Getachew Dagne, Ph.D.
College of Public Health - Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Contact Information:
  Office: 2113 MDC-56
  E-Mail: gdagne@hsc.usf.edu
  Voice Mail: (813)-974-6680
  FAX: (813)-974-4719

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 Education

1996 Ph.D. Applied Statistics University of California, Riverside, California
1986 M.S. Statistics

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

1980 B.S. Statistics & Mathematics Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

 Professional Experience

  • 1980-1984 Assistant Lecturer, College of Agriculture, Addis Ababa University 1984-1986 Study leave for M.S.
  • 1986-1991 Lecturer, Department of AgroEconomics, Alemaya University of Agriculture, Ethiopia
  • 1991-1996 Study leave for Ph.D.
  • 1996-present Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of South Florida

 Recent Publications

Dagne, G.A., and Press, S.J. (1995). Robustness of DNA image restoration with respect of spatial correlation. Technical Report No. 218, Dept. of Statistics, UCR.

Dagne, Getachew A. and S. James Press (1996). Robustness of the Directional Neighborhoods to Image Classification with respect to Spatial Correlation, 1996 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, p. 64-69.

Dagne, G.A., and Press, S.J.(1996). Bayesian prediction for small areas using SUR models. ASA 1996 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. pp. 190-195.

Dagne, Getachew A. and S. James Press (1997). Bayesian Predictions for Small Areas Using SUR Models, Communication in Stat. Theory and Methods, 26, no. 6,1355-1379.

Dagne, Getachew A. (1998). Spatial Correlation Effects on Neighborhoods Configuration in Image Classification, Far East J. Theo. Stat., 2, 123-142.

Dagne, G.A. (1998). Power transformation in components of variance models for small area estimation. American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, pp. 332-334.

Dagne, Getachew A. (1999). Bayesian Analysis of Hierarchical Poisson Models with Latent Variables, Communication in Stat. Theory and Methods, 28, no. 1, 119-136.

Dagne, Getachew A. (2001). Bayesian Transformed Models for Small Area Estimation, Test, 10, 375-392.

Dagne, G.A. (2001). Bayesian modeling of spatially correlated latent variables in small area estimation. Far East J. Theoretical Statistics, 5, 67-79.

Salihu, H.M., Naik, E., O'Brien, W.F., Dagne, G.A., Retard, R., and Mason, T. (2001). Tuberculosis in North Carolina: Trends across two decades, 1980-1999. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 7, 570-574.

Salihu, H.M., Naik, E.G., Tchuinguem, G., Bosney, J.P.L., and Dagne, G.A. (2002). Weekly chloroquine prophylaxis and the effect on maternal haemoglobin status at delivery. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 7, 29-34.

Dagne, G.A., Howe, G.W., Brown, C.H., and Muthen, B. (2002). Hierarchical Modeling of Sequential Behaviorial Data: An Empirical Bayesian Approach, Psychological Methods, 7, 262-280.

Dagne, Getachew A. (2003). The use of Power Transformation in Small Area Estimation. Journal of Applied Statistics, 30, 411-423.

Dagne, G.A., Brown, C.H., and Howe, G.W. (2003). Bayesian hierarchical modeling of heterogeneity in multiple contingency tables: An application to behavioral observation data. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 28, 339-352.

Dagne, G.A. (2004). Multilevel Bayesian analysis of repeated events, competing risks models. ASA 2004 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. pp

Dagne, G.A. (2004). Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of correlated zero-inflated count data. Biometrical Journal, 46, 653-663.

Howe, G.W., Dagne, G.A., & Brown, C.H. (2005). Multilevel methods for modeling observed sequences of family interaction. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 72-85.

Synder, J., John Reid, J., Stoolmiller, M., Howe, G., Brown, H., Dagne, G.A., & Cross, W. (in press). The Role of Behavior Observation in Measurement Systems for Randomized Prevention Trials. Prevention Science.

Dagne, G.A., Brown, C.H., & Howe, G.W. (2007). Hierarchical modeling of sequential behavioral data: Log-linear extensions to study complex association patterns in mediation models. Psychological Methods (revised).

Dagne, G.A., Stoolmiller, M., & Snyder, J. (2007). Bayesian analysis of repeated events, multistate durations in behavioral observation. J. of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (under review).

 

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