Data Interpretation, Statistical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Opinions differ significantly": Early experiences with meta-analysis and the people who made it possible. 
  • "Smooth" semiparametric regression analysis for arbitrarily censored time-to-event data. 
  • 'Smooth' inference for survival functions with arbitrarily censored data. 
  • (1)H MRS detection of glycine residue of reduced glutathione in vivo. 
  • 7 questions to ask when evaluating a noninferiority trial. 
  • A Bayesian model for misclassified binary outcomes and correlated survival data with applications to breast cancer. 
  • A CACE for assessing non-compliance: Addressing non-compliance in randomised controlled trials. 
  • A Call for Change: Level of Statistical Significance. 
  • A Comparison of Multilevel Mediation Modeling Methods: Recommendations for Applied Researchers. 
  • A Hough transform global probabilistic approach to multiple-subject diffusion MRI tractography. 
  • A Novel Method to Estimate Long-Term Chronological Changes From Fragmented Observations in Disease Progression. 
  • A Primer for Managed Care Residents: How to Conduct Research Using Live Medical and Pharmacy Claims Data. 
  • A Systematic and Transparent Approach for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Intervention Effectiveness Research: The Study Design and Implementation Assessment Device (Study DIAD) 
  • A Third-Generation Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction Technique: Phantom Study of Image Noise, Spatial Resolution, Lesion Detectability, and Dose Reduction Potential. 
  • A Vision "Bolt-On" Item Could Increase the Discriminatory Power of the EQ-5D Index Score. 
  • A challenge to the therapeutic nihilism of ESPAC-1. 
  • A computational framework for the analysis of peptide microarray antibody binding data with application to HIV vaccine profiling. 
  • A computationally advantageous system for fitting probabilistic decompression models to empirical data. 
  • A confidence ellipse for the Net Reclassification Improvement. 
  • A copula approach for detecting prognostic genes associated with survival outcome in microarray studies. 
  • A counterview on data quality and the systematic review process for occupational injury interventions: are we missing the forest for the trees? 
  • A demonstration of ''less can be more'' in risk graphics. 
  • A distribution-free test of constant mean in linear mixed effects models. 
  • A general approach for two-stage analysis of multilevel clustered non-Gaussian data. 
  • A hidden Markov model approach to analyze longitudinal ternary outcomes when some observed states are possibly misclassified. 
  • A latent factor linear mixed model for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis. 
  • A marginalized two-part model for longitudinal semicontinuous data. 
  • A marginalized two-part model for semicontinuous data. 
  • A moment-adjusted imputation method for measurement error models. 
  • A multiple testing procedure to associate gene expression levels with survival. 
  • A new algorithm for idealizing single ion channel data containing multiple unknown conductance levels. 
  • A new permutation-based method for assessing agreement between two observers making replicated quantitative readings. 
  • A nonparametric empirical Bayes framework for large-scale multiple testing 
  • A note on sample size calculation for mean comparisons based on noncentral t-statistics. 
  • A note on special articles on adaptive clinical trial designs. 
  • A note on statistical methods for assessing therapeutic equivalence. 
  • A novel interface for variable flow nanoscale LC/MS/MS for improved proteome coverage. 
  • A novel matrix-similarity based loss function for joint regression and classification in AD diagnosis. 
  • A novel test to compare two treatments based on endpoints involving both nonfatal and fatal events. 
  • A parametric model for long-term follow-up data from phase III breast cancer clinical trials. 
  • A penalized likelihood approach for bivariate conditional normal models for dynamic co-expression analysis. 
  • A quality assurance method that utilizes 3D dosimetry and facilitates clinical interpretation. 
  • A robust method for comparing two treatments in a confirmatory clinical trial via multivariate time-to-event methods that jointly incorporate information from longitudinal and time-to-event data. 
  • A simple, efficient tool for assessment of mice after unilateral cortex injury. 
  • A statistic for comparing two correlated markers which are prognostic for time to an event. 
  • A statistical method for region-based meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in genetically diverse populations. 
  • A two one-sided tests procedure for assessment of individual bioequivalence. 
  • A weighted generalized score statistic for comparison of predictive values of diagnostic tests. 
  • ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test. 
  • Abdominal obesity and breast cancer risk. 
  • Acquisition of neural learning in cerebellum and cerebral cortex for smooth pursuit eye movements. 
  • Activity restriction among wheelchair users. 
  • Adaptive design in clinical research: issues, opportunities, and recommendations. 
  • Addressing the unit of analysis in medical care studies: a systematic review. 
  • Advances in mediation analysis can facilitate nursing research. 
  • Advancing Continuous Predictive Analytics Monitoring: Moving from Implementation to Clinical Action in a Learning Health System. 
  • Age-related sensitivity to task-related modulation of language-processing networks. 
  • Alternate statistical tools and limitations in genetic marker association studies in single-arm drug cancer trials. 
  • Alternative input devices for efficient navigation of large CT angiography data sets. 
  • An Outcome Model for Intravenous rt-PA in Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • An analysis of missing items in real-world electronic patient reported outcomes data: implications for clinical care. 
  • An analysis of registered clinical trials in otolaryngology from 2007 to 2010: ClinicalTrials.gov. 
  • An analysis paradigm for investigating multi-locus effects in complex disease: examination of three GABA receptor subunit genes on 15q11-q13 as risk factors for autistic disorder. 
  • An approach to the assessment of therapeutic drug interactions with fixed combination drug products. 
  • An exclusion map for facioscapulohumeral (Landouzy-Déjérine) disease. 
  • An improved method for bivariate meta-analysis when within-study correlations are unknown. 
  • An information criterion for marginal structural models. 
  • An integrated method to determine meaningful changes in health-related quality of life. 
  • An inverse problem approach for elasticity imaging through vibroacoustics. 
  • An item response theory-based pain item bank can enhance measurement precision. 
  • An overview of variance inflation factors for sample-size calculation. 
  • Analyses of black and white differentials in the age trajectory of mortality in two closed cohort studies. 
  • Analysing recurrent hospitalizations in heart failure: a review of statistical methodology, with application to CHARM-Preserved. 
  • Analysis of clinical data with breached blindness. 
  • Analysis of clinical data with breached blindness: by Shein-Chung Chow and Jun Shao Statistics in Medicine 2004; 23:1185-1193. 
  • Analysis of combined data from heterogeneous study designs: an applied example from the patient navigation research program. 
