Likelihood Functions

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Smooth' inference for survival functions with arbitrarily censored data. 
  • . Loss of sexual recombination and segregation is associated with increased diversification in evening primroses. 
  • A 3D model of non-uniform attenuation and detector response for efficient iterative reconstruction in SPECT. 
  • A Bayesian approach for determining protein side-chain rotamer conformations using unassigned NOE data. 
  • A bivariate survival model with compound Poisson frailty. 
  • A comparison of different bivariate correlated frailty models and estimation strategies. 
  • A comparison of least squares and conditional maximum likelihood estimators under volume endpoint censoring in tumor growth experiments. 
  • A comparison of models for predicting early hospital readmissions. 
  • A computational method to classify variants of uncertain significance using functional assay data with application to BRCA1. 
  • A computationally advantageous system for fitting probabilistic decompression models to empirical data. 
  • A diagnostic for Cox regression with discrete failure-time models. 
  • A distribution-free test of constant mean in linear mixed effects models. 
  • A framework phylogeny of the American oak clade based on sequenced RAD data. 
  • A general approach for two-stage analysis of multilevel clustered non-Gaussian data. 
  • A general population study of fibromyalgia tender points in noninstitutionalized adults with chronic widespread pain. 
  • A heavy burden: the cardiovascular health consequences of having a family member incarcerated. 
  • A hybrid Bayesian adaptive design for dose response trials. 
  • A joint latent class analysis for adjusting survival bias with application to a trauma transfusion study. 
  • A large sample of finnish diabetic sib-pairs reveals no evidence for a non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus susceptibility locus at 2qter. 
  • A marginalized two-part model for semicontinuous data. 
  • A marginalized zero-inflated Poisson regression model with overall exposure effects. 
  • A maximum-likelihood base caller for DNA sequencing. 
  • A model to predict limb salvage in severe combat-related open calcaneus fractures. 
  • A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families. 
  • A new algorithm for idealizing single ion channel data containing multiple unknown conductance levels. 
  • A new predictive model for an improved respiratory isolation strategy in HIV-infected patients with PTB. 
  • A nonparametric empirical Bayes framework for large-scale multiple testing 
  • A penalized likelihood approach for bivariate conditional normal models for dynamic co-expression analysis. 
  • A penalized likelihood approach for investigating gene-drug interactions in pharmacogenetic studies. 
  • A radiation hybrid map of the distal short arm of human chromosome 11, containing the Beckwith-Wiedemann and associated embryonal tumor disease loci. 
  • A regression model for multivariate random length data. 
  • A semiparametric empirical likelihood method for biased sampling schemes with auxiliary covariates. 
  • A semiparametric likelihood approach to joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data. 
  • A semiparametric model for vQTL mapping. 
  • A signature in HIV-1 envelope leader peptide associated with transition from acute to chronic infection impacts envelope processing and infectivity. 
  • A systematic genetic assessment of 1,433 sequence variants of unknown clinical significance in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer-predisposition genes. 
  • A variable age of onset segregation model for linkage analysis, with correction for ascertainment, applied to glioma. 
  • Accounting for nonignorable verification bias in assessment of diagnostic tests. 
  • Accuracy and reliability of apical S3 gallop detection. 
  • Adaptive evolution drives the diversification of zinc-finger binding domains. 
  • Affected-sib-pair interval mapping and exclusion for complex genetic traits: sampling considerations. 
  • Ageing and survival after different doses of heat shock: the results of analysis of data from stress experiments with the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Aggressiveness of care following intracerebral hemorrhage in women and men. 
  • Agreement for detecting glaucoma progression with the GDx guided progression analysis, automated perimetry, and optic disc photography. 
  • An alternative pseudolikelihood method for multivariate random-effects meta-analysis. 
  • An evaluation of constrained randomization for the design and analysis of group-randomized trials with binary outcomes. 
  • An evaluation of factors influencing Bayesian learning systems. 
  • An evaluation of maximum likelihood-expectation maximization reconstruction for SPECT by ROC analysis. 
  • An examination of the monophyly of morning glory taxa using Bayesian phylogenetic inference. 
  • An improved method for bivariate meta-analysis when within-study correlations are unknown. 
  • An information criterion for marginal structural models. 
  • An introduction to a Bayesian method for meta-analysis: The confidence profile method. 
