Grants & Scholarships

• PhD Scholarship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK, BIDEB 2211) ($2000 /year) 2016 – 2020.

• Grant for Participation in International Scientific Meetings, TUBITAK (BIDEB 2224-A) ($500), 2019.

• MSc Scholarship, TUBITAK (BIDEB 2210-E) ($1100 /year), 2009-2011. 

• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship, TUBITAK (BIDEB 2205), ($1700/year), 2005-2009. 

 

Courses Taught

Lecturer

• SBF102-Biostatistics (major in Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Audiology, Health Management, Nutrition and Dietetics), SBB302-Statistics (major in Sports Sciences), Biostatistics (major in Dentistry), 2018-2022 (online during pandemic).

 

Teaching Assistant

• FTR505-Clinical Research (Graduate course major in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation), BIS535-Biostatistics (Graduate course major in Nursing), ODYH540- Statistics (Graduate course major in Audiology), HLKS512-Biomedical Statistics (Graduate course major in Public Health), Biostatistics (major in Medicine), ODY213- Biostatistics (major in Audiology), HEM305- Biostatistics (major in Nursing).

 

​Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles indexed by the international databases

• Alkan A, Carrier ME, Henry RS, Kwakkenbos L, Bartlett SJ, Gietzen A, Gottesman K, Guillot G, Lawrie-Jones A, Hudson M, Hummers LK, Malcarne VL, Mayes MD, Mouthon L, Richard M, Wojeck RK, Worron-Sauvé M, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, SPIN Investigators. Minimal detectable changes of the HAQ-DI, PROMIS-29v2.0 domains, and PHQ-8 in Systemic Sclerosis: A SPIN Cohort cross-sectional study. AC&R. In press.

• Turan N, Alkan A, Çekiç Y (2024). Perceived parental psychological control and the risk of internet gaming disorder in adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Curr Psychol. doi:10.1007/s12144-024-05951-4. Online ahead of print.

• Orhan AI, Alkan A, Orhan K, Tezel A, Karaoglanoglu S, Oztas D (2024). Dental caries and associated factors among Turkish children and adults: Findings from the 3rd National Oral Health Survey. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12943. Online ahead of print.

• Arslan YK, Alkan A, Elhan AH (2023). Comparison of the response time-based effort-moderated IRT model and three-parameter logistic model according to computerized adaptive test performances: A simulation study. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation. doi: 10.1080/03610918.2023.2245175. Online ahead of print.

• Yıldız NT, Alkan A, Kulunkoglu B (2022).  Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Mandibular Function Impairment questionnaire. CRANIO®, 18, 1-11, doi: 10.1080/08869634.2021.2004715.

• Yuksel S, Demir P, Alkan A (2019). Factors causing occurrence of artificial DIF: A simulation study for dichotomous data. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 48(7), 2004-2011, doi: 10.1080/03610918.2018.1429622.

 

Presentations in the international seminars, congresses, and conferences

• Yuksel S, Alkan A, Demir P, Sanisoğlu S.Y, Ercan I, Ture M, Karahan S, Ates C, Elmali F, Erdogan S, Kaya M.O, Sahin B, Yavuz Z, Yildirim D (2019). The standardization of the content of the biostatistics education lectured at the undergraduate term of the medical faculties in Turkey: a Delphi study. The 21st National and 4th International Biostatistics Congress, Oct 26-29, Antalya, Turkey, p:219-269. (Oral – Full text)

• Demir P, Alkan A, Yuksel S (2019). How is the performance of the Mc-Nemar test to determine cut-off comparing to the Youden index and the minP methods for ordinal data? A simulation study. The 5th International Researchers, Statisticians and Young Statisticians Congress, Oct 18-20, Aydın, Turkey, p: 140-149. (funded by TUBITAK BIDEB 2224-A). (Oral – Full text)

• Alkan A, Yuksel S, Demir P (2019). Which of the favorite optimal cut-off determination methods is preferable for the ordinal response data? A simulation study. The 13th International Conference on Applied Statistics, June 8-9, Bucharest, Romania, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Statistics, 1(1), 1-7, doi:10.2478/icas-2019-0001 (funded by TUBITAK BIDEB 2224-A) (Oral – Full text)

• Alkan A, Demir P, Yuksel S (2018). Two new measures to evaluate the accuracy of screening tests in diagnostic studies involving paired organs: binocular sensitivity and binocular specificity. The 20th National and 3rd International Biostatistics Congress, Oct 26-29, Gaziantep, Turkey, p:99. (Poster – Abstract)

• Yuksel S, Alkan A, Demir P (2018). Evaluation of receiver operating characteristic analysis to determine the minimum clinically important difference on interpretability of scales. The 20th National and 3rd International Biostatistics Congress, Oct 26-29, Gaziantep, Turkey, p:42 & 119-122. (Oral – Full text)