The Keno Project

Undergraduate Statistics Research (USTAR)

Spring 2023 Members:

Grant Himmelmann, Bradley Danley, Derek Becker, Vince Lewis, Joseph Rollinson, Josiah Couch, Jack Scanlan, James Winkeler

Fall 2023 Members:

Josiah Couch, Max Vandeginste, Jake Parmentier, Anton Yang, Bradley Danley, Joseph Rollinson, Eduardo Herrera, Ben Boyack, Ethan Oelze, Colton Roach

Joseph Rollinson, Matthew McIntosh, Alex Ferguson, Josiah Couch, and Bradley Danley. "How we helped change the state lottery playslip." Significance 21, no. 5 (2024): 19-21.

Spring 2024 Members:

Anton Yang, Bradley Danley, Joseph Rollinson, Eduardo Herrera, Ben Boyack, Ethan Oelze, Dillon Sherrill, Joe Schwepker

Summer 2024 Members:

Alex Ferguson, Anton Yang, Joe Schwepker

Fall 2024 Members:

Anton Yang, Eduardo Herrera, Joe Schwepker, John O'Donnell, Ching Yi Ng, Owen Ramelb, Joseph Rollinson, Pablo Lasarte

The project was interviewed on national statistics podcast, Stats and Stories, Oct 17, 2024.

Spring 2025 Members:

Anton Yang, Eduardo Herrera, Joe Schwepker, John O'Donnell, Ching Yi Ng, Owen Ramelb, Joseph Rollinson, Pablo Lasarte

Fall 2025 Members:

TBA

Student Mentoring

• 2023 Daniel Ratajczak - An Application of Elastic-Net Cox Models for Biomarker Selection

• 2024 Grant Himmelmann – Evaluating Predictors of Improbable Pain Intensity Ratings made by United Kingdom Pain Clinic Patients

• 2024 Alexander Cribb – Analysis of ARTFIMA Models in Greater White Fronted Goose Telemetry Data

• 2025 Megan Hirni - Integration of Machine Learning and Propensity Score Analysis in Observational Research: A Methodological Overview

Other Publications

• Arthritis Care and Research (1997).  “Biofeedback/Relaxation Training and Exercise Interventions for Fibromyalgia: A Prospective Trial”. Susan P Buckelew, Robert Conway, Jerry Parker, William E Deuser, Joan Read, Thomas E Witty, John E Hewett, Marian Minor, Jane C Johnson, Lynn Van Male, Matthew J McIntosh, Margaret Nigh, and Donald R Kay.

• Arthritis Care and Research (1997).  “Protocol for Verifying Expertise in Locating Fibromyalgia Tender Points”. Matthew J McIntosh, John E Hewett, Susan P Buckelew, Robert R Conway, and Lynn A Rossy.

• Transplantation (1999).  “Prednisone Withdrawal in Kidney Transplant Recipients on Cyclosporine and Mycophenolate Mofetil – A Prospective Randomized Study”.  Nasimul Ahsan, Donald Hricik, Arthur Matas, Stephen Tomlanovich, Alan Wilkinson, Marian Ewell, Matthew McIntosh, Donald Stablein, Ernest Hodge.

• Annals of Behavioral Medicine (1999).  “A Meta-analysis of Fibromyalgia Treatment Interventions”.  Lynn A Rossy, Susan P Buckelew, Nancy Dorr, Kristofer J Hagglund, Julian F Thayer, Matthew J McIntosh, John E Hewett, and Jane C Johnson.

• The New England Journal of Medicine (2000).  “Improved Graft Survival After Renal Transplantation in the United States, 1998 to 1996”. Sundaram Hariharan, Christopher P Johnson, Barbara A Bresnahan, Sarah E Taranto, Matthew J McIntosh, and Donald Stablein.

• American Journal of Kidney Diseases (2001).  “Relationship Between Underlying Renal Disease and Renal Transplantation Outcome”. Anthony J Bleyer, Lynn A Donaldson, Matthew McIntosh, and Patricia L Adams.