  • Analysis of time-to-event data under a two-stage survival adaptive design in clinical trials. 
  • Ancient single origin for Malagasy primates. 
  • Application of likelihood ratio to classification of mammographic masses; performance comparison to case-based reasoning. 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Are two (inexperienced) heads better than one (experienced) head? Averaging house officers' prognostic judgments for critically ill patients. 
  • Arterial windkessel parameter estimation: a new time-domain method. 
  • Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences. 
  • Ascertaining the importance of neurons to develop better brain-machine interfaces. 
  • Assay validation for left-censored data. 
  • Assays for recombinant proteins: a problem in non-linear calibration. 
  • Assessing human fertility using several markers of ovulation. 
  • Assessing operating characteristics of CAD algorithms in the absence of a gold standard. 
  • Assessing the consistency of traditional Chinese medicine with multiple correlative active components. 
  • Assessment and provision of rehabilitation among patients hospitalized with acute ischemic stroke in China: Findings from the China National Stroke Registry II. 
  • Association test for X-linked QTL in family-based designs. 
  • Associations of depression, anxiety and antidepressants with histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 
  • Assortative mating for antisocial behavior: developmental and methodological implications. 
  • AutoScore-Survival: Developing interpretable machine learning-based time-to-event scores with right-censored survival data. 
  • Autoantibodies to Dense Fine Speckles in Pediatric Diseases and Controls. 
  • Bayesian analysis of mixtures applied to post-synaptic potential fluctuations. 
  • Bayesian analysis of multi-type recurrent events and dependent termination with nonparametric covariate functions. 
  • Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation of genetic maps. 
  • Bayesian approach to decompression sickness model parameter estimation. 
  • Bayesian estimation of survival functions under stochastic precedence. 
  • Bayesian inference in two-phase prevalence studies. 
  • Bayesian inferences in the Cox model for order-restricted hypotheses. 
  • Bayesian model selection and averaging in additive and proportional hazards models. 
  • Bayesian modeling of multiple episode occurrence and severity with a terminating event. 
  • Bayesian restoration of chest radiographs. Scatter compensation with improved signal-to-noise ratio. 
  • Bayesian speckle tracking. Part I: an implementable perturbation to the likelihood function for ultrasound displacement estimation. 
  • Be Careful What You Ask For: Effects of Benefit Descriptions on Diabetes Patients' Benefit-Risk Tradeoff Preferences. 
  • Benefit and cost curves for typical pollination mutualisms. 
  • Body mass trajectories through adulthood: results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (1981-2006). 
  • Brain-stem auditory and visual evoked potentials in children with Krabbe disease. 
  • Bringing the analysis of animal orientation data full circle: model-based approaches with maximum likelihood. 
  • Calibration inference based on multiple runs of an immunoassay. 
  • Cancer survivors' uptake and adherence in diet and exercise intervention trials: an integrative data analysis. 
  • Chance-corrected sensitivity and specificity for three-zone diagnostic tests. 
  • Changes in cardiac troponin T measurements are associated with adverse cardiac events in patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Characterizing the subjective experience of episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking in healthy younger and older adults. 
  • Chlamydia Prevalence Trends Among Women and Men Entering the National Job Training Program From 1990 Through 2012. 
  • Clinical features suggestive of meningitis in children: a systematic review of prospective data. 
  • Clinical identifiers for detecting underlying closed cervical fractures. 
  • Clinical utility of different lipid measures for prediction of coronary heart disease in men and women. 
  • Combined association of lipids and blood pressure in relation to incident cardiovascular disease in the elderly: the cardiovascular health study. 
  • Combining structural and functional testing for detection of glaucoma. 
  • Comparative tests of evolutionary trade-offs in a palinurid lobster acoustic system. 
  • Comparing the Palliative Care Needs of Those With Cancer to Those With Common Non-Cancer Serious Illness. 
  • Comparison of Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction versus OS-EM for characterization of small pulmonary nodules in oncologic PET/CT. 
  • Comparison of Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Black Versus White Patients After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Comparison of likelihood and Bayesian methods for estimating divergence times using multiple gene Loci and calibration points, with application to a radiation of cute-looking mouse lemur species. 
  • Comparison of the GDx VCC scanning laser polarimeter, HRT II confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope, and stratus OCT optical coherence tomograph for the detection of glaucoma. 
