Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Professor of Biostatistics and Mayo Professor in Public Health, School of Public Health

brad@biostat.umn.edu
612-624-6646 — office
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Dr. Carlin's research interests include statistical applications in cancer research, spatial disease mapping, longitudinal studies, and the development of hierarchical Bayes methods for such projects, especially techniques which take advantage of modern computing power. In addition to his two textbooks (Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis, co-authored with Tom Louis, and Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, co-authored with Sudipto Banerjee and Alan Gelfand), he has published more than 100 papers in refereed books and journals. In 2000, he was presented with the American Public Health Association's Mortimer Speigelman Award, awarded for outstanding contributions in health statistics by a statistician under age 40. He was also the 2001-02 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer, which recognizes statistical contributions to medicine or health and excellence in teaching, and the 2002 (inaugural) winner of the International Environmetric Society (TIES) Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher's Award, given to an environmental statistician under age 40. Most recently, he has been named editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis, the official journal of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). For more information on Dr. Carlin, please visit www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/.

Selected Publications

Carlin, B.P. and Sargent, D.J., "Robust Bayesian approaches for clinical trial monitoring," Statistics in Medicine, 15, 1093-1106, 1996.

Xia, H., Carlin, B.P., and Waller, L.A., "Hierarchical models for mapping Ohio lung cancer rates," Environmetrics, 8, 107-120, 1997.

Carlin, B.P., Kadane, J.B. and Gelfand, A.E., "Approaches for optimal sequential decision analysis in clinical trials," Biometrics, 54, 964-975, 1998.

Xia, H. and Carlin, B.P., "Spatio-temporal models with errors in covariates: Mapping Ohio lung cancer mortality," Statistics in Medicine, 17, 2025-2043, 1998.

Johnson, B., Carlin, B.P., and Hodges, J.S., "Cross-study hierarchical modeling of stratified clinical trial data," Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 9, 617-640, 1999.

Short, M., Carlin, B.P., and Bushhouse, S., "Using hierarchical spatial models for cancer control planning in Minnesota (United States)," Cancer Causes and Control, 13, 903-916, 2002.

Thomas, A. and Carlin, B.P., "Late detection of breast and colorectal cancer in Minnesota counties:  An application of spatial smoothing and clustering," Statistics in Medicine, 22, 113-127, 2003.

Jin, X. and Carlin, B.P., "Multivariate parametric spatiotemporal models for county level breast cancer survival data," Lifetime Data Analysis, 11, 5-27, 2005.

Hobbs, B.P. and Carlin, B.P., "Practical Bayesian design and analysis for drug and device clinical trials," J. Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 18, 54-80, 2008.

Liang, S., Banerjee, S., Bushhouse, S., Finley, A. and Carlin, B.P., "Hierarchical multiresolution approaches for dense point-level breast cancer treatment data," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 2650-2668, 2008.

Hatfield, L.A., Hoffbeck, R.W., Alexander, B.H., and Carlin, B.P., "Spatiotemporal and spatial threshold models for relating UV exposures and skin cancer in the central United States." To appear Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2008.