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Curriculum Vitae

Geert Verbeke

Leuven Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Centre (L-BioStat)KU Leuven

Department of Public Health & Primary CareKU Leuven

Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat)KU Leuven & Universiteit Hasselt

[email protected]

http://perswww.kuleuven.be/geert verbeke

Last update: September 27, 2019

Contents

1 Personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3 Scientific presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

4 Organization of scientific meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

5 Scientific visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

6 Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

7 Supervision and advisorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

8 Expert committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

9 Fellowships, honours, and awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

10 Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

11 Service to profession, university, and society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

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1 Personal information

Personal data

Name: Verbeke

First name: Geert

Date of birth: May 14, 1967

Place of birth: Menen

Nationality: Belgian

Children: Lien Verbeke: April 22, 1996

Noor Verbeke: March 13, 1998

Aart Verbeke: May 25, 2000

Curriculum Vitae: Geert Verbeke, September 27, 2019 1

Education

Secundary school: 1979 – 1985

Sint-Alloysiuscollege, Menen, mathematically orientated studies

Entrance examination Applied Sciences: 1985

KU Leuven Campus Leuven

Undergraduate studies: 1985 – 1989

Mathematics, KU Leuven

first year, KU Leuven, Campus Kortrijk: distinction

second year, KU Leuven, Campus Kortrijk: great distinction

third year, KU Leuven, Campus Leuven: great distinction

fourth year, KU Leuven, Campus Leuven: great distinction

Teacher’s certificate: 1987 – 1989

Mathematics, KU Leuven

Post-graduate studies: 1989 – 1992

Master of Science in Biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt

Doctoral degree: 1989 – 1995: greatest distinction

Faculty of Science, KU Leuven

Degree ‘Professionalization in University Education’: 1997–1998

Degree from the Teaching Council of KU Leuven.


Permanent Education

1. ‘General missing data methods,’ D.B. Rubin (Harvard University, U.S.A.), Groningen (The Netherlands), 1-2 October, 1990.

2. ‘Discrete data analysis (ten 3-hour lectures),’ A. Agresti (University of Florida, U.S.A.), Diepenbeek, May-June 1992.

3. ‘Analysis of longitudinal data,’ P. Diggle (Lancaster University, U.K.), K.-Y. Liang and S.L. Zeger (The Johns Hopkins University,

U.S.A.), Sheffield (U.K.), 7-8 September, 1992.

4. ‘Short course on longitudinal data analysis,’ N. Lange (Brown University, U.S.A.), Diepenbeek, May 1993 (five 3-hour lectures).

5. ‘GLIM4, a three day training course,’ B. Francis and M. Green (Lancaster University, U.K.) and T. Scallan (Manchester Metropolitan

University, U.K.), Leuven, 14-16 November, 1994.

6. ‘Workshop on the methodology and interpretation of outcomes after cardiac interventions,’ E. Blackstone, D.C. Naftel (University of

Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.), E. Lesaffre and P. Sergeant (KU Leuven), Leuven, 27 September - 1 October, 1995.

7. ‘Exact methods for continuous data, contingency tables and logistic regression,’ C.R. Mehta (Harvard University and Cytel Coorporation,

U.S.A.), Leuven, 26-27 October, 1995.

8. ‘Finite mixture models and their applications, including disease mapping and meta-analysis,’ D. Bohning (Free University of Berlin,

Germany), Leuven, 11-13 December, 1995.

9. ‘Cross-over trials,’ S. Senn (University College London, U.K.), Leuven, 24-26 September, 1996.

10. ‘A course on S-plus,’ E. Lesaffre, B. Spiessens, C. Vynckier (KU Leuven) and E. Goetghebeur (U.G.), Leuven, 18-20 September, 1996.

11. ‘Graphical models,’ J. Whittaker (Lancaster University, U.K.), Leuven, 9-11 December, 1996.

12. ‘Methods for exploring likelihood functions and posterior distributions,’M.A. Tanner (Northwestern University, U.S.A.), Leuven, 16-18

December, 1996.


13. ‘Advanced survival analysis,’ P. Hougaard (Novo Nordisk, Denmark), Leuven, 17-19 March, 1997.

14. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 1: Studying,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the Department of University

Education of KU Leuven, November 17-18, 1997.

15. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 2: Teaching,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the Department of University

Education of KU Leuven, January 30, 1998.

16. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 3: Didactical tools,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the Department of

University Education of KU Leuven, March 27, 1998.

17. ‘Repeated categorical data analysis. Part I: Marginal Models,’ P. Heagerty (University of Washington, U.S.A.), Diepenbeek, 27-28 April,

1998.

18. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 4: Evaluation,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the Department of University

Education of KU Leuven, May 18, 1998.

19. ‘Repeated categorical data analysis. Part II: Mixed Models,’ W. Stroup (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A.), Leuven, 28-29

September, 1998.

20. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 5: Videoconferencing,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the Department of

University Education of KU Leuven, November 10, 1998.

21. ‘Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods for data analysis,’ T.A. Louis (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.), Leuven, 9-11 December, 1998.

22. ‘Interim analyses in clinical trials,’ K.M. Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.), Leuven, 8-9 May, 2000.

23. ‘Analysis of data from longitudinal studies: Current topics,’ S.L. Zeger (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.) and K.-Y.

Liang (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.), Berkely, U.S.A., July 1, 2000.

24. ‘Training in teaching, for starting professors. Part 6: Supervision of group assignments,’ organized by the Teaching Council and the

Department of University Education of KU Leuven, February 8 and March 15, 2001.


25. ‘Semi-parametric theory and missing data,’ A.A. Tsiatis (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, U.S.A.), Atlanta, U.S.A., March 11,

2007.

26. ‘Training in teaching: Development of written exams,’ organized by the Teaching Council of the Faculty of Medicine of KU Leuven,

November 24, 2009.

27. ‘Training in teaching: How to use your voice correctly ?’ organized by the Voice Expertise Centre of KU Leuven, November 26, 2009.

28. ’The use of new media for teaching,’ organized by the Educational Development Unit of KU Leuven, September 11, 2012.

29. ‘Training in teaching: How to activate students ?’ organized by the Unit Academic Development of KU Leuven, September 23 and

December 2, 2014.

30. ‘Training for members of advisory committees responsible for the evaluation of candidates for new faculty positions and for faculty

promotion applications within KU Leuven. Part 2: Decision process,’ organized by HR Management Senior Academic Staff unit of

KU Leuven, January 21, 2016.


promotion applications within KU Leuven. Part 5: Search committees,’ organized by HR Management Senior Academic Staff unit of

KU Leuven, May 10, 2016.

32. ‘Competing risks. Concepts, methods and software,’ R. Geskus (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, the

Netherlands), Leuven, November 17-18, 2016.

33. ‘Bayesian clinical trials,’ G. Rosner (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.), Leuven, September 14-15, 2017

34. ‘Multiplicity in clinical trials: Concepts and solutions,’ F. Bretz (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland), Leuven, December 19-20, 2017.


promotion applications within KU Leuven. General introduction,’ organized by HR Management Senior Academic Staff unit of


KU Leuven, June 4, 2018.

36. ‘Introduction to pairwise and network meta-analysis,’ N. Welton (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), Leuven, November 29-30, 2018.


Computing Experience

Statistics: Sas, Mystat, Systat, StatXact, LogXact, Epiinfo, C.A.Man, Dismap, S-plus, Statistica, NQuery

Programming: Gauss, SAS IML

Text processing: LATEX, Word Perfect, MS Word

Other: Dos, Windows, Paint Shop Pro, Camtasia, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)


Academic Appointments

1/10/1989 – 30/9/1995: Research assistent at the department of biostatistics and epidemiology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

1/10/1995 – 30/9/1997: Post-doctoral researcher at the department of biostatistics and epidemiology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

1/1/1997 – 31/12/2007: Guest professor at the department of mathematics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1/10/1997 – 30/9/2000: Assistant professor (‘docent’) in biostatistics, department of public health, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

1/10/2000 – 30/9/2004: Associate professor (‘hoofddocent’) in biostatistics, department of public health, KU Leuven, Leuven,

Belgium.

1/10/2004 – 30/9/2007: Professor (‘hoogleraar’) in biostatistics, department of public health, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

1/10/2007 – . . . : Professor (‘gewoon hoogleraar’) in biostatistics, department of public health, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

1/07/1996 – . . . : Guest professor at the department of mathematics, Universiteit Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium.

1/01/2008 – 30/06/2008: Guest professor at the department of statistics, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland.

1/10/2012 – . . . : Guest professor at the faculty of Medicine, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.


Main research interests

1. The analysis of longitudinal data / repeated measures

2. Mixed models / random-effects models / multilevel models

3. Model diagnostics

4. Missing data / dropout / sensitivity

5. Classification / discrimination

6. Models for multivariate repeated measures


2 Publications

Papers in international refereed journals

1. Spitz B., Van Bree R., Van Ballaer P., Verbeke G., Hanssens M. and Van Assche F. (1991), ‘Differential inhibition of vascular

prostacyclin and platelet thromboxane synthesis by different doses aspirin and by the thromboxane inhibition ridogrel (R 68070),’ Clinical

and Experimental Hypertension in Pregnancy, B10(3), 371-383.

2. Brant L.J., Pearson J.D., Morrell C.H. and Verbeke G. (1992), ‘Statistical methods for studying individual change during aging,’

Collegium Antropologicum, 16, 2, 359-369.

3. Lesaffre E., Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (1994), ‘A sensitivity analysis of two multivariate response models,’ Computational

Statistics and Data Analysis, 17, 363-391.

4. Kesteloot H., Sasaki S., Verbeke G. and Joossens J.V. (1994), ‘Cancer mortality and age: relationship with dietary fat,’ Nutrition and

Cancer, 22, 1, 85-98.

5. Boonen S., Koutri R., Dequeker J., Aerssens J., Lowet G., Nijs J., Verbeke G., Lesaffre E. and Geusens P. (1995), ‘Measurement of

femoral geometry in type I and type II osteoporosis: Differences in axis length consistent with heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of

osteoporotic fractures,’ Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 10, 1908-1912.

6. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (1996), ‘A linear mixed effects model with heterogeneity in the random effects population,’ Journal of the

American Statistical Association, 91, 217-221.

7. Verdonck A., De Ridder L., Carels C., Verbeke G., Bourguignon J.P., Kuhn R. (1996), ‘Pharmacological testosterone inhibition effects

on skull growth in rats,’ Journal of Dental Research, 75, 1895-1895.


8. Macaluso G.M., De Laat A., Pavesi G., and Verbeke G. (1996), ‘The asymmetrc tonic neck reflex modifies the temporalis H-reflex in

man,’ Journal of dental research, 75, 1957.

9. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (1997), ‘The effect of misspecifying the random effects distribution in linear mixed models for longitudinal

data,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 23, 541-556.

10. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (1997), ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data,’ In:

Proceedings of the Nantucket conference on Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data: Methods, Applications, and Future

Directions, Gregoire, T. (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Statistics 122, Springer-Verlag, New York, 89-99.

11. Brant L.J. and Verbeke G. (1997), ‘Describing the natural heterogeneity of aging using multilevel regression models,’ International

Journal of Sports Medicine, 18, S225-S231.

12. Boonen S., Cheng X.G., Nijs J., Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., Aerssens J., and Dequeker J. (1997), ‘Factors associated with cortical and

trabecular bone loss assessed by peripheral computed tomography (pQCT) at the ultradistal radius in aging women,’ Calcified Tissue

International, 60, 164-170.

13. Boonen S., Nicholson P., Lowet G., Cheng X.G., Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., Aerssens J. and Dequeker J. (1997), ‘Determinants of

age-associated changes in os calcis ultrasonic indices in elderly women,’ Age and Ageing, 26, 139-146.

14. Boonen S., Broos P., Verbeke G., Aerssens J., Van Herck E., Jans I., Dequeker J. and Bouillon R. (1997), ‘Calciotropic hormones and

markers of bone remodeling in age-related (type II) femoral neck osteoporosis.’ Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 52, 286-293.

15. Willems G., Carels C. and Verbeke G. (1997), ‘In vitro peel/shear bond strength of orthodontic adhesives,’ Journal of Dentistry, 25,

263-270.

16. Willems G., Carels C. and Verbeke G. (1997), ‘In vitro peel/shear bond strength evalutation of bracket base design,’ Journal of

Dentistry, 25, 271-278.

17. Boonen S., Aerssens J., Dequeker J., Nicholsen P., Cheng X.G., Lowet G., Verbeke G. and Bouillon R. (1997), ‘Age-associated decline


in human femoral neck cortical and trabecular content of insulin-like growth factor-I: Potential implications for age-related (type II)

osteoporotic fracture occurence,’ Calcified Tissue International, 61, 173-178.

18. Van Erum R., Mulier M., Carels C., Verbeke G. and de Zegher F. (1997), ‘Craniofacial growth in short children born small for

gestational age: Effect of growth hormone treatment,’ Journal of Dental Research, 76, 1579-1586.

19. Peeters M., Geypens B., Claus D., Nevens H., Ghoos Y., Verbeke G., Baert F., Vermeire S., Vlietinck R. and Rutgeerts P. (1997),

‘Clustering of increased small intestinal permeability in families with Crohn’s disease,’ Gastroenterology, 113, 802-807.

20. Boonen S., Cheng X.G., Nicholson P., Verbeke G., Broos P. and Dequeker J. (1997), ‘Accuracy of peripheral skeletal assessment at the

radius in estimating femoral bone density as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry: A comparative study of singly-photon

absorptiometry and computed tomography,’ Journal of Internal Medicine, 242, 323-328.

21. Van Erum R., Carels C., Verbeke G. and de Zegher F. (1997), ‘Craniofacial growth in short children born small for gestational age:

Two years follow-up after high-dose growth hormone treatment,’ Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Development Biology, 17, 184-189.

22. Boonen S., Vanderschueren D., Cheng X.G., Verbeke G., Geusens P., Broos P. and Bouillon R. (1997), ‘Age-related (type II) femoral

neck osteoporosis in men: Biochemical evidence for both hypovitaminosis D- and androgen deficiency-induced bone resorption,’ Journal

of Bone and Mineral Research, 12, 2119-2126.

23. Verbeke K.A., Schiepers C.W., Wynendaele D., Baetens J.A., Drent P., Verbeke G., De Roo M.J. and Verbruggen A.M. (1997),

‘Development and evaluation of a kit-formulation and preparation of 99mTc-DMP-HSA, a new tracer agent for radionuclide

ventriculography,’ Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 24, 571-578.

24. Verbeke G., Lesaffre E. and Brant L.J. (1998), ‘The detection of residual serial correlation in linear mixed models,’ Statistics in

Medicine, 17, 1391-1402.

25. Lesaffre E. and Verbeke G. (1998), ‘Local influence in linear mixed models,’ Biometrics, 54, 570-582.

26. Boonen S., Lysens R., Verbeke G., Joosten E., Dejaeger E., Pelemans W., Flamaing J. and Bouillon R. (1998), ‘Relationship between

age-associated endocrine deficiencies and muscle function in elderly women: A cross-sectional study,’ Age and Ageing, 27, 449-454.


27. Nevens F., Abd El Atti E., Bogaerts K., Verbeke G., and Fevery J. (1998), ‘The level of variceal pressure is a mayor predictor for

variceal hemorrhage both in patients with cirrhosis as in patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension,’ Hepatology, 28, 126.

28. De Laat A., Meuleman H., Stevens A. and Verbeke G. (1998), ‘Correlation between cervical spine and temporomandibular disorders,’

Clinical Oral Investigations, 4, 54-57.

29. Verdonck A., De Ridder L., Verbeke G., Bourguignon J.P., Carels C., Kuhn R., Darras V. and de Zegher F. (1998), ‘Comparative

effects of neonatal and prepubertal castration on craniofacial growth in rats,’ Archives of Oral Biology, 43, 861-871.

30. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (1999), ‘The impact of dropout on the efficiency of longitudinal experiments,’ Journal of the Royal

Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, 48, 363-375.

31. Lesaffre E., Asefa and Verbeke G. (1999), ‘Assessing the goodness-of-fit of the Laird and Ware model, an example: The Jimma Infant

Survival Differential Longitudinal Study,’ Statistics in Medicine, 18, 835-854.

32. El Atti E.A., Nevens F., Bogaerts K., Verbeke G. and Fevery J. (1999), ‘Variceal pressure is a strong predictor of variceal haemorrhage

in patients with cirrhosis as well as in patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension,’ Gut, 45, 618-621.

33. Boonen S., Mohan S., Dequeker J., Aerssens J., Vanderschueren D., Verbeke G., Broos P., Bouillon R. and Baylink D.J. (1999),

‘Down-regulation of the serum stimulatory components of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system (IGF-I, IGF-II, IGF binding protein

(BP)-3 and IGFBP-5) in age-related (type II) femoral neck osteoporosis.’ Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 14, 2150-2158.

34. Spiessens B., Lesaffre E., Verbeke G., Kim K.-M. and DeMets D.L. (2000), ‘An overview of group sequential methods in longitudinal

clinical trials,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 9, 497-515.

35. Lesaffre E., Todem D. and Verbeke G., and M. Kenward (2000), ‘Flexible modelling of the covariance matrix in a linear random effects

model,’ Biometrical Journal, 42, 807-822.

36. Verbeke G., Fieuws S. (2000), ‘Letter to the editor,’ Drug Information Journal, 34, 1373-1375.


37. Thijs H., Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2000), ‘The milk protein trial: Influence analysis of the dropout process,’ Biometrical

Journal, 42, 617-646.

38. Feys H, De Weerdt W, Peeraer L, Verbeke G., Verlinden B, Nieuwboer A, Janssens L. (2000) ‘Foot loading and roll-off pattern during

walking: A comparison between stroke patients and age- and sex-matched control subjects,’ Physiotherapy, 86, 37-38.

39. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., Thijs H., Lesaffre E. and Kenward M.G. (2001), ‘Sensitivity analysis for non-random dropout: A local

influence approach,’ Biometrics, 57, 7-14.

40. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Thijs H., Lesaffre E. and Kenward M.G. (2001), ‘Mastitis in dairy cattle: Influence analysis to assess

sensitivity of the dropout process,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 37, 93-113.

41. Willems G., Clocheret K., Celis J.P., Verbeke G., Chatzicharalampous E., and Carels C. (2001), ‘Frictional behavior of stainless steel

bracket-wire combinations subjected to small oscillating displacements,’ American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics,

120, 371-377.

42. Verbeke G., Lesaffre E. and Spiessens B. (2001), ‘The practical use of different strategies to handle dropout in longitudinal studies,’

Drug Information Journal, 35, 419-434.

43. Verbeke G., Spiessens B. and Lesaffre E. (2001), ‘Conditional linear mixed models,’ The American Statistician, 55, 25-34.

44. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2001), ‘A review on linear mixed models for longitudinal data, possibly subject to dropout,’ Statistical

Modelling, 1, 235-269.

45. Thijs H., Molenberghs G., Michiels B., Verbeke G. and Curran D. (2002), ‘Strategies to fit pattern-mixture models,’ Biostatistics, 3,

245-265.

46. Komarek A. and Verbeke G.(2002), ‘On a fitting of a linear mixed model with a finite normal mixture as random-effects distribution,’

Robust, 186-193.


47. Van Steen K., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G. and Thijs H. (2001), ‘A local influence approach to sensitivity analysis of incomplete

longitudinal ordinal data,’ Statistical Modelling, 1, 125-142.

48. Willems, G., Clocheret, K., Celis, J., Verbeke G., Chatzicharalampous, and E., Carels, C. (2001), ‘Frictional behavior of stainless steel

bracket-wire combinations subjected to small oscillating displacements,’ American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics,

120, 371-377.

49. Molenberghs G., Renard D., and Verbeke G. (2002), ‘A review of generalized linear mixed models,’ Journal de la Societe Francaise de

Statistiques, 143, 53-78.

50. Spiessens B., Lesaffre E., Verbeke G., and Kim K.M. (2002) ‘Group sequential methods for an ordinal logistic random-effects model

under misspecification,’ Biometrics, 58, 569-575.

51. Donders G., Prenen H., Verbeke G., and Reybrouck R. (2002), ‘Impaired tolerance for glucose in women with recurrent vaginal

candidiasis,’ American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 187, 989-993.

52. Verbeke G. (2002), ‘Longitudinale experimenten in de bio-medische wetenschappen,’ Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 58, 1199-1211.

53. Spiessens B., Lesaffre E. and Verbeke G. (2003), ‘A comparison of group sequential methods for binary longitudinal data,’ Statistics in

Medicine, 22, 501-515.

54. Morrell C.H., Brant L.J., Pearson J.D., Verbeke G., and Fleg J.L. (2003), ‘Applying linear mixed-effects models to the problem of

measurement error in epidemiologic studies,’ Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 32, 437-459.

55. Brant L.J., Sheng S.L., Morrell C.H., Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., and Carter H.B. (2003), ‘Heterogeneous random-effects models for

screening of prostate cancer,’ Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Statistics in Society, 166, 51-62.

56. Molenberghs G., Thijs H., Kenward M.G., and Verbeke G. (2003), ‘Sensitivity analysis for continuous incomplete longitudinal

outcomes,’ Statistica Neerlandica, 57, 112-135.

57. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2003) , ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components,’ Biometrics, 59, 254-262.


58. Curran D., Molenberghs G., Thijs H., and Verbeke G. (2004), ‘Sensitivity analysis for pattern mixture models,’ Journal of

Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 14, 125-143.

59. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2004), ‘Meaningful statistical model formulations for repeated measures,’ Statistica Sinica, 14,

989-1019.

60. Fieuws S. and Verbeke G. (2004), ‘Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal profiles: Pitfalls of the random-effects approach,’

Statistics in Medicine, 23, 3093-3104.

61. Molenberghs G., Thijs H., Michiels B., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2004), ‘Pattern-Mixture Models,’ Journal de la Societe

Francaise de Statistiques, 145, 49-77.

62. Feys H., De Weerdt W., Verbeke G., Cox Steck G., Capiau C., Kiekens C., Dejaeger E., Van Hoydonck G., Vermeersch G., and Cras P.

(2004), ‘Early and repetitive stimulation of the arm can substantially improve the long-term outcome after stroke: A 5-year follow-up

study of a randomized trial,’ Stroke, 35, 924-929.

63. Vlaminck H., Maes B., Evers G., Verbeke G., Lerut E., Van Damme B., and Vanrenterghem Y. (2004), ‘Prospective study on late

consequences of subclinical non-compliance with immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplant patients,’ American Journal of

Transplantation, 4, 1509-1513

64. Van Nieuwenhuyse A., Fatkhutdinova L., Verbeke G., Pirenne D., Johannik K., Somville P.R., Mairiaux P., Moens G.F., and

Masschelein R. (2004) ‘Risk factors for first-ever low back pain among firstly employed workers,’ Occupational Medicine, 54, 513-519

65. Hens N., Aerts M., Molenberghs G., Thijs H., and Verbeke G. (2005), ‘Kernel weighted influence measures,’ Computational Statistics

and Data Analysis, 48, 467-487.

66. Gelman A., Van Mechelen I., Verbeke G., Heitjan D.F., and Meulders M. (2005), ‘Multiple imputation for model checking: Completed

data plots with missing and latent data,’ Biometrics, 61, 74-85.

67. Jansen I., Hens N., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., Verbeke G., and Kenward M. (2006), ‘The nature of sensitivity in missing not at random

models,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50, 830-858.


68. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2005) ‘Longitudinal and incomplete clinical studies (with discussion),’ Metron: International Journal

of Statistics, 63, 143-176.

69. Kesteloot H. and Verbeke G. (2005), ‘On the relationship between all-cause, cardiovascular, cancer and residual mortality rates with

age,’ European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, 12, 175-181.

70. Verbeke G., Fieuws S., Lesaffre E., Kato B.S., Foreman M.D., Broos P.L.O., and Milisen K. (2006), ‘A comparison of procedures to

correct for baseline differences in the analysis of continuous longitudinal data: A case study,’ Applied Statistics, 55, 92-101.

71. Jansen I., Beunckens C., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Mallinckrodt C., and Carroll R.J. (2006), ‘Analyzing incomplete binary

longitudinal clinical trial data, Statistical Science, 21, 52-69.

72. Fieuws S. and Verbeke G. (2006), ‘Pairwise fitting of mixed models for the joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal profiles,’

Biometrics, 62, 424-431.

73. Fieuws S., Verbeke G., Boen F., and Delecluse C. (2006) ‘High Dimensional Multivariate Mixed Models for Binary Questionnaire Data,’

Applied Statistics, 55, 449-460.

74. Tuerlinckx F., Rijmen F., Verbeke G., and De Boeck, P. (2006), ‘Statistical inference in generalised linear mixed models: A review,’

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59, 225-255.

