Prof Elena Kulinskaya
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor in Statistics (AVIVA) |
E dot Kulinskaya at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2692 |
Sciences 2.03 |
Career
Elena Kulinskaya is Professor in Statistics (Aviva Chair in Statistics) at University of East Anglia. She completed her PhD in 1987 at Vilnius University, Lithuania, after which she worked at a number of Russian academic institutions. In 1992 she moved to Australia, where she was employed as Senior Lecturer at LaTrobe University (Melbourne). In 1998 she moved to UK, where she worked as a Reader in Statistics at the University of Hertfordshire, and as of 2004, as Director of Statistical Advisory Service at Imperial College London. She took up her position at University of East Anglia in 2010.
Academic Background
Elena Kulinskaya received a BSc and MSc in mathematics from Moscow State Lomonosov University, and a PhD in statistics from Vilnius State University in 1987.
Key Research Interests
- Foundations of statistics
- Statistical methods for discrete and skewed data
- Asymptotic methods
- Applied statistics, with applications in ecology, medicine and actuarial sciences
- Meta-analysis and research synthesis
Specialties
Meta-analysis, advanced methods of data analysis, foundations of statistics, robust methods, statistical consulting, actuarial and medical statistics; patient classification systems, design of statistical software.
Additional Information
- Machine Learning and Statistics Laboratory
- East Anglian Research Synthesis (EARS)
- List all publications by Prof. Kulinskaya (Eprints)
- E. Kulinskaya google scholar
PhD students and their projects
Title: Multivariate methods of meta-analysis
Start date: October 2012
Student: Ilyas Bakbergenuly
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elena Kulinskaya Prof. Harvey Goldstein
Title: Development and testing of the underwriting rules fo chronic medical conditions
Start date: October 2012
Student: Lisanne Gitsels
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elena Kulinskaya (CMP), Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia (CMP), Mr Nigel Wright (Aviva)
Title: Understanding longevity risks from hip and knee replacement
Start date: October 2012
Student: Hussein Wahedally
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alex MacGregor, Prof. Elena Kulinskaya (CMP)
Title: Modelling mortality in the presence of chronic medical conditions
Start date: September 2011
Student: Skevi Pericleous
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elena Kulinskaya (CMP)
Title: Detection of temporal trends in meta-analysis
Start date: January 2012
Student: Samson Dogo
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elena Kulinskaya (CMP), Dr. John Wood (PHA), Dr. Julia Koricheva (RHUL)
Title: Can impaired life annuities form the basis of combined pensions and long-term care insurance products and hence a way for individuals to cover the risk of needing long term care in later life
Start date: April 2012
Student: Mohamed Elsheemy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elena Kulinskaya (CMP), Prof. Ruth Hancock (NMS)
Article
Kulinskaya, E, Dollinger, M and Bjorkestol, K (2012) On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis; with application to the metal-analysis of risk difference. Research Synthesis Methods. (In Press)
Dittrich, WH, Johansen, T and Kulinskaya, E (2011) Norms and situational rules of address in English and Norwegian speakers. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (15). pp. 3807-3821. ISSN 03782166
Kulinskaya, E, Dollinger, MB and Bjorkestol, K (2011) Testing for Homogeneity in Meta-Analysis I. The One Parameter Case: Standardized Mean Difference. Biometrics, 67. pp. 203-212.
Matsui, H., Germanakis, I., Kulinskaya, Elena and Gardiner, H. M. (2011) Temporal and Spatial Performance of Vector Velocity Imaging in the Human Fetal Heart. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 37 (2). pp. 150-157. ISSN 0960-7692
Damodaram, M.S., Story, L., Kulinskaya, Elena, Rutherford, M. and Kumar, S (2011) Early adverse perinatal complications in preterm growth restricted fetuses. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 51. pp. 204-209.
