Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
609 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
609 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Fax: 215-573-4865
Email:
ett@wharton.upenn.edu
ett@wharton.upenn.edu
Education:
BS (Applied Mathematics)
Yale University, 1999.
PhD (Biostatistics)
Harvard University, 2006.
Permanent linkBS (Applied Mathematics)
Yale University, 1999.
PhD (Biostatistics)
Harvard University, 2006.
Selected Publications
Yu M, Liu TH, Li KQ, Jewell N, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Small D, Shi X, Wang B: Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution. Epidemiology 37(2): 228-236, Mar 2026 Notes: Epub 2025 Dec 29.Boyer CB, Li KQ, Shi X, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Identification and Estimation of Vaccine Effectiveness in the Test-Negative Design Under Equi-confounding. Epidemiology 37(1): 77-87, Jan 2026.
Li KQ, Linderman GC, Shi X, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Regression-based Proximal Causal Inference for Right-censored Time-to-event Data. Epidemiology 36(5): 694-704, Sep 2025.
Park C, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Single proxy synthetic control. Journal of Causal Inference 13(1), July 2025 Notes: 10.1515/jci-2023-0079.
Cui Y, Moyo S, Pretorius Holme M, Hurwitz KE, Choga W, Bennett K, Chakalisa U, San JE, Manyake K, Kgathi C, Diphoko A, Gaseitsiwe S, Gaolathe T, Essex M, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Makhema JM, Lockman S: Predictors of HIV seroconversion in Botswana. AIDS 39(3): 290-297, Mar 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000004055. Epub ahead of print 2024 Nov.
Virkud AV, Tchetgen ET, Schisterman EF, Pineles B, Levine LD, Cole SR, Hinkle SN, Mumford S, Gerson KD, Taylor BD, Blackwell S, Peaceman A, Parry S, Johnson MT, Willis D, Caniglia EC: Clarifying Contradictions: Transportability in 17OHP-C Trials and Preterm Birth Outcomes Using Doubly Debiased Machine Learning. American Journal of Epidemiology In press 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print [doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf202]
Dukes O, Richardson DB, Shahn Z, Robins JM, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Using negative controls to identify causal effects with invalid instrumental variables. Biometrika 112(1): asae064, Nov 2024.
Berk RA, Kuchibhotla AK, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Improving Fairness in Criminal Justice Algorithmic Risk Assessments Using Optimal Transport and Conformal Prediction Sets. Sociological Methods and Research 53(4): 1629-1675, Nov 2024 Notes: doi.org/10.1177/00491241231155883. Epub ahead of print. Mar 2023.
Gkatzionis A, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Heron J, Northstone K, Tilling K: Using instruments for selection to adjust for selection bias in Mendelian randomization. Statistics in Medicine 43(22): 4250-4271, Sep 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1002/sim.10173. Epub 2024 Jul 22.
Liu J, Park C, Li K, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ: Regression-Based Proximal Causal Inference. American Journal of Epidemiology Page: kwae370, Sep 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae370. Epub ahead of print.