  • Computer aid for decision to biopsy breast masses on mammography: validation on new cases. 
  • Computer-extracted MR imaging features are associated with survival in glioblastoma patients. 
  • Concessions of an alpha male? Cooperative defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups. 
  • Conditional and unconditional estimation of multidimensional quality of life after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a longitudinal follow-up of 415 patients. 
  • Congenital Uterine Malformation by Experts (CUME): diagnostic criteria for T-shaped uterus. 
  • Contribution of RPB2 to multilocus phylogenetic studies of the euascomycetes (Pezizomycotina, Fungi) with special emphasis on the lichen-forming Acarosporaceae and evolution of polyspory. 
  • Convergent evolution of a complex fruit structure in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae). 
  • Cospeciation between bacterial endosymbionts (Buchnera) and a recent radiation of aphids (Uroleucon) and pitfalls of testing for phylogenetic congruence. 
  • Cross-Reactive Immunity Among Flaviviruses. 
  • Crossover interference on nucleolus organizing region-bearing chromosomes in Arabidopsis. 
  • Demographic analysis and modeling of human populations exposed to ionizing radiation. 
  • Depression precipitated by alcohol use in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders. 
  • Derivation of a clinical decision guide in the diagnosis of cervical facet joint pain. 
  • Detection of primary and recurrent lung cancer by means of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET). 
  • Determining the Likelihood of Variant Pathogenicity Using Amino Acid-level Signal-to-Noise Analysis of Genetic Variation. 
  • Developing a concept of choice. 
  • Diagnosing preperimetric glaucoma with spectral domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Diagnostic utility of clinical tests for spinal dysfunction. 
  • Different models, different trees: the geographic origin of PTLV-I. 
  • Dinucleotide repeats in the Drosophila and human genomes have complex, length-dependent mutation processes. 
  • Diversity considerations in HIV-1 vaccine selection. 
  • Diversity in the weapons of sexual selection: horn evolution in the beetle genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). 
  • Doubly robust estimation of causal effects. 
  • Drawing inferences about the coancestry coefficient. 
  • Dynamic functional evolution of an odorant receptor for sex-steroid-derived odors in primates. 
  • Early surgery in patients with infective endocarditis: a propensity score analysis. 
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a tropical forest dominated by the Neotropical Dipterocarp, Pakaraimea dipterocarpaceae 
  • Effects of FOXO genotypes on longevity: a biodemographic analysis. 
  • Effects of changes in self-reported vision on cognitive, affective, and functional status and living arrangements among the elderly. 
  • Effects of variation at the flower-colour A locus on mating system parameters in Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • Efficacy and safety of the novel glycine transporter inhibitor BI 425809 once daily in patients with schizophrenia: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study. 
  • Efficient estimation of grouped survival models. 
  • Elective clinical target volumes for conformal therapy in anorectal cancer: a radiation therapy oncology group consensus panel contouring atlas. 
  • Emergency thoracic ultrasound in the differentiation of the etiology of shortness of breath (ETUDES): sonographic B-lines and N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide in diagnosing congestive heart failure. 
  • Environmental and genetic influences on the germination of Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. 
  • Estimating data transformations in nonlinear mixed effects models. 
  • Estimating importance weights for the IWQOL-Lite using conjoint analysis. 
  • Estimating stimulus response latency. 
  • Estimating the likelihood of severe coronary artery disease. 
  • Estimating the parameters in the Cox model when covariate variables are measured with error. 
  • Estimation and validation of a multiattribute model of Alzheimer disease progression. 
  • Estimation of the transition/transversion rate bias and species sampling. 
  • Ethnic differences in the place of death of elderly hospice enrollees. 
  • Evaluating haplotype effects in case-control studies via penalized-likelihood approaches: prospective or retrospective analysis? 
  • Evaluating the exposure and disease relationship with adjustment for different types of exposure misclassification: a regression approach. 
  • Evaluation of the modified asthma predictive index in high-risk preschool children. 
  • Evaluation of underlying mechanisms in the link between childhood ADHD symptoms and risk for early initiation of substance use. 
  • Evaluations of the sum-score-based and item response theory-based tests of group mean differences under various simulation conditions. 
  • Evidence for selection at multiple allozyme loci across a mussel hybrid zone. 
