Statistics as Topic

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Short course" bortezomib plus melphalan and prednisone as induction prior to transplant or as frontline therapy for nontransplant candidates in patients with previously untreated multiple myeloma. 
  • A Bayesian method for synthesizing evidence. The Confidence Profile Method. 
  • A Bayesian missing data framework for generalized multiple outcome mixed treatment comparisons. 
  • A Test of Kangaroo Care on Preterm Infant Breastfeeding. 
  • A cohort analysis of U.S. stomach cancer mortality 1950-1977. 
  • A comparison of frequency distributions for use in a model for selecting treatment in coronary artery disease. 
  • A comparison of several tests for censored paired data. 
  • A comparison of thrombolytic therapy with operative revascularization in the initial treatment of acute peripheral arterial ischemia. 
  • A comparison of two methods of estimating a common risk difference in a stratified analysis of a multicenter clinical trial. 
  • A computer program for survival comparisons to a standard population. 
  • A multi-dimensional model for projecting family households--with an illustrative numerical application. 
  • A multidimensional approach to case mix for home health services. 
  • A practical approach for comparing means of two groups without equal variance assumption. 
  • A school-based, peer leadership physical activity intervention for 6th graders: feasibility and results of a pilot study. 
  • A simulation test of Smith's "Degrees of freedom" correction for comparative studies. 
  • A survey of monitoring practices in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Absence of association of asporin polymorphisms and osteoarthritis susceptibility in US Caucasians. 
  • Accelerometer data reduction: a comparison of four reduction algorithms on select outcome variables. 
  • Acute changes in cerebral blood flow after smoking marijuana. 
  • Adaptive clinical trial design. 
  • Adaptive design methods in clinical trials - a review. 
  • Adult age differences in the functional neuroanatomy of visual attention: a combined fMRI and DTI study. 
  • Advances in drug therapy for peptic ulcer disease. 
  • Advances in mediation analysis can facilitate nursing research. 
  • Affective illness and HLA frequencies: no compelling association. 
  • Age validation of Han Chinese centenarians. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Alterations in polyamine metabolism during continuous intravenous infusion of alpha-difluoromethylornithine showing correlation of thrombocytopenia with alpha-difluoromethylornithine plasma levels. 
  • Ambivalence over emotional expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their caregivers: associations with patient pain and quality of life. 
  • Amebiasis in a mental institution: serologic and epidemiologic studies. 
  • An 'electronic' extramural course in epidemiology and medical statistics. 
  • An evaluation of constrained randomization for the design and analysis of group-randomized trials. 
  • An extension of the sign test for replicated measurements. 
  • An in vivo analysis of the effect and duration of treatment with botulinum toxin type A using digital image speckle correlation. 
  • An instrumental variable approach finds no associated harm or benefit with early dialysis initiation in the United States. 
  • Analysis of long range correlations due to coherent light scattering from in-vitro cell arrays using angle-resolved low coherence interferometry. 
  • Analysis of the components of CHD risk in the Framingham study: new multivariate procedures for the analysis of chronic disease development. 
  • Aortic aneurysmal disease: assessment of stent-graft treatment-CT versus conventional angiography. 
  • Approaches to the nonparametric analysis of limited longitudinal data sets. 
  • Aquatic risk assessment of a polycarboxylate dispersant polymer used in laundry detergents. 
  • Are microvascular abnormalities in the retina associated with depression symptoms? The Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Assessing housestaff diagnostic skills using a cardiology patient simulator. 
  • Assessment of activity status and survival according to the Canadian Cardiovascular Society angina classification. 
  • Association Between Baseline Affective Disorders and 30-Day Readmission Rates in Patients Undergoing Elective Spine Surgery. 
  • Association Between Baseline Corticothalamic-Mediated Inhibitory Control and Smoking Relapse Vulnerability. 
  • Association between admission white blood cell count and one-year mortality in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association of a pulsatile blood flow pattern on coronary arteriography and short-term clinical outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Association of center volume with mortality and complications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Association of comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder symptoms with health-related quality of life: results from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 
  • Associations between dopamine D2 receptor availability and BMI depend on age. 
  • Associations between hemoglobin level, resource use, and medical costs in patients with heart failure: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Associations between positive emotional well-being and stress-induced myocardial ischemia: Well-being scores predict exercise-induced ischemia. 
  • Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. 
  • Auditory signals evolve from hybrid- to eye-centered coordinates in the primate superior colliculus. 
  • Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Baseline Characteristics Predict the Presence of Amyloid on Endomyocardial Biopsy. 
  • Bayes or bootstrap? A simulation study comparing the performance of Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and bootstrapping in assessing phylogenetic confidence. 
