Matthew J. Gurka, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Biostatistics & Epidemiology
Ph.D., 2004, University of North Carolina, Biostatistics

P.O. Box 800717
Tel: 1-434-924-8249
Fax: 1-434-924-8437
Email: mgurka@virginia.edu
OMS Room 3881

Research Interests:

Longitudinal data analysis; linear mixed models; model selection techniques; diagnostic techniques for linear models; transformations; interim data and power analysis; general pediatric research; rehabilitation research; diabetes and obesity control

Teaching Responsibilities:

PHS 700 (Introduction to Biostatistics) PHS 717 (Introduction to SAS)

Other Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Recent Publications

Gurka, M.J., Coffey, C.S., Muller, K.E. Internal pilots for a class of linear mixed models with Gaussian and compound symmetric data. Statistics in Medicine (in press)

Blackman, J.A., Gurka, M.J. (2007). Developmental and behavioral co-morbidities of asthma in children. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 28: 92-99.

Gurka, M.J., Edwards, L.J., Nylander-French, L. (2007). Testing transformations for the linear mixed model. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51: 4297-4307.

Kaufman, D., Gurka, M.J., Hazen, K.C., Boyle, R., Robinson M., Grossman, L.B. (2006). Patterns of fungal colonization in preterm infants less than 1000 grams birth weight. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 25: 733-737.

Gurka, M.J., Wolf A.M., Conaway M.R., Crowther J.Q., Nadler J.L., Bovbjerg V.E. (2006). Lifestyle intervention in obese patients with Type 2 Diabetes: The impact of the patient’s educational background. Obesity 14: 1085-1092.

Blanchard, L., Gurka, M.J., Blackman, J.A. (2006). Emotional, developmental, and behavioral health of American children and their families: A report from the 2003 National Survey Of Children's Health. Pediatrics 117: e1202-e1212.

Gurka, M.J., Edwards, L.J., Muller, K.E., Kupper, L.L. (2006). Extending the Box-Cox transformation to the linear mixed model. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169: 273-288.

Gurka, M.J. (2006). Selecting the best linear mixed model under REML. The American Statistician 60: 19-26.

Attridge, J.T., Herman, A.C., Gurka, M.J., Griffin, M.P., McGahren, E.D., Gordon, P.V.(2006). Discharge outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants with spontaneous intestinal perforations. Journal of Perinatology 26: 49-54.

Doctor, A., Platt, R., Sheram, ML., Eischeid, A., McMahon, T., Maxey, T., Doherty, J., Axelrod, A., Kline, J., Gurka, M., Gow, A., Gaston, B. (2005). Hemoglobin conformation couples S-nitrosothiol content in erythrocytes to O2 gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 5709-5714.

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