Muller, Keith

Profile Information

Title

Professor and Director of the Division of Biostatistics

Phone

352.265.0111 x86331

Email Address

keith.muller@biostat.ufl.edu

Professional Bio

After 28 years of service to UNC Biostatistics, Professor Keith E. Muller has accepted a position as Professor and Director of the Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Policy, School of Medicine, University of Florida (Gainesville) As of July 1, 2006, he will be Emeritus Professor at UNC. In addition to leading a focused expansion of the division, he will also help start Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degree programs in Biostatistics.

Current Research

My research centers on developing more efficient designs and methods for selecting sample size in study planning, especially for medical imaging research. I am principal investigator of a grant concerning "Internal Pilots With Repeated Measures." The aims are as follows. 1. Develop better statistical power algorithms for the "univariate approach" to repeated measures Analysis of Variance (UNIREP ANOVA). 2. Derive the distribution of final sample size in UNIREP ANOVA with internal pilot (IP) designs. 3. Describe distributions of test statistics in UNIREP ANOVA with IP designs. 4. Distribute free software to disseminate and popularize the new methods.

MIDAG

Collaboration with medical imaging colleagues in Computer Science, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Neurology, and Psychiatry supports the remainder of my time. Current applications include computer-generated 3-D drawing of organ outlines for planning cancer therapy, and automatic 3-D drawing in of blood vessels in the brain with automatic detection of cancer.

Graduate research assistants in biostatistics also collaborate in all of my work.

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