  • Bayesian hierarchical models for network meta-analysis incorporating nonignorable missingness. 
  • Biostatistical principles of laboratory diagnostic test development [proceedings] 
  • Bistability and correlation with arrhythmogenesis in a model of the right atrium. 
  • Blood pressure control and awareness among patients with diabetes and hypertension attending a tertiary ophthalmic clinic. 
  • Body mass index and depressive symptoms in older adults: the moderating roles of race, sex, and socioeconomic status. 
  • Brain metabolite profiles of T1-hypointense lesions in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. 
  • Brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptor occupancy: effect of smoking a denicotinized cigarette. 
  • Breast cancer screening behaviors and attitudes in three racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Bridging the information gap between health and the environment in North Carolina. 
  • C-reactive protein elevation independently influences the procedural success of percutaneous balloon mitral valve commissurotomy. 
  • Can three incongruence tests predict when data should be combined? 
  • Can we eliminate placebo in ALS clinical trials? 
  • Cardiac function at rest and during exercise in normals and in patients with coronary heart disease: evaluation by radionuclide angiocardiography. 
  • Cardiac troponin T elevation after coronary artery bypass grafting is associated with increased one-year mortality. 
  • Characteristic cortical thickness patterns in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: interactions with age and intellectual ability revealed by canonical correlation analysis. 
  • Chinese Norms for the Autism Spectrum Rating Scale. 
  • Cigarette smoking and acute non-influenzal respiratory disease in military cadets. 
  • Cigarette smoking and hemagglutination inhibition response to influenza after natural disease and immunization. 
  • Circulating Estrogen Levels and Self-Reported Health and Mobility Limitation in Community-Dwelling Men of the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Classifying individuals based on a densely captured sequence of vital signs: An example using repeated blood pressure measurements during hemodialysis treatment. 
  • Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes of the Simpliciti Canal-Sparing Shoulder Arthroplasty System: A Prospective Two-Year Multicenter Study. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients with systolic dysfunction and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: findings from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Clinical evaluation for sinusitis. Making the diagnosis by history and physical examination. 
  • Clinical profile of suvorexant for the treatment of insomnia over 3 months in women and men: subgroup analysis of pooled phase-3 data. 
  • Clinical research and statistical methods in the urology literature. 
  • Clinical use of hyaluronic acid as a predictor of fibrosis change in hepatitis C. 
  • Clinicopathologic correlations in the oligodendroglioma. 
  • Cloud-based solution to identify statistically significant MS peaks differentiating sample categories. 
  • Cognitive and neural contributors to emotion regulation in aging. 
  • Cognitive and somatic symptoms of depression are associated with medical comorbidity in patients after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Cognitive control in mild traumatic brain injury: conflict monitoring and conflict adaptation. 
  • Coital risk factors for cervical cancer. Sexual activity among white middle class women. 
  • College smokers' estimates of their probabilities of remaining a smoker in the near future. 
  • Common methodological terms in health services research and their synonyms [correction of symptoms]. 
  • Comorbid substance and mental disorders among rural Americans: results from the National Comorbidity Survey. 
  • Comorbidity. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in elderly patients undergoing revascularization of chronic total coronary occlusions: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry, 2005-2008. 
  • Comparative strengths and structural properties of the upper and lower cervical spine in flexion and extension. 
  • Comparing the 7-day physical activity recall with a triaxial accelerometer for measuring time in exercise. 
  • Comparison of adaptive treatment strategies based on longitudinal outcomes in sequential multiple assignment randomized trials. 
  • Computer programs for the concordance correlation coefficient. 
  • Conceptual similarity promotes generalization of higher order fear learning. 
  • Concordance of hypervascular liver nodule characterization between the organ procurement and transplant network and liver imaging reporting and data system classifications. 
  • Confirmatory factor analysis: an introduction for psychosomatic medicine researchers. 
  • Controversies in community-based psychiatric epidemiology: let the data speak for themselves. 
  • Coronary perfusion during acute myocardial infarction with a combined therapy of coronary angioplasty and high-dose intravenous streptokinase. 
  • Correlated individual frailty: an advantageous approach to survival analysis of bivariate data. 
  • Correlation between changes in regional cerebral blood flow and pain relief in complex regional pain syndrome type 1. 
  • Correlation of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes with cognitive status: a review of the literature. 
  • Correlation of MIC with outcome for Candida species tested against caspofungin, anidulafungin, and micafungin: analysis and proposal for interpretive MIC breakpoints. 
  • Correlation of leukocytosis with early neurological deterioration following supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Correlation of lymphocyte heat shock protein 70 levels with neurologic deficits in elderly patients with cerebral infarction. 
