David Engler

Position: Assistant Professor OFFICE HOURS 3:00-4:00 TTh Phone: 801-422-7050 Email: engler AT byu dot edu Office: 212 TMCB Teaching: STAT 624

Gabeau-Lacet D, Engler D A, Gupta S, Scangas G A, Betensky R A, Barker F G, Loeffler J S, Louis D N, Mohapatra G. Genomic profiling of atypical meningiomas associates gain of 1q with poor clinical outcome. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. To appear.

Shen Y, Nunes F, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, James M, Mohapatra G, Plotkin S, Betensky R A, Engler D A, Roy J, Ramesh V, Gusella J. Genomic profiling distinguishes familial multiple and sporadic multiple meningiomas. (2009). BMC Medical Genomics 2:42.

Engler D A, Li Y. Survival analysis with high-dimensional covariates: an application in microarray studies. (2009). Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 8:14.

Healy B C, Engler D A. Modeling disease-state transition heterogeneity through Bayesian variable selection. (2009). Statistics in Medicine, 28:1353-1386.

Zhu J J, Mrugala M M, Engler D A, Nugent W, Nierenberg K, Hochberg F H, Betensky R A, Batchelor T T. High dose methotrexate for elderly patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma. (2009).
Neuro-Oncology, 11:211-215.

Engler D A, Shen Y, Gusella J F, Betensky, R A. Assessment of aCGH-based genetic instability. (2007). Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 67.

Engler D A, Mohapatra G, Louis D N, Betensky R A. (2006). A pseudolikelihood approach for simultaneous analysis of array comparative genomic hybridizations. Biostatistics, 7:399–421.

Mohapatra G, Betensky R A, Miller E R, Carey B, Gaumont L D, Engler D A, Louis D N. (2006). Glioma test array for use with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue: array comparative genomic hybridization correlates with loss of heterozygosity and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 8(2):268–276.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Ph.D., Biostatistics, 2007
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, A.M., Biostatistics, 2006
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, M.S., Statistics, 2002
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, B.A., Philosophy, 1997

Assistant Professor Brigham Young University, Department of Statistics (2007–present)
Systems Analyst Brigham Young University, Department of Continuing Education (1999–2001)
Network Administrator NACT, Provo, Utah (1997–1999)

International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Award (2006)
Harvard University Biostatistics Faculty Memorial Award (2006)
NIH Neurostatistics Training Grant (2004–2007)

Variable selection for high dimensional data, Bayesian methods for ordinal data, causal inference, statistics in cancer genomics