Dirk F. Moore

 

Associate Professor

Department of Biostatistics, 2nd Floor

UMDNJ – The School of Public Health

683 Hoes Lane West, P.O. Box 9

Piscataway, NJ 08854

 

Phone: 732-235-9748

Fax:     732-235-5464

            &

Biometrics Division

Cancer Institute of New Jersey

New Brunswick, NJ

 

Phone: 732-235-7594

Fax:     732-235-8808

 

E-mail: mooredf@umdnj.edu

Curriculum Vitae 

           

 

Research Interests

My research interests include statistical genetics, epidemiology, clinical trials, generalized estimating equations for correlated binary data, and extra-binomial and extra-Poisson variation. Some applications of these topics which I have worked on include radiation-induced chromosome aberrations, animal teratology experiments, quantitative trait mapping, and genetic epidemiology. 

I have collaborated with medical researchers on the design of clinical trials of cancer drugs and of cancer prevention studies. Recent projects include estimating the penetrance of mutations of the BRCA1 gene, QTL mapping in recombinant inbred mice, a meta-analysis of diet and endometrial cancer, and randomization issues in intervention screening studies. 


Selected Publications

Bass, S, Ruzek, SB, Gordon, TF, Fleicher, L, McKeown, N, and Moore D (2006) Relationship of Internet Health Information Use With Patient Behavior and Self-Efficacy: Experiences of Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients Who Contact the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service. J Health Communications, in press.

 

Watkins-Bruner, D, Moore, D, Parlanti, A, Dorgan, J, Engstrom, P (2003)  Relative risk of prostate cancer for men with affected relatives:  Systematic review and meta-analysis.  International Journal of Cancer, 107 (5): 797-803

 

Moore, DF and Smith, W (2003) Applications of the beta-binomial distribution in animal teratology experiments.  Chapter in Handbook of the beta distribution. S. Nadarajah, editor, in press.

 

D. F. Moore (2002) Survival Analysis. Entry in Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical

Statistics, pp 972-976.

D. F. Moore (2002) Quasi-likelihood. Entry in Encyclopedia of Environmetrics.  London: John Wiley


D. F. Moore, C. K. Park, and W. Smith (2001) Exploring extra-binomial variation in teratology data using continuous mixtures.   Biometrics 57: 490-494. 

mbb.fit S-Plus function to fit mixture-of-beta-binomial models.

 

D. F. Moore, N. Chatterjee, D. Pee, and M. H. Gail (2001) Pseudo-likelihood estimates of the cumulative risk of an autosomal dominant disease from a kin-cohort study. Genetic Epidemiology 20: 210-227.  Abstract.     Pseudo-likelihood computer program.


E. A. Ross and D. Moore (1999) Modeling clustered, discrete or grouped-time survival data with covariates. Biometrics 55: 813-819. 


A. L. Hanlon, D. F. Moore, and G. E. Hanks (1998) Modeling postradiation prostate specific antigen level kinetics. Cancer 83: 130-134. 


L. I. Sakkas, D. F. Moore, and N. C. Akritidis (1995) Cancer in families with systemic sclerosis. American Journal of the Medical Sciences 310: 223-225. 


C. I. Szarka, G. R. Pfeiffer, S. T. Hum, L. C. Everley, A. M. Balshem, D. F. Moore, S. Litwin, E. B. Goosenberg, H. Frucht, P. F. Engstrom, and M. L. Clapper (1995) Glutathione S-Transferase activity and glutathione S-Transferase mu expression in
individuals at increased risk for colorectal cancer. Cancer Research 55: 2789-2793.


D. M. Finkelstein, D. F. Moore, and D. A. Schoenfeld (1993) A proportional hazards model for truncated AIDS data. Biometrics 49: 731-740. 


D. F. Moore and A. Tsiatis (1991) Robust estimation of the variance for moment methods for extra-binomial and extra-Poisson variation. Biometrics 47: 383-401.

 

 

Course for Spring, 2006:

PHCO 0504, Introduction to Biostatistics

 



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