  • Cortisol responses to emotional stress in men: association with a functional polymorphism in the 5HTR2C gene. 
  • Deciding for others. 
  • Defective monocyte function in patients with genitourinary carcinoma. 
  • Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life. 
  • Defining oppositional defiant disorder. 
  • Depression and anxiety symptoms are related to increased 24-hour urinary norepinephrine excretion among healthy middle-aged women. 
  • Depression morbidity in later life: prevalence and correlates in a developing country. 
  • Detecting treatment-by-centre interaction in multi-centre clinical trials. 
  • Determination of HBCD, PBDEs and MeO-BDEs in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) stranded between 1993 and 2003. 
  • Developing educational resources for population genetics in R: an open and collaborative approach. 
  • Development of a scoring system to predict mortality from upper gastrointestinal bleeding. 
  • Differences between depressed patients with heart failure and those with pulmonary disease. 
  • Dissociated effects of anticipating smoking versus monetary reward in the caudate as a function of smoking abstinence. 
  • Distinguishing between selection and population expansion in an experimental lineage of bacteriophage T7. 
  • Diverse neurotoxicants converge on gene expression for neuropeptides and their receptors in an in vitro model of neurodifferentiation: effects of chlorpyrifos, diazinon, dieldrin and divalent nickel in PC12 cells. 
  • Dividing the blood pressures from the Los Angeles heart study into two normal distributions. 
  • Does physical abuse in early childhood predict substance use in adolescence and early adulthood? 
  • Dose response studies in cotton textile workers. 
  • Dyspnoea and worsening heart failure in patients with acute heart failure: results from the Pre-RELAX-AHF study. 
  • Early physical abuse and later violent delinquency: a prospective longitudinal study. 
  • Effect of 10-day courses of human growth hormone on height of short children. 
  • Effect of Obesity and Underweight Status on Perioperative Outcomes of Congenital Heart Operations in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: An Analysis of Data From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Effect of patient size on radiation dose for abdominal MDCT with automatic tube current modulation: phantom study. 
  • Effects of Alzheimer disease on fronto-parietal brain N-acetyl aspartate and myo-inositol using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. 
  • Effects of clopidogrel and aspirin combination versus aspirin alone on platelet aggregation and major receptor expression in patients with heart failure: the Plavix Use for Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure (PLUTO-CHF) trial. 
  • Electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of the approximate number system in preschoolers' processing of spoken number words. 
  • Elevated Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Young Children with OCD. 
  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. 
  • Estimates of echo correlation and measurement bias in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • Estimation of energetic condition in wild baboons using fecal thyroid hormone determination. 
  • Evaluating the evidence: statistical methods in randomized controlled trials in the urological literature. 
  • Evaluating treatment efficacy by multiple end points in phase II acute heart failure clinical trials: analyzing data using a global method. 
  • Evaluation of serum immunoglobulin concentrations in the perinatal period by use of a standardized method of measurement. 
  • Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients. 
  • Evidence of viral adaptation to HLA class I-restricted immune pressure in chronic hepatitis C virus infection. 
  • Evolution in a spatially structured population subject to rare epidemics. 
  • Exposures and mortality among chrysotile asbestos workers. Part II: mortality. 
  • Factors related to an effective referral and consultation process. 
  • Family conflict in childhood: a predictor of later insomnia. 
  • Field methods in medical record abstraction: assessing the properties of comparative effectiveness estimates. 
  • Findings from a nursing student CPR study: implications for staff development educators. 
  • Food Insecurity Is Associated with Cognitive Deficits Among HIV-Positive, But Not HIV-Negative, Individuals in a United States Sample. 
  • Functional brain activation to emotional and nonemotional faces in healthy children: evidence for developmentally undifferentiated amygdala function during the school-age period. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias. 
  • Gated 99mTc-tetrofosmin and 18F-FDG studies: a comparison of single-acquisition and separate-acquisition protocols. 
  • Gender differences in heterosexual anal sex practices among women and men in substance abuse treatment. 
  • Gender differences in the association between religious involvement and depression: the Cache County (Utah) study. 
  • Gender-based violence, alcohol use, and sexual risk among female patrons of drinking venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Generalizations about general anesthesia: the unsubstantiated condemnation of general anesthesia for patients undergoing intra-arterial therapy for anterior circulation stroke. 
  • Generalized anxiety and C-reactive protein levels: a prospective, longitudinal analysis. 
  • Genetic factors in susceptibility to death: a comparative analysis of bivariate survival models. 
  • Genetic nature of individual frailty: comparison of two approaches. 
  • Genotype-based association test for general pedigrees: the genotype-PDT. 