  • Analysis of serum metabolic profiles in women with endometrial cancer and controls in a population-based case-control study. 
  • Analysis of the real EADGENE data set: comparison of methods and guidelines for data normalisation and selection of differentially expressed genes (open access publication). 
  • Analysis of the real EADGENE data set: multivariate approaches and post analysis (open access publication). 
  • Analytic considerations in economic evaluations of multinational cardiovascular clinical trials. 
  • Analyzing and interpreting patient-reported outcome measures in clinical trials: comment on Collister et al. 
  • Angiographic and clinical outcomes associated with direct versus conventional stenting among patients treated with fibrinolytic therapy for ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Antiplatelet treatment for prevention of cerebrovascular events in patients with vascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Application of Dempster-Shafer theory in dose response outcome analysis. 
  • Application of a new multinomial phase II stopping rule using response and early progression. 
  • Are linear regression techniques appropriate for analysis when the dependent (outcome) variable is not normally distributed? 
  • Asbestos fiber concentrations in the lungs of brake repair workers: commercial amphiboles levels are predictive of chrysotile levels. 
  • Assessing bioequivalence using genomic data. 
  • Assessing departure from dose linearity under a repeated measures incomplete block design. 
  • Assessing medication effects in the MTA study using neuropsychological outcomes. 
  • Assessing the causal effect of organ transplantation on the distribution of residual lifetime. 
  • Assessment of hairline EEG as a screening tool for nonconvulsive status epilepticus. 
  • Assessment of water quality management with a systematic qualitative uncertainty analysis. 
  • Association between performance on Neurology In-Training and Certification Examinations. 
  • Automatic grading of nuclear cataracts from slit-lamp lens images using group sparsity regression. 
  • Automatic white matter lesion segmentation using contrast enhanced FLAIR intensity and Markov Random Field. 
  • Baseline neurocognitive deficits in the CATIE schizophrenia trial. 
  • Bayesian Approach for Addressing Differential Covariate Measurement Error in Propensity Score Methods. 
  • Bayesian adaptive regression splines for hierarchical data. 
  • Bayesian estimation of survival functions under stochastic precedence. 
  • Bayesian hierarchical functional data analysis via contaminated informative priors. 
  • Bayesian hierarchical models for network meta-analysis incorporating nonignorable missingness. 
  • Bayesian inferences on umbrella orderings. 
  • Bayesian latent factor regression for functional and longitudinal data. 
  • Bayesian modeling of time-varying and waning exposure effects. 
  • Bayesian semiparametric dynamic frailty models for multiple event time data. 
  • Benefits, challenges and obstacles of adaptive clinical trial designs. 
  • Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury: Data Standards and Statistical Considerations. 
  • Block-diagonal discriminant analysis and its bias-corrected rules. 
  • Brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia: validation of the Japanese version. 
  • Building Statistical Models to Analyze Species Distributions 
  • Building pathway clusters from Random Forests classification using class votes. 
  • CBTRUS Statistical Report: Primary Brain and Other Central Nervous System Tumors Diagnosed in the United States in 2012-2016. 
  • CT perfusion-guided versus time-guided mechanical recanalization in acute ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Can one assess whether missing data are missing at random in medical studies? 
  • Canadian Association for Immunization Research and Evaluation (CAIRE) guidelines for industry-sponsored clinical trial and epidemiology contract research. 
  • Cancer Moonshot Data and Technology Team: Enabling a National Learning Healthcare System for Cancer to Unleash the Power of Data. 
  • Cancer systems biology: exploring cancer-associated genes on cellular networks. 
  • Cerebrovascular risk factors and cerebral hyperintensities among middle-aged and older adults with major depression. 
  • Characteristics of norepinephrine and clonidine displacement of [3H]yohimbine binding to platelet alpha2-adrenoreceptors in healthy volunteers. 
  • Choosing Estimands in Clinical Trials: Putting the ICH E9(R1) Into Practice. 
  • Chromosomes 4 and 8 implicated in a genome wide SNP linkage scan of 762 prostate cancer families collected by the ICPCG. 
  • Clinical and quality of life comparison of accelerometer, piezoelectric crystal, and blended sensors in DDDR-paced patients with sinus node dysfunction in the mode selection trial (MOST). 
  • Clinical presentation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschool children: the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Clinical trial metadata: defining and extracting metadata on the design, conduct, results and costs of 125 randomised clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme. 
  • Clustering linear discriminant analysis for MEG-based brain computer interfaces. 
  • Combined genotype and haplotype tests for region-based association studies. 
  • Combined superior oblique muscle recession and inferior oblique muscle advancement and transposition for cyclotorsion associated with macular translocation surgery. 
  • Commentary: This study failed? 
  • Commentary: sickle cell disease. 
  • Common design elements of the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS). 
  • Common scientific and statistical errors in obesity research. 
  • Comparison of Beta-value and M-value methods for quantifying methylation levels by microarray analysis. 
  • Comparison of adaptive treatment strategies based on longitudinal outcomes in sequential multiple assignment randomized trials. 
  • Comparison of one-year outcomes...ESPRIT. Enhanced Suppression of the Platelet IIb/IIIa Receptor With Integrilin Therapy. 
  • Comparison of six-month outcomes for primary percutaneous revascularization for acute myocardial infarction with drug-eluting versus bare metal stents (from the APEX-AMI study). 
  • Comparison of three comorbidity measures for predicting health service use in patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Computation of mutual information from Hidden Markov Models. 
  • Computational Methods for RNA Structure Validation and Improvement. 
  • Computer programs for the concordance correlation coefficient. 
  • Conduct of multisite clinical studies by professional organizations 
  • Control charts and control limits. 
  • Control of the gain of visual-motor transmission occurs in visual coordinates for smooth pursuit eye movements. 
  • Coordinate system for learning in the smooth pursuit eye movements of monkeys. 
  • Cost of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. 
  • Covariate adjustment for two-sample treatment comparisons in randomized clinical trials: a principled yet flexible approach. 
  • Covariate adjustment increased power in randomized controlled trials: an example in traumatic brain injury. 
  • Critical assessment of automated flow cytometry data analysis techniques. 
  • Cross-talk between TGF-beta1 and IL-6 in human trabecular meshwork cells. 
  • Cross-validation for linear model with unequal variances in genomic analysis. 
  • Cumulative index of health disorders as an indicator of aging-associated processes in the elderly: results from analyses of the National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Current applications of big data in obstetric anesthesiology. 
