Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics

eberl003@umn.edu
612-624-1436 — office

Research Interests

Biostatistics, repeated measures/longitudinal studies, medical imaging for diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring; applications in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, environmental exposures, pharmacoepidemiology.

Selected Publications

Eberly LE, Ohman PA, Neaton JD, Price RW, and Abrams DI (2000). "Kaposi's sarcoma and CNS disease: a real association or an artifact of the control group?," AIDS, 14(8):995-1000.

Eberly LE, Ockene J, Sherwin R, Yang L, and Kuller L (2003). "Pulmonary function as a predictor of lung cancer mortality in continuing cigarette smokers and in quitters," International Journal of Epidemiology, 32(4):592-599.

Adgate JL, Eberly LE, Stroebel C, Pellizzari ED, and Sexton K (2004). "Personal, indoor, and outdoor VOC exposures in a probability sample of children." Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 14(Suppl.1):S4-S13.

Eberly LE, Neaton JD, Thomas AJ, and Dai Y (2004). "Screening and mortality in the MRFIT," Clinical Trials: Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials, 1(2):148-161.

Patterson JM, Eberly LE, Ding M, Hargreaves M (2004). "Associations of smoking prevalence with individual and area characteristics: social capital and social support," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(8):692-697.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Neaton JD, and Davey Smith G (2005). "Latino risk-adjusted mortality in the men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial," American Journal of Epidemiology, 162(6):569-578.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Davey Smith G, and Neaton JD (2006). "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.

Scher DP, Alexander BH, Adgate JL, Eberly LE, Mandel JS, Acquavella JF, Bartels MJ, and Brzak KA (2007). "Agreement of pesticide biomarkers between morning void and 24-hour urine samples from farmers and their children." Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 17(4): 350-357.

Thomas AJ, Eberly LE, Neaton JD, and Davey Smith G (2007). "Census-based and personally reported income measures as long-term risk-adjusted mortality predictors." Public Health, 121(12): 898-901.

Eberly LE (2007). "Correlation and Simple Linear Regression." Pp. 143-164 in Ambrosius WT (Editor), Topics in Biostatistics, New York: Humana Press.

Eberly LE (2007). "Multiple Linear Regression." Pp. 165-188 in Ambrosius WT (Editor), Topics in Biostatistics, New York: Humana Press.