As an applied statistician I have worked with scientists in a variety of fields from behavioral neuroscience, biomechanics, functional genomics, and most recently quantitative epidemiology. My research is driven by application specific challenges in statistical modeling.
I am a member of the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium. My work has contributed to the development of a novel state-space model for estimating measles disease burden at the country level. The primary aim of this work is to improve our understanding of the impact of public health measures.
Selected Presentations
- Using State Space Models to Track Measles Infections. K. Eilertson*, J. Fricks, and M. Ferrari. Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (2017) and International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (2017).
- Communicating Applied Statistics through Online Courses and Consulting. N. Altman, K. Eilertson*, and J. Rosenberger*. Conference on Statistics in Practice (2015).
- Deep Sequencing to the Rescue: Sorting Out Sequentially Expressed Dual Infection from Superinfection Gordon Bentley, T Liegler, J McConnell, A Holloway, K Eilertson*, F Hecht, and R Grant. Conference on Retroviral and Opportunistic Infections (2011
Selected Publications
- Ong, A. W., Eilertson, K. E., Reilly, E. F., Geng, T. A., Madbak, F., McNicholas, A., & Fernandez, F. B. (2016). Nonoperative management of splenic injuries: significance of age. Journal of Surgical Research, 201(1), 134-140.
- Cattadori, I. M., Sebastian, A., Hao, H., Katani, R., Albert, I., Eilertson, K. E., … & Mitchell, S. (2016). Impact of helminth infections and nutritional constraints on the small intestine microbiota. PloS one, 11(7), e0159770.
- Wamstad, J., Alexander, J., Truty, R., Shrikumar, A., Li, F., Eilertson, K., Ding, H., Wylie, J., Pico, A., Capra, J., Erwin, G., Kattman, S., Keller, G., Srivastava, D., Levine, S., Pollard, K., Holloway, A., Boyer, L., and Bruneau, B. (2012). Dynamic and coordinated epigenetic regulation of developmental transitions in the cardiac lineage. Cell, (151) 1-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.07.035
- Eilertson, K. E., Booth, J. G., & Bustamante, C. D. (2012). SnIPRE: selection inference using a poisson random effects model. PLoS computational biology,8(12), e1002806. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002806 PMCID: PMC3516574
- Booth, J. G., Eilertson, K. E., Olinares, P. D. B., & Yu, H. (2011). A bayesian mixture model for comparative spectral count data in shotgun proteomics.Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 10(8). doi: 10.1074/mcp.M110.007203 PMCID: PMC3149093