Thierry DUCHESNE

Research Interests and Publications

(Last update: May 2016.)


Current research interests

I am mainly interested in applying statistical inference and model selection methods to problems that involve longitudinal data (biology, health sciences, forest fires, actuarial science), time to event data (engineering, biostatistics, actuarial science) and in loss modeling (actuarial science, warranty models). I am particularly interested in finding ways to implement these methods in the presence of large or complex data. I am a member of the Big Data Research Center of l’Université Laval and of the Statistics Laboratory of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM).

 

Please have a look at my list of publications below. Graduate students’ names are underlined.

List of refereed publications [Link to my Google Scholar page]

(Note: The "full text" versions of the articles listed below are preprint versions. If you would like to obtain a copy of the published version, please ask me by email or consult the hard copy or web page edition of the journal publishing the article.)

2015

  1. Bureau, A., Duchesne, T. (2015). On the validity of within-nuclear-family genetic association analysis in samples of extended families. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 14, 533–549.
  2. Rivest, L.-P., Duchesne, T., Nicosia, A., Fortin, D. (2015). A general angular regression model for the analysis of data on animal movement in ecology. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) , 65, 445-463.
  3. Nicosia, A., Duchesne, T., Rivest, L.-P., Fortin, D. (2015). A general hidden state random walk model for animal movement. arXiv:1507.08653 [stat.ME].
  4. Duchesne, T., Fortin, D., Rivest, L.-P. (2015). Equivalence between Step Selection Functions and Biased Correlated Random Walks for statistical inference on animal movement. PLoS ONE, 10. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122947.
  5. Thamattoor, U.K., Thomas, T., Banandur, P., Rajaram, S., Duchesne, T., Abdous, B., Washington, R., Ramesh, B.M., Moses, S., Alary, M. (2015). Multi-level analysis of the predictors of HIV prevalence among pregnant women enrolled in annual HIV sentinel surveillance in four states in Southern India. PLoS ONE, 10. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131629.

2014

  1. Rajaram, S.P., Banandur, P., Thammattoor, U.K., Thomas, T., Maindar, M.K., Paranjape, R., Adhikary, R., Duchesne, T., Ramesh, B.M., Isac, S., Moses, S., Alary, M. (2014). Two cross-sectional studies in south India assessing the effect of an HIV prevention programme for female sex workers on reducing syphilis among their clients. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 90, 556-562.
  2. Nielsen, J.D., Rosenthal, J.S., Sun, Y., Day, D.M., Bevc, I., Duchesne, T. (2014). “Group-based criminal trajectory analysis using cross-validation criteria”. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 43, 4337-4356.
  3. Alary, M., Banandur, P., Potty, R.S., Thamattoor, U.K., Mainkar, M.K, Paranjape, R., Adhikary, R., Duchesne, T., Isac, S., Moses, S. (2014). Increases HIV prevalence among female sex workers in South India. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 41, 380-387.
  4. Trudel, D., Labbe, D.P., Araya-Farias, M., Doyen, A., Bazinet, L., Duchesne, T., Plante, M., Grégoire, J., Renaud, M.-C., Bachvarov, D., Tetu, B., Bairati, I. (2014). A 2-stage, single-arm, phase 2 study of epigallocatechin gallate-enriched green tea drink as a maintenance therapy in women with advanced stage ovarian cancer. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 69, 207-208.
  5. Duchesne T., Abdous, B., Lowndes, C.M., Alary, M. (2014). “Assessing outcomes of large-scale public health interventions in the absence of baseline data using a mixture of Cox and binomial regressions”. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 14, article 2, DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-14-2.
  6. Trudel, D., Labbe, D.P., Araya-Farias, M., Doyen, A., Bazinet, L., Duchesne, T., Plante, M., Grégoire, J., Renaud, M.-C., Bachvarov, D., Tetu, B., Bairati, I. (2014). A two-stage, single-arm, phase II study of EGCC-enriched green tea drink as a maintenance therapy in women with advanced stage ovarian cancer. Gynecologic Oncology, 131, 357-361.

2013

  1. Simonyan D., Gagnon, M.-P., Duchesne, T., Roos-Weil, A. (2013). Effect of a telehealth programme using mobile data transmission on primary healthcare utilisation among children in Bamako, Mali. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 19, 302-306.
  2. Lakhal-Chaieb, L. Abdous, B., Duchesne, T. (2013). “Nonparametric estimation of the conditional survival function under dependent censoring”. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 41, 439-452.
  3. Banandur, P., Mahajan, U., Potty, R.S., Isac, T., Duchesne, T., Abdous, B., Ramesh, B.M, Moses, S., Alary, M. (2013). “Population impact of Avahan in Karnataka state, south India using multilevel statistical modelling techniques”. Journal of AIDS, 62, 239-245.

