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Yu Shen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biostatistics


Yu Shen received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington in 1994. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Research Interests:

Biostatistics; clinical trial design; survival analysis; statistical methods for cancer screening study.


Contact Information:

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas
1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 447
Houston TX 77030-4009

Office: Faculty Center, FC2.3016
Phone: (713) 794-4159
Fax: (713) 794-1915
E-mail: yushen@odin.mdacc.tmc.edu


Education

  • B.S., Mathematics (1984) East China Normal University
  • M.S., Mathematics (1990) Notre Dame University
  • Ph.D., Biostatistics (1994) University of Washington

Selected Recent Publications

  • Shen Y, Cai J (2001). Maximum of the weighted Kaplan-Meier tests with application to cancer prevention and screening trials. Biometrics 57(3):837-843.
  • Shen Y, Zelen M (2001). Screening sensitivity and sojourn time from breast cancer early detection clinical trials: mammograms and physical examinations. Journal of Clinical Oncology 19(15):3490-3499.
  • Estey E, Shen Y, Thall PF (2000). Effect of time required to achieve CR on subsequent survival time in patients with newly-diagnosed MAL, RAEB-t, or RAEB in whom response is established after the first course of chemotherapy. Blood 95:72-77.
  • Shen Y, Zelen M (1999). Estimation procedures for screening programs: stable and nonstable disease models for multi-modality case finding. Biometrika 86:503-515.
  • Shen Y, Fisher L (1999). Statistical inference for self-designing clinical trials with a one-sided hypothesis. Biometrics 55:190-197.


Last updated: October 4, 2002
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