75. Van Nieuwenhuyse A., Somville P.R., Crombez G., Burdorf A., Verbeke G., Johannik K., Van den Bergh O., Masschelein R., Mairiaux

Ph., Moens G.F., and the BelCoBack Study Group (2006), ‘The role of physical workload and pain-related fear in the development of

low back pain in young workers. Evidence from the BelCoBack Study: Results after one year of follow-up,’ Occupational and

Environmental Medicine, 63, 45-52.

76. Van Waelvelde H., De Weerdt W., De Cock P., Feys H., Verbeke G., and Smits-Engelsman B. (2006), ‘Kinderen met ‘Developmental

coordination disorder’: waarom missen ze de bal?,’ Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Fysiotherapie, 116, 34-39.

77. Smulders D., Verbeke G., Mormede P., and Geers R. (2006), ‘Validation of a behavioral observation tool to assess pig welfare,’

Physiology and Behavior, 89, 438-447.


78. Joosten E., Lemiengre J., Nelis T., Verbeke G. and Milisen K. (2006), ‘Is anaemia a risk factor for delirium in an acute geriatric

population ?’ Gerontology, 52, 382-385.

79. Tibaldi F., Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., Renard D., Van den Noortgate W., De Boeck P. (2007) ‘Conditional Mixed Models with

Crossed Random-Effects,’ British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 60, 351-365.

80. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2007) ‘Likelihood Ratio, Score, and Wald Tests in a Constrained Parameter Space,’ The American

Statistician, 61, 22-27.

81. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2007) ‘What can go wrong with the score test ?,’ The American Statistician, 61, 289-290.

82. Fieuws S., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2007) ‘Random-effects models for multivariate repeated measures,’ Statistical Methods in

Medical Research, 16, 387-398.

83. Beunckens C., Molenberghs G., Thijs H., and Verbeke G. (2007) ‘Incomplete hierarchical data,’ Statistical Methods in Medical

Research, 16, 457-492.

84. Verbeke G. and Fieuws S. (2007), ‘The effect of misspecified baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal trends in linear mixed

models,’ Biostatistics, 8, 772-783.

85. Beunckens C., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Mallinckrodt C. (2007) ‘A latent-class mixture model for incomplete longitudinal

Gaussian data,’ Biometrics, 64, 96-105.

86. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G. and Demetrio C.G.B. (2007) , ‘An extended random-effects approach to modeling repeated, overdispersed

count data,’ Lifetime Data Analysis, 13, 513-532.

87. Rizopoulos D., Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., and Vanrenterghem Y. (2007) ‘A two-part joint model for the analysis of survival and

longitudinal binary data with excess zeros,’ Biometrics, 64, 611-619.

88. Lemiengre J., Dierckx de Casterle B., Verbeke G., Guisson C., Schotsmans P., and Gastmans C. (2007), ‘Ethics policies on euthanasia

in hospitals – A survey in Flanders (Belgium),’ Health Policy, 84, 170-180.


89. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., and Beunckens L. (2008) ‘Formal and Informal Model Selection with Incomplete Data,’ Statistical

Science, 23, 201-218.

90. Fieuws S. Verbeke G., Maes B., and Vanrenterghem Y. (2008) ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles,’

Biostatistics, 9, 419-431.

91. Lemiengre J., Dierckx de Casterle B., Verbeke G., Van Craen K., Schotsmans P., and Gastmans C. (2008), ‘Ethics policies on

euthanasia in nursing homes: A survey in Flanders, Belgium,’ Social Science and Medicine, 66, 376-386.

92. Borgermans L., Goderis G., Van Den Broeke C., Mathieu C., Aertgeerts B., Verbeke G., Carbonez A., Ivanova A., Grol R., and

Heyrman J. (2008), ‘A cluster randomized trial to improve adherence to evidence-based quidelines on diabetes and reduce clinical inertia

in primary care physicians in Belgium: Study protocol [NTR 1369],’ Implementation Science, 3, 42, doi:10.1186/1748-5908-3-42.

93. Rizopoulos D., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2008), ‘Shared parameter models under random-effects misspecification,’ Biometrika,

95, 63-74.

94. Hautekiet V., Verbeke G., Vandebroeck M., and Geers R. (2008), ‘Development of a sanitary risk index for salmonella seroprevalence in

Belgian pig farms,’ Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 86, 75-92.

95. Sotto C., Beunckens C., Molenberghs G., Jansen I., and Verbeke G. (2009), ‘Marginalizing pattern-mixture models for categorical data

subject to monotone missingness,’ Metrika, 69, 305-336.

96. Beunckens C., Sotto C., Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2009), ‘A multifaceted sensitivity analysis of the Slovenian public opinion

survey data,’ Applied Statistics, 58, 171-196.

97. Tsonaka R., Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2009), ‘A semi-parametric shared parameter model to handle nonmonotone nonignorable

missingness,’ Biometrics, 65, 81-87.

98. Thilakarathne P.J., Verbeke G., Engelen K., and Marchal K. (2009) ‘A nonlinear mixed-effects model for estimating calibration intervals

for unknown concentrations in two-color microarray data with spike-ins,’ Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, vol.

8, iss. 1, article 5, DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1401, available at: http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol8/iss1/art5.


99. Rizopoulos D., Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2009), ‘Fully exponential Laplace approximations for the joint modelling of survival and

longitudinal data,’ Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 71, 637-654.

100. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2010), ‘Arbitrariness of models for augmented and coarse data, with emphasis on incomplete-data and

random-effects models,’ Statistical Modelling, 10, 391-419.

101. Van Nieuwenhuyse A., Crombez G., Burdorf A., Verbeke G., Masschelein R., Moens G., and Mairiaux P. (2009), ‘Physical

characteristics of the back are not predictive of low back pain in healthy workers: A prospective study,’ BioMed Central: Musculoskeletal

Disorders, 10, doi:10.1186/1471-2474-10-2.

102. Vanneste E., Voet T., Le Caignec C., Ampe M., Konings P., Melotte C., Debrock S., Amyere M., Viikkula M., Schuit F., Fryns J.-P.,

Verbeke G., DHooghe T., Moreau Y., Vermeesch J. (2009), ‘Chromosome instability is common in human cleavage-stage embryos,’

Nature Medicine, 15, 577-583.

103. Lehnert S., Van Loo P., Thilakarathne P.J., Marynen P., Verbeke G., Schuit F.C. (2009), ‘ Evidence for co evolution between human

miRNAs and Alu-repeats,’ Public Library of Science One (PLoS One), 4(2), e4456.

104. Rizopoulos D., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2010), ‘Multiple-imputation-based residuals and diagnostic plots for joint models of

longitudinal and survival outcomes,’ Biometrics, 66, 20-29.

105. Serroyen J., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., Vloeberghs E., De Deyn P.P., and Verbeke G.(2010), ‘Flexible Estimation of Serial Correlation

in Nonlinear Mixed Models,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 37, 833-846.

106. De Wolf J., Duchateau L., Verbeke G., and Schrevens E. (2010) ‘Discovering transgenic elite events: Using information from early

screening trials for improving experimental design,’ Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 15, 403-415.

107. Creemers A., Hens N., Aerts M., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2010), ‘A sensitivity analysis for shared-parameter

models for incomplete longitudinal outcomes,’ Biometrical Journal, 52, 111-125, doi: 10.1002/bimj.200800235.

108. Rodriguez-Llanes J.M., Verbeke G., and Finlayson C. (2009) ‘Reproductive benefits of high social status in male macaques (Macaca),’

Animal Behaviour, 78, 643-649.


109. Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke G.(2009), ‘Longitudinal and incomplete clinical studies,’ Journal of the Japanese Society of

Computational Statistics, 22, 1-32.

110. Serroyen J., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Davidian M. (2009) ‘Nonlinear models for longitudinal data,’ The American Statistician,

63, 378-388.

111. Faes C., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2009) ‘The effective sample size and an alternative small sample

degrees of freedom method,’ The American Statistician, 63, 389-399.

112. Borgermans L., Goderis G., Van Den Broeke C., Verbeke G., Carbonez A., Ivanova A., Mathieu C., Aertgeerts B., Heyrman J., and

Grol R. (2009), ‘Interdisciplinary diabetes care Teams operating on the interface between primary and specialty care are associated with

improved outcomes of care: Findings from the Leuven Diabetes Project,’ BMC Health Services Research, 9:179, doi:

10.1186/1472-6963-9-179.

113. Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G., Verbeke G., and Birhanu T. (2011), ‘Pseudo-likelihood estimation for incomplete data,’ Statistica

Sinica, 21, 187-206.

114. Vangeneugden T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Demetrio C.G.B. (2010), ‘Marginal correlation from an extended random-effects

model for repeated and overdispersed counts,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 38, 215-232, doi: 10.1080/02664760903406405

115. Tsonaka R., Rizopoulos D., Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2010), ‘Non-ignorable models for intermittently missing categorical

longitudinal responses,’ Biometrics, 66, 834-844.

116. Creemers A., Hens N., Aerts M., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2011), ‘Generalized shared-parameter models and

missingness at random,’ Statistical Modelling, 11, 279-310.

117. Goderis G., Borgermans L., Heyrman J., Van Den Broeke C., Carbonez A., Mathieu C., Verbeke G., and Grol R. (2010), ‘Monitoring

modifiable cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes care in general practices: The use of an aggregated z-score,’ Medical Care, 48, 589-595.

118. Goderis G., Borgermans L., Grol R., Van Den Broeke C., Boland B., Verbeke G., Carbonez A., Mathieu C., and Heyrman J. (2010),


‘Start improving the quality of care for people with type 2 diabetes through a general practice support program: A cluster randomized

trial. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice,’ Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 88, 56-64.

119. Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G., and Verbeke G.(2009) ‘Discussion of likelihood inference for models with unobservables: Another

view,’ Statistial Science, 24, 273-279.

120. Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke G.(2011), ‘A note on a hierarchical interpretation for negative variance components,’ Statistical

Modelling, 11, 389-408.

121. Dejardin D., Lesaffre E., and Verbeke G.(2010), ‘Joint Modelling of Progression-Free Survival and Death in Advanced Cancer Clinical

Trials,’ Statistics in Medicine, 29, 1724-1734, DOI: 10.1002/sim.3918

122. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Demetrio C.G.B., and Vieira A. (2010), ‘A family of generalized linear models for repeated measures with

normal and conjugate random effects,’ Statistical Science, 25, 325-347, DOI:10.1214/10-STS328.

123. Forcheh C.A., Verbeke G., Valkenborg D., Zhao H., Marchal K., Engelen K. (2010), ‘Statistical approach to assign functional regulators

in gene expression compendia,’ Online Journal of Bioinformatics, 11, 145-154.

124. Sunaert P., Bastiaens H., Nobels F., Feyen L., Verbeke G., Vermeire E., De Maeseneer J., Willems S., De Sutter A. (2010) ‘Effect

evaluation of the introduction of a Chronic Care Model-based program for type 2 diabetes in Belgium,’ BMC Health Services Research,

10:207, doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-207.

125. Van de Perre V., Permentier L., De BieS., Verbeke G., Geers R. (2010), ‘Effect of unloading, lairage, pig handling, stunning and season

on pH of pork,’ Meat Science, 86, 931-937, doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2010.07.019.

126. Ghidey W., Lesaffre E., and Verbeke G. (2010) ‘A comparison of methods for estimating the random effects distribution of a linear

mixed model,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 19, 575-600, doi:10.1177/0962280208091686.

127. De Wolf J., Duchateau L., Verbeke G.and Schrevens E. (2010) ‘Discovering transgenic elite events: Using information from early

screening trials for improving experimental design,’ Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 15, 403-415.


128. Ampe M., Verbeke G., Vanneste E., and Vermeesch J. (2010), ‘Analysis of array CGH data for the detection of single-cell chromosomal

imbalances,’ Online Journal of Bioinformatics, 11 (2), 224-244

129. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G.(2011), ‘On the Weibull-Gamma frailty model, its infinite moments, and its connection to generalized

log-logistic, logistic, Cauchy, and extreme-value distributions,’ Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, 861-868.

130. Pryseley A., Tchonlafi C., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2011), ‘Estimating negative variance components from Gaussian and

non-Gaussian data: A mixed models approach,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55, 1071-1085.

131. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Iddi S. (2011), ‘Pseudo-likelihood methodology for partitioned large and complex samples,’ Statistics

and Probability Letters, 81, 892-901, doi:10.1016/j.spl.2011.01.012.

132. Van Beirendonck S., Driessen B., Verbeke G., and Geers R. (2011) ‘Behaviour of piglets after castration with and without carbon

dioxide anaesthesia,’ Journal of Animal Science, 89, 3310-3317.

133. Forcheh C.A., Verbeke G., Kasim A., Lin D., Shkedy Z., Talloen W., Gohlmann H.W.H., and Clement L. (2012) ‘Gene filtering in the

analysis of Illumina microarray experiments.’ Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 11(2), article 3.

134. Rchaidia L., Dierckx de Casterle B., Verbeke G., and Gastmans C. (2011), ‘Oncology patients perceptions of the good nurse: an

explorative study on the psychometric properties of the Flemish adaptation of the Care-Q instrument,’ Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21,

1387-1400, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03861.x.

135. Drikvandi G.R., Khodadadi A., and Verbeke G.(2012), ‘Testing variance components in balanced linear growth curve models,’ Journal

of Applied Statistics, 39, 563-572.

136. Quataert P., Verschelde P., Breine J., Verbeke G., Goetghebeur E., and Ollevier F. (2011) ‘A diagnostic modelling framework to

construct indices of biotic integrity: A case study of fish in the Zeeschelde estuary (Belgium),’ Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 94,

222-233.

137. Wellens N.I.H., Van Lancker A., Flamaing J., Gray L., Moons P., Verbeke G., Boonen S., Milisen K. (2012), ‘Interrater reliability of the

interRAI Acute Care (interRAI AC),’ Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 55, 165-172.


138. Klingels K., Feys H., De Wit L., Jaspers E., Van de Winckel A., Verbeke G., De Cock P., Molenaers G. (2012), ‘Arm and hand function

in children with unilateral cerebral palsy: A one-year follow-up study,’ European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 16, 257-265.

139. Nkafu D.A., Verbeke G., De Fraine B., Onghena P., and Van Damme J. (2013), ‘Double serial correlation for multilevel growth curves

models,’ Quality & Quantity, 47, 1413-1427.

140. Borgermans L., Goderis G., Van Den Broeke C., Verbeke G., Carbonez A., Ivanova A., Mathieu C., and Heyrman J. (2011), ‘Patients’

experiences with patient-centered care are associated with documented outcome of care indicators for diabetes: findings from the Leuven

Diabetes Project,’ International Journal of Care Pathways, 15, 65-75.

141. Van Beirendonck S., Driessen B., Verbeke G., Permentier, L., Van de Perre, V. and Geers R. (2012) ‘Improving survival and animal

welfare in piglets by avoiding teeth shortening and tail docking,’ Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research 7:2,

88-93.

142. Thilakarathne P.J., Clement L., Lin D., Shkedy Z., Kasim A., Talloen W., Versele M., & Verbeke G.(2011) ‘The use of semi-parametric

mixed models to analyze PamChip peptide array data: An application to an oncology experiment,’ Bioinformatics, 27, 2859-2865.

143. Luts J., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K. (2012), ‘A mixed effects least squares support vector machine

model for classiffication of longitudinal data,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 611-628.

144. Van der Borght K., Van Craenenbroeck E., Lecocq P., Van Houtte M., Van Kerckhove B., Bacheler L., Verbeke G., and van Vlijmen H.

(2011), ‘Cross-validated stepwise regression for identification of novel non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance associated

mutations,’ BMC Bioinformatics, 12:386, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-386.

145. Van de Perre V., Driessen B., Van Thielen J., Verbeke G., Geers R. (2011), ‘Comparison of pig behaviour when given a sequence of

enrichment objects or a chain continuously,’ Animal Welfare, 20, 641-649.

146. Wellens N., Hanon T., Flamaing J., Tournoy J., Moons P., Boonen S., Verbeke G., and Milisen K. (2012) ‘Convergent validity of the

Cognitive Performance Scale of the interRAI Acute Care and the Mini-Mental State Examination,’ The American Journal of Geriatric

Psychiatry, 21, 636-645, doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e31824afaa3.


147. Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G., Aerts M., Verbeke G., Tsiatis A.A., Davidian M., and Rizopoulos D. (2014), ‘On random sample size,

ignorability, ancillarity, completeness, separability, and degeneracy: Sequential trials, random sample sizes, and missing data,’ Statistical

Methods in Medical Research, 23, 11-41, doi:10.1177/0962280212445801.

148. Verbeke G., Fieuws S., Molenberghs G., and Davidian M. (2014) ‘The analysis of multivariate longitudinal data: A review,’ Statistical

Methods in Medical Research, 23, 42-59, doi: 10.1177/0962280212445834.

149. Konings P., Vanneste E., Jackmaert, S., Ampe M., Verbeke G., Moreau Y., Vermeesch J., Voet T. (2012) ‘Microarray analysis of copy

number variation in single cells,’ Nature Protocols, 7 (2), 281-310.

150. Claes P., Walters M., Shriver M.D., Puts D., Gibson G., Clement J., Baynam G., Verbeke G., Vandermeulen D., & Suetens P. (2012)

‘Sexual dimorphism in multiple aspects of 3D facial symmetry & asymmetry defined by spatially-dense geometric morphometrics,’

Journal of Anatomy, 221, 97-114, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01528.x.

151. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Iddi S., and Demetrio C.G.B. (2012) ‘A combined beta and normal random-effects model for repeated,

overdispersed binary and binomial data,’ Journal of Multivariate analysis, 111, 94-109, doi: 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.05.005.

152. Drikvandi R., Verbeke G., Khodadadi A., and Partovi Nia V. (2013) ‘Testing multiple variance components in linear mixed effects

models,’ Biostatistics, 14, 144-159, doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxs028.

153. Rikhtehgaran R., Kazemi I., Verbeke G., de Kort W., and Lesaffre E. (2012) ‘Piecewise transition models with random effects for

unequally-spaced longitudinal measurements,’ Statistical Modelling, 12, 503-525.

154. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Efendi A., Braekers R., and Demetrio C.G.B. (2015) ‘A combined gamma frailty and normal

random-effects model for repeated, overdispersed time-to-event data,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 24, 434-452.

155. Molenberghs G., Njeru Njagi E., Kenward M.G., and Verbeke G.(2012), ‘Enriched-data problems and essential non-identifiability’

International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 1, 16-44, doi: 10.6000/1929-6029.2012.01.01.02.

156. Kassahun, W., Neyens, T.,Molenberghs, G., Faes, C., and Verbeke G.(2012), ‘Modeling overdispersed longitudinal binary data from the

Jimma longitudinal studies using a combined beta and normal random-effects model,’ Archives of Public Health, 70, Article 7.


157. Van Nieuwenhuyse A., Burdorf A., Crombez G., Verbeke G., Masschelein R., Mairiaux P., Moens G., and the BelCoBack Study Group

(2013), ‘Sick leave due to back pain in a cohort of young workers,’ International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 86,

887-899, doi:10.1007/s00420-012-0824-y.

158. Rosselle L., Permentier L., Verbeke G., Driessen B., and Geers R. (2013) ‘Interactions between climatological variables and sheltering

behavior of pastoral beef cattle during sunny weather in a temperate climate,’ Journal of Animal Science, 91, 943-949.

159. Thilakarathne P.J., Verbeke G., Engelen K., Marchal K., and Lin D. (2013) ‘Identifying differentially expressed genes in the absence of

replication,’ International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 9, 71-90.

160. Wellens N.I.H., Verbeke G., Flamaing J., Moons P., Boonen S., Tournoy J., and Milisen K. (2013) ‘Clinical changes in older patients

during hospitalization: Responsiveness of the MDS interRAI Acute Care instrument,’ Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 61,

799-804.

161. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2013) ‘The gradient function as an exploratory goodness-of-fit assessment of the random-effects

distribution in mixed models,’ Biostatistics, 14, 477-490.

162. Jaspers S., Aerts M., Verbeke G., and Beloeil P.A. (2014) ‘A new semi-parametric mixture model for interval censored data, with

applications in the field of antimicrobial resistance,’ Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 71, 30-42.

163. Klingels K., Feys H., Molenaers G., Verbeke G., Van Daele S., Hoskens J., Desloovere K., and De Cock P. (2013) ‘Randomized trial of

modified constraint-induced movement therapy with and without an intensive therapy programme in children with unilateral cerebral

palsy,’ Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 27, 799-807.

164. Permentier L., Maenhout D., Broekman K., Deley W., Verbeke G., and Geers R. (2013) ‘Effect of different dietary total Lys: Energy

ratios and dietary energy concentrations in phase feeding from weaning to slaughter on performance and carcass measures of crossbred

pigs selected for leanness,’ Livestock Science, 155, 332342.

165. Njeru Njagi E., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Kenward M.G., Dendale P., and Willekens, K. (2016). A flexible joint-modelling

framework for longitudinal and time-to-event data with overdispersion. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 25, 1661-1676.


166. Jaspers S., Aerts M., Verbeke G., and Beloeil P.A. (2014) ‘Estimation of the wild-type MIC value distribution,’ Statistics in Medicine,

33, 289-303.

167. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Iddi S., and Efendi A. (2013) ‘On the connections between bridge distributions, marginalized multilevel

models, and generalized linear mixed models,’ International Journal of Statistics and Probability, 2, 4, 1-21, doi:10.5539/ijsp.v2n4p1

168. Forcheh A.C., Verbeke G., Kasim A., Lin D., Shkedy Z., Talloen W., Ghlmann H.W.H., and Clement L. (2013) ‘BeadarrayFilter: An R

Package to Filter Beads,’ The R Journal, 5, 171-180.

169. Kassahun W., Neyens T., Molenberghs G., Faes C., and Verbeke G.(2015) ’A joint model for hierarchical continuous and zero-inflated

overdispersed count data,’ Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 85, 552-571.

170. De Boever P., Wens B., Forcheh A.C., Valkenborg D., Reynders H., Nelen V., Kleinjans J., Van Larebeke N., Verbeke G., and

Schoeters G. (2014) ‘Longitudinal study of the blood transcriptome in healthy individuals: A baseline for applying gene expression

analysis in human biomonitoring campaigns,’ Genomics, 103(1), article 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.11.006, 31-9.

171. Ivanova A., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2014) ‘A model for overdispersed hierarchical ordinal data,’ Statistical Modelling, 14,

399-416.

172. Milanzi E., Molenberghs G., Alonso A., Verbeke G., and De Boeck P. (2015) ‘Reliability measures in item response theory: Manifest

versus latent correlation functions,’ British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 68, 43-64.

173. Kassahun W., Neyens T., Faes C., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2014) ‘A zero-inflated overdispersed hierarchical Poisson model,’

Statistical Modelling, 14, 434-456.

174. Van Beirendonck S., Driessen B., Van Thielen J., and Verbeke G.(2014) ‘The association between sow and piglet behavior,’ Journal of

Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 9, 107-113.

175. Milanzi, E., Molenberghs, G., Alonso, A., Kenward, M.G., Tsiatis, A., Davidian, M., and Verbeke G.(2015) ‘Estimation after a group

sequential trial,’ Statistics in Biosciences, 7, 187-207.


176. Van der Borght, K., Verbeke G., and van Vlijmen H. (2014) ‘Multi-model inference using mixed effects from a linear regression based

genetic algorithm,’ BMC Bioinformatics, 15:88, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/88.

177. Njeru Njagi E., Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G., Verbeke G., and Rizopoulos D. (2014), ‘A characterization of missingness at random in

a generalized shared-parameter joint modelling framework for longitudinal and time-to-event data, and sensitivity analysis,’ Biometrical

Journal, 56, 1001-1015.

178. Kassahun W., Neyens T., Molenberghs G., Faes C., and Verbeke G.(2014), ‘Marginalized multilevel Hurdle and zero-inflated models for

overdispersed and correlated count data with excess zeros,’ Statistics in Medicine, 33, 4402-4419.

179. Rikhtehgaran R., Kazemi I., and Verbeke G.(2014), ‘Effects of time-invariant covariates on the estimation of longitudinal trends for

transition mixed models,’ Statistics in Medicine, 33, 4743-4755.

180. Milanzi E., Molenberghs G., Alonso A., Kenward M.G., Verbeke G., Tsiatis A.A., and Davidian M. (2016) ‘Properties of estimators in

exponential family settings with observation-based stopping rules,’ Journal of Biometrics and Biostatistics, 7(1), article 272,

http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2155-6180.1000272.

181. Maertens de Noordhout C., Devleesschauwer B., Angulo F.J., Verbeke G., Haagsma J., Kirk M., Havelaar A., and Speybroeck N.

(2014) ‘The global burden of listeriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis,’ The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 14(11), 1073-1082.

182. Soubry A., Verbeke G., and Hoyo C. (2014) ‘Do early paternal exposures to lifestyle factors such as smoking increase the risk of chronic

diseases in the offspring ?,’ European Journal of Human Genetics, 22, 1341-1342.

