Dennis Keith Pearl, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Research Interests
- Neoplasms
- Astrocytoma
- Brain Neoplasms
- Gangliosides
- Genes
- Glioma
- Proteins
- Survival
- Glioblastoma
- Glycolipids
- Oligodendroglioma
- Growth
Recent Publications
2022
Chow, SM, Lee, J, Hofman, AD, van der Maas, HLJ, Pearl, DK & Molenaar, PCM 2022, 'Control Theory Forecasts of Optimal Training Dosage to Facilitate Children’s Arithmetic Learning in a Digital Educational Application', Psychometrika, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 559-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09829-3
Hrushesky, WJM, Lis, CG, Levin, RD, Grutsch, JF, Birdsall, T, Wood, PA, Huff, DFQ, Reynolds, JL, Pearl, DK, Shen, X, Gupta, D & Blask, DE 2022, 'Daily evening melatonin prolongs survival among patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer', Biological Rhythm Research, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1043-1057. https://doi.org/10.1080/09291016.2021.1899485
2021
Pearl, DK & Lesser, LM 2021, 'Poll position: A sampling of statistical edutainment', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 124-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12284
Wang, SL, Zhang, AY, Messer, S, Wiesner, A & Pearl, DK 2021, 'Student-Developed Shiny Applications for Teaching Statistics', Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 218-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2021.1995545
Lesser, LM & Pearl, DK 2021, 'Take a chance on statistical edutainment', Teaching Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12293
2020
Nolan, JR, McConville, KS, Addona, V, Tintle, NL & Pearl, DK 2020, 'Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Statistics: Reaping the Benefits and Overcoming the Barriers', Journal of Statistics Education, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 140-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2020.1756542
Pearl, DK & Lesser, LM 2020, 'Statistical edutainment that counts', Teaching Statistics, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 66-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12219
Pearl, DK & Lesser, LM 2021, 'Statistical edutainment that lines up and fits', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12241
Pearl, DK & Lesser, LM 2020, 'Statistical edutainment with confidence', Teaching Statistics, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12213
2019
Lesser, LM, Pearl, DK, Weber, JJ, Dousa, DM, Carey, RP & Haddad, SA 2019, 'Developing Interactive Educational Songs for Introductory Statistics', Journal of Statistics Education, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2019.1677533
Pollack, JD, Gerard, D, Makhatadze, GI & Pearl, DK 2020, 'Evolutionary conservation and structural localizations suggest a physical trace of metabolism’s progressive geochronological emergence', Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 3700-3719. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2019.1679666
Liu, L, Anderson, C, Pearl, D & Edwards, SV 2019, Modern phylogenomics: Building phylogenetic trees using the multispecies coalescent model. in Methods in Molecular Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1910, Humana Press Inc., pp. 211-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9074-0_7
Lesser, LM & Pearl, DK 2019, 'Statistical edutainment: Reversing comparisons', Teaching Statistics, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 118-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12203