Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Board member and previous Vice-President
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
E-Mail: bobwolfe@umich.edu
I am interested in the study of disease processes that unfold through time and in the development of statistical methods that can help us understand those processes on the basis of observed data. Such methods must be sensitive to the tension and balance between the two objectives of simple description vs. modeling of these complex processes.
Schaubel DE, Wolfe RA, Port FK (2006): A sequential stratification method for estimating the effect of a time-dependent experimental treatment in observational studies. Biometrics.
Feng SB, Wolfe RA, and Port FK (2005): Frailty survival model analysis of the national deceased donor kidney transplant data using Poisson variance structure. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2005; 100(3) 728-735.
Lei L, Wolfe RA, Huang Xuelin (2004): Shared Frailty Models for Recurrent Events and a Terminal Event. Biometrics:747-56.
Roberts JP, Wolfe RA, Bragg-Gresham JL, Rush SH, Wynn JJ, Distant DA, Ashby VB, Held PJ, Port FK (2004): The effect of changing the priority for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching on kidney transplantation rates and outcomes in minority groups. N Engl J Med 350(6):545-551
Van Harrison R, Janz NK, Wolfe RA, Tedeschi PJ, Chernew M, Stross JK, Huang X, McMahon LF Jr. (2003): Personalized targeted mailing increases mammography among long-term noncompliant medicare beneficiaries: a randomized trial. Medical Care 41(3):375-85
Huang X and Wolfe RA (2002): A Frailty Model for Informative Censoring. Biometrics 58: No. 3, pp. 510–520
Wolfe RA, Ashby VB, Daugirdas JT, Agodoa LYC, Jones CA, Port FK (2000): Body size, dose of hemodialysis and mortality: Results from USRDS Special Study. American Journal of Kidney Disease, 35: 80-88.
Wolfe RA, Ashby VB, Milford EL, Ojo AO, Ettenger RE, Agodoa LYC, Held PJ, Port FK. (1999) Patient survival for waitlisted dialysis versus cadaveric renal transplant patients in theUnited States. New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 341: 1725-1730.
McMahon LF, Wolfe RA, Huang S, Tedeschi P, Manning W, Edlund MJ (1999) Racial and gender variation in use of diagnostic colonic procedures in the Michigan medicare population. Medical Care 37: 712-717.
Wong JS, Port FK, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Carroll CE, Wolfe RA, Agodoa LYC, Daugirdas JT. (1999) Survival advantages in Asian American end-stage renal disease patients. Kidney Int; 55: 2515-2523
Maisonneuve P, Agodoa, L, Gellert R, Stewart JH, Buccianti G, Lowenfels AB, Wolfe RA, Jones E, Disney APS, Briggs D, McCredie M, Boyle P (1999) Cancer in patients on dialysis for end-stage renal disease: an international collaborative study. The Lancet 354: 93-99.
Lee, S, Wolfe, RA. (1998) "A Simple test for independent censoring under the proportional hazards model." Biometrics 54:1176-82.
Wolfe RA, Wolfe JC, and Entsuah AR. (1997) Comparing Speeds of Effectiveness of Two Treatments. Psychopharmacology Bulletin 32: 369-75.
Leggat Jr. JE, Ojo AO, Leichtman AB, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Turenne MN, Held PJ. (1997) Long-term renal allograft survival: prognostic implication of the timing of acute rejection episodes. Transplantation 63, 1-9.
Ojo A, Port F, Schmouder RL, Wolfe RA, Held PJ. (1997) Delayed graft function in cadaveric renal transplantation: risk factors and implications for renal allograft survival. Transplantation 63 968-974.
Wolfe RA, Strawderman RL (1996) Logical and statistical fallacies in the use of the Cox regression model. American Journal of Kidney Disease 27: 124-129.
Held PJ, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Stannard DC, Daugirdas JT, Bloembergen WE, Greer JW, Hakim RM. (1996) "The Dose of Hemodialysis and Patient Mortality", (1996) Kidney International 50: 550-556.
Hakim RM, Held PJ, Stannard DC, Wolfe RA, Port FK, Daugirdas JT, Agodoa LA. (1996) "The Effect of the Dialysis Membrane on Mortality of Chronic Hemodialysis Patients", (1996) Kidney International 50:566-570.
