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
Estimating time-to-event from longitudinal ordinal data using random-effects Markov models : Application to multiple sclerosis progression
Failed retrieving data.Immunohistochemical analysis supports a role for INI1/SMARCB1 in hereditary forms of schwannomas, but not in solitary, sporadic schwannomas
Failed retrieving data.Predicting clinical progression in multiple sclerosis with the magnetic resonance disease severity scale
Failed retrieving data.Prognostic value of tumor microinvasion and metalloproteinases expression in intracranial pediatric ependymomas
Failed retrieving data.Simultaneous confidence intervals based on the percentile bootstrap approach
Failed retrieving data.Topotecan as salvage therapy for relapsed or refractory primary central nervous system lymphoma
Failed retrieving data.Urinary biomarkers for sensitive and specific detection of acute kidney injury in humans
Failed retrieving data.Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury
Failed retrieving data.Antibody-mediated clearance of amyloid-β peptide from cerebral amyloid angiopathy revealed by quantitative in vivo imaging
Failed retrieving data.Designed extension of survival studies : Application to clinical trials with unrecognized heterogeneity
Failed retrieving data.Erratum : Effects of unmeasured heterogeneity in the linear transformation model for censored data (Lifetime Data Analysis (2007) DOI:10.1007/s10985-006- 9008-y)
Failed retrieving data.Estimating time to event from longitudinal categorical data : An analysis of multiple sclerosis progression
Failed retrieving data.Loss of the mismatch repair protein MSH6 in human glioblastomas is associated with tumor progression during temozolomide treatment
Failed retrieving data.Multivariate logistic regression for familial aggregation in age at disease onset
Failed retrieving data.Predicting short-term disability in multiple sclerosis
Failed retrieving data.Testing goodness of fit of a uniform truncation model
Failed retrieving data.Tests of association under misclassification : Application to histological sampling in oncology
Failed retrieving data.A computationally simple bivariate survival estimator for efficacy and safety
Failed retrieving data.A computationally tractable multivariate random effects model for clustered binary data
Failed retrieving data.A pseudolikelihood approach for simultaneous analysis of array comparative genomic hybridizations
Failed retrieving data.Activation of STAT3, MAPK, and AKT in malignant astrocytic gliomas : Correlation with EGFR status, tumor grade, and survival
Failed retrieving data.AKT activation in human glioblastomas enhances proliferation via TSC2 and S6 kinase signaling
Failed retrieving data.Analysis of co-aggregation of cancer based on registry data
Failed retrieving data.Characterization of amyloid deposition in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer disease
Failed retrieving data.Effects of unmeasured heterogeneity in the linear transformation model for censored data
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