  • Data Sharing and Embedded Research. 
  • Data analysis as a source of variability of the HLA-peptide multimer assay: from manual gating to automated recognition of cell clusters. 
  • Data mining issues for improved birth outcomes. 
  • Data monitoring and large apparent treatment effects. 
  • Data monitoring committees and interim monitoring guidelines. 
  • Data-Derived Treatment Duration Goal for Cervical Cancer: Should 8 Weeks Remain the Target in the Era of Concurrent Chemoradiation? 
  • Deferasirox versus deferoxamine. 
  • Defibrillation and the upper limit of vulnerability to fibrillation in a transthoracic guinea pig model. 
  • Defining Efficacy Estimands in Clinical Trials: Examples Illustrating ICH E9(R1) Guidelines. 
  • Dementia and Alzheimer's disease in community-dwelling elders taking vitamin C and/or vitamin E. 
  • Dependence of confounding on the target population: a modification of causal graphs to account for co-action. 
  • Depression inhibits the anti-inflammatory effects of leisure time physical activity and light to moderate alcohol consumption. 
  • Design and conduct of occupational epidemiology studies: II. Analysis of cohort data. 
  • Design of multishell sampling schemes with uniform coverage in diffusion MRI. 
  • Detecting disease outbreaks using local spatiotemporal methods. 
  • Determination of the falloff constant (k(f)) from modeling biochemical marker release: a new variable for discriminating therapies. 
  • Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness. 
  • Deterministic and stochastic features of fMRI data: implications for analysis of event-related experiments. 
  • Developing High-Throughput Assays to Analyze and Screen Electrophysiological Phenotypes. 
  • Developing Treatment Guidelines During a Pandemic Health Crisis: Lessons Learned From COVID-19. 
  • Development and psychometric analysis of the PROMIS pain behavior item bank. 
  • Development of a multimarker assay for early detection of ovarian cancer. 
  • Developmental neurotoxicity of parathion: progressive effects on serotonergic systems in adolescence and adulthood. 
  • Developmental sensitivity of hippocampal interneurons to ethanol: involvement of the hyperpolarization-activated current, Ih. 
  • Diabetic cardiomyopathy and carnitine deficiency. 
  • Diagnostic efficiency of the AUDIT-C in U.S. veterans with military service since September 11, 2001. 
  • Differential survival with Alzheimer disease. 
  • Direct and flexible marginal inference for semicontinuous data. 
  • Discussion of "Combining biomarkers to optimize patient treatment recommendation". 
  • Dissection of molecular assembly dynamics by tracking orientation and position of single molecules in live cells. 
  • Does accounting for seizure frequency variability increase clinical trial power? 
  • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex white matter alterations in late-life depression. 
  • Doubly-robust estimators of treatment-specific survival distributions in observational studies with stratified sampling. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-products and time to pregnancy. 
  • Drug use management in board and care facilities. 
  • Duplex ultrasound scanning versus computed tomographic angiography for postoperative evaluation of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • ECG subanalyses in clinical trials: an investigator's perspective. 
  • Effect of amifostine on patient assessed clinical benefit in irradiated head and neck cancer. 
  • Effect of antihypertensive therapy on incident stroke in cohorts with prehypertensive blood pressure levels: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Effect of caloric restriction with and without exercise on metabolic intermediates in nonobese men and women. 
  • Effect of levosimendan on survival and adverse events after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis. 
  • Effects of ankle taping on the motion and loading pattern of the foot for walking subjects. 
  • Effects of attention on the neural processing of harmonic syntax in Western music. 
  • Effects of four normalizing methods on data analytic results in functional brain imaging. 
  • Electric charge requirements of pediatric cochlear implant recipients enrolled in the Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation study. 
  • Elementary, my dear readers. 
  • Endovascular management of cerebral vasospasm following aneurysm rupture: outcomes and predictors in 116 patients. 
  • Endovascular stroke intervention in young patients with large vessel occlusions. 
  • Engineering key components in a synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathway. 
  • Enhanced spatial localization of neuronal activation using simultaneous apparent-diffusion-coefficient and blood-oxygenation functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Enriched white matter connectivity networks for accurate identification of MCI patients. 
  • Estimand framework: Are we asking the right questions? A case study in the solid tumor setting. 
  • Estimands and inference in cluster-randomized vaccine trials. 
  • Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models. 
  • Estimating common parameters of lognormally distributed environmental and biomonitoring data: harmonizing disparate statistics from publications. 
  • Estimating data transformations in nonlinear mixed effects models. 
  • Estimating older adults' preferences for walking programs via conjoint analysis. 
  • Estimating optimal shared-parameter dynamic regimens with application to a multistage depression clinical trial. 
  • Estimating propensity scores with missing covariate data using general location mixture models. 
  • Estimation and prediction with HIV-treatment interruption data. 
  • Estimation and testing of the relative risk of disease in case-control studies with a set of k matched controls per case with known prevalence of disease. 
  • Estimation of GFR in South Asians: a study from the general population in Pakistan. 
  • Estimation of coefficients of individual agreement (CIAs) for quantitative and binary data using SAS and R. 
  • Evaluating marker-guided treatment selection strategies. 
  • Evaluating the uncertainty in exchange parameters determined from off-resonance R1ρ relaxation dispersion for systems in fast exchange. 
  • Evaluation of novel ECG signal processing on quantification of transient ischemia and baseline wander suppression. 
  • Eversion endarterectomy of the carotid artery: technical considerations and recurrent stenoses. 
  • Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs. 
  • Examining accuracy of screening mammography using an event order model. 
  • Examining outlying subjects and outlying records in bioequivalence trials. 
  • Exercise fails to improve neurocognition in depressed middle-aged and older adults. 
  • Exploratory quantile regression with many covariates: An application to adverse birth outcomes 
  • Exposure to drinking water disinfection by-products and pregnancy loss. 
  • Factor analytic models of clustered multivariate data with informative censoring. 
  • Factor structure of parent- and teacher-rated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Factors associated with blood loss during radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-era: an overview of the Department of Defense (DOD) Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR) national database. 
  • Family nursing research: precepts from paragons and peccadilloes. 
  • Fast modulation of prefrontal cortex activity by basal forebrain noncholinergic neuronal ensembles. 
  • Fast spin-echo, magnetic resonance imaging-measured hippocampal volume: correlation with neuronal density in anterior temporal lobectomy patients. 