  • Grade of Membership generalizations and aging research. 
  • Grading the severity of chronic pain. 
  • Group-constrained sparse fMRI connectivity modeling for mild cognitive impairment identification. 
  • Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) in patients admitted for acute heart failure: results from the RELAX-AHF study. 
  • Guidelines for Genome-Scale Analysis of Biological Rhythms. 
  • Guidelines for statistical reporting. 
  • Half of the variation in susceptibility to mortality is genetic: findings from Swedish twin survival data. 
  • Have randomized controlled trials of neuroprotective drugs been underpowered? An illustration of three statistical principles. 
  • Have the results of randomized clinical trials of pacing altered the practice of cardiac pacing? 
  • Health-related quality of life in bereaved HIV-positive adults: relationships between HIV symptoms, grief, social support, and Axis II indication. 
  • Heart failure outcomes and benefits of NT-proBNP-guided management in the elderly: results from the prospective, randomized ProBNP outpatient tailored chronic heart failure therapy (PROTECT) study. 
  • Heparin dosing and outcome in acute coronary syndromes: the GUSTO-IIb experience. Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics. 
  • High prevalence of low HDL-c in the Philippines compared to the US: population differences in associations with diet and BMI. 
  • Higher Peripheral TREM2 mRNA Levels Relate to Cognitive Deficits and Hippocampal Atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Hippocampal volume is associated with physician-reported acute cognitive deficits after electroconvulsive therapy. 
  • Hippocampal volume measurement in older adults with bipolar disorder. 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • Hospitals as interpretation systems. 
  • How change in age-specific mortality affects life expectancy. 
  • Identification of co-regulated transcripts affecting male body size in Drosophila. 
  • Image/source statistics of surfaces in natural scenes. 
  • Impact of air filtration on nosocomial Aspergillus infections. Unique risk of bone marrow transplant recipients. 
  • Impairment of activities of daily living and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Improvements in distal lung function correlate with asthma symptoms after treatment with oral montelukast. 
  • Improving Nurse Competencies for Using Evidence in Practice: A Pilot Study of the Language of Data Program. 
  • Improving the detection of pressure ulcers using the TMI ImageMed system. 
  • Impulsivity as a common process across borderline personality and substance use disorders. 
  • In regard to Brenner et al. Direct evidence that prostate tumors show high sensitivity to fractionation (low alpha/beta ratio) similar to late-responding normal tissue. 
  • In vitro bioequivalence testing. 
  • In-vitro susceptibility of nosocomial gram-negative bloodstream pathogens to quinolones and other antibiotics--a statistical approach. 
  • Increased diversification rates follow shifts to bisexuality in liverworts. 
  • Independent component analyses for quantifying neuronal ensemble interactions. 
  • Individual aging and mortality rate: how are they related? 
  • Individual bioequivalence testing under 2x3 designs. 
  • Inference for reclassification statistics under nested and non-nested models for biomarker evaluation. 
  • Inferential statistical methods for strengthening the interpretation of laboratory test results. 
  • Inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility loci defined by genome scan meta-analysis of 1952 affected relative pairs. 
  • Information-limiting correlations. 
  • Interaction between serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and stressful life events in adolescents' trajectories of anxious/depressed symptoms. 
  • Interferon-alpha with zidovudine: safety, tolerance, and clinical and virologic effects in patients with Kaposi sarcoma associated with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 
  • Interinstitutional variation in the use of abciximab for percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Interocular differences of the visual field in normal subjects. 
  • Interrater reliability of the NIH stroke scale. 
  • Intracluster correlation adjustments to maintain power in cluster trials for binary outcomes. 
  • Introduction to metrology series. 
  • Is a reduction in radiation lung volume and dose necessary with paclitaxel chemotherapy for node-positive breast cancer? 
  • Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task. 
  • Is withholding osteoporosis medication after fracture sometimes rational? A comparison of the risk for second fracture versus death. 
  • LabKey Server NAb: a tool for analyzing, visualizing and sharing results from neutralizing antibody assays. 
  • Lansoprazole Is Associated with Worsening Asthma Control in Children with the CYP2C19 Poor Metabolizer Phenotype. 
  • Late abdominal aortic aneurysm enlargement after endovascular repair with the Excluder device. 
  • Lessons of War: Turning Data Into Decisions. 
  • Letter to the editor: "Comparing milled fiber, Quebec ore, and textile factory dust: has another piece of the asbestos puzzle fallen into place?" by D. Wayne Berman. 
  • Linking person and context in the daily stress process. 
  • Long-lasting novelty-induced neuronal reverberation during slow-wave sleep in multiple forebrain areas. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the dynamics and risk of coronary heart disease in the Framingham Study. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status. 
