Vanja Dukic
Professor
Applied Mathematics

Department of Applied Mathematics
University of 欧美口爆视频-Boulder
Box 526; Boulder, CO 80309-0526

Education

  • Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) 2001,听Brown University

  • M.S. (Applied Mathematics) 1997,听Brown University

  • B.A. (Finance; Actuarial Mathematics) 1995,听Bryant University

Research interests:听

  • Mathematical Biology
  • Probability or Statistics

Kennedy, D.,听Dukic, V., Dwyer, G. (2014)听"Combining principal component analysis with parameter line-searches to improve the efficacy of Metropolis-Hastings MCMC",听Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

Hagar, Y., Albers, D., Pivovarov, R., Chase, H.,听Dukic, V. and Elhadad, N.听(joint senior authors) (2014)听"Survival analysis with electronic health record data: Experiments with chronic kidney disease",听Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 7(5):385-403.

Kennedy, D.,听Dukic, V., Dwyer, G. (2014)听"Pathogen growth in insect hosts: inferring the importance of different mechanisms using stochastic models and response time data",听The American Naturalist, 184:407--423

Pandya, R., Hodgson, A., Hayden, M., Akweongo, P., Hopson, T., Forgor, A., Yoksas, T., Dalaba, M.,听Dukic, V., Mera, R., Dumont, A., McCormack, K., Anaseba, D., Awine, T., Boehnert, J., Nyaaba, G., Laing, A., Semazzi, F. (2014)听"Using Weather Forecasts to Help Manage Meningitis in the West African Sahel",听Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Elderd, E., Dwyer, G., and听Dukic, V.听(2013)听鈥淧opulation-level differences in disease transmission: A Bayesian analysis of multiple smallpox epidemics",听Epidemics听5(3):146-156.

Abdussalam, A., Monaghan, A., Steinhoff, D.,听Dukic, V., Hayden, M., Hopson, T., Thornes, J., Leckebusch, G. (2014)听"The impact of climate change on meningitis in northwest Nigeria: an assessment using CMIP5 climate model simulations",听Weather, Climate, and Society, 6:371鈥379.

Abdussalam, A., Monaghan, A.,听Dukic, V., Hayden, M., Hopson, T., Leckebusch, G., Thornes, J. (2014)听"Climate Influences on Meningitis Incidence in Northwest Nigeria",听Weather, Climate, and Society, 6:62鈥76.

Zhang, Y. and听Dukic, V.听(2013)听鈥淧redicting multivariate insurance loss payments under the Bayesian copula framework",听Journal of Risk and Insurance听80(4):891-919.

Dukic, V., and Maric, N. (2013)听鈥淢inimum correlation in construction of multivariate distributions鈥,听Physical Review E, 87(3): 032114.

Dukic, V., Lauderdale, D., Daum, R., Wilder, J., David, M. (2013)听鈥淓pidemics of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States: A Meta-analysis鈥,听PLoS ONE, 8(1): e52722.

Dukic, V., Lopes, H. and Polson, N. (2012)听"Tracking Epidemics With Google Flu Trends Data and a State-Space SEIR Model",听Journal of the American statistical Association,听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).听鈥淭he role of weather in meningitis outbreaks in Navrongo, Ghana: A Generalized Additive Modeling Approach鈥,听Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (J专ES),听17:3 (2012), Page 442-460. DOI: 10.1007/s13253-012-0095-9.

Macal, C., North, M., Collier, N.,听Dukic, V., Lauderdale, S., David, M., Schumm, P., Daum, R., Evans, J., Wilder, J., Wegener, D. (2012)听鈥滿odeling the Spread of Community-Associated MRSA鈥,听Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference,听(C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A.M. Uhrmacher, Eds.)

Bertaccini, P.听Dukic, V., and Ignaccolo, R. (2012)听鈥淢odeling the Short-Term Effect of Traffic and Meteorology on Air Pollution in Turin with Generalized Additive Models",听Advances in Meteorology,听special issue on听. Article ID 609328; DOI:10.1155/2012/609328.

Land, T., Landau, A., Manning, S., Purtill, J., Pickett, K., Wakschlag, L.,听Dukic, V.听(2012)听鈥淲ho underreports smoking on birth records: a Monte Carlo predictive model鈥,听PLoS ONE, 7:4:e34853.

Fang, J.,听Dukic, V., Pickett, K., Wakschlag, L., Espy, K. (2012)听鈥淒etecting Graded Exposure Effects: A Report on an East Boston Pregnancy Cohort",听Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 14:1115鈥1120.

Zhang, Y. and听Dukic, V.听(2012)听鈥淧redicting multivariate insurance loss payments under the Bayesian copula framework鈥,听The Journal of Risk and Insurance, doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6975.2012.01480.x

Zhang, Y.,听Dukic, V., Guszcza, J. (2012).听鈥淎 Bayesian Nonlinear Model for Forecasting Insurance Loss Payments鈥,听Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A,听175:637鈥656.

