Ashkan Ertefaie, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Contact information
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
423 Guardian Drive
Room 604 Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
423 Guardian Drive
Room 604 Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-898-3311
Education:
BS (Statistics)
Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2003.
MS (Statistics)
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2006.
PhD (Statistics)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2011.
Permanent linkBS (Statistics)
Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2003.
MS (Statistics)
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2006.
PhD (Statistics)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2011.
Selected Publications
Jaman, A., Wang, G., Ertefaie, A., Bally, M., Lévesque, R., Platt, R. W., & Schnitzer, M. E. : Penalized G-estimation for effect modifier selection in a structural nested mean model for repeated outcomes. Biometrics 81(1), Jan 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomtc/ujae165.Artman WJ, Bhattacharya I, Ertefaie A, Lynch KG, McKay JR, Johnson BA: A marginal structural model for partial compliance in SMARTs. Annals of Applied Statistics 18(2): 905-921, Jun 2024.
Yaeger JP, Fiscella KA, Ertefaie A, Alio AP: Persistent challenges in adjusting for race in analyses and a path forward. Journal of Hospital Medicine 19(3): 239-242, Mar 2024.
Jones, J., Ertefaie A., and Strawderman, R. L. : Causal mediation analysis: Selection with asymptotically valid inference. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B In Press 2024.
Ertefaie A, Hsu JY, Harding D, Morenoff J, Small D: Sensitivity Analysis and Power in the Presence of Many Weak Instruments: Application to the Effect of Incarceration on Future Earnings. Annals of Applied Statistics In Press 2024.
Jones, J., Ertefaie, A., and Strawderman, R. L.: Post-Selection Inference for Individualized Treatment Rules with Nonparametric Confounding Control. Handbook of Statistical Methods for Precision Medicine Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2024.
Roy S, Ye T, Ertefaie A, Vo TT, Flory J, Hennessy S, Small D: Group sequential testing under instrumented difference-in-differences approach. Statistics in Medicine 42(21): 3838-3859, Sep 2023.
Bhattacharya I, Ertefaie A, Lynch KG, McKay JR, Johnson BA: Nonparametric Bayesian Q-learning for optimization of dynamic treatment regimes in the presence of partial compliance. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 32(9): 1649-1663, Sep 2023.
Weisenthal SJ, Thurston SW, Ertefaie A: Relative sparsity for medical decision problems. Statistics in Medicine 42(18): 3067-3092, Aug 2023.
Bhattacharya I, Johnson BA, Artman WJ, Wilson A, Lynch KG, McKay JR, Ertefaie A: A non-parametric Bayesian approach for adjusting partial compliance in sequential decision making. Statistics in Medicine 42(15): 2661-2691, Jul 2023.