Recent publications on Biostatistics

Weiner SD, Ahmed HN, Jin Z, Cushman M, Herrington DM, Nelson JC, Di Tullio MR, Homma S. Systemic inflammation and brachial artery endothelial function in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Heart. 2014 Jun;100(11):862-6. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304893. Epub 2014 Apr 8. PubMed

Pfeiffer CD, Cunningham MC, Poissant T, Furuno JP, Townes JM, Leitz A, Thomas A, Buser GL, Arao RF, Beldavs ZG. Establishment of a statewide network for carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae prevention in a low-incidence region. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014 Apr;35(4):356-61. doi: 10.1086/675605. PubMed

Daley MF, Yih WK, Glanz JM, Hambidge SJ, Narwaney KJ, Yin R, Li L, Nelson JC, Nordin JD, Klein NP, Jacobsen SJ, Weintraub E. Safety of diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis and inactivated poliovirus (DTaP-IPV) vaccine. Vaccine. 2014 May 23;32(25):3019-24. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.03.063. Epub 2014 Mar 31. PubMed

Liu YW, Su CT, Chang YT, Tsai WC, Su YR, Wang SP, Yang CS, Tsai LM, Chen JH, Sung JM. Elevated serum interleukin-18 level is associated with all-cause mortality in stable hemodialysis patients independently of cardiac dysfunction. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 5;9(3):e89457. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089457. eCollection 2014. PubMed

Kerr KF, Wang Z, Janes H, McClelland RL, Psaty BM, Pepe MS. Net reclassification indices for evaluating risk prediction instruments: a critical review. Epidemiology. 2014 Jan;25(1):114-21. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000018.Epub 2013 Nov 14. PubMed

Brenowitz WD, Hubbard RA, Crane PK, Gray SL, Zaslavsky O, Larson EB. Longitudinal associations between self-rated health and performance-based physical function in a population-based cohort of older adults. PLoS One. 2014 Nov 3;9(11):e111761. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111761. eCollection 2014.  PubMed

Shortreed SM, Bogart A, McClure J. Using multiple imputations to accommodate time-outs in online interventions. J Med Internet Res. 2013 Nov 21;15(11):e252. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2781. PubMed

Fenton JJ, Onega T, Zhu W, Balch S, Smith-Bindman R, Henderson L, Sprague BL, Kerlikowske K, Hubbard RA. Validation of a Medicare claims-based algorithm for identifying breast cancers detected at screening mammography. Med Care. 2013 Aug 6. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a303d7. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Harel O, Chung H, Miglioretti D. Latent class regression: inference and estimation with two-stage multiple imputation. Biom J. 2013;55(4):541-53. doi: 10.1002/bimj.201200020. Epub 2013 May 26. PubMed

Liu YW, Su CT, Sung JM, Wang SP, Su YR, Yang CS, Tsai LM, Chen JH, Tsai WC. Association of left ventricular longitudinal strain with mortality among stable hemodialysis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Sep;8(9):1564-74. doi: 10.2215/CJN.10671012. Epub 2013 May 23. PubMed