  • Lower levels of circulating progenitor cells are associated with low physical function and performance in elderly men with impaired glucose tolerance: a pilot substudy from the VA Enhanced Fitness trial. 
  • Maintaining physiological state for exceptional survival: What is the normal level of blood glucose and does it change with age? 
  • Management of infectious waste by US hospitals. 
  • Mantel-Haenszel statistics and direct standardization. 
  • Measurement of cortical thickness from MRI by minimum line integrals on soft-classified tissue. 
  • Measurement of synovial fluid volume using urea. 
  • Measures of arch height and their relationship to pain and dysfunction in people with lower limb impairments. 
  • Mechanical hyperalgesia and reduced quality of life occur in people with mild knee osteoarthritis pain. 
  • Memory and coping with stress: the relationship between cognitive-emotional distinctiveness, memory valence, and distress. 
  • Meta-analysis of age at onset in spastin-associated hereditary spastic paraplegia provides no evidence for a correlation with mutational class. 
  • Meta-analysis of the technical performance of an imaging procedure: guidelines and statistical methodology. 
  • Metabolic syndrome and risk of stroke: Protocol for an update systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Metacognition in monkeys during an oculomotor task. 
  • Methodological guidelines for impedance cardiography. 
  • Methods for comparing the mortality experience of heterogeneous populations. 
  • Methods for interaction analyses using family-based case-control data: conditional logistic regression versus generalized estimating equations. 
  • Methods for national population forecasts: a review. 
  • Methods for the analysis of mortality risks across heterogeneous small populations: examination of space-time gradients in cancer mortality in North Carolina counties 1970-75. 
  • Methylphenidate-elicited dopamine increases in ventral striatum are associated with long-term symptom improvement in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. 
  • Misuse of methamphetamine and prescription stimulants among youths and young adults in the community. 
  • Monitoring versus interim analysis of clinical trials: a perspective from the pharmaceutical industry. 
  • Mortality risk associated with ejection fraction differs across resting nuclear perfusion findings. 
  • Motivation, intentionality, and mind wandering: Implications for assessments of task-unrelated thought. 
  • Multiple Overimputation to Address Missing Data and Measurement Error: Application to HIV Treatment During Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes. 
  • Multiple local minima in IMRT optimization based on dose-volume criteria. 
  • Neural mechanisms of context effects on face recognition: automatic binding and context shift decrements. 
  • Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity. 
  • Neural tube defects and herbal medicines containing lead: a possible relationship. 
  • Neuropathology of nondemented aging: presumptive evidence for preclinical Alzheimer disease. 
  • Noise correlations in cortical area MT and their potential impact on trial-by-trial variation in the direction and speed of smooth-pursuit eye movements. 
  • Novel Heart Failure Biomarkers Predict Improvement of Mitral Regurgitation in Patients Receiving Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-The BIOCRT Study. 
  • Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: relationship between management practice and resident outcomes. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Odds Ratios-Current Best Practice and Use. 
  • Older patients' understanding of emergency department discharge information and its relationship with adverse outcomes. 
  • On safety margin for drug interchangeability. 
  • On the estimation of the binomial probability in multistage clinical trials. 
  • Open-label, ascending dose, prospective cohort study evaluating the antiviral efficacy of Rosuvastatin therapy in serum and lipid fractions in patients with chronic hepatitis C. 
  • Oropharyngeal dysphagia in infants and children with infantile Pompe disease. 
  • PIIANP and HELIXII diurnal variation. 
  • Pain predicts overall survival in men with metastatic castration-refractory prostate cancer. 
  • Parent-child attitude congruence on type and intensity of physical activity: testing multiple mediators of sedentary behavior in older children. 
  • Patterns of behavioral disturbance in developmentally disabled and psychiatrically referred children: a cluster analytic approach. 
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in women compared with men. 
  • Perinatal western-type diet and associated gestational weight gain alter postpartum maternal mood. 
  • Pharmacogenetics of antipsychotic response in the CATIE trial: a candidate gene analysis. 
  • Phase II diaziquone-based chemotherapy trials in patients with anaplastic supratentorial astrocytic neoplasms. 
  • Physical activity and functional limitations in older women: influence of self-efficacy. 
  • Physiological arousal among women veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Pituitary volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Planning the size and duration of a clinical trial studying the time to some critical event. 
  • Positive and negative network correlations in temporal lobe epilepsy. 
  • Potential and limitations of angle-independent flow detection algorithms using radio-frequency and detected echo signals. 
  • Poverty, process of care, and outcome in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Precision and accuracy of a transportable dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry unit for bone mineral measurements in guinea pigs. 
