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Donald E. Mercante PhD
Professor
Director of Biostatistics

1615 Poydras Street
Suite 1400
New Orleans, LA 70112

Phone: 504-568-5981
Fax: 504-568-5701
dmerca@lsuhsc.edu

   
Degrees:

BS Marine Biology - 1977
Nicholls State University

MS Fisheries Management - 1980
Mississippi State University

Masters of Applied Statistics - 1983
Louisiana State University

PhD Statistics - 1990
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

 

 

Research Interests:

Experimental design
Permutation tests
Correlated data methods
Linear models
Clinical trials

   
Teaching:

BIOS 6242 Design and Analysis of Experiments
BIOS 6264 Clinical Trials
BIOS 6500 Nonparametric Methods
BIOS 6250 Multivariate Methods

   
Committees & Administrative Responsibilities:

Administrative Council
Faculty Affairs

   
Selected Publications:

Tracy RE, DE Mercante, A Moncada and G Berensen, Quantitation of hypertensive nephrosclerosis on an objective rational scale of measure in adults and children, Am J Clin Path 85 (3): 312-318, 1986.

Smith EP and DE Mercante, Statistical concerns in the design and analysis of multispecies microcosm and mesocosm experiments, Department of Statistics Technical Report Series, VPI & SU , 1988.

Smith EP and DE Mercante, Statistical concerns in the design and analysis of multispecies microcosm and mesocosm experiments, Toxicity Assessment: An International Journal (4) 129-147, 1989.

Johnson WD and DE Mercante, Ridge estimators in multiple group discrimination, Proceedings of the 1991 IMSL User Group North American Conference , 1991.

Mercante DE and WD Johnson, The analysis of longitudinal data in small sample clinical trials, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , 1993.

Mercante DE and WD Johnson, The analysis of small sample multivariate data with applications in clinical trials, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 3(2): 141-152, 1993.

Mancuso DM, MH Townsend and DE Mercante, Long-term follow-up of generalized anxiety disorder, Comprehensive Psychiatry 34(6): 441-446, 1993.

Johnson WD, DE Mercante and WL May, The multivariate nonparametric rank test in completely randomized designs, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 40(3): 217-225, 1993.

Mercante DE and WD Johnson, MULTPERM: a computer package for the analysis of multivariate data using permutation procedures, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 39(3-4): 213-216, 1993.

Thompson HT, DE Mercante, WD Johnson, J Reidy and RW Beuerman, Statistical analysis of corneal wound closure with a method sensitive to changes in the time course of healing., Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Vol. 34, No. 4 : 1318, 1993.

Johnson WD and DE Mercante, Application of a multivariate permutation test in randomized block designs, Biometric Bulletin 9:10, 1993.

Johnson WD and DE Mercante, Applications of the IML procedure for multiple response permutation tests, Proceedings of the 1993 SUGI Conference , 1993.

Townsend MH, JG Barbee, LS Sullivan and DE Mercante, Personality, anxiety, and worry in GAD long-term outcome, Psychopharmacology Bulletin 30(1): 135-135, 1994.

Johnson WD and DE Mercante, Analyzing multivariate data in crossover designs using permutation tests, 1994 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Biopharmaceutical Subsection, 1994.

Arnett JL, CB Dodrill, DE Mercante, GA Schaller, KW Sommerville and VS Shu, Evaluation of the effects of tiagabine Hcl on cognitive-functioning and adjustment in patients with epilepsy, Epilepsia V36, S4:282, 1995.

King J, BP Deboisblanc, CM Mason, JM Onofrio, G Lipscomb, DE Mercante, WR Summer and S Nelson, Effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on acute lung injury in the rat, Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995 151 (2 Pt 1)., 1995.

Johnson WD and DE Mercante, Analyzing multivariate data in crossover designs using permutation tests, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 6(3): 327-342, 1996.

Thompson H, DE Mercante, C Burgoyn, Statistical strategies for change detection in optic nerve head digital images (ONHDI)., Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci Suppl 38:829, 1997.

Blauwet MB, DE Mercante and WD Johnson, Approximate F-tests based on ranks for multivariate data in the randomized complete block design, Proceedings of the Biopharmaceutical Subsection of the American Statistical Association. , 1997.

Sloop GD and DE Mercante, Opposite effects of low density and high density lipoprotein on blood viscosity in fasting subjects., Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation 19 (3) 197-203, 1998.

Burgoyne CF, HW Thompson, DE Mercante, and RW Amin, Basic issues in the sensitive and specific detection in optic nerve head surface change within longitudinal LDT TopSS image: Introduction to the LSU experimental glaucoma (LEG) study, Lead book chapter in: The Shape of Glaucoma, Quantitative Neural Imaging Techniques. Lemij HG, Schuman JS (eds). Kugler Publications, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2000 pp. 1-37, 1999.

Kishner S, R. Morstead, and D Mercante, Risk factors associated with carpel tunnel syndrome, American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, 47th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, 2000.

Kishner S, and D Mercante, . Severity of carpel tunnel syndrome and improvement after steroid injection, American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, 47th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, 2000.

Chalew SA. R Gomez, A Butler, J Hempe, T Compton, D Mercante, J Rao, and A Vargas, Predictors of glycemic control in children with type 1 diabetes: the importance of race, Journal of Diabetes & its Complications 14(2):71-7, 2000.

Kaplan JL. MJ Wright, L Lazarus, N Congemi,. K duTreil, R Arnold, D Mercante, JH Diaz, M Vrahas, and JP Hunt, Use of an unmanned police car to reduce traffic speed, Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care 49(1):43-6, 2000.

Thompson HW, V Patrangenaru, DE Mercante, and CF Burgoyne, Morphometric approach to change detection in confocal scanning laser tomographic (CSLT) images of the optic nerve head (ONH), Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci Suppl 42:S117, 2001.

Welsh DA. BP Guery, BP Deboisblanc, EP Dobard, C Creusy, D Mercante, S Nelson, WR Summer, and CM Mason, Keratinocyte growth factor attenuates hydrostatic pulmonary edema in an isolated, perfused rat lung model, American Journal of Physiology - Heart & Circulatory Physiology 280(3):H1311-7, 2001.

Burgoyne CF, DE Mercante, and HW Thompson, Change detection in regional and volumetric disc parameters using longitudinal confocal scanning laser tomography, Ophthalmology 109 (3) 455-466, 2002.

   
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