Holly Janes

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Public Health Sciences Division
Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics
Assistant MemberAppointed: 2007

Mailing Address

1100 Fairview Ave N
LE 400
Seattle, Washington 98109-1024
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (206) 667-6353
Fax: (206) 667-4812
hjanes@scharp.org

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Washington, Biostatistics, 2005.
M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mathematics, 2000.
B.A., Skidmore College, Philosophy of Physical Science and Mathematical Modeling, 1998.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Biostatistics.

Honors and Awards

2006, Young Investigator Award, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, American Statistical Association
2005, Gilbert S. Omenn Graduate Student Award for Academic Excellence, School of Public Health, University of Washington
2005, Student Conference Award, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics
2005, Senior Student Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
2004, Student Paper Award, Section on Statistics and the Environment, American Statistical Association
2000, Cardiovascular Biostatistics Training Grant, National Institutes of Health

Previous Positions

2005-2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Biostatistics
2002-2005, Research Assistant, UW/EPA NW Research Center for Particulate Air Pollution and Health
2002-2003, Research Assistant, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences

Publications

  • Janes, H, Pepe, MS (2008) Adjusting for covariate effects on classification accuracy using the covariate-adjusted receiver operating characteristic curve, Biometrika, In Press
  • Janes, H, Pepe, MS (2008) Adjusting for covariates in studies of diagnostic, screening, or prognostic markers: An old concept in a new setting, American Journal of Epidemiology, In Press
  • Pepe, MS, Janes, H (2007) Insights into latent class analysis, Biostatistics, 8, 474-84
  • Janes, H, Dominici, F, Zeger, SL (2007) Trends in particulate matter and mortality in 113 US Counties, 2000-2002: Evidence on the long-term effect of air pollution, Epidemiology, 18, 416-23
  • Janes, H, Dominici, F, Zeger, SL (2007) Response to Drs. Pope and Burnett: Partitioning evidence of association between air pollution and mortality, Epidemiology, 18, 427-8
  • Janes, H, Pepe, MS (2008) Matching in studies of classification accuracy: Implications for analysis, efficiency, and assessment of incremental value, Biometrics, 64, 1-9
  • Eftim, SE, Janes, H, McDermott, A, Samet, JM, Dominici, F (2008) Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality: A Comparison of the Six Cities and American Cancer Society Cohorts with a Medicare Cohort, Epidemiology, 19, 209-16
  • Pepe, MS, Janes, H, Gu, W (2007) Letter to the editor in response to: Cook NR `Use and misuse of the receiver operating characteristic curve in risk prediction', Circulation, 116, e132
  • Janes, H, Pepe, MS (2006) The optimal ratio of cases to controls for estimating the classification accuracy of a biomarker, Biostatistics, 7, 456-68
  • Lumley, T, Janes, H, Sheppard, L (2006) Cox models for ecological time series data? Letter to the Editor, Environmental Health Perspectives, 114, A690-1
  • Janes, H, Sheppard, L, Lumley, T (2005) Overlap bias in the case-crossover design, with application to air pollution exposures, Statistics in Medicine, 24, 285-300
  • Janes, H, Pepe, MS, Kooperberg, C, Newcomb, P (2005) Identifying target populations for screening or not screening using logic regression, Statistics in Medicine, 24, 1321-38
  • Janes, H, Sheppard, L, Lumley, T (2005) Referent selection strategies in case-crossover analyses of air pollution exposure data: Implications for bias, Epidemiology, 16, 717-26
  • Janes, H, Sheppard, L, Lumley, T (2005) Re: Do subject characteristics modify the effects of particulate air pollution on daily mortality among the elderly? Letter to the Editor, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 47, 543
  • Pepe, MS, Janes, H, Longton, G, Leisenring, W, Newcomb, P (2004) Limitations of the odds ratio in gauging the performance of a diagnostic or prognostic marker, American Journal of Epidemiology, 159, 882-90

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