Scholars@Duke
Carly Brantner

Carly Brantner

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics
carly.brantner@duke.edu
300 W. Morgan Street, Durham, NC 27701

Selected Publications

Subtypes of Transitions into a Family Caregiving Role: A Latent Class Analysis.

Journal Article J Appl Gerontol · April 2024 This paper groups persons who have transitioned into family caregiving using a latent class analysis and examines class differences on measures of well-being. Latent classes were identified for a sample of 251 participants who became family caregivers whil ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Comparison of methods that combine multiple randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects.

Journal Article Stat Med · March 30, 2024 Individualized treatment decisions can improve health outcomes, but using data to make these decisions in a reliable, precise, and generalizable way is challenging with a single dataset. Leveraging multiple randomized controlled trials allows for the combi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Estimation of place-based vulnerability scores for HIV viral non-suppression: an application leveraging data from a cohort of people with histories of using drugs

Journal Article BMC Medical Research Methodology · January 25, 2024 AbstractThe relationships between place (e.g., neighborhood) and HIV are commonly investigated. As measurements of place are multivariate, most studies apply some dimension reduction, resulting in one variable (or a small n ... Full text Cite

Research Across the Female Life Cycle: Reframing the Narrative for Health and Performance in Athletic Females and Showcasing Solutions to Drive Advancements in Research and Translation

Journal Article Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal · January 1, 2024 Over the last few decades, there has been an unprecedented growth in the number of females in sport and exercise, including an exponential rise in female participation, alongside an increased interest and investment in female sport. This success in many as ... Full text Cite

Methods for Integrating Trials and Non-experimental Data to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity.

Journal Article Stat Sci · November 2023 Estimating treatment effects conditional on observed covariates can improve the ability to tailor treatments to particular individuals. Doing so effectively requires dealing with potential confounding, and also enough data to adequately estimate effect mod ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Consistency between Household and County Measures of Onsite Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article J Res Educ Eff · 2023 The academic, socioemotional, and health impacts of school policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have been a source of many questions that require accurate information about the extent of onsite schooling occurring. This article investigates school ope ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

An introduction to text analytics for educators

Journal Article Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning · October 2022 Full text Cite

Factors associated with county-level mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal Article J Community Psychol · July 2022 The objective of this study is to determine county-level factors associated with anxiety, depression, and isolation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study used daily data from 23,592,355 respondents of a nationwide Facebook-bas ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Association of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to Reduce the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 With Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: A Multi-National Study of 43 Countries

Journal Article International Journal of Public Health · March 3, 2022 Objectives: To examine the association of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) with anxiety and depressive symptoms among adults and determine if these associations varied by gender and age.Meth ... Full text Cite

Determining Predictors of Weight Loss in a Behavioral Intervention: A Case Study in the Use of Lasso Regression

Journal Article Frontiers in Psychiatry · February 3, 2022 ObjectiveThis study investigates predictors of weight loss among individuals with serious mental illness participating in an 18-month behavioral weight loss intervention, using Lasso regression to select the most ... Full text Cite

Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling.

Journal Article Science · June 4, 2021 In-person schooling has proved contentious and difficult to study throughout the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Data from a massive online survey in the United States indicate an increased risk of COVID-19-related ou ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A Five-Minute Situational Judgment Test to Assess Empathy in First-Year Student Pharmacists

Journal Article American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education · August 2019 Full text Cite