  • Faulty interpretation of observed racial disparity in recurrent preterm birth 
  • Federal judge invalidates icosapent ethyl patents - but on the basis of a common statistical mistake. 
  • Fibrous glass and cancer. 
  • Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of Hurthle cell lesions of the thyroid gland: A cytomorphologic study of 139 cases with statistical analysis. 
  • Fitting semiparametric random effects models to large data sets. 
  • Fixed and random effects selection in linear and logistic models 
  • Focus on qualitative methods. Qualitative metasynthesis: issues and techniques. 
  • Fragility Index in Cardiovascular Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • From disease ontology to disease-ontology lite: statistical methods to adapt a general-purpose ontology for the test of gene-ontology associations. 
  • From statistical associations to causation: what developmentalists can learn from instrumental variables techniques coupled with experimental data. 
  • Fuel-based fine particulate and black carbon emission factors from a railyard area in Atlanta. 
  • GNOSIS: guidelines for neuro-oncology: standards for investigational studies-reporting of phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials. 
  • Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. 
  • Genetic model for longitudinal studies of aging, health, and longevity and its potential application to incomplete data. 
  • Genotype-based association test for general pedigrees: the genotype-PDT. 
  • Geographical and interannual variability in biomass partitioning in grassland ecosystems: a synthesis of field data. 
  • Good research practices for cost-effectiveness analysis alongside clinical trials: the ISPOR RCT-CEA Task Force report. 
  • Goodness-of-fit tests for GEE modeling with binary responses. 
  • Graphics for dissemination of meta-analyses to staff nurses. 
  • Group comparisons: imaging the aging brain. 
  • Guidance on public reporting of healthcare-associated infections: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 
  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes. 
  • HIV risk behavior among patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders: associations with mania and drug abuse. 
  • HPV status-independent association of alcohol and tobacco exposure or prior radiation therapy with promoter methylation of FUSSEL18, EBF3, IRX1, and SEPT9, but not SLC5A8, in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. 
  • Has the chimpanzee Y chromosome been sequenced? 
  • Have randomized controlled trials of neuroprotective drugs been underpowered? An illustration of three statistical principles. 
  • Hearing outcomes after surgical plugging of the superior semicircular canal by a middle cranial fossa approach. 
  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2018 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association. 
  • Hemicraniectomy and durotomy upon deterioration from infarction-related swelling trial: randomized pilot clinical trial. 
  • Hepatocyte growth factor and myopia: genetic association analyses in a Caucasian population. 
  • High Dimensional Variable Selection with Error Control. 
  • High-resolution measurement of electrically-evoked vagus nerve activity in the anesthetized dog. 
  • High-throughput phenotyping with electronic medical record data using a common semi-supervised approach (PheCAP). 
  • How Bayesian statistics may help answer some of the controversial questions in clinical research on Alzheimer's disease. 
  • How accurately can we control the FDR in analyzing microarray data? 
  • How do states buy health insurance for their own employees? 
  • How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesity. 
  • Hypermutation in T cells questioned. 
  • IRT health outcomes data analysis project: an overview and summary. 
  • Identification of MCI individuals using structural and functional connectivity networks. 
  • Identification of dementia: agreement among national survey data, medicare claims, and death certificates. 
  • Identifying treatment effects of an informal caregiver education intervention to increase days in the community and decrease caregiver distress: a machine-learning secondary analysis of subgroup effects in the HI-FIVES randomized clinical trial. 
  • Illicit and nonmedical drug use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals. 
  • Impact of Artifacts From Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer and Macula Scans on Detection of Glaucoma Progression. 
  • Impact of baseline covariate imbalance on bias in treatment effect estimation in cluster randomized trials: Race as an example. 
  • Impact of correlation on predictive ability of biomarkers. 
  • Impact of immortal person-time and time scale in comparative effectiveness research for medical devices: a case for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Impact of weighted composite compared to traditional composite endpoints for the design of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Implications of complex adaptive systems theory for interpreting research about health care organizations. 
  • Implications of patient selection and surgical technique for primary total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Importance of health system context for evaluating utilization patterns across systems. 
  • Improved efficacy of temporally non-regular deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. 
  • Improved prediction of treatment response using microarrays and existing biological knowledge. 
  • Improving Depression Among HIV-Infected Adults: Transporting the Effect of a Depression Treatment Intervention to Routine Care. 
  • In the rat, chronic intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence alters the ethanol sensitivity of tonic inhibition in adulthood. 
  • In vitro comparative study of hemostatic components in warfarin-treated and fibrinogen-deficient plasma. 
  • Increasing proportion of clinical trials using noninferiority end points. 
  • Independent research by early investigators: an underutilized option. 
  • Individual utilities are inconsistent with rationing choices: A partial explanation of why Oregon's cost-effectiveness list failed. 
  • Infectious diseases of the upper respiratory tract: implications for toxicology studies. 
  • Inference for case-control studies when exposure status is both informatively missing and misclassified. 
  • Inference for correlated effect sizes using multiple univariate meta-analyses. 
  • Inferential ecosystem models, from network data to prediction. 
  • Insights on the robust variance estimator under recurrent-events model. 
  • Integrated detection of natural antisense transcripts using strand-specific RNA sequencing data. 
  • Integrating multiple data sources (MUDS) for meta-analysis to improve patient-centered outcomes research: a protocol. 
  • Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography. 
  • Intentional and unintentional nonadherence to antihypertensive medication. 
  • Interpretation of clinical trial results: a committee opinion. 
  • Interpreting analyses of continuous covariates in affected sibling pair linkage studies. 
  • Interpreting incremental value of markers added to risk prediction models. 
  • Interpreting statistics in medical literature: a vade mecum for surgeons. 
  • Interpreting statistics in the urological literature. 
  • Interpreting the Results of Intention-to-Treat, Per-Protocol, and As-Treated Analyses of Clinical Trials. 
  • Interval estimation for treatment effects using propensity score matching. 
  • Inverse consistent mapping in 3D deformable image registration: its construction and statistical properties. 
  • Inverse correlation between cerebral blood flow measured by continuous arterial spin-labeling (CASL) MRI and neurocognitive function in children with sickle cell anemia (SCA). 
  • Investigating the impact of observation errors on the statistical performance of network-based diffusion analysis. 
  • Is congruence between data partitions a reliable predictor of phylogenetic accuracy? Empirically testing an iterative procedure for choosing among phylogenetic methods. 
  • Is image steganography natural? 
