Vanja Dukic

Vanja Dukic, PhD

Faculty, Statistics

Biography:

I received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2001. I was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago from 2000-2001. After that, I was an Assistant Professor (2001-2008) and then Associate Professor with tenure (2008-2010) of Biostatistics at the University of Chicago. I am currently an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

I can be contacted at:

Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado-Boulder
Box 526; Boulder, CO 80309-0526
tel: 303-735-0919
fax: 303-492-4066
email: vanja.dukic@colorado.edu

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The links to journals, preprints and technical reports are provided whereever possible. If you would like a copy of one of my articles for which a link to full text is not available, please email me.

Below is a partial list of articles, as of March 25, 2013 (also see my Google Scholar page):

Dukic, V., and Maric, N. (2013) “Minimum correlation in construction of multivariate distributions”, Physical Review E, 87(3): 032114.
Dukic, V., Lauderdale, D., Daum, R., Wilder, J., David, M. (2013) “Epidemics of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: A Meta-analysis”, PLoS ONE, 8(1): e52722.
Dukic, V., Lopes, H. and Polson, N. (2012) "Tracking Epidemics With Google Flu Trends Data and a State-Space SEIR Model", Journal of the American statistical Association, 107(500):1410 - 1426.
Dukic, V., Hayden, M., Forgor, A., Hopson, T., Akweongo, P., Hodgson, A., Monaghan, A., Wiedinmyer, C., Yoksas, T., Thomson, M. C., Trzaska, S. and Pandya, R. (2012). “The role of weather in meningitis outbreaks in Navrongo, Ghana: A Generalized Additive Modeling Approach”, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), 17:3 (2012), Page 442-460. DOI: 10.1007/s13253-012-0095-9.
Macal, C., North, M., Collier, N., Dukic, V., Lauderdale, S., David, M., Schumm, P., Daum, R., Evans, J., Wilder, J., Wegener, D. (2012) ”Modeling the Spread of Community-Associated MRSA”, Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, (C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A.M. Uhrmacher, Eds.)
Bertaccini, P. Dukic, V., and Ignaccolo, R. (2012) “Modeling the Short-Term Effect of Traffic and Meteorology on Air Pollution in Turin with Generalized Additive Models", Advances in Meteorology, special issue on "Forecasting Urban Quality". Article ID 609328; DOI:10.1155/2012/609328.
Land, T., Landau, A., Manning, S., Purtill, J., Pickett, K., Wakschlag, L., Dukic, V. (2012) “Who underreports smoking on birth records: a Monte Carlo predictive model”, PLoS ONE, 7:4:e34853.
Fang, J., Dukic, V., Pickett, K., Wakschlag, L., Espy, K. (2012) “Detecting Graded Exposure Effects: A Report on an East Boston Pregnancy Cohort", Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 14:1115–1120.
Zhang, Y. and Dukic, V. (2012) “Predicting multivariate insurance loss payments under the Bayesian copula framework”, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2012.01480.x
Zhang, Y., Dukic, V., Guszcza, J. (2012). “A Bayesian Nonlinear Model for Forecasting Insurance Loss Payments”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 175:637–656.
Dukic, V., David, M., Lauderdale, D. (2011). “Internet Queries and MRSA Surveillance” Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17:6:1068-1070.
Wakschlag, L., Henry, D., Blair, J., Burns, J., Dukic, V., Pickett, K. (2011) “Unpacking the association: Individual differences in the relation of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and disruptive behavior phenotypes”, Neurotoxicology & Teratology, 33:145-154.
Dukic, V. and Rice, K. (2010) Invited Discussion of "Association Tests that Accommodate Genotyping Uncertainty." Bayesian Statistics, 9:324-331.
Wakschlag, L., Kistner, E., Pine, D., Biesecker, G., Pickett, K., Skol, A., Dukic, V., Blair, J.,Leventhal, B., Cox, N., Burns, J., Kasza, K., Wright ,R., Cook, E. (2009) “Interaction of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and MAOA genotype in pathways to youth antisocial behavior”. Nature - Molecular Psychiatry, 15:928–937.
Pickett, K, Rathouz, P, Dukic, V., Kasza, K., Niessner, M., Wright, R., Wakschlag, L. (2009) The complex enterprise of modeling prenatal exposure to cigarettes: What is “enough”? Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 23, 160-170.
Dignam J, Dukic, V., Anderson S, Mamounas E, Wickerham D, Wolmark N. (2009) Hazard of recurrence and adjuvant treatment effects over time in lymph node-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 116(3):595-602.
Dignam J,and Dukic, V. (2009) Comments on: Yin W, Di G, Zhou L, Lu J, Liu G, Wu J, Shen K, Han Q, Shen Z, Shao Z. Time-varying pattern of recurrence risk for Chinese breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment,116(1):209-210.
Dukic, V., Niessner, M*, Pickett, K., Benowitz, N., Wakschlag, L. (2009): “Combining Self-report and Cotinine Measures in Assessing Smoking Exposure: A Monte Carlo Approach”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 6(6), 1744-1759.
Dukic, V., and Dignam, J. (2008) “Bayesian Hierarchical Multiresolution Hazard Model for the Study of Time-Dependent Failure Patterns in Early Stage Breast Cancer”, in Bayesian Statistics (Valencia 8), 601--606.
Dukic, V. and Dignam, J. (2007): “Bayesian Hierarchical Multiresolution Hazard Model for the Study of Time-Dependent Failure Patterns in Early Stage Breast Cancer.” Bayesian Analysis, 2(3): 591--610.
Bouman, P, Meng, XL., Dignam, J., Dukic, V., (2007): ”A Multiresolution Model for Multicenter Survival Data: Application to Breast Cancer Tamoxifen Study.” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Case Studies and Applications , 102(480):1145-1157.
Dukic, V., Niessner, M, Benowitz, N., Wakschlag, L. (2007) “Combining Self-report and Cotinine Measures in Assessing Smoking Exposure: A Deterministic Approach”. Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal, 9:453-465.
Elderd, B, Dukic, V., Dwyer, G. (2006): ”Uncertainty in Predictions of Disease Spread and Public-Health Responses to Bioterrorism and Emerging Diseases”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(42):15693–15697.
Buck-Louis, G., Dukic, V., Haegerty, P., Johnson, C., Louis, T., Ryan, L., Schisterman, E., Trumble, A. (2006): “Analysis of Repeated Pregnancy Outcomes: Methodological Issues”. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 15(2):103-126.
Buck-Louis, G., Schisterman, E., Dukic, V., Schieve, L. (2005): “Research Hurdles Complicating Analysis of Infertility Treatment on Child Health”. Human Reproduction. 20(1): 12-18.
Naureckas, E., Dukic, V., Bao, X, Rathouz, P. (2005): “Validity of Short-Term Beta-Agonist Prescriptions as a Marker for Asthma”. Chest, 128(2):602-608.
Dukic, V. and Peña, E. (2005): Variance Estimation in a Model with Gaussian Sub-Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods, 100(469): 296-309 [pdf preprint]
Bouman, P., Dukic, V., and Meng, XL. (2005): Bayesian Multiresolution Hazard Model with Application to An AIDS Reporting Delay Study. Statistica Sinica, 15:325-357
Dukic, V., Gatsonis, C. (2003): Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Assessment Studies with Varying Number of Thresholds. Biometrics, 59(4):936-946. [pdf]
Dukic, V. and Hogan, J. (2002): A hierarchical Bayesian approach to modeling embryo implantation following in vitro fertilization. Biostatistics, 3:361-377.