183. Vangeneugden T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Demetrio C.G.B. (2014) ‘Marginal correlation from logit- and probit-beta-normal

models for hierarchical binary data,’ Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 43, 4164-4178.

184. Efendi A., Drikvandi R., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2017) ‘A goodness-of-fit test for the random-effects distribution in mixed

models,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 26, 970-983.

185. Ivanova A., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G., (2016) ‘Mixed models approaches for joint modeling of different types of responses,’

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 26, 601-618.


186. Permentier L., Maenhout D., Deley W., Broekman K., Vermeulen L., Agten S., Verbeke G., Driessen B., Aviron J., Geers R. (2015),

‘Lung lesions increase the risk of reduced meat quality of slaughter pigs,’ Meat Science, 108, 106-108.

187. van Achterberg T., van Gaal B.G.I., Geense W.W., Verbeke G., van der Vleuten C., and Schoonhoven L. (2016), ‘Completeness of

assisted bathing in nursing homes related to dementia and bathing method. Results from a secondary analysis of cluster-randomised trial

data,’ International Journal of Older People Nursing, 11, 121-129.

188. Jaspers S., Verbeke G., Bohning D., and Aerts M. (2015), ‘Application of the Vertex Exchange Method to estimate a semi-parametric

mixture model for the MIC density of Escherichia coli isolates tested for susceptibility against ampicillin,’ Biostatistics, 17, 94-107.

189. Vermeulen L., Van de Perre V., Permentier L., De Bie S., Verbeke G., and Geers R. (2015), ‘Sound levels above 85 dB pre-slaughter

influence pork quality,’ Meat Science, 100, 269-274.

190. Ivanova A., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2017) ‘Fast and highly efficient pseudo-likelihood methodology for large and complex

ordinal data,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 26, 2758-2779.

191. Van der Elst W., Hermans L., Verbeke G., Kenward M., Nassiri V., and Molenberghs G. (2016), ‘Unbalanced cluster sizes and rates of

convergence in mixed-effects models for clustered data,’ Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86, 2123-2139.

192. Rakhmawati T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Faes C. (2016), ‘Local influence diagnostics for incomplete overdispersed longitudinal

counts,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 43, 1722-1737.

193. Bruckers L., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Geys H. (2016), ‘Detecting influential observations in a model-based cluster analysis,’

Statistical Methods in Medical Research, in press.

194. Vansteelandt K. and Verbeke G.(2016), ‘A mixed model to disentangle variance and serial autocorrelation in affective instability using

ecological momentary assessment data,’ Multivariate Behavioral Research, 51, 446-465.

195. Rakhmawati T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Faes C. (2016), ‘Local influence diagnostics for hierarchical count data models with

overdispersion and excess zeros,’ Biometrical Journal, 58, 1390-1408.


196. Rakhmawati T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Faes C. (2017), ‘Local influence diagnostics for generalized linear mixed models with

overdispersion,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 44, 620-641.

197. Drikvandi R., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2017), ‘Diagnosing misspecification of the random-effects distribution in mixed

models,’ Biometrics, 73, 63-71.

198. Rikhtehgaran R., Kazemi I., and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘A comparative study on estimation methods to deal with the endogeneity in linear

random-intercept models with an extension,’ Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 87, 171-186.

199. Van der Elst W., Molenberghs G., Hilgers R.D., Verbeke G., and Heussen N. (2016) ‘Estimating the reliability of repeatedly measured

endpoints based on linear mixed-effects models. A tutorial,’ Pharmaceutical Statistics, 15, 486-493.

200. Ivanova A., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2017) ‘Mechanism for missing data incorporated into joint modelling of ordinal responses,’

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 66, 1049-1064.

201. De Mulder W., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘A sensitivity analysis of probabilistic sensitivity analysis in terms of the density

function for the input variables,’ Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 87, 1429-1445.

202. Baghfalakia T., Ganjali M., and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘A shared parameter model of longitudinal measurements and survival time with

heterogeneous random-effects distribution,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 44, 2813-2836.

203. Verbeke G.and Molenberghs G. (2017), ‘Modeling through latent variables,’ Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 4, 267282.

204. Hermans L., Nassiri V., Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G.,, Van der Elst W., Aerts M., and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘Fast, closed-form, and

efficient estimators for hierarchical models with AR(1) covariance and unequal cluster sizes,’ Communications in Statistics - Simulation

and Computation, in press.

205. Oliveira I.R.C., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., C.G.B. Demetrio C.G.B., and Dias C.T.S. (2017), ‘Negative variance components for

non-negative hierarchical data with correlation, over-, and/or underdispersion,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, 44, 1047-1063.


206. Nassiri V., Ivanova A., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘Fast precision estimation in high-dimensional multivariate joint

models,’ Biometrical Journal, 59, 1221-1231.

207. Hermans L., Nassiri V., Molenberghs G., Kenward M.G., Van der Elst W., Aerts M., and Verbeke G.(2018), ‘Clusters with unequal size:

Maximum likelihood versus weighted estimation in large samples,’ Statistica Sinica, 28, 1107-1132.

208. Verbeke G., Fieuws S., Molenberghs G., and Davidian M. (2017), ‘The analysis of multivariate longitudinal data: A review. Response

to letter of M. Gebregziabher,’ Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 26, 112-112.

209. Lovik A., Nassiri V., Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., and Sodermans A.K. (2017), ‘Psychometric properties and comparison of different

techniques for factor analysis on the Big Five Inventory from a Flemish sample,’ Personality and Individual Differences, 117, 122-129.

210. De Mulder W., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2018), ‘A generalization of inverse distance weighting and an equivalence relationship

to noise-free Gaussian process interpolation via Riesz representation theorem,’ Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 66,10541066.

211. Molenberghs, G., Verbeke G., and Demetrio C.G.B. (2017), ‘Hierarchical models with normal and conjugate random effects: A review,’

Statistics and Operations Research Transactions (SORT), 41, 191-254.

212. Leblanc, J., Hejblum G., Costagliola D., Durand-Zaleski I., Lert F., de Truchis P., Verbeke G., Rousseau A., Piquet H., Simon F.,

Pateron D., Simon T., and Cremieux A.-C. (2017), ‘Targeted HIV screening in eight emergency departments: The DICI-VIH

cluster-randomized two-period crossover trial,’ Annals of Emergency Medicine, in press.

213. Amini P., Verbeke G., Zayeri F., Mahjub H., Maroufizadeh S., and Moghimbeigi A. (2018) ‘Longitudinal joint modelling of binary and

continuous outcomes: A comparison of Bridge and Normal distributions,’ Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health, 15, e12755,1-11.

214. Hermans L., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., Kenward M.G., and Verbeke G.(2018) ‘A tutorial on the practical use and implication of

complete sufficient statistics,’ International Statistical Review, 86, 403-414.

215. Lovik, A., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs, G. (2017), ‘Evaluation of a very short test to measure the Big Five personality factors on a

Flemish sample,’ Journal of Psychological and Educational Research, 25, 7-17


216. Rakhmawati T., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Faes C. (2017), ‘Local influence diagnostics for hierarchical finite-mixture

random-effects models,’ Biometrical Journal, in press.

217. Nassiri V., Lovik A., Molenberghs G, and Verbeke G.(2017), ‘On using multiple imputation for exploratory factor analysis of incomplete

data,’ Behavior Research Methods, in press.

218. Molenberghs G., Poveda A., Kassahun W., Neyens T., Faes C., and Verbeke G.(2017) Marginalized multi-level hurdle and zero-inflated

models for overdispersed and correlated count data with excess zeros. Response to letter of G. Inan, Statistics in Medicine, in press.

219. Coemans M., Susal C., Dohler B., Anglicheau D., Giral M., Bestard O., Legendre C., Emonds M.-P., Kuypers D., Molenberghs G.,

Verbeke G., and Naesens M. (2018) ‘Short- and long-term graft survival after kidney transplantation in Europe between 1986 and

2015,’ Kidney International, in press.

220. Luyts M., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Matthijs K., Demetrio C. G. B., and Hinde J. (2018) ‘A Weibull-count approach for handling

under- and/or overdispersed clustered data structures,’ Statistical Modelling, in press.

221. De Mulder W., Rengs B., Molenberghs G., Fent T., and Verbeke G.(2019), ‘Extending Gaussian process emulation using cluster

analysis and artificial neural networks to fit big training sets,’ Journal of Simulation, 13, 195-208.

222. Klingels K., Meyer S., Mailleux L., Simon-Martinez C., Hoskens J., Monbaliu E., Verheyden G., Verbeke G., Molenaers G., Ortibus E.,

and Feys H. (2018) ‘Time course of upper limb function in children with unilateral cerebral palsy: A five-year follow-up study,’ Neural

Plasticity, in press.

223. Florez A.J., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Alonso Abad A. (2019) ‘A closed-form estimator for meta-analysis and surrogate markers

evaluation,’ Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 29, 318-332.

224. Hermans L., Ivanova A., Sotto C., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Kenwerd M.G. (2018) ‘Doubly Robust Pseudo-likelihood for

incomplete hierarchical binary data,’ Statistical Modelling, in press.

225. Nassiri V., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and BarbosaBreda J. (2018) ‘Iterative multiple imputation: a framework to determine the

number of imputed datasets,’ The American Statistician, in press.


226. Alonso A., Meyvisch P., Van der Elst W., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2019) ‘A reflection on the possibility of finding a good

surrogate,’ Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 29, 468-477.

227. Coemans M., Van Loon E., Lerut E., Kuypers D., Sprangers B., Senev A., Emonds M.P., Gillard P., Mathieu C., Van Keer J., Callemeyn

J., Daniels E., Sichien J., Verbeke G., and Naesens M. (2019) ‘Occurrence of diabetic nephropathy after renal transplantation despite

intensive glycemic control: an observational cohort study,’ Diabetes Care, in press.

228. Tran T.D., Lesaffre E., Verbeke G., and Duyck J. (2019) ‘Modeling local dependence in latent vector autoregressive models,’

Biostatistics, in press.

229. De Mulder W., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2019) ‘An interpretation of radial basis function networks as zero-mean Gaussian

process emulators in cluster space,’ Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, in press.

230. Florez A.J., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Kenward M.G., Mamouris P. and Vaes B. (2019) ‘Fast two-stage estimator for clustered

count data with overdispersion,’ Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, in press.

231. Ariyo O., Quintero L.A., Munoz J., Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2019) ‘Bayesian model selection in linear mixed models for longitudinal

data,’ Journal of Applied Statistics, in press.

232. Quintero A., Verbeke G., Bruyneel L., and Lesaffre E. (2019) ‘Bayesian analysis of differential effects in multi-group regression

methods,’ Statistical Modelling, in press.

233. Lovik A., Nassiri V., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2019) ‘A Modified Tucker’s congruence Coefficient for factor matching,’

Methodology, in press.


National publications and outreach

1. Verbeke G. (1998) ‘Illegal immigrants,’ report of the January meeting of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal

Statistical Society (The United Kingdom),’ RSS News, 25, 2.

2. Verbeke G. (2001) ‘Geen causale besluiten trekken op basis van observationele data.’ De Huisarts, 543, february 21, p.2.

3. Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G., (2003) ‘Modelling Gaussian and non-Gaussian longitudinal data,’ Yearbook of the Finnish Statistical

Society, 70-98.

4. Huysmans K., Hooyberghs J., Vyt P., Castryck F., Verbeke G., de Becker M., and Geers R., (2003) ‘Disease risk and factors in relation

to management and contact patterns with emphasis on Aujeszky disease on pig farms in a densely livestock area,’ Final report in the

DPLA-project FAIR-PL97-3566 ‘Development of prevention and control strategies to address animal health and related problems in

densely populated livestock areas of the Community,’ European Commission, Community Research, 88-104.

5. Verbeke G. (2004) ‘Goochelen met statistiek,’ Karakter (Tijdschrift van Wetenschap, Academische Stichting Leuven), 8, 22-24.

6. Verbeke G. (2008) ‘Kun je met statistiek werkelijk alles bewijzen ?’ In: Denken en weten over de wereld. Lessen voor de

eenentwintigste eeuw, Raymaekers B. (Ed.), Universitaire Pers Leuven, 215-230, ISBN 978-90-5867-647-4.

7. Sunaert P., Bastiaens H., Nobels F., Feyen L., Vermeire E., Verbeke G., De Maeseneer J., Willems S., and De Sutter A. (2011)

‘Verbeteren regionale acties de zorg voor diabetespatienten ?,’ Huisarts Nu, 40, 332-338.

8. Van Nieuwenhuyse A., Burdorf A., Crombez G., Verbeke G., Masschelein R., Mairiaux Ph., and Moens G. (2012), ‘Sick leave due to

low back pain in a cohort of young workers in Belgium,’ Revue d’Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique, 60, supp. 2, S142-S143.


Author of books

1. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2000) ‘Linear mixed models for longitudinal data,’ Springer Series in Statistics, Springer-Verlag,

New-York, 568 pages,

ISBN 0-387-95027-3 (hard cover), first printing in 2000, second printing in 2001.

ISBN 978-1-4419-0299-3 (paper back), third printing in 2009.

Reviews:

(a) A.I. Avilees (Northwestern University;U.S.A.), Technometrics (2001), 43, 375.

(b) F. van Eeuwijk (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands), Nieuwsbrief, Vereniging voor ordinatie en classificatie (2002), 28,

7-10.

(c) S.W. Raudenbush (University of Michigan; U.S.A.), Sociological methods and research (2002), 31, 110-118.

2. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2005) ‘Models for discrete longitudinal data,’ Springer Series in Statistics, Springer-Verlag, New-York,

683 pages, ISBN 0-387-25144-8.

Reviews:

(a) A. Tobıas, Statistics and Operations Research Transactions (SORT) (2005), 29, 291-292.

(b) J. Shults, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (2006), 3, 395-398.

(c) J. Williamson, Journal of the American Statistical Association (2006), 101, 1307.

(d) P. Eilers, Nieuwsbrief Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie (2007), 38, 5.

(e) B.J.T. Morgan, Short Book Reviews of the International Statistical Institute (2006), 26.

(f) T. Postelnicu, Zentralblatt MATH (2006), 19.


(g) K. Webel, Advances in Statistical Analysis (2007), 91.


Editor of books

1. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (1997) ‘Linear mixed models in practice: A SAS-oriented approach,’ Lecture Notes in Statistics 126,

Springer-Verlag, New-York, 306 pages, ISBN 0-387-98222-1.

Reviews:

(a) R.V. Lenth (University of Iowa), Journal of the American Statistical Society (1998), 93, 1240.

(b) P. Stewart (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Technometrics (1999), 41, 79.

(c) P.A. Lachenbruch (Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, U.S.A.), Biometrics (1999), 55, 327.

2. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2001) ‘Linear mixed models in practice: A SAS-oriented approach,’ Japanese translation by Matsyama

Y., and Yamaguchi, T., Springer-Verlag GmbH and Co. KG through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo, 320 pages, ISBN 4-914903-75-X.

3. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., Aerts M., and Fieuws S. (2003) ‘Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling,

July 7-11, 2003, Leuven, Belgium,’ 489 pages, ISBN 90-807934-1-8.

4. Fitzmaurice G., Davidian M., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (2009) ‘Longitudinal data analysis,’ New-York: Chapman and Hall/CRC,

618 pages, ISBN 978-1-58488-658-7.

Reviews:

(a) J. Roy (Geisinger Center for Health Research), Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (2009), 19, 750-751.

(b) M. Crowder (Imperial College Londen), International Statistical Review (2009), 77, 148-149.

(c) J. Wang (Switzerland), Newsletter of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) Newsletter (2009),47, 8.

(d) M.D. Ugarte (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain), Journal of Applied Statistics (2009), 36, 11751176.

(e) B.H. Baltagi (Syracuse University, New-York, U.S.A.), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, SeriesA (2009), 172, 939-940.

(f) C.M. Gotwalt (SAS Institute), Journal of the American Statistical Association (2010), 105, 875-875.


(g) J.W. Hogan (Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.), Biometrics (2010), 66, 995-996.

(h) A. Robinson (University of Melbourne, Australia), Statistics in Medicine (2011), 30, 2056.

5. Molenberghs G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G.(2015) ‘Handbook of missing data methodology,’ New-York:

Chapman and Hall/CRC, 574 pages, ISBN 978-1-4398-5461-7.


Book chapters

1. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (1997) ‘Linear mixed models in practice. Introduction,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A

SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Statistics 126, Springer-Verlag, New-York, ISBN

0-387-98222-1, 1-9 (Chapter 1).

2. Verbeke G. (1997) ‘Linear mixed models for longitudinal data,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke

G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Statistics 126, Springer-Verlag, New-York, ISBN 0-387-98222-1, 63-153 (Chapter 3).

3. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (1997) ‘Linear mixed models in practice. Case studies,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A

SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Statistics 126, Springer-Verlag, New-York, ISBN

0-387-98222-1, 155-189 (Chapter 4).

4. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2001) ‘Linear mixed models in practice. Introduction,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A

SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Japanese translation by Y. Matsuyama and T. Yamaguchi,

Springer-Verlag GmbH and Co.KG through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo,ISBN 4-914903-75-X, 1-8 (Chapter 1).

5. Verbeke G. (2001) ‘Linear mixed models for longitudinal data,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke

G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Japanese translation by Y. Matsuyama and T. Yamaguchi, Springer-Verlag GmbH and Co.KG through

Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo, ISBN 4-914903-75-X, 53-129 (Chapter 3).

6. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs, G. (2001) ‘Linear mixed models in practice. Case studies,’ In: Linear mixed models in practice: A

SAS-oriented approach, Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Japanese translation by Y. Matsuyama and T. Yamaguchi,

Springer-Verlag GmbH and Co.KG through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo, ISBN 4-914903-75-X, 130-162 (Chapter 4).

7. Molenberghs G., Thijs H., Verbeke G., Michiels B. and Kenward M.G. (2002) ‘Strategies to fit pattern-mixture models,’ In: Statistical

methods for quality of life studies: Design, measurements, and analysis, M. Mesbah, B.F. Cole and M.-L. Ting Lee (Eds.), Kluwer

Academic Publisher, ISBN 1-4020-0142-8.


8. Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G. (2004), ‘An Introduction to (Generalized) (Non-)Linear Mixed Models,’ In: Explanatory item response

models: A generalized linear and nonlinear approach, P. De Boeck and M. Wilson (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New-York, ISBN

0-387-40275-6, 111-153 (Chapter 4).

9. Tuerlinckx F., Rijmen F., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., Briggs D., Van den Noortgate W., Meulders M., and De Boeck P. (2004),

‘Estimation and software,’ In: Explanatory item response models: A generalized linear and nonlinear approach, P. De Boeck and M.

Wilson (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New-York, ISBN 0-387-40275-6, 343-373 (Chapter 12).

10. Molenberghs G., Beunckens C., Jansen I., Thijs H., Verbeke G., Kenward M.G., (2004), ‘Missing data,’ In: Handbook of Epidemiology,

I. Pigeot and W. Ahrends (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-00566-8, 767-827.

11. Lesaffre E., and Verbeke G. (2005), ‘Clinical trials and intervention studies,’ In: Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Statistics, B.S.

Everitt and D.C. Howell (Eds.), New-York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-470-86080-4, 301-305.

12. Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2005), ‘Repeated Measurements,’ In: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, S. Kotz, N.L. Johnson, N.

Balakrishnan, C.B. Read, and B. Vidakovic (Eds.), 2nd ed., New-York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-74384-4, 7162-7172.

13. Molenberghs, G., Beunckens, C., Jansen, I., Thijs. H., Van Steen, K., Verbeke G., and Kenward, M.G. (2005), ‘The Analysis of

Incomplete Data,’ In: Analysis of Clinical Trials using SAS: A Practical Guide,’ Dmitrienko A., Molenberghs G., Chuang-Stein, C. and

Offen, W. (Eds). Cary, NC: SAS Publishing, ISBN 1-59047-504-6, 269-354 (Chapter 5).

14. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2006), ‘Diggle-Kenward model for dropouts,’ In: Encyclopedia of Measurements and Statistics, N.J.

Salkind (Ed.), Sage Publications Inc., ISBN 1-412-91611-9, 261-264.

15. Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E. (2006), ‘Repeated Measurements,’ In: Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, D’Agostino, Sullivan, and Massaro

(Eds.), New-York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (online).

16. Molenberghs, G., Beunckens, C., Thijs, H., Jansen, I., Verbeke G., Kenward, M.G., and Van Steen, K. (2007) Analysis of Incomplete

Data. In: SAS System for Clinical Trials II. Dmitrienko, A., Chuang-Stein, C., and D’Agostino, R. (Eds.) Cary: SAS Press, ISBN

978-1-59047-886-8, 313-360 (Chapter 10).


17. Verbeke G.and Molenberghs, G. (2007), ‘Repeated measures and multilevel modelling,’ In: Biometrics, Wilson, S. (ed.), In:

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK,

[http://www.eolss.net], ISBN 978-1-905839-36-0, 237-255.

18. Verbeke G. (2008) ‘Kun je met statistiek werkelijk alles bewijzen ?’ In: Denken en weten over de wereld. Lessen voor de

eenentwintigste eeuw, Raymaekers B. (Ed.), Universitaire Pers Leuven, ISBN 978-90-5867-647-4, 215-230.

19. Fitzmaurice G. and Verbeke G. (2009), ‘Parametric modeling of longitudinal data: Introduction and overview,’ In: Longitudinal data

analysis, Fitzmaurice G., Davidian M., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hal/CRC, ISBN 978-1-58488-658-7, 31-42

(Chapter 2).

20. Verbeke G. and Davidian M. (2009), ‘Joint models for longitudinal data: Introduction and overview,’ In: Longitudinal data analysis,

Fitzmaurice G., Davidian M., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hal/CRC, ISBN 978-1-58488-658-7, 319-326

(Chapter 13).

21. Fieuws S. and Verbeke G. (2009), ‘Joint models for high-dimensional longitudinal data,’ In: Longitudinal data analysis, Fitzmaurice G.,

Davidian M., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hal/CRC, ISBN 978-1-58488-658-7, 367-394 (Chapter 16).

22. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2009), ‘Sensitivity analysis for incomplete data,’ In: Longitudinal data analysis,

Fitzmaurice G., Davidian M., Verbeke G., and Molenberghs G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hal/CRC, ISBN 978-1-58488-658-7, 501-552

(Chapter 22).

23. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2009), ‘Formal and Informal Model Selection with Incomplete Data,’ In: Encyclopedia of

Biopharmaceutical Statistics,’ in press.

24. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (2009), ‘Repeated Measurements,’ In: Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health

Sciences, Balakrishnan N. (Ed.), Wiley & Sons, New-york, 695-708.

25. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., & Rizopoulos D. (2010), ‘Random effects models for longitudinal data,’ In: Longitudinal research with

latent variables, van Montfort K., Oud H., & Satorra A. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New-York, 37-96 (Chapter 2).


26. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (2010), ‘Repeated Measurements,’ In: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (online), Wiley & Sons,

New-york, DOI: 10.1002/0471667196.ess7001.pub2.

27. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2010), Modeles marginaux et modeles mixtes. In: Analyse statistique des donnees longitudinales, J.J.

Droesbeke and G. Saporta (Eds.), Paris: Editions Technip, 15-56 (Chapter 2).

28. Molenberghs G., Beunckens C., Jansen I., Thijs H., Verbeke G., Kenward M.G. (2010), Donnees manquantes. In: Analyse statistique

des donnees longitudinales, J.J. Droesbeke and G. Saporta (Eds.), Paris: Editions Technip, 57-128 (Chapter 3).

29. Verbeke G., & Molenberghs, G. (2013), ‘Generalized linear mixed modelsoverview,’ In: The SAGE handbook of multilevel modeling, M.

Scott, J. Simonoff, and B. Marx (Eds.), London: SAGE Publications Ltd., 127-141 (Chapter 8), doi:

http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247600.n8

30. Molenberghs, G. & Verbeke G.(2013), ‘Missing data,’ In: The SAGE handbook of multilevel modeling, M. Scott, J. Simonoff, and B.

Marx (Eds.), London: SAGE Publications Ltd., 403-425 (Chapter 23), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247600.n23

31. Fitzmaurice G.M., Kenward M.G., Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Tsiatis A.A. (2015) ‘Missing data methodology: Introduction and

preliminaries,’ In: Handbook of missing data methodology, Molenberghs G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G.

(Eds.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN 978-1-4398-5461-7, 3-22 (Chapter 1).

32. Kenward M.G., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2015) ‘Likelihood and Bayesian methods: Introduction and overview,’ In: Handbook

of missing data methodology, Molenberghs G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G. (Eds.), Chapman and

Hall/CRC, ISBN 978-1-4398-5461-7, 49-52 (Chapter 3).