  • Issues regarding aggregation of data in nursing systems research. 
  • Joint classifier and feature optimization for comprehensive cancer diagnosis using gene expression data. 
  • Joint cross-correlation analysis reveals complex, time-dependent functional relationship between cortical neurons and arm electromyograms. 
  • Joint modeling of sensitivity and specificity. 
  • Laboratory-based blood pressure recovery is a predictor of ambulatory blood pressure. 
  • Lack of impact of paramedic training and use of the cincinnati prehospital stroke scale on stroke patient identification and on-scene time. 
  • Lasting effects of developmental dexamethasone treatment on neural cell number and size, synaptic activity, and cell signaling: critical periods of vulnerability, dose-effect relationships, regional targets, and sex selectivity. 
  • Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder. 
  • Latent class analysis of discordance between results of drug use assessments in the CATIE data. 
  • Latent class analysis was accurate but sensitive in data simulations. 
  • Latent-model robustness in joint models for a primary endpoint and a longitudinal process. 
  • Lessons from Mendel about data analysis. 
  • Lidocaine blockade of continuously and transiently accessible sites in cardiac sodium channels. 
  • Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known. 
  • Linear mixed models with flexible distributions of random effects for longitudinal data. 
  • Linkage analysis in the spinal muscular atrophy type of facioscapulohumeral disease. 
  • Low-rank total variation for image super-resolution. 
  • Maintaining physiological state for exceptional survival: What is the normal level of blood glucose and does it change with age? 
  • Making treatment effect inferences from multiple-baseline data: the utility of multilevel modeling approaches. 
  • Managing clinical research data: software tools for hypothesis exploration. 
  • Maximum likelihood estimation of time to first event in the presence of data gaps and multiple events. 
  • Maximum margin semi-supervised learning with irrelevant data. 
  • Measuring preferences for health care interventions using conjoint analysis: an application to HIV testing. 
  • Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory version. 
  • Measuring what people value: a comparison of "attitude" and "preference" surveys. 
  • Medical data mining: knowledge discovery in a clinical data warehouse. 
  • Meta-analysis of environmental health data. 
  • Metabolic effects of voluntary wheel running in young and old Syrian golden hamsters. 
  • Methamphetamine use is associated with childhood sexual abuse and HIV sexual risk behaviors among patrons of alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Methodological issues in assertive community treatment studies. 
  • Methodologies used in nursing research designed to improve patient safety. 
  • Methods for analyzing health care utilization and costs. 
  • Methods for comparing durability of immune responses between vaccine regimens in early-phase trials. 
  • Methods for interaction analyses using family-based case-control data: conditional logistic regression versus generalized estimating equations. 
  • Methods for the analysis and assessment of clinical databases: the clinician's perspective. 
  • Methylphenidate effects on functional outcomes in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Methylprednisolone therapy in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis. A randomized multicenter trial. 
  • Minidose GnRH-2 for "poor responders." Cloning in place of data torturing? 
  • Minimally-invasive electrical stimulation of the pudendal nerve: a pre-clinical study for neural control of the lower urinary tract. 
  • Mining biomedical data using MetaMap Transfer (MMtx) and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). 
  • Missing data in the 2 x 2 table: patterns and likelihood-based analysis for cross-sectional studies with supplemental sampling. 
  • Misuse of DeLong test to compare AUCs for nested models. 
  • Mixed model analysis of censored longitudinal data with flexible random-effects density. 
  • Mixed noninferiority margin and statistical tests in active controlled trials. 
  • Model of hidden heterogeneity in longitudinal data. 
  • Modeling Semicontinuous Longitudinal Expenditures: A Practical Guide. 
  • Modeling human fertility in the presence of measurement error. 
  • Modelling covariance structure in the analysis of repeated measures data. 
  • Molecular prediction of recurrence of breast cancer. 
  • Molecular taxonomy of major neuronal classes in the adult mouse forebrain. 
  • Monitoring the randomized trials of the Women's Health Initiative: the experience of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board. 
  • Morphological studies of the murine heart based on probabilistic and statistical atlases. 
  • Mortality versus survival graphs: improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness. 
  • Moving nursing beyond p < .05. 
  • Moving nursing beyond p < 0.05. 
  • Multi-marker strategies in heart failure: clinical and statistical approaches. 
  • Multiple imputation for missing data via sequential regression trees. 
  • Multisite reliability of cognitive BOLD data. 
  • Multivariable prognostic models: issues in developing models, evaluating assumptions and adequacy, and measuring and reducing errors. 
  • Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions. 
  • Myocilin polymorphisms and high myopia in subjects of European origin. 
  • Net reclassification improvement: computation, interpretation, and controversies: a literature review and clinician's guide. 
  • Neural substrate of modified and unmodified pathways for learning in monkey vestibuloocular reflex. 
  • Neuronal adaptation caused by sequential visual stimulation in the frontal eye field. 
  • Nicotine exposure in adolescence alters the response of serotonin systems to nicotine administered subsequently in adulthood. 
  • No association between hospital-reported perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and outcome rates in publicly reported data. 
  • Nonparametric Bayes modeling for case control studies with many predictors. 
  • Nonparametric Bayesian dictionary learning for analysis of noisy and incomplete images. 
  • Nonparametric bayes testing of changes in a response distribution with an ordinal predictor. 
  • Nonparametric estimation and inference for polytomous discrimination index. 
  • Nonparametric estimation of median survival times with applications to multi-site or multi-center studies. 
  • Nonparametric inference on median residual life function. 
  • Normative Data for Interpreting the BREAST-Q: Augmentation. 
  • Novelty-induced locomotion is positively associated with cocaine ingestion in adolescent rats; anxiety is correlated in adults. 
  • Observer variability of Osler's maneuver in detection of pseudohypertension. 
  • Occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War veterans. 
  • Odds Ratios-Current Best Practice and Use. 
  • On assessing bioequivalence using genomic data with model misspecification. 
  • On flexibility of adaptive designs and criteria for choosing a good one--a discussion of FDA draft guidance. 
  • On likelihood distance for outliers detection. 
  • On sample size estimation and re-estimation adjusting for variability in confirmatory trials. 
  • On sample size requirement for analytical similarity assessment. 
  • On the C-statistics for evaluating overall adequacy of risk prediction procedures with censored survival data. 
  • On the assessment of dose proportionality: a comparison of two slope approaches. 
  • On the establishment of equivalence acceptance criterion in analytical similarity assessment. 