Livesey, JA, Manning, RA, Meek, JH, Jackson, JE, Kulinskaya, E, Laffan, MA and Shovlin, CL (2011) Low serum iron levels are associated with elevated plasma levels of coagulation factor VIII and pulmonary emboli/deep venous thromboses in replicate cohorts of patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia. Thorax. ISSN 0040-6376 (In Press)
Smith, S.M., Brame, A., Kulinskaya, Elena and Elkin, S.L. (2011) Telemonitoring and intermediate care. Chest, 139 (3). pp. 731-732.
Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R. (2010) Variance Stabilizing the Difference of two Binomial Proportions. The American Statistician, 64 (4). pp. 350-356.
Kulinskaya, Elena and Koricheva, J. (2010) Use of quality control charts for detection of outliers and temporal trends in cumulative meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 1 (297-307).
Kulinskaya, Elena, Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R. (2010) Combining the Evidence using Stable Weights. Research Synthesis Methods, 1. pp. 284-296.
Mantle, P. and Kulinskaya, E. (2010) Lifetime, low-dose ochratoxin A dietary study on renal carcinogenesis in male Fischer rats. Food Additives and Contaminants: Part A, 27 (11). pp. 1566-1573.
Modi, N., Uthaya, S., Fell, J. and Kulinskaya, E. (2010) A randomised, double-blind, controlled trial of the effect of prebiotic oligosaccharides on enteral tolerance in preterm infants. Pediatric Research, 68 (5). pp. 440-445.
Chisholm, E. J., Kulinskaya, E. and Tolley, N. S. (2009) Systematic review and meta-analysis of the adverse effects of thyroidectomy combined with central neck dissection as compared to thyroidectomy alone. The Laryngoscope, 119 (6). pp. 1135-1139. ISSN 0023-852X
Hart, A. J, Skinner, J. A., Winship, P., Faria, N, Kulinskaya, E., Webster, D., Muirhead-Allwood, S., Aldam, C. H., Anwar, H. and Powell, J. J. (2009) Circulating levels of cobalt and chromium from metal-on-metal hip replacement are associated with CD8+ T-cell lymphopenia. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, 91-B (6). pp. 835-842.
Kulinskaya, E. and Lewin, A. (2009) On fuzzy familywise error rate and false discovery rate procedures for discrete distributions. Biometrika, 96 (1). pp. 201-211.
Kulinskaya, E. and Lewin, A. (2009) Testing for linkage and Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium. Annals of Human Genetics, 72 (2). pp. 253-262.
Naguib, Justine, Kulinskaya, Elena, Lomax, Claire L. and Garralda, M. Elena (2009) Cognitive performance in children with type 1 diabetes - a meta analysis. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34 (3). pp. 271-282. ISSN 0146-8693
Slade, M. J., Payne, R., Riethdorf, S., Ward, B., Zaidi, S. A. A., Stebbing, J., Palmieri, C., Sinnett, H. D., Kulinskaya, E., Pitfield, T., McCormack, R. T., Pantel, K. and Coombes, R. C. (2009) Comparison of bone marrow, disseminated tumour cells and blood-circulating tumour cells in breast cancer patients after primary treatment. British Journal of Cancer, 100. pp. 160-166.
Tyrer, P., Gordon, F., Nourmand, S., Lawrence, M., Curran, C., Southgate, D., Oruganti, B., Tyler, M., Tottle, S., North, B., Kulinskaya, E., Kaleekal, J. and Morgan, J. (2009) A controlled comparison of the introduction of a crisis resolution and home treatment team. The Psychiatrist, 34 (2). pp. 50-54. ISSN 1758-3209
Winkler, M. H., Mayer, E. K., Carter, A., Kulinskaya, E. and Green, J. S. A. (2008) Age-specific PSA reference values based on a screening population of British men. British Journal of Medical and Surgical Urology, 1 (1). pp. 25-30. ISSN 1875-9742
Gardiner, Helena M., Belmar, Cristian, Tulzer, Gerald, Barlow, Anna, Pasquini, Lucia, Carvalho, Julene S., Daubeney, Piers E. F., Rigby, Michael L., Gordon, Fabiana, Kulinskaya, Elena and Franklin, Rodney C. (2008) Morphological and functional predictors of eventual circulation in the fetus with pulmonary atresia or critical pulmonary stenosis with intact septum. Journal of The American College of Cardiology, 51 (13). pp. 1299-1308.