  • Evidence of Levy walk foraging patterns in human hunter-gatherers. 
  • Evidence-based urology in practice: likelihood ratios. 
  • Evolution of sexual systems, dispersal strategies and habitat selection in the liverwort genus Radula. 
  • Evolutionary origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts. 
  • Evolutionary rate variation in anthocyanin pathway genes. 
  • Examining outlying subjects and outlying records in bioequivalence trials. 
  • Fast and robust association tests for untyped SNPs in case-control studies. 
  • First steps in analysing NHS waiting times: avoiding the 'stationary and closed population' fallacy. 
  • Food Access, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Hypertension in the U.S. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Formalizing morphologically cryptic biological entities: new insights from DNA taxonomy, hybridization, and biogeography in the leafy liverwort Porella platyphylla (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales). 
  • Four-parameter paired response curve for serial dilution assays. 
  • Frailty models with missing covariates. 
  • Functional evolution of an anthocyanin pathway enzyme during a flower color transition. 
  • Functional joint model for longitudinal and time-to-event data: an application to Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Gene conversion and crossing over along the 405-kb left arm of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome VII. 
  • Gene expression profile assays as predictors of recurrence-free survival in early-stage breast cancer: a metaanalysis. 
  • Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. 
  • Genes and longevity: lessons from studies of centenarians. 
  • Genes, demography, and life span: the contribution of demographic data in genetic studies on aging and longevity. 
  • Genetic evidence and integration of various data sources for classifying uncertain variants into a single model. 
  • Genetic identity, biological phenotype, and evolutionary pathways of transmitted/founder viruses in acute and early HIV-1 infection. 
  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. 
  • Genetic structure and genealogy in the Sphagnum subsecundum complex (Sphagnaceae: Bryophyta). 
  • Genetic variance and covariance for physiological traits in Lobelia: are there constraints on adaptive evolution? 
  • Genetic variants of the LIN28B gene predict severe radiation pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with definitive radiation therapy. 
  • Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. I. Male courtship song, mating success, and genotype x environment interactions. 
  • Genomewide ancestry and divergence patterns from low-coverage sequencing data reveal a complex history of admixture in wild baboons. 
  • Glaucomatous optic neuropathy evaluation project: a standardized internet system for assessing skills in optic disc examination. 
  • Global patterns in peatmoss biodiversity. 
  • Goodness-of-fit tests for GEE modeling with binary responses. 
  • Haplotype associations with quantitative traits in the presence of complex multilocus and heterogeneous effects. 
  • Haplotypes spanning the complement factor H gene are protective against age-related macular degeneration. 
  • High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales. 
  • High-density lipoprotein subclass measurements improve mortality risk prediction, discrimination and reclassification in a cardiac catheterization cohort. 
  • Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern hemisphere sister lineage 
  • Host-symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant-bacterium association: cospeciation of camponotus species and their endosymbionts, candidatus blochmannia. 
  • How heritable is individual susceptibility to death? The results of an analysis of survival data on Danish, Swedish and Finnish twins. 
  • How to use an article about a diagnostic test. 
  • Hybrid origin of SIV in chimpanzees. 
  • Hypothesis testing for neural cell growth experiments using a hybrid branching process model. 
  • Identifying Patterns of Multimorbidity in Older Americans: Application of Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Identifying predictors of central nervous system disease in solid organ transplant recipients with cryptococcosis. 
  • Impact of poor mental health in adult spinal deformity patients with poor physical function: a retrospective analysis with a 2-year follow-up. 
  • Implementation of an accelerated iterative algorithm for cone-beam SPECT. 
  • Implications of early versus late onset of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. 
  • Importance of race on breast cancer survival. 
  • Importance sampling for the infinite sites model. 
  • Improved noninvasive diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism with optimally selected clinical and chest radiographic findings. 
  • Improvement of cardiovascular risk prediction: time to review current knowledge, debates, and fundamentals on how to assess test characteristics. 
  • Improving survival of octogenarian patients selected for haemodialysis. 
  • Improving the clinical diagnosis of stroke. 
  • Incidence of and factors related to late complications in conformal and conventional radiation treatment of cancer of the prostate. 
  • Incorporating Functional Information in Tests of Excess De Novo Mutational Load. 
