Richard F. MacLehose, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Community Health
- PhD in epidemiology from University of North Carolina
- MS in epidemiology from University of Washington
- BS in microbiology from Miami University
Courses
Fall 2012
PUBH 7401 Biostatistical Inference (Section 001)
Research Interests:
Epidemiologic methods, Bayesian methods, biostatistics, reproductive epidemiology, environmental epidemiology
Mailing Address:
Div. Epidemiology & Community Health
1300 S. 2nd Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone (Work): 624-1932
Email: macl0029@umn.edu
Selected Publications:
Harlow B, MacLehose RF(co-first author), Smolenski DJ, Soares CN, Otto MW, Joffe H, Cohen LS. Depression onset during the menopausal transition: can we trust our data? Accepted, American Journal of Epidemiology.
Hamra G, MacLehose RF, Cole S. Using weakly informative Bayesian priors to conduct sensitivity analyses for sparse data problems. accepted, Epidemiology
MacLehose RF, Kaufman JS. Commentary: the wizard of odds (with discussion). Epidemiology. 23(1):10-2. 2012.
MacLehose RF, Gustafson P. Is probabilistic bias analysis approximately Bayesian? Epidemiology. 23(1):151-8. 2012
MacLehose RF, Oakes JM, Carlin B. Turning the Bayesian crank. Epidemiology. 22(3):365-7. 2011
MacLehose RF, Dunson DB. Bayesian semi-parametric multiple shrinkage priors. Biometrics. 66(2); 455-462. 2010.
MacLehose RF, Dunson DB. Nonparametric Bayes kernel-based priors for functional data analysis. Statistica Sinica. 19(2): 611-630. 2009
Kaufman S. , Kaufman JS, MacLehose RF. Analytic Bounds on Causal Risk Differences in Directed Acyclic Graphs Involving Three Observed Binary Variables. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 139(10): 3473-87. 2009
MacLehose RF, Herring AH, Savitz DA, Hartmann KE, Singer P, Weinberg H. Tap water disinfection byproducts and time to pregnancy. Epidemiology. 19(3): 451-458. 2008
MacLehose RF, Olshan A., Herring AH, Honein MA, Shaw GM, Romitti PA. Bayesian methods for correcting misclassification: an example from birth defects epidemiology. Epidemiology. 20(1): 27-35. 2009
Phillips CV, MacLehose RF, Kaufman JS. Errors in statistical tests3. Emerging themes in Epidemiology. 5:9. 2008.
MacLehose RF, Olshan A., Herring AH, Honein MA, Shaw GM, Romitti PA. Correction for misclassification of maternal smoking in studies of cleft lip and cleft palate. Accepted Epidemiology
MacLehose RF, Dunson DB. Nonparametric Bayes kernel-based priors for functional data analysis. Accepted, Statistica Sinica.
MacLehose RF, Herring AH, Savitz DA, Hartmann KE, Singer P, Weinberg H. Tap water disinfection byproducts and time to pregnancy. Epidemiology. 19(3): 451-458. 2008
MacLehose RF, Dunson DB, Herring AH, Hoppin JA. Bayesian methods for highly correlated data (with commentary). Epidemiology. 18(2): 199-207. 2007
MacLehose RF, Kaufman S, Kaufman JS, Poole C. Bounding causal effects under uncontrolled confounding using counterfactuals. Epidemiology. 16(4):548-555. 2005
Kaufman S, Kaufman JS, MacLehose RF, Greenland S, Poole C. Improved estimation of controlled direct effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding of intermediate variables. Statistics in Medicine. 24(11):1683-702. 2005
Kaufman JS, MacLehose RF, Kaufman S. A further critique of the analytic strategy of adjusting for covariates to identify biologic mediation. Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations. 1(1):4. 2004
Professional Experience:
2008 - Present, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
2008 - Present, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics
2006 - 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biostatistics Branch at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH