Kellie J. Archer, PhD

Chair and Professor
Biostatistics


Phone
614-247-6167
Office
240 Cunz Hall, 1841 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
Kellie J. Archer

“It is essential to conduct research, make evidence-based decisions and derive policies in public health using data from well-designed studies that are appropriately analyzed. Working as a biostatistician at Ohio State allows me to engage in a wide range of applications that are seeking to reduce disease burden and improve public health. Additionally, we are training the next generation of biostatistical researchers to advance methodologies for solving new statistical challenges posed by collecting complex, high-dimensional and high-volume data.”

Biography

Dr. Archer’s primary research area has been in the development of statistical methods and computational algorithms for analyzing high-dimensional datasets. Such datasets frequently arise in studies that use high-throughput genomic assays, which yield datasets consisting of a large number of candidate predictors (p, the number of genes or proteins) on a small number of observations (n, the number of samples). Therefore, fitting statistical models for overparameterized problems is an active area of methodological research. Her current research is focused on developing methods and software when the response is either ordinal, discrete, or a time-to-event response where subjects may also experience cure and the genomic data are collected cross-sectionally or longitudinally. 

Education

PhD
College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, 2001
Master Applied Statistics
Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, 1993
BA
Applied Mathematics and Philosophy, Franklin College, 1991

Research interests

Statistical methods for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomic assays; Discrete and ordinal response modeling; Mixture cure models; Statistical computing; Supervised learning and data mining

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