Rahmanou, Philip, Chaliha, Charlotte, Kulinskaya, Elena and Khullar, Vik (2008) Reliability testing of urodynamics, pressure flow studies and cough leak point pressure in women with urodynamic stress incontinence with and without detrusor overactivity. International Urogynecology Journal, 19 (7). pp. 933-938. ISSN 0937-3462
Shovlin, C.L., Jackson, J.E., Bamford, K.B., Jenkins, I. H., Benjamin, A. R., Ramadan, H. and Kulinskaya, E. (2008) Primary determinants of ischaemic stroke/brain abscess risks are independent of severity of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in HHT. Thorax (3). 259 - 266.
Lai, H. K., Jantunen, M. J., Künzli, N., Kulinskaya, E., Colvile, R. and Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. (2007) Determinants of indoor benzene in Europe. Atmospheric Environment, 41 (39). pp. 9128-9135. ISSN 1352-2310
Jiang, Jie, Sarwar, Naveed, Peston, David, Kulinskaya, Elena, Shousha, Sami, Coombes, R. Charles and Ali, Simak (2007) Phosphorylation of Estrogen Receptor-α at Serine 167 is Indicative of Longer Disease-Free and Overall Survival in Breast Cancer Patients. Clinical Cancer Research, 13 (19). pp. 5769-5776. ISSN 1078-0432
Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R. G. (2007) Confidence intervals for the standardized effect arising in comparisons of two normal populations. Statistics in Medicine, 26 (14). pp. 2853-2871. ISSN 0277-6715
Kulinskaya, E and Dollinger, M. B. (2007) Robust Weighted One-Way ANOVA: Improved Approximation and Efficiency. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137 (2). pp. 462-472. ISSN 0378-3758
Carpenter, G. I., Bobby, J., Kulinskaya, E. and Seymour, D. G. (2007) People admitted to hospital with physical disability have increased length of stay: implications for diagnosis related group re-imbursement in England. Age and Ageing, 36 (1). 73 -78. ISSN 0002-0729
Crawford, M. J., Thomas, O., Khan, N. and Kulinskaya, E. (2007) Psychosocial interventions following deliberate self-harm: systematic review of their efficacy in preventing suicide. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 190. pp. 11-17. ISSN 0007-1250
Gardiner, Helena M., Belmar, Cristian, Pasquini, Lucia, Seale, Anna, Thomas, Matthew, Dennes, William, Taylor, Myles J. O., Kulinskaya, Elena and Wimalasundera, Ruwan (2007) Fetal ECG: A Novel Predictor of Atrioventricular Block in Anti-Ro Positive Pregnancies. Heart, 93 (11). 1454 -1460. ISSN 1468-201X
Young, A., Koduri, G., Batley, M., Kulinskaya, E, Gough, A, Norton, S. and Dixey, J. on behalf of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study (ERAS) group (2007) Mortality in rheumatoid arthritis. Increased in the early course of disease, in ischaemic heart disease and in pulmonary fibrosis. Rheumatology, 46 (2). pp. 350-357. ISSN 1462-0324
Gardiner, Helena M., Pasquini, Lucia, Wolfenden, Joanne, Barlow, Anna, Li, Wei, Kulinskaya, Elena and Henein, Michael (2006) Myocardial tissue Doppler and long axis function in the fetal heart. International Journal of Cardiology, 113 (1). pp. 39-47.
