Kunihiko Takahashi, PhD.
Senior Researcher, Department of Technology Assessment and Biostatistics, National Institute of Public Health.


Research Interests:

  • Biostatistics, Spatial Epidemiology


    Selected Publications:

  • Takahashi K and Tango T. Assignment of grouped exposure levels for trend estimation in a regression analysis of summarized data. Statistics in Medicine 2010; 29(25): 2605-2616.

  • Tango T, Takahashi K and Kohriyama K. A space-time scan statistic for detecting emerging outbreaks. Biometrics 2010 (in press).

  • Doi Y, Tokoyama T, Tango T, Takahashi K, Fujimoto K, Nakano I. Temporal trends and geographic clusters of mortality amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japan, 1995-2004. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2010; 298:78-84.

  • Fujiwara T, Okuyama M and Takahashi K. Paternal involvement in childcare and unintentional injury of young children: a population-based cohort study in Japan. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39(2):588-597.

  • Tachibana T, Takahashi K, Sakurayama T. Factors causing the rapid turnover among novice nursing staff: analyses of the survey conducted in 2006 on the employment situation of nursing staff in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Journal of the National Institute of Public Health 2010; 59(2):178-187.

  • Takahashi K, Kulldorff M, Tango T and Yih K. A flexibly shaped space-time scan statistic for disease outbreak detection and monitoring. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008; 7:14

  • Doi Y, Yokoyama T, Sakai M, Nakamura Y, Tango T and Takahashi K. Spatial clusters of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mortality in Japan between 1995 and 2004. Neuroepidemiology 2008; 30:222-228.

  • Takahashi K and Tango T. An extended power of cluster detection tests. Statistics in Medicine 2006; 25:841-852.

  • Tango T and Takahashi K. A flexibly shaped spatial scan statistic for detecting clusters. International Journal of Health Geographics 2005, 4:11

  • Akahira M and Takahashi K. A higher order large-deviation approximation for the discrete distributions. J. Japan Statist. Soc. 2001; 31(2): 257-267.

  • Akahira M, Takahashi K and Takeuchi K. The higher order large-deviation approximation for the distribution of the sum of independent discrete random variables. Commun. Statist. - Theory Meth. 1999; 28(3-4): 705-726.

  • Takahashi K. Randomized confidence intervals of a parameter for the negative binomial and logarithmic series distributions. J. Japan Statist. Soc. 1999; 29(2): 201-212.

  • Akahira M, Takahashi K and Takeuchi K. Randomized confidence intervals of a parameter for a family of discrete exponential type distributions. Commun. Statist. - Simula. 1997; 26(3): 1103-1128.

  • Akahira M, Kashima H and Takahashi K. A generalized binomial distribution determined by a two-state Markov chain and a distribution by the Beyesian approrch. Statistical Papers 1997; 38(1), 27-42.


    Softwares:

  • Takahashi K, Yokoyama T and Tango T. FleXScan: Software for the Flexible Scan Statistic.