Dukic, V., David, M., Lauderdale, D. (2011).听鈥淚nternet Queries and MRSA Surveillance鈥澨Emerging Infectious Diseases,听17:6:1068-1070.

Wakschlag, L., Henry, D., Blair, J., Burns, J.,听Dukic, V., Pickett, K. (2011)听鈥淯npacking the association: Individual differences in the relation of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and disruptive behavior phenotypes鈥,听Neurotoxicology & Teratology,听33:145-154.

Dukic, V.听and Rice, K. (2010)听Invited Discussion of "Association Tests that Accommodate Genotyping Uncertainty."听Bayesian Statistics, 9:324-331.

Wakschlag, L., Kistner, E., Pine, D., Biesecker, G., Pickett, K., Skol, A.,听Dukic, V., Blair, J.,Leventhal, B., Cox, N., Burns, J., Kasza, K., Wright ,R., Cook, E. (2009)听鈥淚nteraction of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and MAOA genotype in pathways to youth antisocial behavior鈥.听Nature - Molecular Psychiatry, 15:928鈥937.

Pickett, K, Rathouz, P,听Dukic, V., Kasza, K., Niessner, M., Wright, R., Wakschlag, L. (2009)听The complex enterprise of modeling prenatal exposure to cigarettes: What is 鈥渆nough鈥?听Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 23, 160-170.

Dignam J,听Dukic, V., Anderson S, Mamounas E, Wickerham D, Wolmark N. (2009)听Hazard of recurrence and adjuvant treatment effects over time in lymph node-negative breast cancer.听Breast Cancer Research and Treatment,听116(3):595-602.

Dignam J,and听Dukic, V.听(2009)听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.听Breast Cancer Research and Treatment,116(1):209-210.

Dukic, V., Niessner, M*, Pickett, K., Benowitz, N., Wakschlag, L. (2009):听鈥淐ombining Self-report and Cotinine Measures in Assessing Smoking Exposure: A Monte Carlo Approach鈥.听International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 6(6), 1744-1759.

Dukic, V., and Dignam, J. (2008)听鈥淏ayesian Hierarchical Multiresolution Hazard Model for the Study of Time-Dependent Failure Patterns in Early Stage Breast Cancer鈥,听in听Bayesian Statistics听 (Valencia 8), 601--606.

Dukic, V.听and听 Dignam, J. (2007):听鈥淏ayesian Hierarchical Multiresolution Hazard Model for the Study of Time-Dependent Failure Patterns in Early Stage Breast Cancer.鈥澨Bayesian Analysis, 2(3): 591--610.

Bouman, P, Meng, XL., Dignam, J.,听Dukic, V., (2007):听鈥滱 Multiresolution Model for Multicenter Survival Data: Application to Breast Cancer Tamoxifen Study.鈥澨Journal of the American Statistical Association, Case Studies and Applications听, 102(480):1145-1157.

Dukic, V., Niessner, M, Benowitz, N., Wakschlag, L.听(2007)听鈥淐ombining Self-report and Cotinine Measures in Assessing Smoking Exposure: A Deterministic Approach鈥.听听Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal,听9:453-465.

Elderd, B,听Dukic, V., Dwyer, G. (2006): 鈥漊ncertainty in Predictions of Disease Spread and Public-Health Responses to Bioterrorism and Emerging Diseases鈥,听听Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(42):15693鈥15697.

Buck-Louis, G.,听Dukic, V., Haegerty, P., Johnson, C., Louis, T., Ryan, L., Schisterman, E., Trumble, A.听(2006): 鈥淎nalysis of Repeated Pregnancy Outcomes: Methodological Issues鈥.听听Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 15(2):103-126.

Buck-Louis, G., Schisterman, E.,听Dukic, V., Schieve, L.听(2005): 鈥淩esearch Hurdles Complicating Analysis of Infertility Treatment on Child Health鈥.听听Human Reproduction.听听20(1): 12-18.

Naureckas, E.,听Dukic, V., Bao, X, Rathouz, P.听(2005): 鈥淰alidity of Short-Term Beta-Agonist Prescriptions as a Marker for Asthma鈥.听颁丑别蝉迟,听128(2):602-608.

Dukic, V.听and听Pe帽a, E.听(2005):听Variance Estimation in a Model with Gaussian Sub-Models.听Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory and Methods,听100(469): 296-309听

Bouman, P.,听Dukic, V., and听Meng, XL.听(2005):听Bayesian Multiresolution Hazard Model with Application to An AIDS Reporting Delay Study.听Statistica Sinica,听15:325-357

Dukic, V.,听Gatsonis, C.听(2003):听Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Assessment Studies with Varying Number of Thresholds.听叠颈辞尘别迟谤颈肠蝉,听59(4):936-946.

Dukic, V.听and听Hogan, J.听(2002):听A hierarchical Bayesian approach to modeling embryo implantation following in vitro fertilization.听Biostatistics,听3:361-377.听