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Overview

Alexander Fefer was affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the intersection of mathematics and decision sciences, with significant contributions in statistics and probability, management science and operations research, computational theory and mathematics, as well as economics and econometrics.

Their scholarly output included extensive work on statistical methods, particularly in clinical trials and optimal experimental design. Key research topics covered by Fefer included:

  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Optimal Experimental Design Methods
  • Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods

Fefer's publication record featured collaborations with various frequent coauthors such as Sergey Tarima, James L. Rosenberger, Kelly Van Lancker, Madeline Bauer, and Jonathan W. Bartlett. Their work was often published in venues including:

  • Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
  • Statistical Papers
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biometrics
  • Anesthesiology

Notable recent papers by Fefer included:

  • Understanding Research Methods: Up-and-down Designs for Dose-finding, 2022, Anesthesiology
  • Estimands and their Estimators for Clinical Trials Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report from the NISS Ingram Olkin Forum Series on Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruptions, 2022, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
  • Design Considerations for Two-Stage Enrichment Clinical Trials, 2022, Biometrics
  • Coping with Information Loss and the Use of Auxiliary Sources of Data: A Report from the NISS Ingram Olkin Forum Series on Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruptions, 2023, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
  • Inference for a two-stage enrichment design, 2021, The Annals of Statistics

Throughout their career, Fefer's research emphasized methods that address challenges in clinical trial design and analysis, including trials affected by external disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Their interdisciplinary approach integrated advanced statistical inference techniques with practical decision sciences applications, delivering insights relevant to health systems and bioanalytics.

Best Publications

  • Clinical manifestations of graft-versus-host disease in human recipients of marrow from HL-A-matched sibling donors.

    Glucksberg H;Storb R;Fefer A;Buckner Cd

  • Bone-marrow transplantation (first of two parts).

    E Thomas;R Storb;R A Clift;A Fefer

  • Bone-marrow transplantation (second of two parts).

    Thomas Ed;Storb R;Clift Ra;Fefer A

  • One hundred patients with acute leukemia treated by chemotherapy, total body irradiation, and allogeneic marrow transplantation.

    ED Thomas;CD Buckner;M Banaji;RA Clift

  • Influence of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease on relapse and survival after bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings as treatment of acute and chronic leukemia

    K M Sullivan;P L Weiden;R Storb;R P Witherspoon

  • Effects of In Vitro Depletion of T Cells in HLA-Identical Allogeneic Marrow Grafts

    PJ Martin;JA Hansen;CD Buckner;JE Sanders

  • Influence of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease on relapse and survival after bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings as treatment of acute and chronic leukemia [published erratum appears in Blood 1989 Aug 15;74(3):1180]

    KM Sullivan;PL Weiden;R Storb;RP Witherspoon

  • Marrow Transplantation for the Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

    E D Thomas;R A Clift;A Fefer;F R Appelbaum

  • Hickman Catheter Infections in Patients With Malignancies

    Oliver W. Press;Paul G. Ramsey;Eric B. Larson;Alexander Fefer

  • Eradication of disseminated murine leukemia by chemoimmunotherapy with cyclophosphamide and adoptively transferred immune syngeneic Lyt-1+2- lymphocytes

    P D Greenberg;M A Cheever;A Fefer

  • Graft-versus-Host Disease as Adoptive Immunotherapy in Patients with Advanced Hematologic Neoplasms

    K M Sullivan;R Storb;C D Buckner;A Fefer

  • Allogeneic marrow grafting for treatment of aplastic anemia.

    R. Storb;E. D. Thomas;C. D. Buckner;R. A. Clift

  • Marrow transplantation for acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia in first remission using fractionated or single-dose irradiation

    E.D. Thomas;R.A. Clift;J. Hersman;J.E. Sanders

  • Augmentation of the anti-tumor therapeutic efficacy of long-term cultured T lymphocytes by in vivo administration of purified interleukin 2.

    M A Cheever;P D Greenberg;A Fefer;S Gillis

  • Aplastic anaemia treated by marrow transplantation.

    E Donnall Thomas;Rainer Storb;Alexander Fefer;SherillJ Slichter

  • Treatment of malignant lymphoma in 100 patients with chemotherapy, total body irradiation, and marrow transplantation.

    F R Appelbaum;K M Sullivan;C D Buckner;R A Clift

  • Aplastic anemia treated by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation: a report on 49 new cases from Seattle.

    R. Storb;E. D. Thomas;P. L. Weiden;C. D. Buckner;C. D. Buckner;C. D. Buckner

  • High-dose cyclophosphamide therapy for malignant disease. Toxicity, tumor response, and the effects of stored autologous marrow

    C. D. Buckner;R. H. Rudolph;A. Fefer;R. A. Clift

  • Allogeneic and syngeneic marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome in patients 55 to 66 years of age.

    H. J. Deeg;H. M. Shulman;J. E. Anderson;E. M. Bryant

  • Bone Marrow Transplantation or Chemotherapy After Remission Induction for Adults with Acute Nonlymphoblastic Leukemia: A Prospective Comparison

    Appelbaum Fr;Dahlberg S;Thomas Ed;Buckner Cd

  • Subcutaneous granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome: toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and hematological effects

    John A. Thompson;Douglas J. Lee;Pamela Kidd;Ellen Rubin

  • Treatment of Established Human Graft-Versus-Host Disease by Antithymocyte Globulin

    R Storb;E Gluckman;E D Thomas;C D Buckner

  • Bone Marrow Transplantation in Patients Aged 45 Years and Older

    HG Klingemann;R Storb;A Fefer;HJ Deeg

  • Analysis of late infections after human bone marrow transplantation: role of genotypic nonidentity between marrow donor and recipient and of nonspecific suppressor cells in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease.

    K Atkinson;V Farewell;R Storb;Tsoi

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Cheever
Martin A. Cheever University of Washington
E. Donnall Thomas
E. Donnall Thomas University of Washington
Paul E. Neiman
Paul E. Neiman Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jean E. Sanders
Jean E. Sanders Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Philip D. Greenberg
Philip D. Greenberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Rainer Storb
Rainer Storb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Keith M. Sullivan
Keith M. Sullivan Duke University
Buckner Cd
Buckner Cd National Cancer Institute
Robert P. Witherspoon
Robert P. Witherspoon Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Frederick R. Appelbaum
Frederick R. Appelbaum Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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