33. Molenberghs G., Verbeke G., and Kenward M.G. (2015) ‘Sensitivity analysis: Introduction and overview,’ In: Handbook of missing data

methodology, Molenberghs G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN

978-1-4398-5461-7, 319-324 (Chapter 15).

34. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., and Kenward M.G. (2015) ‘Sensitivity analysis: A likelihood-based perspective,’ In: Handbook of missing

data methodology, Molenberghs G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN


978-1-4398-5461-7, 325-378 (Chapter 16).

35. Rizopoulos D., Molenberghs G., and Verbeke G.(2015) ‘Model diagnostics,’ In: Handbook of missing data methodology, Molenberghs

G., Fitzmaurice G., Kenward M.G., Tsiatis A., and Verbeke G. (Eds.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN 978-1-4398-5461-7, 547-564

(Chapter 24).

36. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G.(2017) ‘Longitudinal data analysis,’ Wiley Statsref: Statistics Reference Online, Wiley & Sons,

New-york, ISBN 9781118445112, doi: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118445112.stat00291.pub2/full

37. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G.(2017) ‘Mixed outcomes,’ Wiley Statsref: Statistics Reference Online, Wiley & Sons, New-york, in press.

38. Lovik A., Nassiri V. Verbeke G.and Molenberghs G. (2018) ‘Combining factors from different factor analyses based on factor

congruence,’ In: Quantitative Psychology: The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Zurich, Switzerland, 2017, Wiberg

M., Culpepper S., Janssen R., Gonzalez J., and Molenaar D. (Eds.), Springer International Publishing AG, Springer Proceedings in

Mathematics & Statistics, ISBN 978-3-319-77248-6, 211-219.

39. Verbeke G., Molenberghs G., Fieuws S., and Iddi S. (2018) ‘Mixed models with emphasis on large data sets,’ In: Mixed-effects

regression models in linguistics, Speelman D., Heylen K., and Geeraerts D. (Eds.), Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social

Sciences, Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN 978-3-319-69828-1, 11-28 (Chapter 2).


Discussions

1. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2001), Discussion of Zimmerman, D.L. and Nunez-Anton, V., ‘Parametric modelling of growth curve

data: An overview,’ Test, 10, 53-57.

2. Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke G. (2005), Discussion of Lee, Y. and Nelder, J.A., ‘Likelihood for random-effect models,’ Statistics and

Operations Research Transactions (SORT), 29, 000-000.

3. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2006), Discussion of Lee, Y. and Nelder, J.A., ‘Double hierarchical generalized linear models,’ Applied

Statistics, 55, 180-181.

4. Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G. (2007), Discussion of Diggle, P., Farewell, D., and Henderson, R., ‘Analysis of longitudinal data with

drop-out: Objectives, assumptions, and a proposal,’ Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 56, 542.


Proceedings

1. Verbeke G. and Lesaffre E. (1994), ‘The effect of misspecifying the random effects distribution in a linear mixed effects model,’

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Exeter, U.K., July 11-15, 1994, 8 pages.

2. Verbeke G., Lesaffre E. and Brant, L.J. (1996), ‘The detection of residual serial correlation in linear mixed models,’ Proceedings of the

11th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Orvieto, Italy, July 15-19, 1996, 349-356.

3. Brant L.J. and Verbeke G. (1997), ‘Modelling longitudinal studies of aging,’ Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on

Statistical Modelling, Biel/Bienne, Switserland, July 7-11, 1997, 19-30.

4. Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., Molenberghs G. and Kenward M.G. (1998), ‘A sensitivity analysis for informative dropout: A local influence

approach,’ Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, Venice, Italy, April 19-22, 1998,

317-319.

5. Verbeke G., Lesaffre, E., Molenberghs, G. and Kenward, M.G. (1998), ‘A sensitivity analysis for informative dropout: a local influence

approach,’ Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, Office for Official Publications

of the European Communities, Luxembourg.

6. Verbeke G., Lesaffre E., Molenberghs G., Thijs H. and Kenward M.G. (1998) ‘Sensitivity analysis for informative dropout: A local

influence approach.’ Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, New Orleans, U.S.A., July 27-31, 1998,

380-387.

7. Verbeke G., Spiessens B., Lesaffre E. and Brant L.J. (1999) ‘Conditional linear mixed models.’ Proceedings of the 14th International

Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Graz, Austria, July 19-23, 1999, 386-393.

8. Thijs H., Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G., (1999) ‘The milk protein trial: Influence analysis of the dropout process.’ Proceedings of the

14th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Graz, Austria, July 19-23, 1999, 690-697.


9. Molenberghs G., Thijs H., Verbeke G., Michiels B., and Curran D. (2000) ‘Strategies to fit pattern-mixture models,’ Proceedings of the

15th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Bilbao, Spain, July 17-21, 1999, 242-247.

10. Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Michiels, B., Verbeke G., and Curran, D. (2000) ‘Strategies to Fit Pattern-Mixture Models,’ Social Science

Methodology in the New Millenium, Proceedings the Fifth International Conference on Logic and Methodology, Cologne, Germany, 1-25.

CD-ROM.

11. Fieuws S., Verbeke G., and Lesaffre E.(2001) ‘Mixtures of non-linear mixed models for the classification of longitudinal profiles.’

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Odense, Denmark, July 2-6, 2001, 201-204.

12. Thijs H., Molenberghs G. and Verbeke G., (2001) ‘Discussion on sensitivity analysis: Current issues and possible solutions.’

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Odense, Denmark, July 2-6, 2001, 377-386.

13. Fieuws S., Verbeke G., and Spiessens B., (2002) ‘Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ Proceedings of the 17th

International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002, 261-264.

14. Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Kenward, M.G., and Verbeke G.(2002) ‘How meaningful and sensitive are selection models and

pattern-mixture models ?,’ Proceedings of the XXIth International Biometric Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July 21-26, 2002, 295-315.

15. Ghidey W., Lesaffre E., Eilers P., and Verbeke G., (2002) ‘P-spline smoothing for random effects distribution estimation,’ Proceedings

of the 17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002, 297-306.

16. Hens N., Aerts M., Molenberghs G., Thijs H., and Verbeke G., (2002) ‘Kernel weighted influence,’ Proceedings of the 17th

International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002, 329-334.

17. Verbeke G., (2002) ‘The effect of baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal effects in linear mixed models,’ Proceedings of

the 17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002, 651-658.

18. Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Michiels, B., Verbeke G., and Curran, D. (2003) ‘Strategies to fit pattern-mixture models,’ Social Science

Methodology in the New Millenium, Updated and Extended Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Logic and

Methodology, Cologne, Germany, 1-25. CD-ROM.


19. Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke G.(2003) ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components,’ Proceedings of the 18th

International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Leuven, July 7-11, 2003, Leuven, Belgium, 317-321.

20. Molenberghs, G., Beunckens, C., Jansen, I., Thijs, H., Verbeke, G., and Kenward, M.G. (2005), ‘Incomplete data,’ Proceedings of the

Journees d’Etude en Statistique, Marseille, December 2004.

21. Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. (2005), ‘Longitudinal data analysis,’ Proceedings of the Journees d’Etude en Statistique, Marseille,

December 2004.

22. Jansen, I., Beunckens, C., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke G., and Mallinckrodt, C. (2005) ‘Generally applicable modes of analyses for

incomplete binary longitudinal clinical trial data.,’ 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biopharmaceutical Section,

Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 689-696, CD-ROM.

23. Dejardin D., Lesaffre E., and Verbeke G. (2008), ‘Joint modeling of progression free survival and death,’ Proceedings of the 23d

International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Utrecht, July 7-11, 2008, 201-203.


Dissertations

1. ‘Asymptotische efficienties van statistische tests.’ Undergraduate degree in mathematics, KU Leuven, 1989, 157 pages.

2. ‘The use of generalized estimating equations in the analysis of depression data.’ Postgraduate degree in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt,

1992, 28 pages.

3. ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data.’ Doctoral degree in science, KU Leuven, 1995, 198

pages.


Reviews

1. Verbeke G. (2001). Review of: ‘Regression analysis of count data,’ (1998) Cameron A.C. and Trivedi P.K., Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge. Statistics in Medicine, 20, 1143-1144.

2. Verbeke G. (2003). Review of: Epidemiological studies: A practical guide,’ (2002) Silman A.J. and Macfarlane G.J., Cambridge

University Press, Cambridge. Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 59, 353-353.

3. Verbeke G. (2004). Review of: ‘Generalized, linear, and mixed models,’ (2001) McCulloch C.E. and Searle S.R., Wiley, New-York.

Biometrics, 60, 568-569.

4. Verbeke G. and Molenberghs G. (2006). Review of: ‘SAS for mixed models, second edition,’ (2006) Littell R.C., Miliken G.A., Stroup

W.W., Wolfinger R.D., and Schabenberger O. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc. Published in the book as expert opinion.


3 Scientific presentations**Co-authorships on presentations or abstracts of others are not included

Invited & keynote presentations (national & international)

1. ‘Diagnostics for linear mixed models in the context of longitudinal data.’ Fifth annual meeting of the Roayl Statistical Society Belgium,

Mol, October 9-10, 1997.

2. ‘The practical use of different strategies to tackle the handling of drop-outs,’ 9th Annual European Workshop of the Drug Information

Association, Statistical Methodology in Clinical Research and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 20-22, 1998.

3. ‘Sensitivity analysis for non-random dropout: A local influence approach,’ International Symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of

the MSc. in Biostatistics program Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, May 17-19, 1998.

4. ‘The use of conditional linear mixed models,’ International Symposium celebrating the 10th anniversary of the University Center for

Statistics of KU Leuven, Leuven, April 29-30, 1999.

5. ‘Local influence in linear mixed models,’ Studyday organized by the Dutch Society for Statistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 29,

1999.

6. ‘A linear mixed-effects model with heterogeneity in the random-effects population,’ International Symposium celebrating the 10th

anniversary of the Society of Ordination and Classification, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, November 18-19, 1999.

7. ‘Introduction to linear mixed modeling,’ 36th annual meeting of the Drug Information Association, session on mixed effects models, San

Diego, U.S.A., June 11-15, 2000.

8. ‘Longitudinal data, linear mixed models and incomplete observations,’ First Euroworkshop on Statistical Modelling (Mixed Models),

Hohenried, Germany, November 2-5, 2000.


9. ‘Recent developments on linear mixed models for longitudinal data, possibly subject to dropout,’ Biostatistics Workshop on the Analysis

of Longitudinal/Repeated Measures Data in Health Studies, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia, November 23-24, 2000.

10. ‘Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models and Incomplete Observations,’ Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian region of the International

Biometric Society, Mayrhofen/Zillertal, Austria, September 24-27, 2001.

11. ‘Analysing longitudinal data using mixed models,’ Workshop on example-based introduction in the analysis of mixed models, University of

Hannover, Hannover, Germany, October 24-26, 2001.

12. ‘Sensitivity analysis: A discussion,’ Meeting of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society, Charlotte, NC,

U.S.A., March 25-28, 2001, invited discussant in the session ‘Sensitivity analysis under advanced statistical technology.’

13. ‘An overview of frequently-used statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal clinical trials,’ Second International Workshop on the

Design and Management of Clinical Trials, Varadero Beach, Matanzas City, Cuba, November 19-21, 2002.

14. ‘Developments in longitudinal studies,’ The Second International Biometric Society Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region,

Antalya, Turkey, January 12-15, 2003.

15. ‘Challenges in the analysis of observational longitudinal aging studies,’ Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association,

Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), San-Francisco, U.S.A.,

August 3-7, 2003.

16. ‘How important are baseline differences when interest is in longitudinal trends ?’ Third International Workshop on the Design and

Management of Clinical Trials, La Habana, Cuba, November 15-18, 2004.

17. ‘Random-effects models for multivariate repeated responses,’ Scottish and Northumbrian statisticians’ meeting, Newcastle, United

Kingdom, May 20, 2005.

18. ‘Sensitivity analysis in pattern mixture models using the extrapolation method,’ INSERM Workshop #176 on ‘Modelling incomplete

observations: Sensitivity analysis,’ La Londe-les-Maures, May 3-4, 2007.


19. ‘Diagnostics for mixed models (roundtable),’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International

Biometric Society, Tampa, U.S.A., March 26-29, 2006.

20. ‘Opportunities and Challenges in Mixed Models and Incomplete Data (with G. Molenberghs).’ Leuven Statistics Day, Leuven, June 12,

2006.

21. ‘Mixed models for the analysis of categorical repeated measures,’ Annual Meeting of the Population Approach Group Europe (PAGE),

Brugge, June 14-16, 2006.

22. ‘Random-Effects Models for Multivariate Repeated Responses.’ Workshop organized by the European Science Foundation, Programme

‘Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences (QMSS),’ Hasselt, September 20, 2006.

23. ‘Mixed models for the analysis of longitudinal data,’ First Annual Conference on Non-Clinical Statistics, Potsdam, Germany, September

26-28, 2006.

24. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ Meeting of the Dutch Society of Ordination and Classification

(VOC), Leiden, The Netherlands, November 3, 2006.

25. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ Meeting on statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis,

Lancaster University, The United Kingdom, November 29, 2006.

26. ‘Pairwise fitting of mixed models for the joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ First IBS Channel Network Conference,

Rolduc, The Netherlands, May 8-11, 2007, invited lecture in the Biometrics Showcase Session.

27. ‘Diagnostics for mixed models (roundtable),’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International

Biometric Society, Crystal City, Virginia, U.S.A., March 16-19, 2008.

28. ‘Pairwise fitting of mixed models for the joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ International Biometric Conference, Dublin,

Ireland, July 13-18, 2008, invited lecture in the Biometrics Showcase Session.


29. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ joint meeting of the Western North American Region of The

International Biometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Portland (OR), U.S.A., June 14-17, 2009.

30. ‘An example of how appropriate statistical methodology allows decision making based on longitudinally gathered high-dimensional data,’

Third Annual Clinical Forum, organized by the Drug Information Association (DIA), Nice, France, October 19-21, 2009.

31. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles: An example of how appropriate statistical methodology allows

decision making based on longitudinally gathered high-dimensional data,’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR)

of the International Biometric Society, New Orleans, U.S.A., March 21-24, 2010.

32. ‘Mixed models for high-dimensional multivariate repeated measures data,’ Spring symposium in biostatistics: Joint modeling techniques,

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 11, 2011.

33. ‘A mixed model for high-dimensional multivariate longitudinal data,’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of

the International Biometric Society, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., March 20-23, 2011.

34. ‘Avoiding boundary estimates in linear mixed models,’ Discussant (with G. Molenberghs) in Columbia University session at Joint

Statistical Meetings, organized by Andrew Gelman, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Jingchen Liu, Yeojin Chung, and Vincent Dorie, Loews Miami

Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A., August 3, 2011.

35. ‘Mixed models with applications to large data sets,’ Leuven Statistics Days 2012, Leuven, June 7-8, 2012

36. ‘The analysis of trends: Strengths and weaknesses,’ MODERNET European NETwork for Monitoring trends in Occupational Diseases

and new and Emerging occupational Risks, Leuven, June 12-14, 2012.

37. ‘Sample size and power calculations in practice,’ FLAMES Colloquium, Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics,

Leuven, June 26, 2013.

38. ‘Mixed models: misconceptions, pitfalls, and many opportunities,’ keynote speaker at the 4th Channel Network Conference, Bi-annual

meeting of four regions of the International Biometric Society (Belgium, France, Great-Britain/Ireland, the Netherlands), St-Andrews,

United-Kingdom, July 3-5, 2013.


39. ‘Predicting time-to-event outcomes based on high-dimensional multivariate longitudinal information,’ Meeting of the European

Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Brussels, Belgium, November 7, 2013.

40. ‘A goodness-of-fit test for the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ International Hexa-Symposium on Biostatistics,

Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Hasselt, Belgium, November 14-15, 2013.

41. ‘How to correct for baseline covariates in longitudinal clinical trials ?’ Quantitative Sciences Symposium, Johnson & Johnson Annual

Internal Conference (US, Belgium and China), Beerse, Belgium, October 3, 2019.


Contributed presentations (national & international)

1. ‘A linear mixed effects model with heterogeneity in the random effects population.’ 8th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling,

Leuven, July 5-9, 1993.

2. ‘The effect of misspecifying the random effects distribution in a linear mixed effects model.’ 9th International Workshop on Statistical

Modelling, Exeter, U.K., July 11-15, 1994.

3. ‘A linear mixed effects model with heterogeneity in the random effects population.’ Interregional meeting of the German and Netherlands

Region of the Biometric Society, Munster, Germany, March 15-18, 1994.

4. ‘Local influence in linear mixed models.’ 10th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Innsbruck, Austria, July 10-14, 1995.

5. ‘The detection of residual serial correlation in linear mixed models.’ 11th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Orvieto, Italy,

July 15-19, 1996.

6. ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data,’ Conference on Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially

Correlated Data: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions (International Biometric Society), Nantucket, U.S.A., October 15-18,

1996.

7. ‘The impact of dropout on the efficiency of longitudinal experiments,’ 12th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Biel/Bienne,

Switserland, July 7-11, 1997.

8. ‘Sensitivity analysis for informative dropout: A local influence approach.’ 13th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, New

Orleans, U.S.A., July 27-31, 1998.

9. ‘Conditional linear mixed models,’ 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioural Sciences, Leuven,

July 13-15, 1998.

10. ‘Conditional linear mixed models.’ 14th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Graz, Austria, July 19-23, 1999.


11. ‘A comparison of statistical models for the analysis of continuous longitudinal data,’ 20th International Biometric Conference, Berkely,

U.S.A., July 1-7, 2000.

12. ‘The effect of baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal effects in linear mixed models,’ 17th International Workshop on

Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002.

13. ‘Conditional linear mixed models,’ Joint Meeting of the Belgian and Dutch Regions of the International Biometric Society, Erperheide,

Belgium, May 28-29, 2001.

14. ‘The effect of baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal effects in linear mixed models,’ 21st International Biometric

Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July 21-26, 2002.

15. ‘The effect of baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal effects in linear mixed models,’ Joint Statistical Meetings (American

Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada),

New-York City, U.S.A., August 11-15, 2002.

16. ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components,’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the

International Biometric Society, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., March 23-27, 2003.

17. ‘Challenges in the analysis of observational longitudinal aging studies,’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of

the International Biometric Society, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., March 28-31, 2004.

18. ‘Challenges in the analysis of observational longitudinal aging studies,’ International Biometric Conference, Cairns, Australia, July 12-16,

2004.

19. ‘Modeling multivariate longitudinal profiles using mixed models,’ Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of

Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), Toronto, Canada, August 8-12, 2004.

20. ‘The effect of misspecified baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal trends in linear mixed models,’ Joint Statistical Meetings

(American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of

Canada), Minneapolis, U.S.A., August 7-11, 2005.


21. ‘The gradient function for checking goodness-of-fit of the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Spring meeting of the Eastern

North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society, San Antonio, U.S.A., March 15-18, 2009.

22. ‘The gradient function for checking goodness-of-fit of the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Leuven Statistics Day, May 29,

2009.

23. ‘The gradient function for checking goodness-of-fit of the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Joint Statistical Meetings,

Washington DC, U.S.A., August 3, 2009.

24. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles,’ Joint Statistical Meetings (topic contributed session), Vancouver,

Canada, August 2, 2010.


Seminars (national & international)

1. ‘A linear random effects model with heterogeneity in the random effects population.’ Seminar organized by the department of statistics

of Universiteit Hasselt, May 6, 1993.

2. ‘The analysis of longitudinal data and the use of random effects to detect heterogeneity in individual growth curves.’ Seminar organized

by the University Center for Statistics of KU Leuven, May 26, 1993.

3. ‘The use of random effects to detect heterogeneity in growth curves.’ Seminar organized by Alumni Biostat Diepenbeek, Universiteit

Hasselt, October 15, 1993.

4. ‘De klassieke likelihood theorie is niet onfeilbaar: Een voorbeeld.’ Seminar in the faculty of psychology of KU Leuven, May 17, 1994.

5. ‘De analyse van herhaalde metingen met de SAS-procedure PROC MIXED.’ SAS-meeting organized by the University Computing Center

of KU Leuven, January 18, 1995.

6. ‘General guidelines on model selection in linear mixed models.’ Third annual meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Belgium,

Houthalen, October 13-14, 1995.

7. ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data.’ Seminar organized by the department of medical

statistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, October 17, 1995.

8. ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data.’ Seminar organized by the University Computing

Center of KU Leuven, December 20, 1995.

9. ‘The linear mixed model. A critical investigation in the context of longitudinal data.’ Seminar at the department of biostatistics, The

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., October 14, 1996.

10. ‘Multiparameter Bayesian models and large-sample Bayesian inferences.’ Seminar on quantitative methods organized by the department

of psychology of KU Leuven, October 28, 1996.


11. ’The analysis of longitudinal data using linear mixed models.’ Studyday organized by the Research Community ”Formal models in

cognition” (Onderzoeksgemeenschap ”Formele modellen in cognitie”) of the Belgian National Science Foundation (N.F.W.O.), Leuven,

January 22, 1997.

12. ’The effect of misspecifying the random-effects distribution in linear mixed models.’ Seminar organized by the department of applied

mathematics of U.G., April 8, 1997.

13. ‘Conditional linear mixed models.’ Seminar organized by the University Center for Statistics of KU Leuven, April 24, 1998.

14. ‘The impact of dropout on the efficiency of longitudinal experiments.’ Seminar organized by the department of statistics of Universiteit

Hasselt, June 15, 1999.

15. ‘Recent developments on linear mixed models for longitudinal data, possibly subject to dropout,’ Seminar at the department of

biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., November 17, 2000.

16. ‘The effect of baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal effects in linear mixed models.’ Tenth annual meeting of the Royal

Statistical Society Belgium, Kerkrade (The Netherlands), October 18-19, 2002.

17. ‘Longitudinal experiments in (bio-)medical sciences: Some statistical reflections.’ Seminars in Epidemiology: Longitudinal studies,

Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, October 24, 2002.

18. ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components.’ Seminar in the Department of Statistics of the University of Sao-Paulo

(Brasil), October 15, 2003.

19. ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components.’ Seminar in the Department of Statistical Methodology of the Federal

Univesity of Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), October 16, 2003.

20. ‘The use of score tests for inference on variance components.’ Seminar in the Departament d’Estadistica i Investigacio Operativa,

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, April 30, 2004.


21. ‘Random-Effects Models for Multivariate Repeated Responses.’ Seminar in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of McGill

University, Montreal, Canada, February 3, 2006.

22. ‘Random-Effects Models for Multivariate Repeated Responses.’ Seminar organized by the Center of Statistics of the University of

Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, May 18, 2006.

23. ‘Classification using mixed models.’ First Workshop organized by SymBioSys, the KU Leuven Center for Computational Systems Biology,

Leuven, Belgium, May 23, 2006.

24. ‘The effect of misspecified baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal trends in linear mixed models,’ seminar at Johnson and

Johnson - Biometrics and Clinical Informatics, Beerse, Belgium, October 26, 2006.

25. ‘Linear and generalized linear mixed models,’ Organon Project Day, Berlicum, The Netherlands, September 18, 2007.

26. ‘Random-effects models for multivariate repeated responses,’ seminar in Zurich Colloquium on Applied Statistics, Department of

Statistics, Zurich University, Switzerland, October 18, 2007.

27. ‘The effect of misspecified baseline characteristics on inference for longitudinal trends in linear mixed models,’ ETH Research Seminar,

Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Switzerland, October 19, 2007.

28. ‘Use and misuse of statistics. Diagnostic tests,’ seminar organized by the department of gynaecology of the University Hospital Leuven,

December 21, 2007.

29. ‘Kun je met statistiek werkelijk alles bewijzen ?’ Class #10 in the series ‘Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw,’ organized by

K.U.Leuven, February 25, 2008.

30. ‘The gradient function for checking goodness-of-fit of the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Hasselt University, February 9,

2009.

31. ‘Biostatistics in oncology trials: Survival analysis. Why clinicians hope for survivors and statisticians for deaths,’ Leuven Cancer Institute,

May 26, 2009.


32. ‘On the identifiability of the random-effects distribution in mixed models (with G. Molenberghs),’ Department of Biostatistics, M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, U.S.A., March 19, 2009.

33. ‘Mixed models for high-dimensional multivariate repeated measures data,’ Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of

Geneva, Switzerland, May 13, 2011.

34. ‘The gradient function as an exploratory goodness-of-fit assessment of the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Hasselt

University, January 17, 2013.

35. ‘Mixed models: Misconceptions, pitfalls, and many opportunities,’ seminar organized by the department of psychology of University of

Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2, 2014.

36. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles. An application of pseudo-likelihood methodology,’ seminar

organized by the Exascience Project Consortium, IMEC, Leuven, September 17, 2014.

37. ‘When is an experiment statistically justified? Reflections from the perspective of the ethical committee,’ seminar organized by the

KU Leuven Animals Ethics Committee, KU Leuven, December 11, 2014.

