisticsNeuroepidemiologyNeurologyNeurostatisticsTranslational science
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Publications
Publications
Inverse probability weighting methods for Cox regression with right-truncated data
Failed retrieving data.Prediagnostic adult body mass index change and esophageal adenocarcinoma survival
Failed retrieving data.Association of Amyloid and Tau with Cognition in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease : A Longitudinal Study
Failed retrieving data.Design and analysis considerations for combining data from multiple biomarker studies
Failed retrieving data.Exploring predictors of response to dacomitinib in EGFR-amplified recurrent glioblastoma
Failed retrieving data.Genetic overlap between vascular pathologies and Alzheimer's dementia and potential causal mechanisms
Failed retrieving data.New guidelines for statistical reporting
Failed retrieving data.Nonidentifiability in the presence of factorization for truncated data
Failed retrieving data.Opposing Roles of apolipoprotein E in aging and neurodegeneration
Failed retrieving data.Publisher Correction : Probing tumor microenvironment in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma during chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide with functional MRI (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (17062), 10.1038/s41598-018-34820-x)
Failed retrieving data.Serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D at diagnosis are not associated with overall survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma
Failed retrieving data.The impact of amyloid-beta and tau on prospective cognitive decline in older individuals
Failed retrieving data.The missing indicator approach for censored covariates subject to limit of detection in logistic regression models
Failed retrieving data.The p-Value Requires Context, Not a Threshold
Failed retrieving data.Transformation model estimation of survival under dependent truncation and independent censoring
Failed retrieving data.Wide Range of Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Gliomatosis Cerebri Growth Pattern : A Clinical, Radiographic, and Histopathologic Study
Failed retrieving data.An optimal Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test of mortality and a continuous outcome
Failed retrieving data.Biomarker validation with an imperfect reference : Issues and bounds
Failed retrieving data.Hypothesis Tests for Neyman's Bias in Case–Control Studies
Failed retrieving data.Immunophenotyping of pediatric brain tumors : correlating immune infiltrate with histology, mutational load, and survival and assessing clonal T cell response
Failed retrieving data.Integration of risk factors for Parkinson disease in 2 large longitudinal cohorts
Failed retrieving data.Interaction between caffeine and polymorphisms of glutamate ionotropic receptor NMDA type subunit 2A (GRIN2A) and cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) on Parkinson's disease risk
Failed retrieving data.Intravenous thrombolysis in unwitnessed stroke onset : MR WITNESS trial results
Failed retrieving data.Inverse probability weighted Cox regression for doubly truncated data
Failed retrieving data.Multicrossover Randomized Controlled Trial Designs in Alzheimer Disease
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