2012

  1. Moreau, G.,  Fortin, D., Couturier, S., Duchesne, T. (2012). Multi-level functional responses for wildlife conservation: the case of threatened caribou in managed boreal forests”. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49, 611-620. [EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD]
  2. Day, D.M., Nielsen, J.D., Ward, A.K., Sun, Y., Rosenthal, J.S., Duchesne, T., Bevc, I., Rossman, L. (2012). “Long-term follow-up of criminal activity with adjudicated youth in Ontario: Identifying offence trajectories and predictors/correlates of trajectory group membership”. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 54, 377-413.

2011

  1. Talbot, D., Duchesne, T., Brisson, J., Vandal, N. (2011). “Variance estimation and confidence intervals for the standardized mortality ratio with application to the assessment of a cancer screening program”. Statistics in Medicine, 30, 3024-3037.
  2. Duchesne, T., Rivest, L.-P. (2011). “Probabilités, statistique et populations de poissons”. Accromath, 6, 14-19.
  3. Craiu, R. V., Duchesne, T., Fortin, D., Baillargeon, S. (2011). “Conditional logistic regression with longitudinal follow up and individual-level random coefficients: A stable and efficient two-step estimation method”. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20, 767-784.
  4. Hossein-Dehghan, M., Duchesne, T. (2011). On the performance of some non-parametric estimators of the conditional survival function with interval-censored data”. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 55, 33553364.
  5. Mahajan, U., Banandur, P., Rajaram, S., Duchesne, T., Abdous, B., Ramesh, B.M., Moses, S., Alary, M. (2011). “Determinants of time trends in HIV prevalence in the young antenatal population of Karnataka districts”. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87 (Suppl 1), A51-A51.
  6. Thamattoor, U., Thomas, T., Banandur, P., S, R., Duchesne, T., Abdous, B., Washington, R., Ramesh, B.M., Moses, S., Alary, M. (2011). “Multi-level analysis of the predictors of HIV prevalence among pregnant women enrolled in sentinel surveillance in four southern India states”. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87 (Suppl 1), A182-A182.
  7. Day, D., Nielsen, J.D., Ward, A.K., Sun, Y., Rosenthal, J.S., Duchesne, T., Bevc, I., Rossman, L. (2011). “A long-term follow-up of criminal activity with adjudicated youth in Ontario”, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 37, 1278-1300.
  8. Hossein-Dehghan, M., Duchesne, T. (2011). “A simple modification to Turnbull’s estimator for nonparametric estimation of the conditional survival function with interval-censored data”. Lifetime Data Analysis, 17, 234-255.

2010

  1. Ward, A. K., Day, D. M., Bevc, I., Sun, Y., Rosenthal, J. S., Duchesne, T. (2010). “Criminal Trajectories and Risk Factors in a Canadian Sample of Offenders”. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37, 1278—1300.
  2. Bousquet, N., Cadigan, N., Duchesne, T., Rivest, L.-P. (2010). “Detecting and correcting underreported catches in fish stock assessment”. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67, 1247—1261.
  3. Meyer, F., Samson, É., Douville, P., Duchesne, T., Liu, G., Bairati, I. (2010). “Serum prognostic markers in head and neck cancer”. Clinical Cancer Research, 16, 1008—1015.
  4. Duchesne, T., Fortin, D., Courbin, N. (2010). “Mixed-effects in conditional logistic regression for habitat selection studies”. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 548–555.

2009

  1. Fortin, D., Fortin, M.-E., Beyer, H.L., Duchesne, T., Courant, S., Dancose, K. (2009). “Group-size-mediated habitat selection and group fusion-fission dynamics of bison under predation risk”. Ecology, 90, 2480—2490.

 

  1. Moisan, J., Fredette, M.-J., Duchesne, T., Sirois, C., Grégoire, J.-P. (2009). Andherence to antiglaucoma drug treatment in newly treated patients. Value in Health, 12, A457-A458.
  2. Duchesne, T., Marri, F. (2009). “General distributional properties of discounted warranty costs under minimal repair and risk adjusted warranty costs”. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 58, 143—151. (Texte complet pdf.).