38. ‘Predicting renal graft failure using multivariate longitudinal profiles. An application of pseudo-likelihood methodology,’ joint seminar of

the ‘International Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics’ (KU Leuven and U Hasselt) and the division ‘Biostatistics,

clinical Investigation and Pharmacometrics in Infectious Diseases’ (Inserm and Universite Paris Diderot), Leuven, January 16, 2015.

39. ‘Some recent developments on mixed models with applications in medical biostatistics,’ Southampton Statistical Sciences Research

Institute, Southampton, The United Kingdom, February 3, 2015.

40. ‘The gradient to assess the random-effects distribution,’ Colloquium of the Vienna Section of the International Biometric Society, Center

for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, March 18, 2016.

41. ‘Joint Models for Multivariate Longitudinal Data,’ Tutorial at the workshop ‘Joint Modeling and Beyond,’ Hasselt University, Belgium,

March 14-15, 2016


42. ‘Methodology for professionals: Use and misuse of statistics in publications,’ Seminar in the Continuing Professional Education Program

of the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, KU Leuven, Belgium, February 22, 2018.

43. ‘A graphical tool and formal test for assessing the random-effects distribution in mixed models,’ Seminar at the department of medical

statistics of the University Medical Center, Gottingen, Germany, March 8, 2018.

44. ‘Methodology for professionals: Use and misuse of statistics in publications,’ Seminar in the Continuing Professional Education Program

of the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, KU Leuven, Belgium, February 21, 2019.


Posters

1. ‘Local influence in linear mixed models’ Nantucket conference on Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data: Methods,

Applications, and Future Directions, Nantucket, U.S.A., October 15-18, 1996.

2. ‘A sensitivity analysis for informative dropout: A local influence approach.’ Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of

Model Output, Venice, Italy, April 19-22, 1998.

3. ‘Kernel weighted influence,’ 17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002.

4. ‘Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal profiles. Pitfalls of random-effects approach.’ 17th International Workshop on Statistical

Modelling, Chania, Greece, July 8-12, 2002


4 Organization of scientific meetings

Local organizing committee

1. 8th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, KU Leuven, July 5 - 9, 1993, member of the local organizing committee.

2. ‘GLIM4, a three day training course (short course),’ KU Leuven, November 14 - 16, 1994, member of the local organizing committee.

3. ‘Finite mixture models and their applications, including disease mapping and meta-analysis (short course),’ KU Leuven, December 11 -

13, 1995, member of the local organizing committee.

4. ‘Cross-over Trials (short course),’ KU Leuven, September 24-26, 1996, member of the local organizing committee.

5. ‘Graphical models, with applications to the medical, social and economic sciences (short course),’ KU Leuven, December 9-11, 1996,

member of the local organizing committee.

6. Meeting (with Annual General Meeting) of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United

Kingdom),’ KU Leuven, September 26, 1997.

7. ‘Survival course (short course),’ KU Leuven, March 17-19, 1997, member of the local organizing committee.

8. ‘Repeated categorical data analysis. Part 1: Marginal models (short course),’ Universiteit Hasselt, April 27-28, 1998, member of the local

organizing committee.

9. ‘Repeated categorical data analysis. Part 2: Mixed models (short course),’ KU Leuven, September 28-29, 1998, member of the local



10. Meeting (with Annual General Meeting) of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United

Kingdom),’ KU Leuven, October 15, 1998.

11. ‘Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis (short course),’ KU Leuven, December 9-11, 1998.

12. Meeting of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United Kingdom),’ KU Leuven, November 26,

1999.

13. Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis for Incomplete Data, KU Leuven, February 18, 2000.

14. Meeting of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United Kingdom),’ KU Leuven, October 24,

2000.

15. 9th Annual meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Belgium, Ostend, Belgium, October 12-13, 2001, member of the local organizing

committee.

16. Meeting of ‘The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United Kingdom),’ and ‘The Quetelet Society

(Belgian region of the International Biometric Society),’ KU Leuven, June 17, 2002

17. 18th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Leuven, Belgium, July 7-11, 2003, chair of the local organizing committee.

18. Royal Statistical Society 2003 Conference: Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics, Diepenbeek, Belgium, July 14-17, 2003, member of

the local organizing committee.

19. First International Meeting of Methodological Issues in Oral Health Research: Follow-up Studies, Leuven, Belgium, April 21-23, 2004,

member of the local organizing committee.

20. Second International Meeting of Methodological Issues in Oral Health Research: Assessing and Improving Data Quality, Gent, Belgium,

April 19 -21, 2006, member of the local organizing committee.

21. Recent Developments in the Analysis of Repeated Measurements Studies in the Presence of Missing Data, Leuven, Belgium, May 19,

2006, member of the local organizing committee.


22. International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, member of the local organizing committee.

23. Non-clinical statistics conference: Statistical methods for pharmaceutical research and early development, Leuven, Belgium, September

23-25, 2008, member of the local organizing committee.

24. Workshop ‘Modeling association and dependence in complex data,’ organized by the Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., Phase VI:

P5/10/31) from the Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs of Belgium, Leuven, Belgium, November 19-20, 2009,

chair of local organizing committee.

25. Opening of the International Year of Statistics 2013 by Prof. Dr. M.Davidian, President of the American Statistical Association (NC

State University & Duke University, U.S.A.), organized by I-BioStat at University of Hasselt, January 11, 2011.

26. Workshop ‘Joint Modeling and Beyond,’ organized by the Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., Phase VII: P7/06) from the Federal

Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs of Belgium, Hasselt University, Belgium, March 14-15, 2016, member of the local


27. 40th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB), Leuven University, Belgium, July 14-18, 2019,

vice-chair of the local organizing committee.


Scientific committee

1. 9th Annual meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Belgium, Ostend, Belgium, October 12-13, 2001, member of the scientific committee.

2. 17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Chania, Crete, Greece, July 8-12, 2002, member of the scientific committee.

3. 21st International Biometric Conference, Freiburg, Germany, July 21-26, 2002, member of the reading committee for the selection of

presentations.

4. 18th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Leuven, Belgium, July, 2003, chair of the scientific committee.

5. Royal Statistical Society 2003 Conference: Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics, Diepenbeek, Belgium, July 14-17, 2003, member of

the reading committee for the selection of presentations.

6. ‘Recent Developments in the Analysis of Repeated Measurements Studies in the Presence of Missing Data,’ Leuven, Belgium, May 19,

2006, member of the scientific committee.

7. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 16-21, 2006, chair of the international program committee,

member of the short course committee.

8. ‘Statistical and Epidemiological Methods for Oral Health Research,’ a satellite meeting to the International Biometric Conference,

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 14-15, 2006, member of the scientific committee.

9. 24th International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 13-18, 2008, member of the international program committee.

10. Non-clinical statistics conference: Statistical methods for pharmaceutical research and early development, Leuven, Belgium, September

23-25, 2008, member of the scientific committee.

11. Workshop ‘Modeling association and dependence in complex data,’ organized by the Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., Phase VI:

P5/10/31) from the Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs of Belgium, Leuven, Belgium, November 19-20, 2009,

chair of scientific committee.


12. 25th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Glasgow, Scotland, July 4-9, 2010, member of the scientific committee

13. International Hexa-symposium on Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Hasselt, Belgium, November 14-15, 2013, member of

the scientific committee

14. Workshop on recent developments and future directions in agent-based modelling in population studies, Leuven, Belgium, September

18-19, 2014, member of the scientific committee.

15. Non-clinical Statistics Conference, Brugge, Belgium, October 8-10, 2014, member of the scientific committee

16. Joint workshop of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Statistics Community and the Spanish Medicines Agency (AEMPS),

Barcelona, Spain, November 10-11, 2014, member of the scientific committee.

17. International Society of Clinical Biostatistics Conference 2015, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 2015, member of the scientific

committee.


Sessions

1. Session ‘Mixed models and applications’ at the 9th Annual meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Belgium, Ostend, Belgium, October

12-13, 2001.

2. Session on ‘Longitudinal modelling’ at the International Conference on Statistics in Health Sciences, Nantes, France, June 23-25, 2004.

3. Session on ‘Multivariate longitudinal data’ at the Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical

Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), Minneapolis, U.S.A., August 7-11, 2005

4. Session on ‘Diagnostics for mixed models’ at the Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International

Biometric Society, Atlanta, U.S.A., March 11-14, 2007

5. Session on ‘Breakthroughs in Longitudinal Data’ at the 25th International Biometric Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, December 5-10,

2010.

6. Session on ‘Flexibly Modeling Overdispersed Hierarchical Data’ at the Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of

the International Biometric Society, Miami, U.S.A., March 20-23, 2011


5 Scientific visits

1. Gerontology Research Center (National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health), Baltimore, U.S.A. September 1, 1991 –

October 31, 1991. Financially supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research (N.F.W.O.)

2. Department of Biostatistics (School of Public Health) of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., November 1, 1991 – January

31, 1992. Financially supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research (N.F.W.O.)

3. Department of Epidemiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, February 18, 1993 – February 25, 1993.

4. Gerontology Research Center (National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health), Baltimore, U.S.A., October 12, 1996 – October

15, 1996. Financially supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research (N.F.W.O.).

5. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., September 26, 2002 – September 29, 2002.

6. Gerontology Research Center (National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health), Baltimore, U.S.A., March 27, 2003 – March 30,

2003.


6 Teaching

Bachelor level

1. ‘EW27 and EW28: Introductie tot biostatistiek en informatica (theorie en oefeningen),’ bachelor in biomedical sciences, KU Leuven, with

T. Peeters, 2000-2007.

2. ‘E06C9B Beginselen van biostatistiek,’ bachelor in biomedical sciences, KU Leuven, 2007-2017

3. ‘K08B6A: Farmaceutische data-analyse,’ bachelor in pharmaceutical sciences, KU Leuven, 2007-. . .

4. ‘E04Y6A: Initiatie tot het medisch wetenschappelijk onderzoek,’ bachelor in medicine, KU Leuven, with G. Molenberghs, B. Aertgeerts,

and F. Schuit, 2012-. . .


Master level

1. ‘WIS: Topics in biostatistiek,’ master mathematics, Universiteit Antwerpen, with G. Molenberghs and E. Lesaffre, 1996-2007.

2. ‘E04D1A: Wetenschappelijk onderzoek en statistiek, deel 2,’ master in nursing research, KU Leuven, with W. Sermeus, 1997-2011

3. ‘G0F87A: Gegevensverwerking in biologisch onderzoek,’ master in biology, KU Leuven, 1998-2009.

4. ‘Introduction to statistics,’ summer programme master of biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 1996 - 1998.

5. ‘Longitudinal data analysis,’ master of biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, with G. Molenberghs, 1997 - . . .

6. ‘E205: Inleiding tot biostatistiek met toepassingen,’ master in occupational medicine, juvenile medicine, radioprotection, KU Leuven,

1997-2002.

7. ‘GM29: Repeated Measures,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, with E. Lesaffre, 1998-2007.

8. ‘GM28: Algorithmic Statistical Analysis,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, with E. Lesaffre, 1998-2007.

9. ‘GM26: Practice course on statistical consulting,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, with P. Darius, J. Beirlant, and A. De Meyer,

1998-2007.

10. ‘Estimation and Testing,’ master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 1999 - 2000.

11. ‘Inference for mixed populations,’ master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2000-2004.

12. ‘Advanced modelling techniques,’ master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, with G. Molenberghs, 2004-. . . .

13. ‘E246: Epidemiologie, statistiek en medische dataverwerking, deel 1,’ master in occupational medicine, KU Leuven, with G. Moens and

B. Van den Bosch, 2002-2007

14. ‘E650: Epidemiologie, statistiek en medische dataverwerking, deel 2,’ master in occupational medicine, KU Leuven, with G. Moens and

M. Van Ranst, 2002-2007


15. ‘G0B76A: Mixed and multilevel models,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2007-2012

16. ‘E04N0A: Toegepaste biostatistiek,’ master in biomedical sciences, KU Leuven, 2007-2011

17. ‘G0A35A: Longitudinal data analysis,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, with G. Molenberghs, 2008-. . . .

18. ‘E04D1B: Toegepaste statistiek, deel 2,’ master in nursing and midwifery, KU Leuven, 2012-2017

19. ‘G0B76A: Concepts of multilevel, longitudinal, and mixed models,’ master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2013-. . .

20. ‘E0D95A: Verdieping in de statistiek,’ master in nursing and midwifery, KU Leuven, 2017-. . .

21. ‘K09M1A: Statistiek voor het geneesmiddelenonderzoek,’ master in drug development, KU Leuven, 2017-. . .


Doctoral level

1. ‘E627: Medical biostatistics (30 hours),’ doctoral training program in medical sciences, KU Leuven, with E. Lesaffre, 1994-1997.

2. ‘Longitudinal observational data (1.5 hours),’ guest lecture in the course ‘Research methods for health science and social science,’ The

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., November 16, 2000.

3. ‘Medical statistics (3 days),’ Truncus Communis of the interuniversity doctoral training program in medical sciences, with M. Aerts, P.

Janssen, G. Molenberghs, M. Buyse and J. Weyler, 2001.

4. ‘Longitudinal Data, Incomplete Data, and Causal Inference (3 days),’ Truncus Communis of the interuniversity doctoral training program

in mathematics, with G. Molenberghs and E. Goetghebeur, 2002.

5. ‘Topics in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics (3 days),’ Truncus Communis of the interuniversity doctoral training program in medical

sciences, with M. Buyse, H. Geys, G. Molenberghs, J. Weyler, and F. Wuyts, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

6. ‘Seminars Science and Society – Collection, analysis and presentation of data (3 half days),’ doctoral training program in medical

sciences, KU Leuven, with B. Nemery and P. Hoet, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

7. ‘Biostatistics for PhD Students (4 days),’ Truncus Communis of the interuniversity doctoral training program in biomedical sciences, with

S. Van Dongen, J. Weyler, L. Brukcers, G. Molenberghs, and F. Wuyts, 2005, 2007, 2009.

8. ‘Biostatistics (30 hours),’: Skills training, doctoral school biomedical sciences, KU Leuven, with E. Lesaffre and G. Molenberghs,

2008–. . . .

9. ‘Biostatistics for PhD Students (4 days),’ doctoral school biomedical sciences, University of Antwerp, with S. Van Dongen, J. Weyler, G.

Molenberghs, and T. Burzykowski , 2010, 2012.

10. ‘Use, misuse, and abuse of statistics,’ The European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), course in second year of three year summer

school program, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.


11. ‘Use, misuse, and abuse of statistics,’ The MEL-PLEX European training network for PhD Candidates, Transferable skills course II:

Statistics in biomedical research, 2016.

12. ‘What (not) to do to get published,’ The European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), course in second year of three year summer

school program, 2017, 2018, 2019.


Short courses

1. ‘Regression diagnostics (3 hours),’ University Centre of Statistics, KU Leuven, 1993-1996, twice a year.

2. ‘The analysis of longitudinal data with PROC MIXED (2 days),’ organized by the bio-farmaceutical section of the Royal Statistical

Society Belgium, with L. Duchateau and G. Molenberghs, 1994-1995, 1995-1996.

3. ‘Epidemiological methods in practice. Part B: Biostatistics (5 days),’ organized by the departments of biostatistics and preventive

medicine, KU Leuven, with E. Lesaffre, 1996-1997.

4. ‘Linear mixed models for longitudinal data (2 days)’, organized bye UCB Pharmaceuticals Belgium, with G. Molenberghs, October 27-28,

1999.

5. ‘Introduction to applied statistics (5 days),’ Goodyear Luxemburg and University Centre for Statistics of KU Leuven, with P. Darius and

A. Carbonez, 1999-2002, twice a year.

6. ‘Methods of Scientific Research (25 hours),’ organized by the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research of KU Leuven, with

L.Delesie, G.Evers, E. Lesaffre, G. Moens, and W. Sermeus, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.

7. ‘Methods of Scientific Research for hospital pharmacists (30 hours),’ organized by the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research,

KU Leuven, jointly with the Flemish Federation of Hospital Pharmacists, with E. Lesaffre, B. Aertgeerts, W. Sermeus, F. Buntinx, M.

Haspeslagh, 2001, 2002.

8. ‘Introduction to biostatistics for occupational physicians (30 hours),’ organized by IDEWE (occupational health service), Leuven,

January-May, 2000.

9. ‘The analysis of longitudinal data (24 hours),’ organized by University Centre of Statistics of Universiteit Gent, with G. Molenberghs,

April-may, 2000.

10. ‘Linear regression with Statistica (2 days),’ VITO Mol and University Centre for Statistics of KU Leuven, 2000, three times.


11. ‘The analysis of repeated measurements (2 days),’ Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Dept. Matematica, Barcelona, Spain, with G.

Molenberghs, June 7-8, 2001.

12. ‘The analysis of repeated measurements (2 days),’ Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, with G. Molenberghs, October 22-23,

2001.

13. ‘Repeated measurements / longitudinal data. Mixed models in clinical research (2 days),’ Organon, Oss, The Netherlands, with E.

Lesaffre, November 27-28, 2001.

14. ‘Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models and Incomplete Observations (1 day),’ International Biometric Conference, Freiburg, Germany,

with G. Molenberghs, July 21, 2002.

15. ‘Longitudinal data analysis (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, New-York City, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 13, 2002.

16. ‘Generalized linear mixed models (1 day),’ Second International Workshop on the Design and Management of Clinical Trials, Varadero

Beach, Matanzas City, Cuba, with G. Molenberghs, November 18, 2002.

17. ‘Curso de estadıstica Multivariada: Medidas Repetidas Continuas y Discretas (2 days),’ Centro Nacional Coordinador de Ensayos Clinicos

(CENCEC), Havana, Cuba, with G. Molenberghs, A. Alonso, and F. Tibaldi, November 25-26, 2002.

18. ‘Modelling Longitudinal and Incomplete Data (4 days),’ Eighth Annual Lecture in Social Statistics, Catholic University of Brussels,

Brussels, with G. Molenberghs, December 9-12, 2002.

19. ‘Longitudinal data, linear mixed models, and incomplete observations (1 day),’ Second International Biometric Society Conference of the

Eastern Mediterranean Region, Antalya, Turkey, with G. Molenberghs January 12, 2003.

20. ‘Linear mixed models (LMM): An introduction (1 day),’ Department of Statistics of the University College Dublin and the Irish

Statistical Association, University College Dublin, Ireland, with G. Molenberghs, March 10, 2003.

21. ‘Longitudinal data analysis (1 day),’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric

Society, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 23, 2003.


22. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ University Center of Statistics of KU Leuven, April 29-30, 2003.

23. ‘Current topics in longitudinal data analysis (1 day),’ The Statistical Days of the Finnish Statistical Society, Turku, Finland, with G.

Molenberghs, May 26-27, 2003.

24. ‘Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models, and Incomplete Observations (1 day),’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville MD,

U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 1, 2003.

25. ‘Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models, and Incomplete Observations (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, San-Francisco CA, U.S.A.,

with G. Molenberghs, August 3, 2003.

26. ‘Longitudinal Data, Linear Mixed Models, and Incomplete Observations (1 day),’ Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta GA, U.S.A.,

with G. Molenberghs, August 8, 2003.

27. ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis (2 days),’ organized by SGAPEIO (Sociedade Galega para a Promocion da Estatıstica e da Investigacion de

Operacions) and IGE (Instituto Galego de Estatıstica), University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain, with G. Molenberghs, September

22-23, 2003.

28. ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis (2 days),’ Departamento de Ciencias Exatas, ESALQ, University of Sao-Paulo, Piracicaba, Brasil, with G.

Molenberghs, October 13-14, 2003.

29. ‘Introduction to numerical techniques for statisticians (2 days),’ organized by Interuniversity Attraction Pole P5/24 (Statistical

Techniques and Modeling for Complex Substantive Questions with Complex Data) and The Interuniversity Graduate School of

Psychometrics and Sociometrics, with F. Tuerlinckx and G. Molenberghs, November 13-14, 2003.

30. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ University Center of Statistics of KU Leuven, November 19-21, 2003.

31. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data analysis (1 day),’ Pfizer, New-York city, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 31, 2004.

32. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data analysis (1 day),’ American Statistical Association (LEARNSTAT program), George Mason University,

Arlington VA, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, April 2, 2004.


33. ‘Introduction to Longitudinal and Incomplete Data Analysis (5 half days),’ Departament d’Estadistica i Investigacio Operativa,

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, with G. Molenberghs, April 26-30, 2004.

34. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data analysis (1 day),’ International Biometric Conference, Cairns, Australia, with G. Molenberghs, July 10,

2004.

35. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data analysis (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, with G. Molenberghs, August 8, 2004.

36. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ University Center of Statistics of KU Leuven, December 5-6, 2004.

37. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (1 day),’ American Statistical Association (LEARNSTAT program), University of Maryland, College

Park MD, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 23, 2005.

38. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data analysis (1 day),’ The University of Michigan and the Michigan Section of the American Statistical

Association, Ann Arbor MI, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 25, 2005.

39. ‘Mixed models and incomplete data (2 days),’ The Royal Statistical Society Belgium (Biostatistics section) and SBTC Limited, with G.

Molenberghs, March 31 - April 1, 2005.

40. ‘Longitudinal data, mixed models, and incomplete data (3 days),’ Servei d’Estadstica, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain, with G.

Molenberghs, June 1-3, 2005.

41. ‘Models for repeated discrete data (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 7, 2005.

42. ‘Longitudinal data, mixed models, and incomplete data (3 days),’ Institut fur Medizinische Biometrie und Informatik, Abteilung

Medizinische Biometrie, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany, with G. Molenberghs, October 20-22, 2005.

43. ‘Statistics for occupational and environmental health scientists (5×3 hours),’ Permanent education in prevention and occupational

hygiene, Lucina, Pellenberg, October-december, 2005.



45. ‘Models for repeated discrete data (2 days),’ 9th bi-annual conference of the Sub-Saharan African Network (SUSAN) of the International

Biometrics Society (IBS), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with G. Molenberghs, December 12-13, 2005.

46. ‘Mixed models and incomplete data (2 days),’ organized by Interuniversity Attraction Pole P5/24 (Statistical Techniques and Modeling

for Complex Substantive Questions with Complex Data) and The Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics,

with G. Molenberghs, February 22-23, 2006.

47. ‘Longitudinal data, mixed models and incomplete data (2 days),’ Forest Research Institute, New-Jersey, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs,

March 23-24, 2006.

48. ‘Models for repeated discrete data (1 day),’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International

Biometric Society, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 26, 2006.

49. ‘Models for repeated continuous, discrete and incomplete data (1 day),’ Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta GA, U.S.A., with G.

Molenberghs, March 30, 2006.

50. ‘Introduction to numerical techniques for statisticians (2 days),’ organized by Interuniversity Attraction Pole P5/24 (Statistical

Techniques and Modeling for Complex Substantive Questions with Complex Data) and The Interuniversity Graduate School of

Psychometrics and Sociometrics, with F. Tuerlinckx and G. Molenberghs, May 2-3, 2006.

51. ‘Longitudinal and Incomplete data (4 days),’ Instituto Galego de Estatıstica, University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain, with G.

Molenberghs, May 31 – June 3, 2006.

52. ‘Models for repeated discrete data (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 6, 2006.

53. ‘Models for Longitudinal and Incomplete data (6 days),’ European Science Foundation, Programme ‘Quantitative Methods in Social

Sciences (QMSS), with G. Molenberghs, September 13-19, 2006.

54. ‘Models for Longitudinal and Incomplete data (2 days),’ Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (R.I.V.M.),

Bilthoven, The Netherlands, with G. Molenberghs, October 18-19, 2006.



56. ‘Incomplete Data, Particularly in Longitudinal Studies (2 days),’ Danish National Graduate School in Biostatistics, Copenhagen,

Denmark, with G. Molenberghs, November 9-10, 2006.

57. ‘Course on Models for Longitudinal and Incomplete Data (5 days),’ Departamento de Ciencias Exatas, ESALQ, University of Sao-Paulo,

Piracicaba, Brasil, with G. Molenberghs, November 13-17, 2006.

58. ‘Longitudinal and Incomplete Data (2 days),’ Department of Biology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, with G. Molenberghs,

November 20-21, 2006.

59. ‘Missing data, particularly in longitudinal studies (2 days),’ French Statistical Society, Toulouse, France, with G. Molenberghs, December

11-12, 2006.

60. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (2 days),’ American Statistical Association (LEARNSTAT program), East Windsor NJ, U.S.A., with

G. Molenberghs, March 15-16, 2007.

61. ‘Longitudinal and Incomplete Data (4 webinars of 2 hours),’ American Statistical Association (LEARNSTAT program), with G.

Molenberghs, April-June, 2007.

62. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (30 hours),’ Departemento Matematica Aplicada, Facultad Matematica y Computacion, Universidad

de La Habana, Cuba, with G. Molenberghs, May 26-31, 2007.

