Recent publications on Biostatistics

Spangler L, Ichikawa LE, Hubbard RA, Operskalski B, LaCroix AZ, Ott SM, Scholes D. A comparison of self-reported oral contraceptive use and automated pharmacy data in perimenopausal and early postmenopausal women.  Ann Epidemiol. 2015 Jan;25(1):55-9. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.10.009. Epub 2014 Oct 16. PubMed

Lange JM, Hubbard RA, Inoue LY, Minin VN. A joint model for multistate disease processes and random informative observation times, with applications to electronic medical records data. Biometrics. 2015 Mar;71(1):90-101. doi: 10.1111/biom.12252. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PubMed

Sprague BL, Gangnon RE, Burt V, Trentham-Dietz A, Hampton JM, Wellman RD, Kerlikowske K, Miglioretti DL. Prevalence of mammographically dense breasts in the United States. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014 Sep 12;106(10). pii: dju255. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju255. Print 2014.  PubMed

Tom SE, Hubbard RA, Crane PK, Haneuse SJ, Bowen J, McCormick WC, McCurry S, Larson EB. Characterization of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in an older population: updated incidence and life expectancy with and without dementia. Am J Public Health. 2015 Feb;105(2):408-13. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301935. Epub 2014 Jul 17. PubMed

Hubbard RA, Zhu W, Balch S, Onega T, Fenton JJ. Identification of abnormal screening mammogram interpretation using Medicare claims data. Health Serv Res. 2015 Feb;50(1):290-304. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12194. Epub 2014 Jun 28. PubMed

Shortreed SM, Laber E, Scott Stroup T, Pineau J, Murphy SA. A multiple imputation strategy for sequential multiple assignment randomized trials. Stat Med. 2014 Oct 30;33(24):4202-14. doi: 10.1002/sim.6223. Epub 2014 Jun 11. PubMed

Friesen MC, Locke SJ, Zaebst D, Viet S, Shortreed S, Chen YC, Koh DH, Pardo L, Schwartz KL, Davis FG, Stewart PA, Colt JS, Purdue MP. Using machine learning to efficiently use multiple experts to assign occupational lead exposure estimates in a case-control study. Occup Environ Med. 2014 Jun;71 Suppl 1:A25-6. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.79. PubMed

Sung JM, Su CT, Chang YT, Su YR, Tsai WC, Wang SP, Yang CS, Tsai LM, Chen JH, Liu YW. Independent value of cardiac troponin T and left ventricular global longitudinal strain in predicting all-cause mortality among stable hemodialysis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:217290. doi: 10.1155/2014/217290. Epub 2014 May 7. PubMed

Zhou J, Adewale A, Shentu Y, Liu J, Anderson K. Information-based sample size re-estimation in group sequential design for longitudinal trials. Stat Med. 2014 Sep 28;33(22):3801-14. doi: 10.1002/sim.6192. Epub 2014 May 4. PubMed

McClure JB, Peterson D, Derry H, Riggs K, Saint-Johnson J, Nair V, An L, Shortreed SM. Exploring the "active ingredients" of an online smoking intervention: a randomized factorial trial.  Nicotine Tob Res. 2014 Aug;16(8):1129-39. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntu057. Epub 2014 Apr 11. PubMed