2008

  1. Lemieux, J., Goodwin, P.J., Pritchard, K.I., Gelmon, K., Bordeleau, L., Duchesne, T., Camden, S., Speers, C.H. (2008). “Identification of cancer care and protocol characteristics associated with recruitment in breast cancer clinical trials”. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 26, 4458—4465.
  2. Bousquet, N., Duchesne, T., Rivest, L.-P. (2008). “Redefining the maximum sustainable yield for the Schaefer population model including multiplicative environmental noise”. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254, 65—75. (Full text, pdf)
  3. Craiu, R.V., Duchesne, T., Fortin, D. (2008). “Inference methods for the conditional logistic regression model with longitudinal data”. Biometrical Journal. 50, 97—109. (Texte complet pdf+ CORRECTION (pdf).

2007

  1. Beaudoin, D., Duchesne, T., Genest, C. (2007). "Improving the estimation of Kendall’s tau when censoring affects only one of the variables". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51, 57435764.
  2. Bérubé, S., Provencher, L., Robert, J., Jacob, S., Hébert-Croteau, N., Lemieux, J., Duchesne, T., Brisson, J. (2007). “Quantitative exploration of possible reasons for the recent improvement in breast cancer survival”. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 106, 419—431. (Web version, DOI 10.1007/s10549-007-9503-1)
  3. Day, D.M., Bevc, I., Duchesne, T., Rosenthal, J.S., Rossman, L., Theodor, F. (2007). “Comparison of adult offense prediction methods based on juvenile offense trajectories using cross-validation”. Advances and Applications in Statistics, 7, 1—46. (Full text, pdf.)

2006

  1. Daigle, G., Duchesne, T., Reny-Nolin, E., Rivest, L.-P.(2006). "Étude de l'influence de la topographie et des caractéristiques des vergers sur l'efficacité des programmes d'épandage d'insectes stériles pour le carpocapse de la pomme", The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 34, 493—530. (Full text pdf.)

2005

  1. Fortin, D., Beyer, H.L., Boyce, M.S., Smith, D.W., Duchesne, T., Mao, J.S. (2005). "Wolves influence elk movement: Behavior shapes a trophic cascade in Yellowstone National Park. Ecology, 86, 1320—1330. (Full text pdf.)
  2. Duchesne, T. (2005). "Regression models for reliability given the usage accumulation history". Modern Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Reliability. A. Wilson, N. Limnios, S. Keller-McNulty, Y. Armijo (Eds), Singapore, World Scientific, 29—40.
  3. Braun, W.J., Duchesne, T., Stafford, J.E. (2005) "Local likelihood estimation for interval censored data". The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 33, 39-60. (Full text pdf.)

2004

  1. Craiu, R.V., Duchesne, T. (2004) "Using EM and Data Augmentation for the competing risk model". Missing Data and Bayesian Methods in Practice. A. Gelman and X.L. Meng (Eds), New York, Wiley. (Full text pdf).
  2. Craiu, R.V., Duchesne, T. (2004) "Inference based on the EM algorithm for the competing risk model with masked causes of failure", Biometrika, 91, 543—558. (Full text pdf)

2003

  1. Cossette, H., Duchesne, T., Marceau, E. (2003) "Modelling Catastrophes and their Impact on Insurance Portfolios". North American Actuarial Journal, 7, 1—22. (Full text, pdf.)
  2. Duchesne, T. and Rosenthal, J.S. (2003) "On the collapsibility of lifetime regression models". Advances in Applied Probability, 35, 755—772. (Full text, pdf.)

2002

  1. Duchesne, T. and Lawless, J. (2002) "Semiparametric inference methods for general time scale models". Lifetime Data Analysis, 8, 263—276. (Full text, pdf.)

2000

  1. Duchesne, T. (2000), "Semiparametric methods of time scale selection", Recent Advances in Reliability Theory: Methodology, Practice and Inference, N. Limnios and M. Nikulin (Eds), Birkhauser, Boston, 279-289. (abstract. Full text pdf.)
  2. Duchesne, T. and Lawless, J. (2000), "Alternative time scales and failure time models", Lifetime Data Analysis, 6, 157—179. (abstract. Full text pdf.)

1997

  1. Duchesne, T., Rioux, J. and Luong, A. (1997), "Minimum Cramér-von Mises Distance Methods for Complete and Grouped Data", Communications in Statistics; Theory and Methods 26, No. 2, 401-420. (abstract)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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