Kulinskaya, E. and Staudte, R. G. (2006) Interval estimates of weighted effect sizes in the one-way heteroscedastic ANOVA. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59 (1). pp. 97-111. ISSN 0007-1102
Lai, H. K., Bayer-Oglesby, L., Colvile, R., Götschi, T., Jantunen, M. J., Künzli, N., Kulinskaya, E., Schweizer, C. and Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. (2006) Determinants of indoor air concentrations of PM2.5, black smoke and NO2 in six European cities (EXPOLIS study). Atmospheric Environment, 40 (7). pp. 1299-1313. ISSN 1352-2310
Stanway, Susannah J., Purohit, Atul, Woo, L.W. Lawrence, Sufi, Saulat, Vigushin, David, Ward, Rebecca, Wilson, Richard H., Stanczyk, Frank Z., Dobbs, Nicola, Kulinskaya, Elena, Elliott, Moira, Potter, Barry V.L., Reed, Michael J. and Coombes, R. Charles (2006) Phase I study of STX 64 (667 Coumate) in Breast Cancer Patients: the First Study of a Steroid Sulphatase Inhibitor. Clinical Cancer Research, 12. pp. 1585-1592. ISSN 1078-0432
Gardiner, H. M., Pasquini, L., Wolfenden, J., Kulinskaya, E., Li, W. and Henein, M. (2006) Increased periconceptual maternal glycosolated haemoglobin in diabetic mothers reduces fetal long axis cardiac function. Heart, 92 (8). pp. 1125-1130. ISSN 1468-201X
Preston, E., Ellis, M. R., Kulinskaya, E., Davies, A. H. and Brown, E. A. (2005) Association Between Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness And Cardiovascular Risk Factors In CKD. The American Journal of Kidney Disease, 46 (5). pp. 856-862. ISSN 0272-6386
Chandna, S. M., Kulinskaya, E. and Farrington, K. (2005) A dramatic reduction of normalized protein catabolic rate occurs late in the course of progressive renal insufficiency. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 20 (10). 2130 - 2138. ISSN 0931-0509
Kulinskaya, E., Kornbrot, D. and Gao, H. (2005) Length of stay as a performance indicator: a robust statistical methodology. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 16 (4). pp. 369-381. ISSN 1471-678X
Mantle, P., Kulinskaya, E. and Nestler, S. (2005) Renal tumourigenesis in male rats in response to chronic dietary ochratoxin A. Food Additives and Contaminants, 22; Supplement 1. pp. 58-64. ISSN 0265-203X
Kulinskaya, E., Dollinger, M. B., Knight, E. and Gao, H. (2004) A Welch-type test for homogeneity of contrasts under heteroscedasticity with application to meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 23 (23). pp. 3655-3670. ISSN 0277-6715
Winkler, M. H., Khan, F. A., Kulinskaya, E., Hoh, I. M., McDonald, D., Boustead, G. and Kaisary, A. V. (2004) The total percentage of biopsy cores with cancer improves the prediction of pathological stage after radical prostatectomy. BJU International, 94 (6). pp. 812-815. ISSN 1464-410X
Winkler, M. H., Kulinskaya, E. and Gillatt, D. G. (2004) Prediction of prostate cancer in extended-field biopsies of the prostate. BJU International, 93 (4). pp. 516-521. ISSN 1464-410X
James, D., Young, A., Kulinskaya, E., Knight, E., Thompson, W., Ollier, W. and Dixey, J. (2004) Orthopaedic intervention in early rheumatoid arthritis. Occurrence and predictive factors in an inception cohort of 1064 patients followed for 5 years. Rheumatology, 43 (3). pp. 369-376. ISSN 1462-0324
Kulinskaya, E., Staudte, R. G. and Gao, H. (2003) Power approximations in testing for unequal means in a one-way ANOVA weighted for unequal variances. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 32 (12). pp. 2353-2371. ISSN 0361-0926
Sairam, K., Kulinskaya, E., McNicholas, T. A., Boustead, G. B. and Hanbury, D. C. (2002) Sildenafil influences lower urinary tract symptoms. BJU International, 90 (9). pp. 836-839. ISSN 1464-410X
Sairam, K., Kulinskaya, E., Boustead, G. B., Hanbury, D. C. and McNicholas, T. A. (2002) Prevalence of undiagnosed prostate cancer in men with erectile dysfunction. BJU International, 89 (3). pp. 261-263. ISSN 1464-410X
