Kerrie P. Nelson
Associate Professor
school of public health
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
Kerrie Nelson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Boston University. She is from New Zealand originally, and after her undergraduate studies at the University of Auckland, worked as a Research Fellow in Christchurch, New Zealand. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington where her research focused on correlated data and generalized linear mixed models. She currently spends her time on both methodological research and applied projects focusing on developing statistical methods for assessing agreement in screening and diagnostic tests and has worked in a collaborative role with several groups at Boston Medical Center including Emergency Medicine, Diabetes and Nutrition, and Women's Health. She often enjoys teaching BS704 Introduction to Biostatistics.
Research Interest
Biostatistics
Publications
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Linden JA, Grimmnitz B, Hagopian L, Breaud AH, Langlois BK, Nelson KP, Hart LL, Feldman JA, Brown J, Reid M, Desormeau E, Mitchell PM. Is the Pelvic Examination Still Crucial in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Vaginal Bleeding or Abdominal Pain When an Intrauterine Pregnancy Is Identified on Ultrasonography? A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Dec; 70(6):825-834. PMID: 28935285.
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Mitani AA, Freer PE, Nelson KP. Summary measures of agreement and association between many raters' ordinal classifications. Ann Epidemiol. 2017 Oct; 27(10):677-685.e4. PMID: 29029991.
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Lin X, Chen H, Edwards D, Nelson KP. Modeling rater diagnostic skills in binary classification processes. Stat Med. 2017 Nov 02. PMID: 29094378.