  • Increased cortical excitability with prefrontal high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in adolescents with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. 
  • Increasing age impairs outcomes in breast reduction surgery. 
  • Independent predictors of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review. 
  • Inference for case-control studies when exposure status is both informatively missing and misclassified. 
  • Influence of adult domestic violence on children's internalizing and externalizing problems: an environmentally informative twin study. 
  • Influence of filter choice on 18F-FDG PET segmentation accuracy determined using generalized estimating equations. 
  • Informative missingness in genetic association studies: case-parent designs. 
  • Integrating quality and quantity of mutualistic service to contrast ant species protecting Ferocactus wislizeni. 
  • Integration of a multicomponent intervention for hypertension into primary healthcare services in Singapore-A cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Intervals for posttest probabilities: a comparison of 5 methods. 
  • Investigating deep phylogenetic relationships among cyanobacteria and plastids by small subunit rRNA sequence analysis. 
  • 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. 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Joint modeling of DNA sequence and physical properties to improve eukaryotic promoter recognition. 
  • Latent class-derived subgroups of depressive symptoms in a community sample of older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Levels of office blood pressure and their operating characteristics for detecting masked hypertension based on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. 
  • Likelihood ratios for glaucoma diagnosis using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known. 
  • Likelihoods from summary statistics: recent divergence between species. 
  • Linear mixed models with flexible distributions of random effects for longitudinal data. 
  • Linkage studies in tuberous sclerosis. Chromosome 9?, 11?, or maybe 14! 
  • Log-gamma linear-mixed effects models for multiple outcomes with application to a longitudinal glaucoma study. 
  • Lower likelihood of cardiac procedures after acute coronary syndrome in patients with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Maltreatment history and weapon carrying among early adolescents. 
  • Mapping strategies for multiple linked markers. 
  • Maximizing Tumor Control and Limiting Complications With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer. 
  • Maximum likelihood estimation of time to first event in the presence of data gaps and multiple events. 
  • Maximum-likelihood estimation of rates of recombination within mating-type regions. 
  • Maximum-likelihood spatial spectrum estimation in dynamic environments with a short maneuverable array. 
  • Measuring quality of life at the end of life: validation of the QUAL-E. 
  • Measuring the genetic influence in modulating the human life span: gene-environment interaction and the sex-specific genetic effect. 
  • Meta-analysis of studies with bivariate binary outcomes: a marginal beta-binomial model approach. 
  • Microsatellite mutation models: insights from a comparison of humans and chimpanzees. 
  • Missing data in the 2 x 2 table: patterns and likelihood-based analysis for cross-sectional studies with supplemental sampling. 
  • Molecular evolution of X-linked accessory gland proteins in Drosophila pseudoobscura. 
  • Molecular evolution of a Drosophila homolog of human BRCA2. 
  • Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent evolutionary origin of an arthropod compound eye. 
  • Molecular phylogeny of the Entomophthoromycota: 
  • Molecular phylogeography and cryptic speciation in the mosses, Mielichhoferia elongata and M. mielichhoferiana (Bryaceae). 
  • Monte Carlo methods for localization of cones given multielectrode retinal ganglion cell recordings. 
  • Multi-institutional external validation of urinary TWIST1 and NID2 methylation as a diagnostic test for bladder cancer. 
  • Multiplexed shotgun genotyping resolves species relationships within the North American genus Penstemon. 
  • Mycophenolate mofetil reduces the risk of acute rejection less in African-American than in Caucasian kidney recipients. 
  • Natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis and management of heart failure. 
  • Natural selection on extrafloral nectar production in Chamaecrista fasciculata: the costs and benefits of a mutualism trait. 
  • Network-based diffusion analysis: a new method for detecting social learning. 
  • Neural repetition suppression reflects fulfilled perceptual expectations. 
  • North American origin and recent European establishments of the amphi-Atlantic peat moss Sphagnum angermanicum. 
  • On likelihood distance for outliers detection. 
  • On random sample size, ignorability, ancillarity, completeness, separability, and degeneracy: sequential trials, random sample sizes, and missing data. 
  • On statistical tests for homogeneity of two bivariate zero-inflated Poisson populations. 
  • On the estimation of the binomial probability in multistage clinical trials. 
  • On the likelihood of decompression sickness during H(2) biochemical decompression in pigs. 