Kimball, L. E., Kulinskaya, E., Brown, B., Johnston, C. and Farid, N. R. (2002) Does smoking increase relapse rates in Graves' disease? Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 25 (2). pp. 152-157. ISSN 0391-4097
Palmer, Bernard V., Lockley, John W., Palmer, Robert B. and Kulinskaya, Elena (2002) Improvement in Irritable bowel syndrome following ano-rectal surgery. International Journal of Colorectal Disease, Clinical and Molecular Gastroenterology and Surgery, 17 (6). pp. 402-411. ISSN 0179-1958
Sairam, K., Kulinskaya, E., Hanbury, D. C., Boustead, G. B. and McNicholas, T. A. (2002) Oral Sildenafil (Viagra™) in male erectile dysfunction: use, efficacy and safety profile in an unselected cohort presenting to a British district general hospital. BMC Urology, 2. p. 4. ISSN 1471-2490
Young, A., Dixey, J., Kulinskaya, E., Cox, N., Davies, P., Devlin, J., Emery, P., Gough, A., James, D., Prouse, P., Williams, P. and Winfield, J. (2002) Which patients stop working because of rheumatoid arthritis? Results of 5 years' follow up in 732 patients from the Early RA Study (ERAS). Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (ARD), 61 (4). pp. 335-340. ISSN 0003-4967
Makker, R., Bailey, P., Royston, R. and Kulinskaya, E. (2001) Computerised Dynamic Posturography to assess recovery comparing general anaesthesia with sedation and local anaesthesia for day case nasal surgery. Anaesthesia, 56 (11). pp. 1097-1102. ISSN 1365-2044
Harrison, J. A., Brady, A. M. and Kulinskaya, E. (2001) The involvement, understanding and attitudes of dieticians towards research and audit. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 14 (4). pp. 319-330. ISSN 1365-277X
Sairam, K., Kulinskaya, E., Boustead, G. B., Hanbury, D. C. and McNicholas, T. A. (2001) Prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in male erectile dysfunction. British Journal Urology International, 88 (1). pp. 68-71. ISSN 1464-410X
Lazaro, F., Kulinskaya, E. and Tobiansky, R. (2001) Crisis Intervention: The professionals' perspective. A questionnaire survey. The Psychiatrist, 25. pp. 95-98. ISSN 1758-3209
Kulinskaya, Elena and Dollinger, Michael B. (2000) Asymptotics of guarded weights of evidence. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 86 (1). pp. 11-29. ISSN 0378-3758
Czarnecki, D., Mar, A. and Kulinskaya, E. (1996) Cell-mediated immunity of patients who have had basal cell carcinoma. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 76 (1). pp. 28-30.
Book Section
Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G. (2011) Meta-analysis. In: International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 811-815. ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5
Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, R.G. (2011) Significance Testing: an overview. In: International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1318-1321. ISBN 978-3-642-04897-5
Book
Kulinskaya, E., Morgenthaler, S. and Staudte, RG (2008) Meta-analysis: A Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence. Wiley, Chichester, February 2008, p. 282. ISBN ISBN: 978-0-470-02864-3
External Activities and Indicators of Esteem
- Quantitative Synthesis Methods Group organiser and chair, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE), 2010-to date http://environmentalevidence.org/
- Editorial Board member, journal Environmental Evidence - http://www.environmentalevidencejournal.org/
- Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (since September 2010) http://www.isi-web.org/
- Elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (since 2012) http://www.srsm.org/
Key Responsibilities
- Director MSc in Statistics
- Director of Machine Learning and Statistics Laboratory
- Plagiarism Officer
- Chair of Board of Examiners, Actuarial Sciences