  • Preclinical atherosclerosis covaries with individual differences in reactivity and functional connectivity of the amygdala. 
  • Predicting critical illness mortality and personalizing therapy: moving to multi-dimensional data. 
  • Predictive value of pregnancy during original in vitro fertilization cycle on implantation and pregnancy in subsequent cryothaw cycles. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of functional status in an older community--representative sample in Brazil. 
  • Prevalence of infective endocarditis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the value of screening with echocardiography. 
  • Prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognosis of discrete upper septal thickening on echocardiography: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Principal component analysis of neuronal ensemble activity reveals multidimensional somatosensory representations. 
  • Problems and advantages of an observational data base approach to evaluating the effect of therapy on outcome. 
  • Prognostic Implications of Long-Chain Acylcarnitines in Heart Failure and Reversibility With Mechanical Circulatory Support. 
  • Prognostic factors in childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a Pediatric Oncology Group study. 
  • Prognostic factors in head and neck melanoma. Effect of lesion location. 
  • Prognostic utility of comparative methods for assessment of ST-segment resolution after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: the Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications (CADILLAC) trial. 
  • Prognotic significance of pretreatment proliferative activity in adult acute leukemia. 
  • Progression of myopia in youth: age of cessation. 
  • Projecting chronic disease prevalence. 
  • Projecting the future size and health status of the U.S. elderly population. 
  • Properties of acoustical speckle in the presence of phase aberration. Part I: First order statistics. 
  • Prospective correlation of cervicovaginal cytologic and histologic specimens. 
  • Prospective study of perceived stress in cardiac patients. 
  • Prostate cancer and chip specimens: complete versus partial sampling. 
  • Psychiatric and psychosocial correlates of sexual risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness. 
  • Psychiatric diagnoses of previous suicide attempters, first-time attempters, and repeat attempters on an adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. 
  • Psychiatric illness and virologic response in patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy. 
  • Psychosocial stress and major cardiovascular events in patients with stable coronary heart disease. 
  • Quality control in the flow cytometric measurement of T-lymphocyte subsets: the multicenter AIDS cohort study experience. The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Group. 
  • Quantification of diabetic macular edema. 
  • Quantitation of left-to-right cardiac shunts with radionuclide angiography. 
  • Quantitative Frank vectorcardiograms of normal children and a comparison to those of patients with atrial defects. 
  • Quantitative determination of total lipids in serum. 
  • Quantitative imaging biomarkers: a review of statistical methods for computer algorithm comparisons. 
  • Quantitative imaging biomarkers: a review of statistical methods for technical performance assessment. 
  • Quick recovery of orientation after magnetic seizure therapy for major depressive disorder. 
  • Radial sampling for fast NMR: Concepts and practices over three decades. 
  • Randomization in substance abuse clinical trials. 
  • Rank analysis of covariance with right-censored data. 
  • Rank order metrics for quantifying the association of sequence features with gene regulation. 
  • Rapid brain responses independently predict gain maximization and loss minimization during economic decision making. 
  • Rapid reporting of cancer incidence in a population-based study of breast cancer: one constructive use of a central cancer registry. 
  • Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography to construct clinically ready, load-independent indices of myocardial contractile performance. 
  • Recurrent headaches in children: an epidemiological survey of two middle schools in inner city Chicago. 
  • Reduced comparison speed during visual search in late life depression. 
  • Reducing long-term diazepam prescribing in office practice. A controlled trial of educational visits. 
  • Reducing the influence of anecdotal reasoning on people's health care decisions: is a picture worth a thousand statistics? 
  • Reference values for jitter recorded by concentric needle electrodes in healthy controls: A multicenter study. 
  • Regional brain activity correlates of nicotine dependence. 
  • Relational aggression in children with preschool-onset psychiatric disorders. 
  • Relational benefits of relational aggression: adaptive and maladaptive associations with adolescent friendship quality. 
  • Relationship between tibial acceleration and proximal anterior tibia shear force across increasing jump distance. 
  • Relationships between maternal and adolescent weight-related behaviors and concerns: the role of perception. 
  • Reliabilities and intercorrelations of reported and objective measures of smoking in patients with schizophrenia. 
  • Reliability and reproducibility of novel methodology for assessment of pressure pain sensitivity in pelvis. 
  • Reliability of single-lead and multiple-lead electrocardiography during and after exercise. 
  • Reliability, precision, and gender differences in knee internal/external rotation proprioception measurements. 
  • Religion and depression in older medical inpatients. 
  • Repeated measures, interventions, and time series analysis. 
  • Replication of the association between the thrombospondin-4 A387P polymorphism and myocardial infarction. 