  • Opioid-volatile anesthetic synergy: a response surface model with remifentanil and sevoflurane as prototypes. 
  • Optical coherence tomography measurements and analysis methods in optical coherence tomography studies of diabetic macular edema. 
  • Optimal two-stage log-rank test for randomized phase II clinical trials. 
  • Optimization of a highly standardized carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester flow cytometry panel and gating strategy design using discriminative information measure evaluation. 
  • Outcome of recruitment and report on participation rate in the New Mexico Elder Health Survey. 
  • Outcome- and auxiliary-dependent subsampling and its statistical inference. 
  • Overview of FEED, the feeding experiments end-user database. 
  • Panel discussion 1. 
  • Parent versus teacher ratings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Pathway analysis using random forests classification and regression. 
  • PenPC: A two-step approach to estimate the skeletons of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs. 
  • Pencina et al. respond to "The incremental value of new markers" and "Clinically relevant measures? A note of caution". 
  • Periventricular and subcortical nodular heterotopia. A study of 33 patients. 
  • Persistent neurobehavioral effects of early postnatal domoic acid exposure in rats. 
  • Phase II cancer clinical trials with heterogeneous patient populations. 
  • Phase II clinical trials with time-to-event endpoints: optimal two-stage designs with one-sample log-rank test. 
  • Pixel driven implementation of filtered backprojection for reconstruction of fan beam SPECT data using a position dependent effective projection bin length. 
  • Power and sample size requirements for GEE analyses of cluster randomized crossover trials. 
  • Power calculations for large multi-arm placebo-controlled studies of dichotomous outcomes. 
  • Practical outcomes of applying ensemble machine learning classifiers to High-Throughput Screening (HTS) data analysis and screening. 
  • Predicting peak oxygen uptake among older patients with chronic illness. 
  • Predictive Factors of Kinematics in Traumatic Brain Injury from Head Impacts Based on Statistical Interpretation. 
  • Preliminary evidence of linkage of salt sensitivity in black Americans at the beta 2-adrenergic receptor locus. 
  • Preliminary evidence on retention rates of primary care physicians in rural and urban areas. 
  • Presenting Risks and Benefits: Helping the Data Monitoring Committee Do Its Job. 
  • Pressure corrections for CoCl2 as a thermometer in an analytic ultracentrifuge. 
  • Problems with the randomized discontinuation design. 
  • Promise of combined low-molecular-weight heparin and platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition: results from Platelet IIb/IIIa Antagonist for the Reduction of Acute coronary syndrome events in a Global Organization Network B (PARAGON B). 
  • Propensity Score-Based Estimators With Multiple Error-Prone Covariates. 
  • Propensity score interval matching: using bootstrap confidence intervals for accommodating estimation errors of propensity scores. 
  • Proper Use of Multiple Imputation and Dealing with Missing Covariate Data. 
  • Proper multivariate conditional autoregressive models for spatial data analysis. 
  • Properties and pitfalls of weighting as an alternative to multilevel multiple imputation in cluster randomized trials with missing binary outcomes under covariate-dependent missingness. 
  • Proposals of statistical consideration to evaluation of results for a specific region in multi-regional trials--Asian perspective. 
  • Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) statistical analysis plan. 
  • Protocolized Post-Extubation Respiratory Support to prevent reintubation: protocol and statistical analysis plan for a clinical trial. 
  • Proximal versus distal cues to smoke: the effects of environments on smokers' cue-reactivity. 
  • Psychosocial benefits of cardiac rehabilitation among women compared with men. 
  • Publication criteria for statistical prediction models. 
  • Pulmonary artery catheter. 
  • Quantifying discrimination of Framingham risk functions with different survival C statistics. 
  • Quantifying the complexity of random Boolean networks. 
  • Quetiapine as monotherapy for social anxiety disorder: a placebo-controlled study. 
  • Random forests for genetic association studies. 
  • Randomization by cluster. 
  • Randomized controlled trials, antibiotics, and cutaneous abscesses: has lack of statistical power prevented recognition of an effective therapy? 
  • Recommendations for Reporting Machine Learning Analyses in Clinical Research. 
  • Recommendations for data monitoring committees from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. 
  • Recording evoked potentials during deep brain stimulation: development and validation of instrumentation to suppress the stimulus artefact. 
  • Redefine statistical significance. 
  • Regression to the Mean: A Commonly Overlooked and Misunderstood Factor Leading to Unjustified Conclusions in Pediatric Obesity Research. 
  • Rejoinder to the discussion of "a Bayesian missing data framework for generalized multiple outcome mixed treatment comparisons," by S. Dias and A. E. Ades. 
  • Relation of prescription nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use to cognitive function among community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Relative Measures of Association for Binary Outcomes: Challenges and Recommendations for the Global Health Researcher. 
  • Relative effects of statin therapy on stroke and cardiovascular events in men and women: secondary analysis of the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) Study. 
  • Reporting of harm in randomized controlled trials published in the urological literature. 
  • Reproducibility of interfraction lung motion probability distribution function using dynamic MRI: statistical analysis. 
  • Requiring 'independent' statistical analyses for industry sponsored trials? 
  • Research design in end-of-life research: state of science. 
  • Response reliability observed with voltage-sensitive dye imaging of cortical layer 2/3: the probability of activation hypothesis. 
  • Rethinking randomized clinical trials for comparative effectiveness research: the need for transformational change. 
  • Retinal vascular fractal dimension is associated with cognitive dysfunction. 
  • Risk and physical therapy. 
  • Risk score for intracranial hemorrhage in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. 
  • Role of arcuate frontal cortex of monkeys in smooth pursuit eye movements. II. Relation to vector averaging pursuit. 
  • Role of prefrontal and anterior cingulate regions in decision-making processes shared by memory and nonmemory tasks. 
  • SQUIRE Guidelines for reporting improvement studies in healthcare: implications for nursing publications. 
  • Sample size calculation for multiple testing in microarray data analysis. 
  • Sample size calculation for simulation-based multiple-testing procedures. 
  • Sample size calculation for studies with grouped survival data. 
  • Sample size calculations for evaluating a diagnostic test when the gold standard is missing at random. 
  • Sample size calculations for evaluating a diagnostic test when the gold standard is missing at random. 
  • Sample size computation for two-sample noninferiority log-rank test. 
  • Sample size estimation for GEE method for comparing slopes in repeated measurements data. 
  • Sample size for FDR-control in microarray data analysis. 