Bloembergen WE, Stannard DC, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Pugh JA, Jones CA, Greer JW, Golper TA, Held PJ: (1996) "The Relationship of Dose of Hemodialysis and Cause-Specific Mortality", (1996) Kidney International 50:557-565.
Port FK, Wolfe RA, Bloembergen WE, Held PJ, Young EW (1996). "The study of outcomes for CAPD versus hemodialysis patients." Peritoneal Dialysis International 16: 628-633.
Mauger, E.A. and Wolfe, R.A. (1995) Transient effects in the Cox proportional hazards regression model. Statistics in Medicine 14: 1553-1565.
Wolfe, R.A. (1995) The United States renal data System: a source of national norms for end-stage renal disease patient outcome and process of care. Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy 2: 95-101.
Held, P.J., Kahan, B.D., Hunsicker, L.G., Liska, D., Port, F.K., Wolfe, R.A., Gaylin, D.S., Garcia, J.R., Agadoa, L.Y.C., Krakauer, H. (1994) The impact of HLA mismatches on the survival of first cadaveric kidney transplants. New England Journal of Medicine 331: 765-70.
Lee S., Wolfe R.A., (1995) A class of linear nonparametric rank tests for dependent censoring. Communications in Statistics 24,3, 687-713.
Wolfe, R.A. (1994) The standardized mortality ratio revisited: improvements, innovations, and limitations. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 24: 290-7.
Moulton, L.H., Foxman, B., Wolfe, R.A., Port, F.K. (1994) Potential pitfalls in interpreting maps of stabilized rates. Epidemiology 5: 297-301.
Petroni, G.R. and Wolfe, R.A., (1994) A two-sample test for stochastic ordering with interval censored data. Biometrics 50: 77-87.
Young, E.W., Mauger, E.A., Jiang, K.H., Port, F.K., Wolfe, R.A. (1994) Socioeconomic status and end stage renal disease in the United States. American Journal of Kidney Disease 45: 907-11.
Port, F.K., Wolfe, R.A., Mauger, E.A., Berling, D.P., Jiang, K. (1993) Comparison of survival probabilities for dialysis patients versus cadaveric renal transplant recipients. Journal of the American Medical Association 270: 1339-43.
McMahon Jr., L.F., Wolfe, R.A., Griffith, J.R. and Cuthbertson, D., (1993) Socioeconomic influence on small area hospital utilization. Medical Care 31: YS29-36.
Moulton, L.H., Port, F.K., Wolfe, R.A., Foxman, B. and Guire K.E., (1992) Patterns of low incidence of treated end-stage renal disease among the elderly. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 20: 55-62.
Wolfe, R.A., Gaylin, D.S., Port, F.K., Held, P.J. and Wood, C.L., (1992) Using USRDS generated mortality tables to compare local ESRD mortality rates to national rates. Kidney International 42: 991-996.
Wolfe, R.A., Petroni, G.R., McLaughlin, C.G. and McMahon, L.F., Jr. (1991), Empirical evaluation of statistical models for rates or counts. Statistics in Medicine 10: 1405-1416.
Wolfe, R.A. (1991), Survival analysis methods for the end stage renal disease program of medicare. In Kidney Failure and the Federal Government, ed. R.A.Rettig and N.G.Levinsky. Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee for the Study of the Medicare ESRD Program, p. 353-400. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C..
Wolfe, R.A., Port, F.K., Hawthorne, V.M. and Guire, K.E. (1990), A comparison of survival among dialytic therapies of choice: In-center hemodialysis versus continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis at home. American Journal of Kidney Disease 15: 433-440.
Wolfe, R.A., Griffith, J.R., McMahon, L.F., Jr., Tedeschi, P.J., Petroni, G.R. and McLaughlin, C.G. (1989), "Patterns of surgical and non-surgical hospital use in Michigan communities from 1980 to 1984. Health Services Research 24: 67-82.
Finklestein, D.M. and Wolfe, R.A. (1985), A semiparametric model for regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data. Biometrics 41: 933-946.
Wolfe, R.A., Roi, L.D., Flora, J.D., Feller, I., and Cornell, R.G. (1983), Mortality differences and speed of wound closure among specialized burn care facilities. Journal of the American Medical Association 250: 763-766.
Wolfe, R.A., Roi, L.D. and Margosches, E. (1981), Monotonic dichotomous regression: A burn care example. Biometrics 37: 157-167.