  • Resource use and survival of patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure: differences in care by specialty of the attending physician. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Retinal microvasculature and cardiovascular health in childhood. 
  • Retrieval in a Computer-assisted Pathology Encoding and Reporting System (CAPER). 
  • Risk of exogenous estrogen therapy and endometrial cancer. 
  • Role of the lateral intraparietal area in modulation of the strength of sensory-motor transmission for visually guided movements. 
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae vacuole in zinc storage and intracellular zinc distribution. 
  • Scientific fraud: impact of Fujii's data on our current knowledge and practice for the management of postoperative nausea and vomiting. 
  • Screening the elderly. A brief instrumental activities of daily living measure. 
  • Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention. 
  • Self-management practices of Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Sensitivity of the dementia rating scale in vascular dementia: comparison between two sets of criteria to define cognitive impairment. 
  • Sequential clinical trials in cancer research. 
  • Serum immunoglobulins. II. Levels in children subject to recurrent infection. 
  • Sex differences in the endothelial function of untreated hypertension. 
  • Sex-specific effects of cigarette mentholation on brain nicotine accumulation and smoking behavior. 
  • Shared sensory estimates for human motion perception and pursuit eye movements. 
  • Should statisticians reporting to data monitoring committees be independent of the trial sponsor and leadership? 
  • Should the intent of testing influence its interpretation? 
  • Sickness absence indicating depressive symptoms of working population in South Korea. 
  • Sildenafil and retinopathy of prematurity risk in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Sleep apnea and retinal signs in cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Sleep disturbance and baroreceptor sensitivity in women with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Sleep problems predict and are predicted by generalized anxiety/depression and oppositional defiant disorder. 
  • Some aspects of analysis of gene array data. 
  • Some general relationships in population dynamics. 
  • Some implications of a pregnancy on campus: a research study. 
  • Species differences in alpha 2-adrenergic regulation of platelet adenylate cyclase. 
  • Stability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Questionnaires over 1 year in early middle-aged adults: the CARDIA study. 
  • Stage II malignant melanoma: presentation of a prognostic model and an assessment of specific active immunotherapy in 1,273 patients. 
  • State-mandated continuing medical education and the use of proven therapies in patients with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Statistical analysis of 2 x 2 tables. 
  • Statistical and graphical evaluation of erythrocyte volume distributions. 
  • Statistical interpretation of the RV144 HIV vaccine efficacy trial in Thailand: a case study for statistical issues in efficacy trials. 
  • Statistical issues in the comparison of quantitative imaging biomarker algorithms using pulmonary nodule volume as an example. 
  • Statistical methods for two-sequence three-period cross-over designs with incomplete data. 
  • Statistical procedures used in multiple-group experiments. 
  • Statistical reviewing policies of medical journals: caveat lector? 
  • Statistics for hospital epidemiology. General design and analysis questions. 
  • Statistics in medical journals: a survey of current policies and proposals for editors. 
  • Stimulant treatment of ADHD and cigarette smoking: a meta-analysis. 
  • Storage of correlated patterns in standard and bistable Purkinje cell models. 
  • Strategic use of statistical thinking in drug development. 
  • Strategies for analysing ecological health data: models of the biological risk of individuals. 
  • Strategies for teaching nursing research. Teaching statistical analysis--a computer application activity. 
  • Strength-duration and probability of success curves for defibrillation with biphasic waveforms. 
  • Structuring an ethical decision dilemma. 
  • Subregional femorotibial cartilage morphology in women--comparison between healthy controls and participants with different grades of radiographic knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Subsequent malignancies in children treated for Hodgkin's disease: associations with gender and radiation dose. 
  • Suicide attempts among formerly hospitalized adolescents: a prospective naturalistic study of risk during the first 5 years after discharge. 
  • Suprathreshold heat pain response is associated with clinical pain intensity for patients with shoulder pain. 
  • Taste-specific neuronal ensembles in the gustatory cortex of awake rats. 
  • Teaching statistics to health professionals: the legal analogy. 
  • The Achilles Functional Index. 
  • The American Board of Internal Medicine recertification examination: process and results. 
  • The Carolina Breast Cancer Study: integrating population-based epidemiology and molecular biology. 
  • The Carroll rating scale for depression. I. Development, reliability and validation. 
  • The Challenges of Analyzing Behavioral Response Study Data: An Overview of the MOCHA (Multi-study OCean Acoustics Human Effects Analysis) Project. 
  • The Development of Intermediate Clinical Endpoints in Cancer of the Prostate (ICECaP). 
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Study: developmental epidemiology in the southeastern United States. 
  • The PROTECT in-hospital risk model: 7-day outcome in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure and renal dysfunction. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model: Part 1-Statistical Methodology. 