  • Sample size requirement in analytical studies for similarity assessment. 
  • Science incubators: synthesis centers and their role in the research ecosystem 
  • Score and deviance residuals based on the full likelihood approach in survival analysis. 
  • Search for the standard model Higgs Boson produced in association with top quarks using the full CDF data set. 
  • Segregation analysis in cutaneous malignant melanoma/dysplastic nevus syndrome families. 
  • Selection of HIV vaccine candidates for concurrent testing in an efficacy trial. 
  • Self-organizing dominance hierarchies in a wild primate population. 
  • Semiparametric Bayesian local functional models for diffusion tensor tract statistics. 
  • Semiparametric bayes' proportional odds models for current status data with underreporting. 
  • Semisupervised learning of hidden Markov models via a homotopy method. 
  • Sex and pain-related psychological variables are associated with thermal pain sensitivity for patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Sex differences in cocaine-stimulated motor behavior: disparate effects of gonadectomy. 
  • Shaken baby syndrome: a flawed biomechanical analysis. 
  • Should statisticians reporting to data monitoring committees be independent of the trial sponsor and leadership? 
  • Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single-SNP association from case-control genome-wide association studies. 
  • Simulator training enhances resident performance in transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Simultaneous record linkage and causal inference with propensity score subclassification. 
  • Six subphenotypes in septic shock: Latent class analysis of the PROWESS Shock study. 
  • Sliding window and regression based cup detection in digital fundus images for glaucoma diagnosis. 
  • Smoothing bandwidth selection for response latency estimation. 
  • Some general estimation methods for nonlinear mixed-effects models. 
  • Sorting multiple classes in multi-dimensional ROC analysis: parametric and nonparametric approaches. 
  • Space-time data fusion under error in computer model output: an application to modeling air quality. 
  • Spectrum of immune-mediated inner ear disease and cochlear implant results. 
  • Staging techniques for lung cancer. 
  • Statistical 4D graphs for multi-organ abdominal segmentation from multiphase CT. 
  • Statistical Methods for Conditional Survival Analysis. 
  • Statistical analysis methods for QT/QTc prolongation. 
  • Statistical analysis of RNA backbone. 
  • Statistical analysis of genetic interactions in Tn-Seq data. 
  • Statistical analysis plan for the control of blood pressure and risk attenuation-rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (COBRA-BPS) trial: a cluster randomized trial for a multicomponent intervention versus usual care in hypertensive patients. 
  • Statistical analysis plans in observational research--reply. 
  • Statistical challenges in preprocessing in microarray experiments in cancer. 
  • Statistical consideration of adaptive methods in clinical development. 
  • Statistical issues for design and analysis of single-arm multi-stage phase II cancer clinical trials. 
  • Statistical issues in the analysis and interpretation of outcomes for congenital cardiac surgery. 
  • Statistical methods for bridging studies. 
  • Statistical methods for the assessment of EQAPOL proficiency testing: ELISpot, Luminex, and Flow Cytometry. 
  • Statistical methods for the time-to-event analysis of individual participant data from multiple epidemiological studies. 
  • Statistical methods in SUPPORT. 
  • Statistical properties of Jacobian maps and the realization of unbiased large-deformation nonlinear image registration. 
  • Statistical quality control process for traditional Chinese medicine. 
  • Statistics for ChIP-chip and DNase hypersensitivity experiments on NimbleGen arrays. 
  • Stochastic model for analysis of longitudinal data on aging and mortality. 
  • Stopping a clinical trial early: frequentist and Bayesian approaches applied to a CALGB trial in non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Strategies for Addressing a Broader Definition of Conflicts of Interest. 
  • Strategies for analyzing multilevel cluster-randomized studies with binary outcomes collected at varying intervals of time. 
  • Stratification and weighting via the propensity score in estimation of causal treatment effects: a comparative study. 
  • Strength of accumulating evidence and data monitoring committee decision making. 
  • Stroke in patients with asymptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. 
  • Structure and Control of Healthy Worker Effects in Studies of Pregnancy Outcomes. 
  • Structured interview and uniform assessment improves diagnostic reliability. 
  • Substantial postoperative pain is common among children undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy. 
  • Surgeons' economic profiles: can we get the "right" answers? 
  • Survival after bariatric surgery among high-risk patients. 
  • Synonyms in health services research methodology. 
  • System-integrated technology-enabled model of care (SINEMA) to improve the health of stroke patients in rural China: Statistical analysis plan for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Systemic mechanisms of individual reproductive life history in female Medflies. 
  • Talking about treatment. 
  • Targeted prostate biopsy using statistical image analysis. 
  • Taxonomy of Caribbean tourism alcohol venues: implications for HIV transmission. 
  • Temporal patterns of antihypertensive medication use among older adults, 1989 through 1992. An effect of the major clinical trials on clinical practice? 
  • Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice. 
  • Tensor network factorizations: Relationships between brain structural connectomes and traits. 
  • Testing efficacy with detection controlled estimation: an application to telemedicine. 
  • Testing for risk and protective trends in genetic analyses of HIV acquisition. 
  • Testing gene-treatment interactions in pharmacogenetic studies. 
  • Testing homogeneity of two zero-inflated Poisson populations. 
  • Testing random effects in the linear mixed model using approximate bayes factors. 
  • Testing the Relative Performance of Data Adaptive Prediction Algorithms: A Generalized Test of Conditional Risk Differences. 
  • The APL test: extension to general nuclear families and haplotypes and examination of its robustness. 
  • The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive-Plus (ADAS-Cog-Plus): an expansion of the ADAS-Cog to improve responsiveness in MCI. 
  • The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative: Methodology supporting the mission. 
  • The Cobalt chromium STent with Antiproliferative for Restenosis II (COSTAR II) trial study design: advancing the active-control evaluation of second-generation drug-eluting stents. 
  • The Immunology Quality Assessment Proficiency Testing Program for CD3⁺4⁺ and CD3⁺8⁺ lymphocyte subsets: a ten year review via longitudinal mixed effects modeling. 
  • The Relative Benefits of Meta-Analysis Conducted With Individual Participant Data Versus Aggregated Data 
  • The accuracy of statistical estimates in genetic studies of aging can be significantly improved. 
  • The anticoagulant effect of protamine sulfate is attenuated in the presence of platelets or elevated factor VIII concentrations. 
  • The bias busters. 
  • The case against independent monitoring committees. 