63. ‘Models for repeated discrete data (1 day),’ International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Barcelona, Spain, with G. Molenberghs,

July 1, 2007.

64. ‘Methods for analyzing continuous, discrete, and incomplete longitudinal data (2 days),’ Region de Centro America y del Caribe de la

Sociedad Internacional de Biometrı, Porlamar – Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, with G. Molenberghs, October 4-5, 2007.

65. ‘Methods for analyzing continuous, discrete, and incomplete longitudinal data (3 hours),’ Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society

Belgium, Antwerp, with G. Molenberghs, October 20, 2007.


66. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ University Center of Statistics of KU Leuven, April 16-17, 2008.

67. ‘Mixed models and incomplete data (2 days),’ organized by Interuniversity Attraction Pole P5/10/31 (Statistical analysis of Association

and Dependence in Complex Data) and The Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics, Leuven, with G.

Molenberghs, November 22-23, 2008.

68. ‘Biostatistics for clinicians (25 hours),’ Erasmus Winter Programme, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 21-25, 2008.

69. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (3 days),’ Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with G. Molenberghs, April 9-11, 2008.

70. ‘Introduction to numerical techniques for statisticians (2 days),’ organized by Interuniversity Attraction Pole P5/10/31 (Statistical

analysis of Association and Dependence in Complex Data) and The Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics,

Leuven, with F. Tuerlinckx and G. Molenberghs, April 28-29, 2008.

71. ‘Models for longitudinal and incomplete data (half day),’ 73rd Annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, Durham, NH, U.S.A., with

Geert Molenberghs, June 29, 2008.

72. ‘Models for discrete repeated measures (one day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 4, 2008.

73. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (two days),’ organized by the Danish Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Copenhagen, Denmark,

with Geert Molenberghs, October 21-22, 2008.

74. ‘Models for longitudinal and incomplete data (3.5 days),’ Departamento de Ciencias Exatas, ESALQ, University of Sao-Paulo, Piracicaba,

Brasil, with G. Molenberghs, November 17-20, 2008.


76. ‘Introduction to biostatistics for clinicians (3×1.5 hours),’ Eli Lilly, Leuven, February 3, 10, and 17, 2009.


hygiene, Lucina, Pellenberg, March-april, 2009.


78. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ University Center of Statistics of KU Leuven, May 13, 15, 2009.

79. ‘Models for discrete repeated measures (one day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, August 2,

2009.



82. ‘Mixed models and incomplete data (3 days),’ Danone, Paris, France, with G. Molenberghs, March 16-18, 2010.

83. ‘Joint modeling approaches in longitudinal studies using random effects (1 day),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, with G.

Molenberghs and D. Rizopoulos, August 3, 2010.



86. ‘Two-day crash course biostatistics (2 days),’ The Leuven Center for Bio-Science, Bio-Engineering and Bio-Technology, Leuven, Belgium,

with G. Molenberghs, Februay 21 and May 31, 2011.

87. ‘Foundations and recent advances in longitudinal and incomplete data (two days),’ Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, U.S.A., with

G. Molenberghs, July 30-31, 2011.


89. ‘Lineaire modellen met SPSS (4 days),’ IDEWE Haasrode, Belgium, with A. Carbonez, February 7, March 3, April 4, May 25, 2012.

90. ‘Models for hierarchical and incomplete data (2 days),’ National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs,

April 5-6, 2012.

91. ‘Joint modeling approaches in longitudinal studies using random effects (1 day),’ International Biometric Conference, Kobe, Japan, with

G. Molenberghs and D. Rizopoulos, August 26, 2012.


92. ‘Longitudinal models for discrete data (2 days),’ Hungarian National Group of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB),

Budapest, Hungary, with G. Molenberghs, October 5-6, 2012.

93. ‘Mixed and multilevel models (2 days),’ Flemish Government, Department Welfare, Public Health and Family, Brussels, January 21-22,

2013.

94. ‘Biostatistics for clinicians (25 hours),’ Erasmus Winter Programme, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, February 25 – March 1,

2013.

95. ‘Biostatistics for clinicians (25 hours),’ Erasmus Winter Programme, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, February 24 – February

28, 2014.

96. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (1 day),’ Spring meeting of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International

Biometric Society, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., with G. Molenberghs, March 16, 2014.

97. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (2 days),’ Royal Statistical Society, London, United Kingdom, with G. Molenberghs, March 26-27,

2014.


hygiene, Leuven, September-november, 2014.

99. ‘Biostatistics for clinicians (25 hours),’ Erasmus Winter Programme, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, February 23 – February

27, 2015.

100. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (2 days),’ Royal Statistical Society, London, United Kingdom, with G. Molenberghs, September 28-29,

2015.

101. ‘Mixed models (2 days),’ Flemish Government, Department Agriculture and Fishery, Brussels, October 6 & 8, 2015.

102. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (2 days),’ Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of

Vienna, Austria, with G. Molenberghs, March 16-18, 2016.



2016.

104. ‘Mixed and generalized mixed models (2 days),’ KKS-Netzwerk: Network of the Coordinating Centres for Clinical Trials, Frankfurt,

Germany, December 15-16, 2016.


hygiene, Leuven, February-March, 2017.


2017.


2018.

108. ‘Mixed and generalized mixed models (2 days),’ GSK Vaccines: Quality Control and Manufacturing, Wavre, Belgium, January 14-15,

2019.

109. ‘Longitudinal and incomplete data (3 days),’ summer course organized by the Flanders’ Training Network for Methodology and Statistics

(FLAMES), Gent, Belgium, with G. Molenberghs, September 16-18, 2019.


2019.


7 Supervision and advisorship

(Co-)supervision of PhD students

1. S. Fieuws, ‘Mixed models for multivariate longitudinal data,’ PhD in Medical Sciences, KU Leuven, 15 september, 2006.

2. D. Rizopoulos, ‘Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven, May 20, 2008.

3. S. Tsonaka, ‘Models for handling coarsening and non-monotone missingness in clinical trials,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven, May 20, 2008.

4. A. Jara Vallejos, ‘Bayesian semiparametric methods for the analysis of complex data,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven, March 11, 2008.

5. P. Thilakarathne, ‘Statistical methods for analyzing DNA and PamChip microarray data,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven,

September 21, 2011.

6. L. Diya, ‘Multilevel models in health care research: Application to nurse staffing research,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven,

September 29, 2011.

7. P. Quataert, ‘Methodological and statistical aspects of indices of biotic integrity to assess the ecological condition of surface waters,’

PhD in Science, KU Leuven, March 3, 2011.

8. T. Mutsvari, ‘Misclassification in multilevel models with application to dental caries research,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven,

September 28, 2012.

9. A. Efendi, ‘Estimation methodology and model verification for hierarchical and overdispersed time-to-event outcomes,’ PhD in

Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, September 27, 2013.


10. A.C. Forcheh, ‘Mixed models and mixture models for analyzing microarray data,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, October 8,

2013.

11. R. Van Oirbeek, ‘Measuring the predictive ability of multilevel regression models: Application to the binary and survival framework,’ PhD

in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, June 21, 2013.

12. E. Njeru Njagi, ‘Joint models for survival and longitudinal data, missing data, and sensitivity analysis, with applications in medical

research,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt, September 26, 2013.

13. S. Iddi, ‘Flexible hierarchical and marginalized models for non-Gaussian data: Application to life science studies,’ PhD in Biomedical

Sciences, KU Leuven, September 27, 2013.

14. M. Aregay, ‘Flexible statistical modelling approaches for hierarchical and overdispersed data,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven,

September 27, 2013.

15. D. Dejardin, ‘Statistical models for the analysis of oncology endpoints,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, December 20, 2013.

16. J. De Wolf, ‘Applications of linear mixed models for screening of transgenic crops,’ PhD in Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven, May 6,

2014.

17. K. Van Der Borght, ‘Prediction of drug response from genetic sequence data using regression techniques,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences,

KU Leuven, November 17, 2014.

18. J. Menten, ‘Latent variable models in diagnostic medicine with applications to visceral Leishmaniasis research,’ PhD in Biomedical

Sciences, KU Leuven, March 24, 2015.

19. S. Jaspers, ‘Semi-parametric mixture models for censored data, with applications in the field of antimicrobial resistance,’ PhD in Science,

Universiteit Hasselt, September 16, 2016.

20. W. De Mulder, ‘Extending Gaussian process emulation to handle large data sets, with applications to agent-based models,’ PhD in

Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, April 20, 2017.


21. A. Ivanova, ‘Flexible modeling of hierarchical, overdispersed, and multivariate biomedical data,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven,

February 23, 2018.

22. T.W. Rakhmawati, ‘Local and global influence for the generalized linear mixed model and its extensions,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit

Hasselt, May 23, 2018.

23. L. A. Quintero Sarmiento, ‘Extensions of Bayesian hierarchical models with applications in medical research,’ PhD in Biomedical

Sciences, KU Leuven, February 8, 2019.

24. A. Lovik, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.

25. V. Nassiri, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.

26. R. Klein Sercundes, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.

27. S. Nuyts, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.

28. M. Coemans, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.


(Co-)supervision of master students

1. L. Meuleners, ‘The influence of igf and testosteron on the growth of skulls of rats.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt,

1994-1995.

2. N. Verbruggen, ‘Ischemia: A comparison of five methods for doing a bypass operation.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt,

1995-1996.

3. D. Belmans, ‘An application of generalized linear mixed models to the analysis of nonnormal repeated data from a clinical trial.’ Master

in statistics, KU Leuven, 1996-1997.

4. F. Torres Barbosa, ‘Local influence and multiple imputation: Two tools for the practical statistician.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt, 1996-1997.

5. B.S. Kato, ‘A comparison of statistical models for the analysis of continuous longitudinal data.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt, 1997-1998.

6. M.M.T. Eronico, ‘Relevant economic and social indicators for estimating infant mortality rate of regions in the Philippines.’ Master in

statistics, KU Leuven, 1998-1999.

7. D.G.L. Del Prado, ‘Imputation of the Philippine quarterly survey of establishments for mining and quarrying sector.’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 1998-1999.

8. M. Callens, ‘The impact of the mother’s educational level on the third birth in Europe. A discrete-time multilevel hazard analysis.’

Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 1999-2000.

9. I. Van Cauwenbergh, ‘Risisofactoren voor en verwekkers van Port-a-Cath infecties.’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 1999-2000.

10. H. Willems, ‘The toenails experiment revisited: The effect of dropout on the efficiency of the experiment.’ Master in biostatistics,

Universiteit Hasselt, 1999-2000.


11. E. Deschepper, ‘Application of the dynamic biplot on water quality time series.’ biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2000-2001.

12. S. Fieuws, ‘Mixtures of linear and non-linear mixed-effects models for the classification of longitudinal profiles.’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2000-2001.

13. A. Komarek, ‘A SAS-macro for linear mixed models with finite normal mixtures as random-effects distribution.’ Master in biostatistics,

Universiteit Hasselt, 2000-2001.

14. E. Fernandez, ‘The analysis of longitudinal lung function measurements in healthy workers.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt,

2000-2001.

15. L. Soenens, ‘The Neecham Confusion Scale: Identificatie van de meest effectieve variabelen voor het detecteren van stoornissen in het

cognitief functioneren en delirium bij ouderen.’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 2000-2001.

16. V. Hemelaer and J. Mulkers, ‘Longitudinale analyse van longfunctiegegevens: Een primaire fase.’ Master in occupational medicine,

KU Leuven, 2001-2002.

17. P. Klasterecky, ‘A longitudinal analysis of dental data using proc NLMIXED: The evolution of plaque scores over time.’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2001-2002.

18. J. Serroyen, ‘A finite mixture model for the description of the number of treated deciduous teeth in children.’ Master in applied

statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2001-2002.

19. D. Lin, ‘Nerve growth in vitro.’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2002-2003.

20. J. Serroyen, ‘Nonlinear mixed models for the analysis of dose-response relationships in salivary glands after radiotherapy.’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2002-2003.

21. E. Fernandez Garcia, ‘Piecewise linear model describing lung functioning.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2002-2003.

22. M. Molas, ‘Longitudinal study of association between body mass index and age in the population of Belgian workers.’ Master in applied

statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2003-2004


23. R. Achten, ‘Additional prognostic value of bone marrow histology in patients subclassified according to the international prognostic

system for Myelodysplastic syndromes.’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2003-2004.

24. V. Dils, ‘Mixed models for bivariate longitudinal profiles: The case of a continuous and a discrete (count) variable.’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2003-2004.

25. S. Resseler, ‘Mixed models for bivariate longitudinal profiles: The case of a continuous and a binary outcome’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2003-2004.

26. B. Cox, ‘Prediction of renal graft failure,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2004-2005.

27. M. Sabbe, ‘Samenhang tussen jobonzekerheid, jobsatisfactie, mentaal welzijn en gezondheid. Cross-sectionele en longitudinale analyse op

basis van de British Household Panel Survey,’ Master in occupational medicine, KU Leuven, 2005-2006.

28. N. Detry, ‘Variabiliteit in geboortefrequentie: De invloed van natuurelementen,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 2005-2006.

29. K. Servaes, ‘Kinderen ja, maar wanneer ? Een descriptieve studie over de factoren die een rol gespeeld hebben bij het plannen van een

zwangerschap,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 2005-2006.

30. E. Geuten, ‘Variabiliteit in geboortefrequentie: De invloed van organisatorische factoren,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven,

2005-2006.

31. D. Persyn, ‘A Monte-Carlo study comparing methods for handling missing data in longitudinal studies,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven,

2006-2007.

32. M.-C. Maille and J. Vanherle, ‘Ontwikkeling van een meetinstrument voor het evalueren van de impacten en dynamieken van Clinical

Leadership op verpleegkundigen en op verpleegkundige zorg,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 2007-2008.

33. H. Sun, ‘Prediction of overall survival and local tumour control from treatment and patient characteristics in patients with cervical

cancer treated with brachy-therapy,’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2007-2008.


34. A. Adedipe, ‘Analysis of competing risks in patients with established coronary heart disease,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt,

2007-2008.

35. P. Jaksons, ‘Modelling the force of infection of malaria using serological antibody markers,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2008-2009.

36. L. Rchaidia, ‘De goede verpleegkundige vanuit het perspectief van oncologische patienten. Evaluatie van de psychometrische

eigenschappen van het vertaalde Care Q instrument,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven, 2008-2009.

37. C. Geerdens, ‘Handling missing data in a longitudinal observational study on body experience in eating disorders,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2008-2009.

38. C.T. Kamseu, ‘Estimation of negative ICC, using negative variance components, for non-Gaussian data,’ Master in statistics,

Univeersiteit Hasselt, 2008-2009.

39. M.I. Pescador Jimenez, ‘The use of the gradient function to check goodness-of-fit in statistical models,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven,

2009-2010.

40. M. Ali, ‘Approaches for age estimation based on third molar developmental stages,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2010-2011.

41. P. Kodrou, ‘The impact of incomplete data in a prospective study comparing external fixation and volar locking plating in distal radius

fractures,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2010-2011.

42. K. Vansteelandt, ‘A mixed model to disentangle variability and serial autocorrelation in affective instability using ecological momentary

assessment data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2011-2012.

43. B. Talbot, ‘Analysis of old people’s stereotypes in European countries. A multilevel analysis,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2011-2012.

44. K. Van Der Borght, ‘Modeling of HIV-1 drug resistance from sequence data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2011-2012.

45. S. Steenhuyzen, ‘Uncovering the dynamics between countries of participating in leisure time physical activity,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2012-2013.


46. L. Raes, ‘Modeling geographic and demographic variation in subjective health,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2012-2013.

47. G. Maringwa, ‘Translational methods in biostatistics: Linear mixed effect regression models to find predictors of HIV disease progression

over time,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2013-2014.

48. K. Vanbrabant, ‘Longitudinal and time-to-event data. A comparison between a time-varying Cox regression and a joint model approach,’

Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2014-2015.

49. J. Sichien, ‘Evaluation of the e+ training programme,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2014-2015.

50. B. Bulte, ‘The longitudinal development of complexity in second language writing,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

51. G. Kiekens, ‘Group-based trajectory modeling and non-suicidal self-injury risk trajectories in college students,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

52. B.N. Nguyen, ‘Statistical analysis of data on an eco-driving programme for car drivers,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

53. T. Xia, ‘The effects of driving style on traffic accidents,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

54. E. Deutschmann, ‘Retrospective determination of survey baseline values,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

55. S. Karapanagiotis, ‘Muscle strength and functional mobility in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven, 2015-2016.

56. H. Jafari, ‘Respiratory gating of pain. A linear mixed model to disentangle the effect of slow deep breathing on pain perception,’ Master

in statistics, KU Leuven, 2016-2017.

57. A. Mohammad, ‘A study on the effect of misspecifying the association structure in dynamic predictions obtained from joint models for

longitudinal and survival data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2016-2017.

58. R.S. Neudorf, ‘Analysis of refuel data. An iterative statistical approach for error detection,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2016-2017.


59. E. Bruynseraede and A. Ceusters, ‘Development and validation of the short version of the Delirium Observation Screening Scale

(s-DOSS),’ Master in nursing and midwifery, KU Leuven, 2016-2017.

60. M.A. Chenier, ‘Explaining the unemployment gap between migrants and natives in Europe. A multilevel logistic regression model for

repeated cross-sectional data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2017-2018.

61. C. Abugri, ‘Predicting freezing of gait in the presence of incomplete data,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt, 2007-2008.

62. S. Nuyts, ‘Consistency and asymmetry in the gait of children with cerebral palsy,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven, 2017-2018.


8 Expert committees

Doctoral exam committee membership

1. B. Michiels (1999) ‘Statistical models for incomplete longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

2. D. Curran (2000) ‘Analysis of incomplete longitudinal quality of life data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G.

Molenberghs and R. Sylvester .

3. T. Burzykowski (2001) ‘Validation of surrogate endpoints from multiple randomized clinical trials with a failure-time true endpoint,’ PhD

in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

4. B. Spiessens (2001) ‘Group sequential methods for some generalised linear mixed models,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotors: E.

Lesaffre and J. Beirlant.

5. F. Rijmen (2002) ‘A mixed and mixture model perspective on item response theory,’ PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor: P. De

Boeck.

6. H. Thijs (2002) ‘Sensitivity analysis for incomplete data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

7. D. Renard (2002) ‘Topics in modeling multilevel and longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.’ Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

8. N. El Sharif (2003) ‘Domestic environment and lifestyle determinants of asthma in Palestinian children. A contribution for asthma

epidemiology in children,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotor: B. Nemery.

9. S. Godrie (2003) ‘Measuring body temperature and activity as a management tool: Possibilities for automated oestrus detection,’ PhD

in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.


10. T. Kuznetsova (2004) ‘Context-dependency of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system genes in relation to left ventricular structure,’ PhD

in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: J. Staesen and R. Fagard.

11. R. Leroy (2004) ‘Permanent tooth emergence and oral health in flemish children,’ PhD in Dentistry, KU Leuven. Promotors: D. Declercq

and E. Lesaffre.

12. F.S. Tibaldi (2004) ‘Modeling of correlated data and multivariate survival data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G.

Molenberghs.

13. A. Alonso Abad (2004) ‘Investigating validity of psychiatric symptom scales and surrogate markers,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: H. Geys and G. Molenberghs.

14. J. Cortinas Abrahantes (2004) ‘Estimation procedures for mixed-effects models with applications to normally distributed and survival

data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: T. Burzykowski and G. Molenberghs.

15. C. Faes (2004) ‘Flexible modelling of correlated multivariate data with applications in animal studies,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotors: H. Geys and M. Aerts.

16. E. Andries (2004) ‘Statistical modelling strategies for reliability data on physical components with possibly multiple causes of failure,’

PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and L. De Schepper.

17. I. Jansen (2005) ‘Flexible model strategies and sensitivity analysis tools for non-monotone incomplete categorical data,’ PhD in Science,

Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts.

18. N. Hens (2005) ‘Non- and semi-parametric techniques for handling missing data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: M.

Aerts and G. Molenberghs.

19. J.S. Yarden (2005) ‘Genetic modulators of pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis and genetic susceptibility factors of emphysema,’ PhD in

Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: H. Cuppens and J.-J. Cassiman.


20. M. Basanze (2005) ‘Statistical calibration estimators and small disturbance asymptotic theory with an application to dilution biochemical

data,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Vermeire.

21. W. Ghidey (2005) ‘Relaxing the normality assumption of the random effects distribution in the linear mixed model,’ PhD in Science,

KU Leuven. Promotors: E. Lesaffre and J. Beirlant.

22. K. Mortelmans (2006) ‘Enhancing work resumption of patients on sub-acute sickness absence,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven.

Promotors: D. Lahaye and P. Donceel.

23. S. Musili Mwalili (2006) ‘Bayesian and frequentist approaches to correct for misclassification error, with applications to caries research,’

PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotors: E. Lesaffre and J. Beirlant.

24. K. Bogaerts (2007) ‘Statistical modelling of tooth emergence based on multivariate interval-censored data,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven.

Promotors: E. Lesaffre and J. Beirlant.

25. C. Beunckens (2007) ‘Analysis and sensitivity analysis for incomplete longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor:

G. Molenberghs.

26. S. Litiere (2007) ‘The impact of a misspecified random-effects distribution on estimation in generalized linear mixed models,’ PhD in

Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and A. Alonso.

27. J. Serroyen (2007) ‘Flexible modeling tools for continuous longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G.

Molenberghs.

28. D. Smulders (2007) ‘Pig behaviour and welfare in relation to on-farm factors: A combined experimental-epidemiological study,’ PhD in

Bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.

29. E. Kellen (2007) ‘Bladder cancer in Limburg: An exploration of the determinants through an epidemiological study,’ PhD in Biomedical

Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: F. Buntinx and M. Zeegers.


30. N. Van Nimmen (2008) ‘Assessment of occupational exposure to opioid narcotic analgesics in the pharmaceutical industry,’ PhD in

Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: H. Veulemans and R. Masschelein.

31. S. Goetgeluk (2008) ‘From clustered data to causal inference: New methodology motivated by the analysis of subfertility treatments,’

PhD in Science, Universiteit Gent. Promotors: S. Vansteelandt and E. Goetghebeur.

32. T. Vangeneugden (2008) ‘Applying psychometric validation methodology to longitudinal clinical trial data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

33. K. Wouters (2008) ‘Classification methods for multi-class multivariate longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: G. Molenberghs and J. Cortinas.

34. H. Namata (2008) ‘Flexible statistical models for microbial risk assessment and infectious diseases,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: M. Aerts and C. Faes.

35. W. Cools (2008) ‘Multilevel design efficiency using simulation,’ PhD in Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: W. Van den

Noortgate and P. Onghena.

36. F.B. Tekle (2008) ‘D-Optimal designs for prospective cohort studies,’ PhD in Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Promotors: M.P.F. Berger and E.S. Tan.

37. K. Van den Heede (2008) ‘Nurse-staffing levels and patient safety in acute hospitals. Analyzing administrative data at the nursing-unit

level,’ PhD in Medical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: W. Sermeus, E. Lesaffre, and A. Vleugels.

38. V. Hautekiet (2009) ‘Analysis and validation of risk factors for disease prevalence on pig farms,’ PhD in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven.

Promotor: R. Geers.

39. F. Consentino (2009) ‘Modelling the missingness: Estimation, testing and model selection,’ PhD in Business and Economics, KU Leuven.

Promotor: G. Claeskens.


40. T. Van Den Bulcke (2009) ‘Robust algorithms for inferring regulatory networks based on gene expression measurements and biological

prior information,’ PhD in Engineering, KU Leuven. Promotors: B. De Moor and K. Marchal.

41. K. Bollaerts (2009) ‘Statistical models in epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment applied to Salmonella in pork,’ PhD in

Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: M. Aerts and C. Faes.

42. C. Sotto (2009) ‘Topics in analysis and sensitivity analysis for incomplete longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: G. Molenberghs and C. Beunckens.

43. J. Vercauteren (2009) ‘The epidemiology of HIV-1 drug resistance,’ PhD in Medical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: A.-M. Vandamme

and E. Van Wijngaerden.

44. G. Meyfroidt (2010) ‘Computerized data management in the intensive care unit: Predictive modeling, time series analysis and

opportunities for support of care,’ PhD in Medical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Van den Berghe and M. Bruynooghe.

45. A. Creemers (2011) ‘Models for incomplete and clustered data with applications in clinical trials and health economic studies,’ PhD in

Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: M. Aerts and N. Hens.

46. K. Klingels (2011) ‘Evaluation and treatment of the upper limb in children with unilateral cerabral palsy,’ PhD in Kinesiology and

Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: H. Feys, P. De Cock, and G. Molenaers.

47. J.O. Agbaje (2012) ‘Misclassification in oral health surveys: A critical approach,’ , PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors:

D. Declerck and E. Lesaffre.

48. B. Craane (2012) ‘Physical therapy and temporomandibular disorders,’ PhD in Rehabilitation sciences and physiotherapy, KU Leuven,

Promotors: K. Stappaerts, A. De Laat, and P.U. Dijkstra.