  • The architecture of cross-hemispheric communication in the aging brain: linking behavior to functional and structural connectivity. 
  • The clinical research office of the endourological society audit committee. 
  • The correlation of serial prostate specific antigen measurements with clinical outcome after external beam radiation therapy of patients for prostate carcinoma. 
  • The data center of the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer. 
  • The development of callous-unemotional traits and antisocial behavior in children: are there shared and/or unique predictors? 
  • The differential effects of 200, 591, and 2,450 MHz radiation on rat brain energy metabolism. 
  • The dissociation between door-to-balloon time improvement and improvements in other acute myocardial infarction care processes and patient outcomes. 
  • The effect of acute tryptophan depletion on emotional distraction and subsequent memory. 
  • The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral blood flow: How much caffeine can we tolerate? 
  • The effect of total-body irradiation on corneal neovascularization in the Fischer 344 rat after chemical cauterization. 
  • The effects of cardioplegic potassium concentration and myocardial temperature on electrical activity in the heart during elective cardioplegic arrest. 
  • The emerging science of quantitative imaging biomarkers terminology and definitions for scientific studies and regulatory submissions. 
  • The future of clinical trials in secondary prevention after acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The heritability of mortality due to heart diseases: a correlated frailty model applied to Danish twins. 
  • The impact of race on metabolic disease risk factors in women with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The impact of the international guideline entitled Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials (ICH E9). 
  • The influence of birth size on intelligence in healthy children. 
  • The influence of depression on cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons. 
  • The influence of different Stop-signal response time estimation procedures on behavior-behavior and brain-behavior correlations. 
  • The influence of history on interobserver agreement for diagnosing actinic keratoses and malignant skin lesions. 
  • The language of data: tools to translate evidence for nurses in clinical practice. 
  • The link between harsh home environments and negative academic trajectories is exacerbated by victimization in the elementary school peer group. 
  • The long-term effects of dietary sodium restriction on clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure. The SODIUM-HF (Study of Dietary Intervention Under 100 mmol in Heart Failure): a pilot study. 
  • The message isn't as mean as we may think. 
  • The multifaceted impact of peer relations on aggressive-disruptive behavior in early elementary school. 
  • The neural sociometer: brain mechanisms underlying state self-esteem. 
  • The relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide and health status in patients with heart failure. 
  • The relationship between religious activities and blood pressure in older adults. 
  • The statistical structure of human speech sounds predicts musical universals. 
  • The use of Grade of Membership analysis to evaluate and modify diagnosis-related groups. 
  • The use of mortality time series data to produce hypothetical morbidity distributions and projects mortality trends. 
  • The value of patient-reported health status in predicting short-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Three-year incidence of first-onset depressive syndrome in a population sample of older adults: the Cache County study. 
  • Towards optimized acquisition scheme for multiprojection correlation imaging of breast cancer. 
  • Transcriptional profiles for glutamate transporters reveal differences between organophosphates but similarities with unrelated neurotoxicants. 
  • Treatment expectation for pain coping skills training: relationship to osteoarthritis patients' baseline psychosocial characteristics. 
  • Troponin I in acute decompensated heart failure: insights from the ASCEND-HF study. 
  • Tumor membrane lymphocyte stimulation assay in patients with renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Type A behavior and survival: a follow-up study of 1,467 patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Urinary tract infection concordance with positive blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Urine chemokines indicate pathogenic association of obesity with BPH/LUTS. 
  • Use of a questionnaire to screen for frailty in the elderly: an exploratory study. 
  • Use of resampling techniques to estimate the variance of parameters in pharmacological assays when experimental protocols preclude independent replication: an example using Schild regressions. 
  • Using survival curve comparisons to inform patient decision making can a practice exercise improve understanding? 
  • Utility of the proportional-hazards model for survival analysis of psychiatric data. 
  • Utilization of reward-prospect enhances preparatory attention and reduces stimulus conflict. 
  • Validity of the WHO cutoffs for biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI in children and adolescents in NHANES from 1999 through 2012. 
  • Vascular risk factors for incident Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia: the Cache County study. 
  • Vitamin D levels and cognition in elderly adults in China. 
  • What you see may not be what you get: a brief, nontechnical introduction to overfitting in regression-type models. 
  • Where the rubber meets the road in pharmacogenetics: assessment of gene-environment interactions. 
  • Why some women have an optimistic or a pessimistic bias about their breast cancer risk: experiences, heuristics, and knowledge of risk factors. 
  • X-Linked hypophosphatemic rickets: a disease often unknown to affected patients. 
  • [The role of statistics in scientific investigation]. 
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