• American Journal of Transplantation (2002).  “A Comparison Between Recipients Receiving Matched Kidney and Those Receiving Mismatched Kidney from the Same Cadaver Donor”. Barbara A Bresnahan, Christopher P Johnson, Matthew J McIntosh, Donald Stablein, and Sundaram Hariharan.

• Transplantation (2003). “Pretransplant Recipient Cytomegalovirus Seropositivity and Hemodialysis are Associated with Decreased Renal Allograft and Patient Survival”.  Jason T Fitzgerald, Brian Gallay, Sarah E Taranto, John P McVicar, Christoph Troppmann, Xiaowu Chen, Matthew J McIntosh, and Richard V Perez.

• Pediatric Transplantation (2004).  “A randomized multicenter trial of OKT3 mAbs induction compared with intravenous cyclosporine in pediatric renal transplantation”. Mark R Benfield, Amir Tejani, William E Harmon, Ruth McDonald, Donald M Stablein, Matthew McIntosh, and Stephen Rose.

• Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2004).  “Evaluation of Intravenous Immunoglobulin as an Agent to Lower Allosensitization and Improve Transplantation in Highly Sensitized Adult Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease:  Report of the NIH IG02 Trial”.  Stanley C Jordan, Dolly Tyan, Don Stablein, Matthew McIntosh, Steve Rose, Ashley Vo, Mieko Toyoda, Connie Davis, Ron Shapiro, Deborah Adey, Dawn Milliner, Ralph Graff, Robert Steiner, Gaetano Ciancio, Shobah Sahney, and Jimmy Light.

• Transplantation (2005).  “The Influence of Immunomodulatory Diets on Transplant Success and Complications”. J Wesley Alexander, Timothy J Metze, Matthew J McIntosh, Hope R Goodman, M Roy First, Rino Munda, Michael A Cardi, Joe N Austin, Sharad Goel, Shahzad Safdar, Norman Greenberg, Xiaowu Chen, and E Steve Woodle.

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2006).  “The effects of intravaginal clindamycin and metronidazole therapy on vaginal mobiluncus morphotypes in patients with bacterial vaginosis”.  Paul Nyirjesy, Matthew J McIntosh, Jana I Steinmetz, Robert J Schumacher, and James L Joffrion.

• American Journal of Obstettics and Gynecology (2006).  “The effects of intravaginal clindamycin and metronidazole therapy on vaginal lactobacilli in patients with bacterial vaginosis”.  Paul Nyirjesy, Matthew McIntosh, David J Gattermeir, Robert J Schumacher, Jana I Steinmetz, and James L Joffrion.

• American Society of Nephrology (2006). “Safety and Efficacy of a Calcineurin Inhibitor Avoidance Regimen in Pediatric Renal Transplantation”.  William Harmon, Kevin Meyers, Julie Ingelfinger, Ruth McDonald, Matthew McIntosh, Martin Ho, Leslie Spaneas, Jo Ann Palmer, Marena Hawk, Chris Geehan, Kathryn Tinckam, Wayne W Hancock, and Mohamed H Sayegh.

• The Journal of Rheumatology (2016). “Five-Year Efficacy and Safety of Tocilizumab Monotherapy in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Were Methotrexate and Biologic Naive or Methotrexate Free for 6 Months Before Study Start (AMBITION). Graeme Jones, Thomas Wallace, Matthew McIntosh, Laura Brockwell, Juan Gomez-Reino, and Anthony Sebba.

• Clinical Highlights (2017). The Journal of Rheumatology.  Graeme Jones, Thomas Wallace, Matthew McIntosh, Laura Brockwell, Juan Gomez-Reino, and Anthony Sebba.

• Rheumatology International. “Individual therapeutic DAS28-dcrit response differentiate between effectiveness of rheumatoic arthritis therapies and reflect patient-reported outcomes: retrospective analysis of DAS28 responses in comparative tocilizumab studies”. Michaela Koehm, Matthew McIntosh, Michael Hofmann, Varghese Abraham, Cem Gabay, Ernest Choy, Arthur Kavanaugh, Harald Burkhardt, Frank Behrens.