49. J. Blomme (2012) ‘Variable star data mining techniques for time-resolved databases,’ PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotors: J. De

Ridder and C. Aerts.


50. T.A. Birhanu (2012) ‘Pseudo-likelihood and estimating equation methodology for incomplete data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: G. Molenberghs and C. Sotto.

51. L. Permentier (2013) ‘Growth, body composition, feed and energy efficiency of pigs in relation to sire line, diet composition and health

status,’ PhD in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.

52. A.H. Ghebretinsae (2013) ‘Flexible modeling tools for hierarchical and incomplete data, with applications in comet assays and clinical

trials,’ PhD in Statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: C. Faes and G. Molenberghs.

53. E.I. Milanzi (2013) ‘Flexible modeling for hierarchical data, data with random sample sizes and selection bias, with applications in

pharmaceutical research,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and A. Alonzo.

54. W. Kassahun (2014) ‘Modeling hierarchical data, allowing for overdispersion and zero-inflation, in particular excess zeros,’ PhD in

Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and C. Faes.

55. G. Kalema (2014) ‘Flexible regression models for the analysis of hierarchical data from medical studies,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences,

KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Molenberghs, Z. Shkedy, and E. Lesaffre.

56. K. Sikorska (2014) ‘Computationally fast approaches to genome-wide association studies,’ PhD in Biostatistics, Erasmus University

Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Promotors: A.G. Uitterlinden, E. Lesaffre, P.J.F. Groeten, and F. Rivadeneira Ramirez.

57. E.R. Andrinopoulou (2014) ‘Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data with applications in heart valve data,’ PhD in Biostatistics,

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Promotors: E. Lesaffre, J.J.M. Takkenberg, and D. Rizopoulos.

58. L. Bruckers (2014) ‘Challenges in cluster analyses for longitudinal data,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs

59. T. Neyens (2015) ‘Modeling complex data with spatial correlation, zero-inflation and overdispersion: The combined modeling approach,’

PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: C. Faes and G. Molenberghs

60. S. Meyer (2015) ‘Recovery after stroke: Long term outcome and upper limb somatosensory function,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences,

KU Leuven, Promotors: G. Verheyden, H. Feys, and V. Thijs


61. G. Vervoort (2016) ‘Neural and behavioral correlates underlying motor heterogeneity and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease,’ PhD in

Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: A. Nieuwboer and W. Vandenberghe.

62. W. Van der Elst (2016) ‘Statistical evaluation methodology for surrogate endpoints in clinical studies and related topics,’ PhD in

Science, Universiteit Hasselt, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven (joint degree). Promotors: G. Molenberghs and A. Alonso Abad.

63. T. Reddy (2017) ‘Prediction of time to threshold from a repeatedly measured biomarker,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotors: G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts.

64. V. Nuyts (2017) ‘Asbestos exposure and the epidemiology of malignant mesothelioma in Belgium,’ PhD in Biomedical Sciences,

KU Leuven, Promotors: K. Nackaerts, B. Nemery and T. Nawrot

65. L. Hermans (2019) ‘Inference with unequal cluster sizes,’ PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts.


Doctoral supervision committee membership

1. W. Van den Noortgate, PhD in Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotor: P. Onghena.

2. S. Godrie, PhD in Bio-engineering, , KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.

3. F. Rijmen, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor: P. De Boeck.

4. H. Thijs, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs

5. N.E. Sharif, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotor: B. Nemery.

6. D. Smulders, PhD in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven, Promotor: R. Geers.

7. D. Smits, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor P. De Boeck.

8. N. Van Nimmen, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors H. Veulemans and R. Masschelein.

9. K. Antonio, PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotor: J. Beirlant.

10. I. Hidegkuti, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor P. De Boeck.

11. D. Renard, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs

12. I. Jansen, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts

13. K. Luyckx, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Goossens.

14. E. Kellen, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotor F. Buntinx.

15. K. Klingels, PhD in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: H. Feys, P. De Cock, and G. Molenaers

16. G. Meyfroidt, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Promotor: G. Van Den Berghe.


17. W. Cools, PhD in Educational Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: W. Van den Noortgate and P. Onghena

18. I. Hidegkuti, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor: P. De Boeck.

19. J. Vercauteren, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven. Promotors: A.M. Vandamme and E. Van Wijgaerden.

20. J. Serroyen, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs

21. K. Vandenheede, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: W. Sermeus, A. Vleugels, and E. Lesaffre.

22. Z. Oravecz, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotor: F. Tuerlinckx.

23. V. Hautekiet, PhD in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.

24. J. Braeken, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven. Promotors: F. Tuerlinckx and P. De Boeck.

25. F. Consentino, PhD in Economics and Applied Economics, KU Leuven. Promotor: G. Claeskens.

26. A. Tilahum, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: G. Molenberghs

27. C. Sotto, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor G. Molenberghs

28. D. Nkafu, PhD in Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: B. De Fraine, J. Van Damme, and P. Onghena.

29. T. Van Den Bulcke, PhD in Engineering, KU Leuven. Promotors: B. De Moor and K. Marchal.

30. J. Blomme, PhD in Science, KU Leuven. Promotors: J. De Ridder and C. Aerts.

31. L. Permentier, PhD in Bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: R. Geers.

32. P. Konings, PhD in Engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor: Y. Moreau.

33. B. Teshome Ayele, PhD in Science, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts

34. J.O. Agbaje, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: D. Declerck and E. Lesaffre.


35. E. Vande Gaer, PhD in Psychology, KU Leuven, Promotors: E. Ceulemans and I. Van Mechelen.

36. M.J. Garcıa-Zattera, PhD in Science, KU Leuven, Promotors: E. Lesaffre. and A. Carbonez

37. M. Ugille, PhD in Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: W. Van Den Noortgate, J. Ferron, and T. Beretvas.

38. S. Meyer, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: G. Verheyden, H. Feys, and V. Thijs

39. G. Vervoort, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: A. Nieuwboer and W. Vandenberghe.

40. V. Nuyts, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Promotors: K. Nackaerts, B. Nemery and T. Nawrot


Reviewer of research proposals

1. Reviewer of a grant proposal submitted to the Open Programme of the Dutch Social Science Research Council (‘gebied Maatschappij- en

Gedragswetenschappen’) of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. September-October 2003, 2 proposals.

2. Reviewer of applications for financial support from the European Science Foundation, to attend the Quantitative Methods in the Social

Sciences (QMSS) Conference in Prague, June 21-23, 2007.

3. Reviewer of the post-doctoral grant proposal of C. Faes (Universiteit Hasselt), submitted to the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO).

February 2007.

4. Reviewer of the doctoral grant proposal of J. De Neve (Universiteit Gent) submitted to the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO). February

2007.

5. Reviewer of the doctoral grant proposal of E. Del Fava (Universiteit Hasselt) submitted to the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO).

February 2008.

6. Reviewer of a Discovery Grant proposal submitted to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. December 2008.

7. Reviewer of an application for financial support from the Federal Government on Public Health, Food Safety and Environment

(contractueel onderzoek). February 2009.

8. Member of supervision committee for SALMOSU project (Optimalisatie van de bestrijding van Salmonella infectie bij varkens), a project

of the Federal Government on Public Health, Food Safety and Environment (contractueel onderzoek). 2009–2012.

9. Member of jury for the evaluation of research proposals ‘Prospective Research for Brussels,’ on behalf of INNOVIRIS: The Brussels

Institute for Research and Innovation. November 2011.

10. Member of jury for the evaluation of research proposals ‘Fund for translational biomedical research,’ on behalf of the group of biomedical

sciences of KU Leuven. November 2015.


11. Member of jury for the evaluation of research proposals ‘Fund for translational biomedical research,’ on behalf of the group of biomedical

sciences of KU Leuven. October 2016.

12. Member of jury for the evaluation of PhD fellowships submitted to committee MED8 (Health Sciences) of the Flemish Research

Foundation (FWO). March - October 2019, 58 proposals.


Reviewer of applications or nominations for appointments, promotions,

elections, awards

1. Faculty member promotion, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. June 2004.

2. Fellowship of the American Statistical Association, February 2007.

3. Faculty member appointment, Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 2008.

4. Faculty member appointment, Faculty of Science, University of Hasselt, Belgium, June 2008.

5. Fellowship of the American Statistical Association, February 2009.

6. Faculty member promotion, Department of Statistics, The University of Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2009.

7. Faculty member evaluation, Faculty of Science, University of Hasselt, Belgium, October 2009.

8. Faculty member appointment, Faculty of Science, University of Hasselt, Belgium, March 2010.

9. Biostatistician, Directorate-General (DG) PRE-Authorisation of Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, Belgium, May 2010.

10. Member of the advisory committee responsible for the evaluation of candidates for new faculty positions and for faculty promotion

applications within the Group of Biomedical Sciences of KU Leuven (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of

Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences), September 2012 – August 2016.


Search committees

1. Member of the search committee for a co-editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2004.

2. Member of the search committee for a joint editor of The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, published by the Royal

Statistical Society, 2005.

3. Member of the search committee for the executive editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2005.

4. Chair of the search committee for the editor of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, jointly published by

the International Biometric Society and the American Statistical Association, 2006.

5. Chair of the search committee for a co-editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2008.

6. Chair of the search committee for an editor of Biometric Bulletin, published by the International Biometric Society, 2008.

7. Chair of the search committee for the executive editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2008.

8. Chair of the search committee for a representative in the Management Committee of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and

Environmental Statistics, jointly published by the International Biometric Society and the American Statistical Association, 2009.

9. Chair of the search committee for the book review editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2009.

10. Member of the search committee for a faculty member in statistical genetics, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, 2008.

11. Chair of the search committee for a co-editor of Biometrics, published by the International Biometric Society, 2009.

12. Chair of the search committee for a co-editorial representative of the International Biometric Society for the Springer-led electronic

Encyclopedia of Probability and Statistics, 2009.




15. Member of the search committee for a joint editor of The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, published by the Royal

Statistical Society, 2012.


17. Member of the search committee for an International Representative in the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association

(period 2014-2016), 2013.

18. Chair of the search committee for a faculty member in biostatistics and statistical bioinformatics, Group of Biomedical Sciences,

KU Leuven, 2014.

19. Chair of the search committee for a faculty member in health economics, Group of Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, 2015.

20. Chair of the search committee for a faculty member in insurance medicine, Group of Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, 2015.

21. Chair of the search committee for a faculty member in medical law, Group of Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, 2016.

22. Chair of the search committee for a faculty member in general practice, Group of Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, 2017.

23. Member of the search committee for an International Representative in the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association

(period 2020-2022), 2018.


Award committees

1. Member of the nominating committee for the ‘Herman Callaert Leadership Award in Biostatistical Education 2004’. Award presented to

Alan Agresti (University of Florida, U.S.A.) on May 18, 2004 at the Universiteit Hasselt


Clarice Demetrio (University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil) on May 12, 2006 at the Universiteit Hasselt

3. Member of the committee to establish awards at the 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 16-21,

2006.

4. Member of the committee to establish awards at the 24th International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 13-18, 2008.


Normal Breslow (University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.) on September 10, 2008 at the Universiteit Hasselt.

6. Member of the committee for the selection of the best paper published in 2006-2007 in the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and

Environmental Statistics, jointly published by the International Biometric Society and the American Statistical Association. Award

presented to O. Thas (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) at the International Biometric Conference 2008, Dublin, Ireland, on July 15, 2008.

7. Member of the committee to establish awards at the 26th International Biometric Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, December 5-10, 2010.

8. Member of the committee to establish awards at the 27th International Biometric Conference, Kobe, Japan, August 26-31, 2012.


Reviewer of master projects

1. P.J. Lindsey (1997) ‘Analysis of the effect of an anthelmintic in reducing the number of parasites in young cattle,’ Master in biostatistics,

Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: B. Genicot and B. Vrijens.

2. E. Kazonga (1997) ‘Analysis of repeated-series measurements of haematological changes in cows before and after giving birth,’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: O. Thas.

3. P. Debba (1998) ‘Review of statistical methods to assess the agreement between different measuring devices and the reproducibility of

repeated measurements applied to hemodynamic variables from a hypertension study,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotor: G. Byttebier.

4. V.O. Magero (1998) ‘A study on the revalidation of elderly hemiplegy patients of Jan Palfijn Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium,’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: O. Thas.

5. Z. Shkidy (1998) ‘Investigation of methods to analyse repeated measurements data,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotor: A. Dane.

6. M. Roelants (1998) ‘Estimation of mean and standard deviation under type I censoring,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: J.

Beirlant.

7. G. Malfait (1998) ‘Analyzing maintenance contracts of Volvo trucks,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: J. Beirlant.

8. S. Degraeve (1998) ‘Medicamenteuze therapieontrouw bij bejaarde hartfalenpatienten,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven.

Promotors: S. De Geest and I. Abraham.

9. K. Denhaerynck (1999) ‘Validiteit van de long-term medication behavior self-efficacy scale,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven.

Promotors: S. De Geest and I. Abraham.

10. P.D.L. Solosa (1999) ‘Survival regression analysis for germination of sugar beet seeds,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: J.

Beirlant.


11. M.D. Nazmul Haque (1999) ‘Caries on first permanent molars in 8-year olds: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis,’ Master in

statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: E. Lesaffre

12. M. Feudjo Tepie (1999) ‘Extending conditional logistic regression for longitudinal binary data,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotor: K. Zwinderman.

13. H. Kagoro (1999) ‘Statistical modelling of longitudinal pain measurements,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: J.C.

van Houwelingen.

14. C. Coens (1999) ‘Een Bayesiaanse exploratie van onwetendheid en onzekerheid,’ Master in mathematics, Universiteit Gent. Promotors:

E. Goetghebeur and M. Kenward.

15. C. Dreezen (1999) ‘The IRIS study,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: Colebunders.

16. J.K. Kinyanjui (2000) ‘The Achilles project: The quality of life analysis,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: T.

Burzykowski.

17. W. Ghidey (2000) ‘Analysis of growth curves of Ethiopian children using the bivariate linear mixed model,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: E. Lesaffre.

18. S. Michiels (2000) ‘The determination of the aptitude of wood to be used in exterior joinery,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor:

J. Beirlant.

19. K. Asnong (2000) ‘Psychometrische aspecten van de Nederlandstalige versie van het Confusion Assessment Method algoritme: Een

instrument voor de detectie van delirium,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: J. Godderisand W. Pelemans.

20. S. Vanderrijst (2000) ‘Een herevaluatie van de interne consistentie, sensitiviteit en specificiteit van de Nederlandstalige versie van de

NEECHAM Confusion Scale,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: W. Pelemans and J. Godderis.

21. E. De Rijck (2001) ‘Risico op institutionalisering bij dementerende bejaarden na ontslagmanagement in een algemeen ziekenhuis: Een

secundaire analyse van het pilootproject Ontslagmanagement in Belgische Ziekenhuizen,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven.


Promotor: K. Milisen .

22. M. Janssens (2001) ‘On the detection of deviant data and fraud: An explorative statistical approach,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven.

Promotor: E. Lesaffre.

23. P. Goyens (2001) ‘Evolution and effect of trans fatty acids during pregnancy,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: A.

Kester, D. Renard, and H. Thijs.

24. K.T.B. Knoops (2001) ‘Psoriasis and fidelity to therapy,’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: F. Tibaldi.

25. G. Rubomboza (2001) ‘Number of symptomatic cases of hepatitis B and average age at infection in St Petersburg: 1994-1999,’ Master

in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: Z. Shkedy and P. Beutels.

26. W. Tjipueja (2002) ‘Use of regression tree analysis to model the number of cases of Hepatitis B in St.Petersburg (1994-1999),’ Master in

applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: Z. Shkedy.

27. L.O. Odondi (2002) ‘Evaluating fever in travellers returning from the topics,’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor

W. Schrooten.

28. N. Sigalla (2002) ‘The quality of empirical Bayes estimators of random coefficients in linear mixed models,’ Master in biostatistics,

Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: M. Candel.

29. G. Dilba (2002) ‘A longitudinal study of plaque scores for proximal and occlusal surfaces using Bayesian approach. The case of Signal

Tandmobiel Study,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: E. Lesaffre.

30. S. Dewilde (2002) ‘Propensity scores: A solution to non-randomization ? A cardiac valve study,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven.

Promotor: E. Lesaffre.

31. F. Van den Bossche (2002) ‘Bicycle accidents in Leuven. A Bayesian analysis,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: E. Lesaffre.

32. F. Serra (2002) ‘Betrouwbaarheid en validiteit van een nieuw meetinstrument voor het meten van teameffectiviteit in het kader van

klinische paden,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: K. De Witte and M. Haspeslagh.


33. K. Hufkens (2003) ‘Objectief waarneembare tekens van naderend overlijden bij palliatieve patienten. Een prospectieve cohort studie bij

Vlaamse patienten,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Evers J. Menten.

34. L. Vandebriel (2003) ‘Evaluatie van het gebruik van regelkaarten voor het opvolgen van de performantie van het chirurgisch

daghospitaal,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotor: W. Sermeus.

35. M. Philippens (2003) ‘The multilevel structural equation model: Theoretical presentation and application,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: G. Loosveldt.

36. S. De Knop (2003) ‘Bayesian hierarchical classes analysis,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: I. Van Mechelen.

37. B. De Ketelaere (2003) ‘A longitudinal study of tomato firmness evolution during postharvest storage,’ Master in biostatistics,

Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: J. De Baerdemaeker.

38. J.M. Ciera (2003) ‘Diet, lifestyle factors in relation to 10-year changes in health status in elderly of 11 European countries: The HALE

study,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: C.P.G.M. de Groot and W.A. van Staveren.

39. E. Van Otterdijk (2003) ‘Analysis of repeated measurements in allergic rhinitis trials,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotor: C. Fortpied.

40. S. Vanbelle (2003) ‘Evaluation of Dermofural in patients with Tinea corporis and Tinea pedis,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotor: A. Seuc.

41. D. Lin (2003) ‘Nerve growth in vitro,’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: L. Bijnens.

42. S. Rusch (2004) ‘The water maze: Evaluation of the effect of treatment,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: L.

Bijnens.

43. S. Litiere (2004) ‘Impact of the misspecification of the random-effects distribution on ML estimation in generalized linear mixed models,’

Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: A. Alonso.

44. F. Liu (2004) ‘On definitions of multivariate asymptotic normality,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Vermeire.


45. Y. Zhuang (2005) ‘A critical review of statistical taxonomies,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: A.M. De Meyer.

46. B. Ostyn (2005) ‘Statistisch modelleren van het kleurverloop bij tomaten met behulp van niet-lineaire gemengde modellen,’ Master in

bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotors: J. Lammertyn and B. Nicolaı.

47. J. Deckers (2005) ‘Acceleratiemetingen bij varkens voor welzijns- en bronstbewaking,’ Master in bio-engineering, KU Leuven. Promotor:

R. Geers.

48. S. Luyckx (2005) ‘Toepassingen van veralgemeende lineaire gemengde modellen in actuariele statistiek,’ Master in mathematics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: J. Beirlant.

49. G. Nzeyimana (2005) ‘Spatial epidemiology: investigation of potential risks of pesticide exposures,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit


50. A. Laenen (2005) ‘Reliability estimation of binary measurement scales using repeated measurements,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit


51. A. Tilahun (2005) ‘Longitudinal data analysis of drug induced changes in the electroencephalogram (EEG) in rats,’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: J. Serroyen.

52. E. Bourmaud (2005) ‘Schizophrenia: A dose-response model as a screen for antipsychotics,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt.

Promotor: R. Straetemans.

53. Y. Zhang and X. Jiang (2005) ‘Genetic algorithm with Bayesian networks for gene network structure learning,’ Master in bioinformatics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: K. Marchal.

54. H. Shang (2006) ‘Estimating the effect of control strategies through epidemiological modelling,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotors: J. Robays and and Z. Shkedy.

55. J. Vercauteren (2006) ‘Statistical techniques in epidemiology of HIV drug resistance,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: M.

Hubert.


56. C. Vanden Abeele (2006) ‘Randomized multicenter study of the cardioprotective effect of volatile anesthetics in coronary artery bypass

surgery patients,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: A. Carbonez.

57. H. Kassa Benecha (2006) ‘Identification of risk factors for the occurrence of Salmonella in broiler chickens in Belgium,’ Master in

biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: J. Cortinas and K. Mintiens.

58. W. Deceulaer (2006) ‘Analyse van protocolgerelateerde predictoren betreffende verstopping van subcutaan veneuze poortkatheters,’

Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: M. Stas and W. Sermeus.

59. H. Schuermans (2007) ‘De predictieve waarde van het Geriatrisch Risicoprofiel Instrument (GRP) bij chirurgische oncologische

patienten,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: K. Milisen and H. Wildiers.

60. M. Verbiest (2007) ‘Risicoscreening bij geriatrische oncologische patienten in behandeling met chemotherapie: De predictieve waarde van

het Geriatrische Risicoprofiel Instrument (GRP),’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: K. Milisen and H. Wildiers.

61. G. Kalema (2007) ‘Estimating the random effects distribution in the linear mixed model using SAS,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotors: K. Bogaerts and A. Tilahun Eshete.

62. N. Khatiwada (2007) ‘A simulation study comparing weighted estimating equations with multiple imputation based estimating equations

for longitudinal binary data,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotors: C. Sotto and C. Beunckens.

63. A. Kvitkovicova (2007) ‘To monotonize or not to monotonize,’ Master in biostatistics, Universiteit Hasselt. Promotor: N. Hens.

64. S. Aynalem (2007) ‘Two-stage analysis of learning curves on laparoscopic study of surgeons,’ Master in applied statistics, Universiteit

Hasselt. Promotors: S. Fieuws and A. Tilahun Eshete.

65. R. Van Oirbeek (2007) ‘Cluster analysis of microarray gene expression data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: I. Van Mechelen.

66. R. Buyl (2008) ‘Statistical decision using non-inferiority and equivalence methods,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: M.

Vandebroek.


67. J. Vannieuwenhuyze (2009) ‘The relationship between health status and retirement: Using multiple imputation to fit a multilevel discrete

survival model to incomplete longitudinal data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Molenberghs and D. Mortelmans.

68. S. Franssens (2009) ‘Hybrid distributions and statistical inference,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Vermeire

69. A. Van Lancker (2009) ‘Interbeoordelaarsbetrouwbaarheid van de Belgische Nederlandstalige versie van het interRAI Acute Care

instrument,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: K. Milisen and P. Moons.

70. A. Debrouwer and S. Pierle (2009) ‘Ontwikkeling, validatie en implementatie van een meetinstrument ter beoordeling van de techniek

van handontsmetting,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotor: A. Schuermans.

71. J.C. Varon Perez (2009) ‘Unsupervised classification of variable stars,’ Master in astronomy and astrophysics, KU Leuven. Promotors: J.

De Ridder and J. Debosscher.

72. P. Aerts (2010) ‘Performantiemeting via data envelopment analysis,’ Master in het Management en het Beleid van de Gezondheidszorg,

KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Pintelon.

73. T. Bircan (2011) ‘A real-life application of multilevel analysis: Diversity, perception and ethnocentrism in Belgian communities,’ Master

in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: A.-M. De Meyer.

74. I. Cuppens (2011) ‘Prototype planning team: Testing new concepts in stores,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: M.

Vandebroek.

75. F. Vangoidsenhoven (2011) ‘Uittesten van nieuwe concepten in winkels. Studie en validatie van “Prototype Planning Team”

methodologie,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: M. Vandebroek.

76. J. Kerkhofs (2011) ‘De relatie tussen alcohol en valproblematiek bij zestigplussers in Belgie,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven.

Promotors: K. Milisen & E. Dejaeger.

77. L. Ide (2011) ‘Factoren die de keuze van dialysemodaliteit beınvloeden bij patienten met eindstadium nierlijden die een gestructureerd

multidisciplinair predialyseprogramma doorlopen in het U.Z.Leuven,’ Master in nursing research, KU Leuven. Promotors: B. Bammens,


K. Claes & F. Dobbels.

78. P. Aerts (2011) ‘Application of data envelopment in the Belgian health care sector,’ Master in health care management and policy,

KU Leuven. Promotor: L. Pintelon.

79. B. Vincenzo (2012) ‘A multivariate meta-analysis of single-case experimental studies,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: W.

Van Den Noortgate.

80. K. Saes (2013) ‘Proactive in prevention and efficient in treatment of missing data in clinical studies: Direct likelihood and multiple

imputation in SAS and R,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

81. E. Martin (2013) ‘The impact of school segregation on Belgian pupil’s achievement: A multilevel analysis of data from PISA - Program

for International Student Assessment,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: K. Jones.

82. C. Cheng (2014) ‘Comparing different logit models to describe heterogeneous choice behaviour,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven.