  • One species or at least eight? Delimitation and distribution of Frullania tamarisci (L.) Dumort. s. l. (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers. 
  • Optimized mixed Markov models for motif identification. 
  • Organellomic data sets confirm a cryptic consensus on (unrooted) land-plant relationships and provide new insights into bryophyte molecular evolution. 
  • Outcome- and auxiliary-dependent subsampling and its statistical inference. 
  • Outlier detection in bioavailability/bioequivalence studies. 
  • P-value calculation for multistage phase II cancer clinical trials. 
  • Paleo-demography of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup: application of the maximum likelihood method. 
  • Patterns of variation within self-incompatibility loci. 
  • Peer Rejection and Aggression and Early Starter Models of Conduct Disorder 
  • Perception of friends' use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana among urban schoolchildren: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Phylogenetic analyses of eurotiomycetous endophytes reveal their close affinities to Chaetothyriales, Eurotiales, and a new order - Phaeomoniellales. 
  • Phylogenetic and Phylogenomic Definition of Rhizopus Species. 
  • Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct Suillus species (fungi) as inferred from nuclear ribosomal RNA ITS sequences. 
  • Phylogenetic comparison of protein-coding versus ribosomal RNA-coding sequence data: a case study of the Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota). 
  • Phylogenetic evidence of a rapid radiation of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta). 
  • Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL. 
  • Phylogeny and evolution of Malagasy plated lizards. 
  • Phylogeny of the leafy liverwort Ptilidium: cryptic speciation and shared haplotypes between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. 
  • Phylogeography of the Solanaceae-infecting Basidiomycota fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 based on sequence analysis of two nuclear DNA loci. 
  • Pinhole collimation for ultra-high-resolution, small-field-of-view SPECT. 
  • Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. 
  • Placenta previa in the second trimester: sonographic and clinical factors associated with its resolution. 
  • Polydesigns and causal inference. 
  • Population genetics of polymorphism and divergence under fluctuating selection. 
  • Positive selection on MMP3 regulation has shaped heart disease risk. 
  • Positive selection on a human-specific transcription factor binding site regulating IL4 expression. 
  • Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: Regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome. 
  • Predicting low testosterone in aging men: a systematic review. 
  • Predictive accuracy of markers or risk scores for interval censored survival data. 
  • Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies. 
  • Predictors of likelihood of speaking up about safety concerns in labour and delivery. 
  • Prognostic models based on literature and individual patient data in logistic regression analysis. 
  • Prognostic significance of the initial electrocardiogram in patients with acute myocardial infarction. GUSTO-I Investigators. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and t-PA for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Progressive island colonization and ancient origin of Hawaiian Metrosideros (Myrtaceae). 
  • Psychiatric emergency service use after implementation of managed care in a public mental health system. 
  • Pulmonary hypertension and risk of death in cardiomyopathy: patients with myocarditis are at higher risk. 
  • Quantifying patterns in the evolution of reproductive isolation 
  • Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination. 
  • Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination. How should clinicians integrate the numerous results? 
  • RADseq Data Suggest Occasional Hybridization between Microcebus murinus and M. ravelobensis in Northwestern Madagascar. 
  • ROC curve estimation under test-result-dependent sampling. 
  • Relative inefficiencies in production between solo and group practice physicians. 
  • Reliability and diagnostic accuracy of clinical special tests for myelopathy in patients seen for cervical dysfunction. 
  • Religiosity and decreased risk of substance use disorders: is the effect mediated by social support or mental health status? 
  • Replication of breast cancer susceptibility loci in whites and African Americans using a Bayesian approach. 
  • Retinal arteriolar narrowing increases the likelihood of chronic kidney disease in hypertension. 
  • Robbing Peter to pay Paul: did New York State's outpatient commitment program crowd out voluntary service recipients? 
  • Robust analysis of secondary phenotypes in case-control genetic association studies. 
  • Robust estimation and testing of haplotype effects in case-control studies. 
  • Role of GABRA2 in trajectories of externalizing behavior across development and evidence of moderation by parental monitoring. 
  • Sample size calculation for studies with grouped survival data. 
  • Score and deviance residuals based on the full likelihood approach in survival analysis. 
  • Screening for depression in hospitalized elderly medical patients: taking a closer look. 
  • Screening for depression. 
