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
Maternal dementia age at onset in relation to amyloid burden in non-demented elderly offspring
Failed retrieving data.Multiple imputation of a randomly censored covariate improves logistic regression analysis
Failed retrieving data.Optimization of Signal Decomposition Matched Filtering (SDMF) for Improved Detection of Copy-Number Variations
Failed retrieving data.Plaque-associated local toxicity increases over the clinical course of Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Retinal Dystrophy and Optic Nerve Pathology in the Mouse Model of Mucolipidosis IV
Failed retrieving data.Tau positron emission tomographic imaging in aging and early Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Thal amyloid stages do not significantly impact the correlation between neuropathological change and cognition in the Alzheimer disease continuum
Failed retrieving data.Thioesterase superfamily member 1 suppresses cold thermogenesis by limiting the oxidation of lipid droplet-derived fatty acids in brown adipose tissue
Failed retrieving data.A Pairwise Naïve Bayes Approach to Bayesian Classification
Failed retrieving data.Accuracy of digital versus conventional implant impressions
Failed retrieving data.APOEε2 is associated with milder clinical and pathological Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Clinical pertinence metric enables hypothesis-independent genome-phenome analysis for neurologic diagnosis
Failed retrieving data.Computationally simple analysis of matched, outcome-based studies of ordinal disease states
Failed retrieving data.Matrix metalloproteinase 9-mediated intracerebral hemorrhage induced by cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Failed retrieving data.Measures of follow-up in time-to-event studies : Why provide them and what should they be?
Failed retrieving data.Phase 2 study of bosutinib, a Src inhibitor, in adults with recurrent glioblastoma
Failed retrieving data.Power and sample size calculations for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test in the presence of death-censored observations
Failed retrieving data.Recognizing the problem of delayed entry in time-to-event studies : Better late than never for clinical neuroscientists
Failed retrieving data.Reductions in red blood cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate concentration during continuous renal replacment therapy
Failed retrieving data.Research participant compensation : A matter of statistical inference as well as ethics
Failed retrieving data.The influence of vascular risk factors and stroke on cognition in late life analysis of the NACC cohort
Failed retrieving data.Vandetanib plus sirolimus in adults with recurrent glioblastoma : results of a phase I and dose expansion cohort study
Failed retrieving data.Amyloid and APOE ε4 interact to influence short-term decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Anatomic pattern of intracerebral hemorrhage expansion : Relation to CT angiography spot sign and hematoma center
Failed retrieving data.Anti-ApoE antibody given after plaque onset decreases Aβ accumulation and improves brain function in a mouse model of Aβ amyloidosis
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