Promotor: M. Vandebroek.

83. N. Tongwa Fogap (2014) ‘Patient response outcome using item response theory and structural equation modeling,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: B. Meuleman.

84. S. Dandache (2014) ‘Phonological skills in dyslexia: Comparing family risk and gender,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: B.

Meuleman.

85. D.S. Schlepps (2014) ‘The effect of ICT use on mathematics achievement. A multilevel analysis of PISA 2012 data,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven. Promotor: W. Van den Noortgate.

86. R. Urbaityte (2015) ‘Multilevel modelling to determine nurse-perceived adequacy of nurse staffing levels in Belgium hospitals,’ Master in

statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: E. Lesaffre

87. G. Papageorgiou (2015) ‘Do intensive combination treatment strategies overrule classical prognostic factors in early rheumatoid arthritis

patients ?’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: G. Molenberghs


88. M. Luyts (2015) ‘Exploration of extended models for overdispersed, repeated time-to-event data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven.

Promotor: G. Molenberghs

89. S. Cassimon (2016) ‘Statistical optimization of the pricing process at Delhaize,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: M.

Vandebroek

90. K. Huegaerts (2016) ‘Youth unemployment and mental health in Brussels. Is their coping strategy a mental health issue ?’ Master in

statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: B. Meuleman and C. Vanroelen.

91. W. Wong (2017) ‘Categorical outcomes extension of Bayesian hierarchical Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven.

Promotors: E. Lesaffre and F. Tuerlinckx.

92. M. Grevinga (2017) ‘Adapting mixed effects prediction models to new hospitals. A comparison of methods with application on the

diagnosis of ovarian cancer, Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: B. Van Calster and L. Wynants.

93. A.C. Garcia Angulo (2017) ‘A discussion and illustration of the specification of multilevel models for combining single-case data,’ Master

in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: W. Van Den Noortgate.

94. R. Zoffoli (2017) ‘Do paternal exposures affect sperm characteristics in humans?’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: A.

Soubry and G. Molenberghs.

95. J. Ceusters (2018) ‘Assessment of embryo growth in relation to parental life-style using multilevel models,’ Master in statistics,

KU Leuven. Promotors: A. Soubry and C. Spiessens.

96. D. Mingo Ndiwago (2018) ‘Semi-parametric Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: E.

Lesaffre.

97. D. Izquierdo Juncas (2018) ‘Survival analysis in the Intego database,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Molenberghs, P.

Mamouris, and B. Vaes.


98. M. van Meeuwen (2019) ‘STEM first-generation students at KU Leuven,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: G. Langie and M.

Pinxten.

99. E. Mangelschots (2019) ‘The multilevel meta-analysis of dependent effect sizes,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: W. Van den

Noorgate.

100. K. Goorts (2019) ‘Prediction model for the duration of the work disability period. Evaluation of psychosocial determinants through

survival analysis,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotors: R. Braekers and L. Godderis.

101. H.N. Alabanza (2019) ‘The meta-analysis of single-case experimental data,’ Master in statistics, KU Leuven. Promotor: W. Van den

Noorgate.


Advisory board membership

1. Member of the advisory board for TBM (Applied Biomedical Research with a Primary Social finality) project T003117N ‘Computer

assisted dose finding at the point of care. Tacrolimus,’ issued by the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO) Promotor: T. Bouillon.

2017-2020.


9 Fellowships, honours, and awards

1. Excellence-In-Continuing-Education Award for 2002, selected by the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education of the American

Statistical Association, for the short course ‘Longitudinal data analysis,’ taught by Verbeke G. and G. Molenberghs, at the Joint

Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the

Statistical Society of Canada), New-York City, U.S.A., August 13, 2002.


Statistical Association, for the short course ‘Longitudinal and Incomplete Data,’ taught by Verbeke G. and G. Molenberghs, at the Joint

Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the

Statistical Society of Canada), Toronto, Canada, August 8, 2004.

3. Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, ‘For outstanding contributions to methodological and collaborative research on

mixed models, longitudinal data, and incomplete data; for dedication to statistical education and scientific consultancy, and for editorial

and administrative service to profession,’ Minneapolis, U.S.A., August 9, 2005.

4. Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007–. . . )

5. International Biometric Society Award for the best Biometrics paper in 2006 for the paper Pairwise Fitting of Mixed Models for the Joint

Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Profiles, Fieuws S. and Verbeke G., Biometrics (2006), 62, 424-431. The award is presented at

the International Biometric Conference 2008, Dublin, Ireland, on July 15, 2008.


Statistical Association, for the short course ‘Models for discrete repeated measures,’ taught by Verbeke G. and G. Molenberghs, at the

Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and

the Statistical Society of Canada), Denver, U.S.A., August 5, 2008.


7. Promotor (with G. Molenberghs and M. Aerts) of the 2010-2011 Princess Lilian Foundation visiting professorship for Prof. Anastasios A.

Tsiatis (University of North Carolina, U.S.A.).

8. Accredited as professional statistician by the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2010-2016, 2017-2022.


Statistical Association, for the short course ‘Foundations and recent advances in longitudinal and incomplete data,’ taught by Verbeke

G. and G. Molenberghs, at the Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics,

International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), Miami, U.S.A., July 30-31, 2011.

10. Promotor of the Honorary Doctorate of Hasselt University to Prof. Dr. A.A. Tsiatis of North Carolina State University, North Carolina,

U.S.A., November 15, 2013, Hasselt, Belgium.

11. Elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine (2016–. . . ).


10 Grants

1. Grant (150.000 BEF.) for a long stay abroad from National Science Foundation Belgium (N.F.W.O.). Location: Department of

Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

and Gerontology Research Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., September 1, 1991 - January 31, 1992.

2. Post-doctoral research grant PDM/95/86 from the Research Council of KU Leuven, October 1, 1995 - September 30, 1996. Title: The

design of longitudinal studies based on random-effects models. From the linear to the generalized linear situation.

3. Post-doctoral research grant PDM/96/105 from the Research Council of KU Leuven, October 1, 1996 - September 30, 1997. Title: The

impact of drop-out on the efficiency of longitudinal experiments.

4. Co-promotor of Research Grant OT/96/10 (8.8 mio BEF.) from the Research Council of KU Leuven, 1996–2000. Title: Checking the

quality of statistical models: A unified approach with posterior predictive checks. Promotor: I. Van Mechelen. Co-promotor: J. Beirlant.

5. Co-promotor of Senior fellowship for Andrew Gelman (Department of Statistics, University of California, U.S.A.) from the Research

Council of KU Leuven, January 1 – June 30, 1997. Title: Posterior predictive checks. Promotor: I. Van Mechelen. Co-promotor: J.

Beirlant.

6. Co-promotor of Research Grant G.0002.98 F.W.O. (970.000 BEF.) from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.W.O.), Flanders, Belgium.

January 1, 1998 – December 31, 1999. Title: Sensitivity analysis for incomplete and coarsened data. Promotor: G. Molenberghs.

Co-promotors: E. Lesaffre and E. Goetghebeur.

7. Advisor for Research Grant OT/00/35 (10 mio BEF.) from the Research Council of KU Leuven, 2001–2004. Title: A statistical model

for caries development during transition from primary to permanent teeth, based on a longitudinal study with children. Promotor: E.

Lesaffre. Co-promotor: D. Declerck.

8. Promotor of Post-doctoral research grant PDM/01/157 for B. Spiessens, from the Research Council of KU Leuven, January 1, 2002 –


December 31, 2001. Title: Generalized linear mixed models with heterogeneity in the random effects.

9. Advisor for Research Grant OT/02/22 (175000 Euro) from the Research Council of KU Leuven, 2002–2005. Title: Trajectories of

identity development in college students: Determinants, correlates, and consequences. Promotor: Luc Goossens.

10. Partner in Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., 250000 Euro, jointly with E. Lesaffre), Phase V: P5/24, from the Federal Office for

Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Belgium, 2002–2006. Title: Statistical techniques and modeling for complex substantive

questions with complex data. Other partners: L. Simar and I. Gijbels (Universite catholique de Louvain), P. De Boeck and I. Van

Mechelen (KU Leuven), N. Veraverbeke (Universiteit Hasselt), M. Hallin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), H.H. Bock (Aachen Technical

University, Germany), and A. Antoniadis (Universite Joseph Fourier, France).

11. Partner (jointly with E. Lesaffre) in SymBioSys, the KU Leuven Center of Excellence on Computational Systems Biology, EF/05/007

(1.8 mio Euro in total) from the Research Council of KU Leuven, 2006-2010. Other partners: Y. Moreau and B. De Moor (Department

of Electrical Engineering), I. Van Mechelen and P. De Boeck (Department of Psychology, Quantitative Psychology and Individual

Differences), C. Mathieu and M. Verstuyf (Department of Developmental Biology, Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and

Endocrinology), J. Vanderleyden, K. Marchal, and S. De Keersmaecker (Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre for

Microbial and Plant Genetics), F. Schuit (Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Gene Expression Unit), J.

Vermeersch, K. Devriendt, and H. Van Esch (Department of Human Genetics).

12. Partner in SBO project ‘Bioframe: An algorithmic framework for integrative modeling in systems biology,’ of the Institute for the

Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT), 060045/KUL-BIO-M2S-PLANT (2.791 mio Euro in total),

2007-2011. Other partners: I. Van Mechelen (Department of Psychology, Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences,

KU Leuven), K. Marchal (Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, Centre for Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven), B. De

Moor (Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven), A. Verschoren (Antwerp University), Y. Van De Peer (Ghent University).

13. Partner in Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., 400000 Euro, jointly with E. Lesaffre), Phase VI: P6/03, from the Federal Office for

Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Belgium, 2007–2011. Title: Statistical analysis of Association and Dependence in Complex

Data. Other partners: L. Simar and I. Gijbels (Universite catholique de Louvain), I. Van Mechelen (KU Leuven), N. Veraverbeke


(Universiteit Hasselt), L. Duchateau (Universiteit Gent), A. Antoniadis (Universite Joseph Fourier, France), W. Gonzalez-Manteiga

(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), M. Kenward (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and P. Eilers (Utrecht

University, The Netherlands)

14. Co-promotor in project ZEIN2005SEL24 (295065.54 Euro in total) of the Vlaamse Internuniversitaire Raad (VLIR), University

Development Cooperation (UOS), Belgium, 2005-2009. Title: A Cuban-Flemish training and research program in medical statistics and

bioinformatics. Promotor: G. Molenberghs (Universiteit Hasselt). Co-promotors: M. Aerts, P. Janssen, Z. Shkedy, N. Veraverbeke

(Universiteit Hasselt), P. Van der Stuyft (Insitute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium), M. Buyse (International Drug Development

Institute, Brussels, Belgium), Facultad de Matematica y Computacion (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba), Instituto de Medicina Tropical

(La Habana, Cuba), Centro Nacional Coordinador de Ensayos Clinicos (CENCEC, La Habana, Cuba), Centro de Immunologya Molecular

(CIM, La Habana, Cuba), Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiologa y Microbiologya (INHEM, La Habana, Cuba).

15. Promotor of Post-doctoral research grant PDMK/08/179 for R. Tsonaka, from the Research Council of KU Leuven, October 1, 2008 –

September 30, 2009. Title: Marginalized pattern mixture models.

16. Co-promotor of research grant OT/09/041 (300000Euro, jointly with G. Molenberghs), from the Research Council of KU Leuven,

October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2013. Title: Een krachtig modeleringskader voor efficient opzetten en analyse van studies in de

levenswetenschappen.

17. Partner in Interuniversity Attraction Pole (I.A.P., 300000 Euro, jointly with G. Molenberghs and E. Lesaffre), Phase VII: P7/06, from the

Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Belgium, 2012–2017. Title: Developing crucial statistical methods for

understanding major complex dynamic systems in natural, biomedical and social sciences. Other partners: I. Van Keilegom Ingrid

(Universite catholique de Louvain), I. Van Mechelen and I. Gijbels (KU Leuven), C. Faes (Universiteit Hasselt), L. Duchateau

(Universiteit Gent), D. Paindaveine (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), P. Lambert (Universite de Liege), W. Gonzalez-Manteiga

(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), M. Kenward (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), T. Snijders

(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), and J. Antoch (Charles University Prague).

18. Co-promotor of Ph.D. Fellowship F.W.O. grant 11E2913N of Stijn Jaspers (jointly with M.Aerts, U.Hasselt), from the Fund for Scientific


Research (F.W.O.), Flanders, Belgium, October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2014.

19. Co-promotor of Ph.D. Fellowship F.W.O. grant 11E2915N of Stijn Jaspers (jointly with M.Aerts, U.Hasselt), from the Fund for Scientific

Research (F.W.O.), Flanders, Belgium, October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2016.

20. Co-promotor of research grant (GOA/14/001, 1180000 Euro total budget) from the Research Council of KU Leuven, October 2013 –

September 2017. Title: New approaches to the social dynamics of long term fertility change. Promotor: K. Matthys (KU Leuven).

Other co-promotors: J. Van Bavel (KU Leuven), E. Buyst (KU Leuven), G. Molenberghs (KU Leuven).

21. Co-promotor of Ph.D. Fellowship F.W.O. grant 1155719N of Shauni Nuyts (jointly with G.Molenberghs, B.Vaes, and G.Van Pottelbergh,

KU Leuven), from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.W.O.), Flanders, Belgium, October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2020.

22. Co-promotor of Post-doctoral F.W.O. grant 12R6819N of Diederik De Cock (jointly with P.Verschueren and R.Westhovens, KU Leuven),

from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.W.O.), Flanders, Belgium, October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2021.

23. Co-promotor of research grant (G080219N, 328.762,14 Euro total budget), from the Fund for Scientific Research (F.W.O.), Flanders,

Belgium, January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2021. Title: Optimal treatment regimes: Tracing truly optimal regimes, drawing valid

conclusions, and application to ADHD and depression. Promotor: I. Van Mechelen (KU Leuven).

24. Promotor of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship project (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 # 843267, 169899.99 Euro) of Nathalie

Conrad (jointly with G.Molenberghs and J.Verbakel), from the European Commission, September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2021. Title:

Chronic inflammation and cardiovascular risk (INF-CVD).


11 Service to profession, university, and society

Profession

1. Joint editor of the Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Statistics in Society, 2005–2008.

2. Co-Editor of Biometrics, journal of the International Biometric Society (IBS), 2010–2012.

3. Associate editor of Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, 2000 – 2004.

4. Associate editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, 2001 – 2004.

5. Associate editor of Biometrics, 2003 – 2006.

6. Associate editor of Biometrical Journal, 2004

7. Statistical advisor for European Radiology, Journal of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Official Organ of the European

Association of Radiology (EAR), 2000–. . .

8. Referee for papers submitted to American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; Applied Statistics; Biometrics; Biometrics:

Consultants Forum; Biometrical Journal; Biometrics: Shorter Communications; Biometrics: Book reviews; Biometrical Journal;

Psychometrika; Statistics in Medicine; Statistics in Medicine: book reviews; Nairobi Journal of Mathematics; Journal of Orofacial Pain;

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics; Psychological Methods; Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics; Journal of

Statistics Education; Statistica Sinica; Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; European Radiology; Journal of Educational and

Behavioural Statistics; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Encyclopedia of Social Measurement; Biostatistics; Journal of

Computational and Graphical Statistics; Behavior Research Methods; Neuroradiology; European Journal of Internal Medicine.

9. Reviewer of book proposals submitted to Chapman and Hall/CRC; Wiley


10. Elected member of International Statistical Institute (2007–. . . )

11. Member of International Biometric Society (IBS, 2000–. . . ); American Statistical Association (ASA, 1998–. . . ); Drug Information

Association (1999–2004); Royal Statistical Society (RSS, elected fellow, 1998–. . . ); Quetelet Society (IBS: Belgian region, 2000–. . . );

Royal Statistical Society Belgium (KBVS/SRBS, 1996–. . . ); Dutch/Flemisch Classification Society (IFCS: VOC, 2000–. . . ); ENAR (IBS:

Eastern North American region, 2007–. . . ); International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB, 2015–. . . ).

12. Honorary Secretary of ’The Three Country Corner’ local group of ‘The Royal Statistical Society (The United Kingdom),’ September 26,

1997 - September 30, 2001.

13. Vice-president-elect of ‘The Quetelet Society, Belgian region of The International Biometric Society,’ February 9, 2001 - December 31,

2001.

14. President of ‘The Quetelet Society, Belgian region of The International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2003.

15. Member of ‘The Editorial Advisory Committee’ of ‘The International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2005.

16. Speaker in a session ‘Exploring roads to successful publishing: A face to face conversation with the editors,’ on the 23rd International

Biometric Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.

17. Member of ‘The Editorial Advisory Committee’ of ‘The International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2012

18. Elected representative of the Belgian region in the ‘Council of the International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2005.

19. Elected representative of the Belgian region in the ‘Council of the International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2009

20. Chair of ‘The Editorial Advisory Committee’ of ‘The International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2009

21. Member of the ‘Publications Network of Advisors of the Royal Statistical Society,’ January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2008

22. Elected international representative in the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association, January 1, 2008 - December 31,

2010.


23. Member of the Committee on International Relations of the American Statistical Association, January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2010.

24. Chair of the committee established by the International Biometric Society for the development of a Request for Proposals for publishing

the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, jointly published by the International Biometric Society and the

American Statistical Association. Contact person for publishers making submitting a proposal. April-September, 2009.

25. Member of the implementation committee for the ASA accreditation program for accreditation as professional statistician by the

American Statistical Association, October 2009 - May 2010.

26. Interview in Amstat News, The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association, about the professional life as a

(bio-)statistician, September 2009, Issue #387, p.62.

27. Member of the accreditation committee for the ASA program for accreditation as professional statistician by the American Statistical

Association, May 2010 – December 2013.

28. Elected council member of the Royal Statistical Society (United Kingdom), January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2016.

29. Member of the Professional Development Centre Committee of the Royal Statistical Society (United Kingdom), January 1, 2013 - June

30, 2015.

30. Member of the committee established by the American Statistical Association, to select the best video promoting the 2013 International

Year of Statistics, March 2013.

31. Team leader in the accreditation committee and member of the accreditation steering committee for the ASA program for accreditation

as professional statistician by the American Statistical Association, January 2014 – December 2016.

32. Leader of a discussion session ‘How to successfully build an academic career?’ for young researchers, at the meeting of the Belgium

Statistical Society, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 6, 2014.

33. Member of ‘The Budget and Finance Committee’ of ‘The International Biometric Society,’ January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018.

34. President-Elect of the International Biometric Society (IBS), January 2019 – December 2019.


35. President of the International Biometric Society (IBS), January 2020 – December 2021.

36. Outgoing President of the International Biometric Society (IBS), January 2022 – December 2022.


University

1. Member of Steering Committee of the University Center for Statistics, KU Leuven, 1998-. . .

2. Representative of the Faculty of Medicine in the Bureau of the University Center for Statistics, KU Leuven, 2002-. . .

3. Chair of the committee of experts, composed by the Faculty of Sciences, responsible for designing a master program in statistics,

2003-2007.

4. Member of the education committee for the master in statistics of KU Leuven, 2004-. . .

5. Responsible for the coordination of statistical services provided by the division of biostatitics to members of the Faculty of Medicine and

the University Hospital of KU Leuven

6. Negotiator on behalf of KU Leuven for the interuniversity agreement about the organization of master programs in statistics between

KU Leuven and Hasselt University. Agreement signed on January 26, 2006.

7. Negotiator on behalf of KU Leuven for the interuniversity agreement about the foundation of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics

and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat) between KU Leuven and Hasselt University. Agreement signed on September 10, 2008.

8. Head of the Leuven Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Center (L-BioStat) of KU Leuven, April 1, 2008 – . . .

9. Vice-director of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat) of KU Leuven and Hasselt

University, September 10, 2008 – . . .

10. Member of the General Doctoral Committee responsible for approving all provisional doctoral plans within the Group of Biomedical

Sciences of KU Leuven, October 2012 – . . .

11. Member of the KU Leuven steering committee of FLAMES, the Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics, an

inter-university initiative of KU Leuven, Free University of Brussels, Ghent University, Hasselt University and University of Antwerp,

Belgium, January 2013 – . . .


12. Chair ad interim, Department of Public Health and Primary Care of KU Leuven, September 2012 – December 2013

13. Chair, Department of Public Health and Primary Care of KU Leuven, January 2014 – July 2016, August 2016 – July 2020.

14. Member of the advisory committee responsible for the evaluation of candidates for new faculty positions and for faculty promotion

applications within the Group of Biomedical Sciences of KU Leuven (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of

Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences), September 2012 – August 2016.

15. Member of the KU Leuven Animals Ethics Committee authorized to (1) determine whether experiments on animals meet legal

requirements, and (2) gather information and/or advice (both within and outside the University) required to perform its duties, 2014 –

2018, 2019 – 2023.

16. Vice-chair of the Leuven Statistics Research Center (LStat) of KU Leuven, August 2014 – July 2015, August 2017 – July 2018.

17. Chair of the Leuven Statistics Research Center (LStat) of KU Leuven, August 2015 – July 2017.

18. Invited lecture about making screencasts with the Camtasia package at a meeting of teachers in the program pharmaceutical sciences,

Leuven, Belgium, July 2, 2019.


Society

1. Press-conference ‘Vergleich Gesundenuntersuchung Vorarlberg – Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging (U.S.A.),’ Bregenz, Austria,

March 26, 1999.

Board: H.P. Bischof (Bregenz, Austria), L.J. Brant (Baltimore, U.S.A.), H. Concin (Bregenz, Austria), G. Diem (Bregenz, Austria), H.

Ulmer (Innsbruck, Austria), P. German (Baltimore, U.S.A.) and Verbeke G..

2. Principal statistician for the analysis of ‘The European Survey on Anaemia Management (ESAM),’ conducted by Janssen-Cilag,

1998-1999.

3. Invited guest on the Janssen-Cilag European Advisory Board in Chronic Renal Failure, Frankfurt, Germany, March 13-14, 1999.

4. Statistical consultant for IDEWE (occupational health service, Belgium), 2000-. . .

5. Letter to De Huisarts, ‘Geen causale besluiten trekken op basis van observationele data.’ February 21, 2001, p.2.

6. Principal statistician for the analysis of ‘URO-VAXOM: Immunotherapy of urinary tract infections,’ conducted by OM Pharma,

Switzerland, 2001.

7. Paper in the Journal of the Academic Foundation Leuven, ‘Goochelen met statistiek,’ 2004, 8, 22-24.

8. Statistical consultant for the project ‘Behoefte andermans hulp’ of the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance

(R.I.Z.I.V.) and the Ministery of Social Affairs, in collaboration with Dr. J. Willems, Principal Advising Physician of the Socialist Health

Insurance, Belgium, 2002-2005.

9. Statistical consultant for the project ‘Ontwikkeling van een sanitaire risico-index als managementinstrument in de varkenshouderij’ by

order of the federal government of public health, food safety and environment, 2003–2005.

10. Expert-statistician for the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), of the European Medicines Agency (EMA),

2004-. . .


11. Principal statistical consultant for the Diabetes Healthcare project of the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance

(R.I.Z.I.V.), 2005-2010.

12. Master development partner for SAS Institute, for the development of SAS procedure GLIMMIX in SAS version 9.2, 2007-2008.

13. ‘Kun je met statistiek werkelijk alles bewijzen ?’ Class #10 in the series ‘Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw,’ organized by KU Leuven,

February 25, 2008.

14. Chapter in Denken en weten over de wereld. Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw, Raymaekers B. (Ed.), Universitaire Pers Leuven, ISBN

978-90-5867-647-4, ‘Kun je met statistiek werkelijk alles bewijzen ?’ 2008, 215-230.

15. Teacher of portable training course ‘Analysis of longitudinal and incomplete data,’ with G. Molenberghs. Recording produced and

distributed by Supremum Group LLC, Communication and Collaboration, June 2010

(http://sprmm.com/analysis-of-longitudinal-and-incomplete-data/)

16. Coordinator Biostatistics for the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAGG), Belgium, 2010-. . .

17. Observer representing Belgium in the Biostatistics Working Party of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), 2012-. . .

18. Presenter of ‘Paul Darius and the Master of Statistics Program,’ (jointly with M. Vandebroek, KU Leuven) at Leuven Statistics Days,

Leuven, December 4-5, 2014.

19. Presenter of ‘De interne en externe wetenschappelijke dienstverlening,’ about the organisation of statistical support for an academic

medical faculty. Presentation in a session on statistics for the clinician (Pentalfa series, KU Leuven), Leuven, October 15, 2015.

20. Elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine (2016–. . . ).

21. Presenter of ‘Statistische modellen voor longitudinale data,’ at the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, Brussels, January 28, 2017.

22. Invited guest lecture on the use and misuse of statistics in medical publications at the hospital ‘Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg,’ Genk,

Belgium, June 5, 2019.


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