  • Semi-supervised validation of multiple surrogate outcomes with application to electronic medical records phenotyping. 
  • Semiparametric Bayesian modeling of random genetic effects in family-based association studies. 
  • Semiparametric sieve maximum likelihood estimation under cure model with partly interval censored and left truncated data for application to spontaneous abortion. 
  • Semiparametric tests for identifying differentially methylated loci with case-control designs using Illumina arrays. 
  • Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of screening tests for eye conditions in a clinic-based population. 
  • Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single-SNP association from case-control genome-wide association studies. 
  • Simple methods for assessing haplotype-environment interactions in case-only and case-control studies. 
  • Simple models of genomic variation in human SNP density. 
  • Slow algae, fast fungi: exceptionally high nucleotide substitution rate differences between lichenized fungi Omphalina and their symbiotic green algae Coccomyxa. 
  • Smoothing spline-based score tests for proportional hazards models. 
  • Some general estimation methods for nonlinear mixed-effects models. 
  • Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • Statistical analysis of variability in TnSeq data across conditions using zero-inflated negative binomial regression. 
  • Statistical analysis plan for management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: the SingHypertension pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Statistical characterization of protein ensembles. 
  • Statistical methods for exploring spontaneous adverse event reporting databases for drug-host factor interactions. 
  • Strategies for analyzing multilevel cluster-randomized studies with binary outcomes collected at varying intervals of time. 
  • Structure, function, and phylogeny of the mating locus in the Rhizopus oryzae complex. 
  • Studying health histories of cancer: a new model connecting cancer incidence and survival. 
  • Targeted maximum likelihood estimation of causal effects with interference: A simulation study. 
  • Targeting depression interviewing. 
  • Targeting depression interviewing: an exercise in diagnostic reasoning. 
  • Testing Rare-Variant Association without Calling Genotypes Allows for Systematic Differences in Sequencing between Cases and Controls. 
  • Testing efficacy with detection controlled estimation: an application to telemedicine. 
  • Testing gene-treatment interactions in pharmacogenetic studies. 
  • The U-shaped response of initial mortality in Caenorhabditis elegans to mild heat shock: does it explain recent trends in human mortality? 
  • The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? Results in ~25,000 subjects. 
  • The combined utility of an S3 heart sound and B-type natriuretic peptide levels in emergency department patients with dyspnea. 
  • The dynamics of dimensions of age-related disability 1982 to 1994 in the U.S. elderly population. 
  • The ebb and flow of the NHS waiting list: how do recruitment and admission affect event-based measures of the length of 'time-to-admission'? 
  • The effects of nucleotide substitution model assumptions on estimates of nonparametric bootstrap support. 
  • The effects of race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia. 
  • The evolution of self-control. 
  • The genetic component of discrete disability traits: an analysis using liability models with age-dependent thresholds. 
  • The heritability of mortality due to heart diseases: a correlated frailty model applied to Danish twins. 
  • The impact of HCV therapy in a high HIV-HCV prevalence population: A modeling study on people who inject drugs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
  • The interactive influences of friend deviance and reward dominance on the development of externalizing behavior during middle adolescence. 
  • The restricted cubic spline as baseline hazard in the proportional hazards model with step function time-dependent covariables. 
  • The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm. 
  • The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. 
  • There is no impact of exposure measurement error on latency estimation in linear models. 
  • Time-varying spatial spectrum estimation with a maneuverable towed array. 
  • Timing the ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains. 
  • Trajectories of preschool disorders to full DSM depression at school age and early adolescence: continuity of preschool depression. 
  • Tree ferns: monophyletic groups and their relationships as revealed by four protein-coding plastid loci 
  • Use of progressive glaucomatous optic disk change as the reference standard for evaluation of diagnostic tests in glaucoma. 
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  • Variability in expert assessments of child physical abuse likelihood. 
  • Variations in cataract extraction rates in Medicare prepaid and fee-for-service settings. 
  • Vertical transmission of biosynthetic plasmids in aphid endosymbionts (Buchnera). 
  • Watching, waiting and uncertainty in prostate cancer. 
  • Waveguide invariant broadband target detection and reverberation estimation. 
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  • Why are angles misperceived? 
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  • Willingness to pay for telemedicine assessed by the double-bounded dichotomous choice method. 
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  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology