Dr. Edward L. Korn

Office Address:
Room 8128
6130 Executive Plaza
Rockville, MD 20852

Contact Information:
Tel: (301) 402-0635
Fax: (301) 402-0560
Email: Korne@ctep.nci.nih.gov

Research Interests
Categorical data analysis, Clinical trials methodology, Multiple comparisons, Survey methods research, Survival analysis.

Selected Recent Publications

As of August 4, 2008

Korn EL and Graubard BI. Analysis of Health Surveys. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. 

Korn EL, Teeter DM and Baumrind S. Using explicit clinician preferences in nonrandomized study designs. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 96: 67-82, 2001 

Korn EL, Arbuck SG, Pluda JM, Simon R, Kaplan RS, and Christian MC. Clinical trial designs for cytostatic agents: Are new approaches needed? Journal of Clinical Oncology 19: 265-272, 2001 

Graubard BI and Korn EL. Inference for superpopulation parameters using sample surveys. Statistical Science 17: 73-96, 2002. 

Korn EL, McShane LM, Troendle JF, Rosenwald A, and Simon R. Identifying pre-post chemotherapy differences in gene expression in breast tumors: A statistical method appropriate for this aim. British Journal of Cancer 86: 1093-1096, 2002. 

Simon RM, Korn EL, McShane LM, Radmacher MD, Wright GW and Zhao Y.  Design and Analysis of DNA Microarray Investigations.  New York: Springer, 2003

Korn EL, Troendle JF, McShane LM and Simon R.  Controlling the number of false discoveries: application to high-dimensional genomic data.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 124: 379-398, 2004.

Troendle JF, Korn EL, and McShane LM.  An example of slow convergence of the bootstrap in high dimensions. American Statistician 58: 25-29, 2004.

Korn EL, Albert PS and McShane LM. Assessing surrogates as trial endpoints using mixed models (with discussion). Statistics in Medicine 24:163-190, 2005.

Hunsberger S, Rubinstein LV, Dancey J, and Korn EL. Dose escalation trial designs based on a molecularly targeted endpoint. Statistics in Medicine 24: 2171-2181, 2005.

Rubinstein LV, Korn EL, Freidlin B, Hunsberger SA, Ivy P, and Smith MA. Randomized phase 2 design issues and a proposal for phase II screening trials, Journal of Clinical Oncology 23: 7199-7206, 2005.

Korn EL, Hunsberger S, Freidlin B, Smith MA, and Abrams JS. Preliminary data release for randomized clinical trials of noninferiority: a new proposal.Journal of Clinical Oncology 23: 5831-5836, 2005.

Korn EL and Freidlin B. The likelihood as statistical evidence in multiple comparisons in clinical trials: no free lunch.Biometrical Journal 48, 1-10, 2006.

Korn EL. Comment: Causal inference in the medical area. Statistical Science 21, 310-312, 2006.

Korn EL and Freidlin B.A posterior tale. Biometrical Journal, 49, 346-350, 2007.

Freidlin B and Korn EL. Release of data from an ongoing randomized clinical trial for sample size adjustment or planning. Statistics in Medicine 26, 4074-4082, 2007.

Korn EL, Li M-C, McShane LM, and Simon R. An investigation of two multivariate permutation methods for controlling the false discovery proportion. Statistics in Medicine 26, 4428-4440, 2007.

Freidlin B, Korn EL, Hunsberger S, Gray R, Saxman S, and Zujewski J. Progression‑free survival in unblinded randomized trials: a proposal. Journal of Clinical Oncology 25, 2122-2126, 2007.

Dodd LE and Korn EL. The bootstrap variance of the square of a sample mean. American Statistician 61, 127-131, 2007.

Freidlin B, Korn EL, George S, and Gray R. Randomized clinical trial design for assessing non-inferiority when superiority is expected. Journal of Clinical Oncology 25, 5019-5023, 2007.

Hunsberger S, Graubard BI, and Korn EL. Testing logistic regression coefficients with clustered data and few positive outcomes.Statistics in Medicine 27, 1305-1324, 2008.

Dodd LE and Korn EL. Lack of generalizability of sensitivity and specificity with treatment effects. Statistics in Medicine 27, 1734-1744, 2008.

Korn EL, Liu PY, Lee SJ, Chapman JW, Niedzwiecki D,Suman VJ, Moon J, Sondak VK, Atkins MB, Eisenhauer EA, Parulekar W, Markovic SN, Saxman S, and Kirkwood JM. Meta-Analysis of Phase II Cooperative Group Trials in Metastatic Stage IV Melanoma: Determining Progression-Free and Overall Survival Benchmarks for Future Phase II Trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology 26, 527-534, 2008. ( Obtain trial-level melanoma data here )

Korn EL and Friedlin B. A note on controlling the number of false positives.Biometrics 64, 227-231, 2008.

Freidlin B, Korn EL, Gray R, and Martin A. Multi-arm clinical trials of new agents: some design considerations. Clinical Cancer Research 14, 4368-4371, 2008.

Dodd LE, Korn EL, Freidlin B, Jaffe CC, Rubinstein LV, Dancey J, and Mooney MM. Blinded independent central review of progression‑free survival in phase III clinical trials: important design element or unnecessary expense? Journal of Clinical Oncology 22, 3791-3796, 2008.

Lusa L, Korn EL, and McShane LM (in press) A class comparison method with filtering enhanced variables selection for high‑dimensional data sets. Statistics in Medicine.

Freidlin B and Korn EL (in press). Monitoring for lack of benefit: a critical component of a randomized clinical trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Please send comments and suggestions to brb@linus.nci.nih.gov

Last updated: August 4, 2008