  • The database for aggregate analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT) and subsequent regrouping by clinical specialty. 
  • The effect of class imbalance on case selection for case-based classifiers: an empirical study in the context of medical decision support. 
  • The effect of risk factor misclassification on the partial population attributable risk. 
  • The effect of variance function estimation on nonlinear calibration inference in immunoassay data. 
  • The electrophysiological time course of the interaction of stimulus conflict and the multisensory spread of attention. 
  • The ethics of hypofractionation for prostate cancer. 
  • The evaluation of treatment when center-specific selection criteria vary with respect to patient risk. 
  • The extrapolated reference values procedure: Theory, algorithm, and results in patients and control subjects. 
  • The fMRI BOLD signal tracks electrophysiological spectral perturbations, not event-related potentials. 
  • The gene expression profiles of medulloblastoma cell lines resistant to preactivated cyclophosphamide. 
  • The impact of acute herpes zoster pain and discomfort on functional status and quality of life in older adults. 
  • The impact of statistical adjustment on economic profiles of interventional cardiologists. 
  • The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices. 
  • The impact of the perimetric measurement scale, sample composition, and statistical method on the structure-function relationship in glaucoma. 
  • The incidence of seizures in patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. 
  • The influences on human longevity by HUMTHO1.STR polymorphism (Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene). A relative risk approach. 
  • The neural signatures of distinct psychopathic traits 
  • The pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment study: rationale, design, and methods. 
  • The perils of partialling: cautionary tales from aggression and psychopathy. 
  • The rationale and development of an adult cardiac anesthesia module to supplement the society of thoracic surgeons national database: using data to drive quality. 
  • The restricted cubic spline as baseline hazard in the proportional hazards model with step function time-dependent covariables. 
  • The review process fails to require appropriate statistical analysis of a group-randomized trial. 
  • The risks of odds ratios: Relative risks are more naturally understood. 
  • The role of the c-statistic in variable selection for propensity score models. 
  • The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: evidence from the psychopathic personality inventory. 
  • The value of statistical analysis plans in observational research: defining high-quality research from the start. 
  • The weighted generalized estimating equations approach for the evaluation of medical diagnostic test at subunit level. 
  • There is no impact of exposure measurement error on latency estimation in linear models. 
  • Three perspectives on work-related injury surveillance systems. 
  • Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?: Comparing 2 approaches to implausible values of change in body size. 
  • Time series analysis of rhythmic bacterial resistance development to antibiotics. 
  • Toward Synthesizing Our Knowledge of Morphology: Using Ontologies and Machine Reasoning to Extract Presence/Absence Evolutionary Phenotypes across Studies. 
  • Toward a more meaningful in vitro fertilization success rate. 
  • Toward understanding the difference between using patients or encounters in the accounting of emergency department utilization. 
  • Transparency, usability, and reproducibility: Guiding principles for improving comparative databases using primates as examples. 
  • Two questions about the analysis and interpretation of randomised trials. 
  • Understanding confounding and mediation. 
  • Understanding the temporal evolution of neuronal connectivity in cultured networks using statistical analysis. 
  • University of Pennsylvania 11th annual conference on statistical issues in clinical trials: Estimands, missing data and sensitivity analysis (morning panel session). 
  • University of Pennsylvania 12th annual conference on statistical issues in clinical trials: Electronic health records in randomized clinical trials-challenges and opportunities (morning panel session). 
  • University of Pennsylvania eighth annual conference on statistical issues in clinical trials: Pragmatic clinical trials (afternoon panel). 
  • Update to the Vitamin C, Thiamine and Steroids in Sepsis (VICTAS) protocol: statistical analysis plan for a prospective, multicenter, double-blind, adaptive sample size, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. 
  • Use of MindMapper software for research domain mapping. 
  • Use of design effects and sample weights in complex health survey data: a review of published articles using data from 3 commonly used adolescent health surveys. 
  • Use of patient-reported outcomes in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials. 
  • Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis. 
  • Use of statistical analyses in the ophthalmic literature. 
  • Using Instrumental Variables to Address Bias From Unobserved Confounders. 
  • Using Testlet Response Theory to analyze data from a survey of attitude change among breast cancer survivors. 
  • Using a latent variable approach to inform gender and racial/ethnic differences in cocaine dependence: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Using clinical trial summary results to establish quality measures [4] 
  • Using inverse probability-weighted estimators in comparative effectiveness analyses with observational databases. 
  • Using item response theory with health system data to identify latent groups of patients with multiple health conditions. 
  • Using observational data to estimate prognosis: an example using a coronary artery disease registry. 
  • Using pilot data to size a two-arm randomized trial to find a nearly optimal personalized treatment strategy. 
  • Utilizing propensity scores to estimate causal treatment effects with censored time-lagged data. 
  • Vaginal native tissue repair versus transvaginal mesh repair for apical prolapse: how utilizing different methods of analysis affects the estimated trade-off between reoperation for mesh exposure/erosion and reoperation for recurrent prolapse. 
  • Validation of lesion simulations in clinical CT data for anonymized chest and abdominal CT databases. 
  • Value of frozen-section analysis of sentinel lymph nodes for primary cutaneous malignant melanoma. 
  • Variation in recombination rate may bias human genetic disease mapping studies. 
  • Vasodilator monotherapy in the treatment of hypertension: comparative efficacy and safety of pinacidil, a potassium channel opener, and prazosin. 
  • Vatalanib population pharmacokinetics in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome: CALGB 10105 (Alliance). 
  • Visual representations by cortical somatostatin inhibitory neurons--selective but with weak and delayed responses. 
  • Voltammetric and mathematical evidence for dual transport mediation of serotonin clearance in vivo. 
  • What is sufficient evidence for the reliability and validity of patient-reported outcome measures? 
  • What predicts attrition in second step medication treatments for depression?: a STAR*D Report. 
  • What you see may not be what you get: a brief, nontechnical introduction to overfitting in regression-type models. 
  • Why statistics? 
  • Work-related eye injuries among union carpenters. 
  • Working With Statisticians in Clinical Research. 
  • Zoledronate, fractures, and mortality after hip fracture. 
  • [A new quality of the therapy of anxiety and depression--escitalopram]. 
  • [Estimation of gene-environment interaction regarding partial case-control study with missing data on gene information of the controls]. 
  • [Performance measures for prediction models and markers: evaluation of predictions and classifications]. 
  • ε-Aminocaproic acid and clinical value in cardiac anesthesia. 
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