Recent publications on Biostatistics
Shortreed SM, Peeters A, Forbes AB. Estimating the effect of long-term physical activity on cardiovascular disease and mortality: evidence from the Framingham Heart Study. Heart. 2013 May;99(9):649-54. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303461. Epub 2013 Mar 8. PubMed
Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Avery TR, Chan AK, Davis RL, Graham D, Platt R, Andrade SE, Boudreau D, Gunter MJ, Herrinton LJ, Pawloski PA, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Brown JS. Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013 May;22(5):517-23. doi: 10.1002/pds.3423. Epub 2013 Mar 20. PubMed
Cook AJ, Gold DR, Li Y. Spatial cluster detection for longitudinal outcomes using administrative regions. Commun Stat Theory Methods. 2013;42(12):2105-17. PubMed
Hubbard RA, Miglioretti DL. A semiparametric censoring bias model for estimating the cumulative risk of a false-positive screening test under dependent censoring. Biometrics. 2013 Mar;69(1):245-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01831.x. Epub 2013 Feb 5. PubMed
Zhang S, Barros SP, Moretti AJ, Yu N, Zhou J, Preisser JS, Niculescu MD, Offenbacher S. Epigenetic regulation of TNFA xpression in periodontal disease. J Periodontol. 2013 Nov;84(11):1606-16. doi: 10.1902/jop.2013.120294. Epub 2013 Jan 31. PubMed
Su YR, Wang JL. Modeling left-truncated and right-censored survival data with longitudinal covariates. Ann Stat. 2012 Jun;40(3):1465-1488. doi: 10.1214/12-AOS996. Epub 2012 Sep 5. PubMed
Xu S, Zeng C, Newcomer S, Nelson JC, Glanz J. Use of fixed effects models to analyze self-controlled case series data in vaccine safety studies. J Biom Biostat. 2012 Apr 19;Suppl 7:006. PubMed
Mahajan K, Coppola D, Chen YA, Zhu W, Lawrence HR, Lawrence NJ, Mahajan NP. Ack1 tyrosine kinase activation correlates with pancreatic cancer progression. Am J Pathol. 2012 Apr;180(4):1386-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.12.028. Epub 2012 Feb 7. PubMed
Cook AJ, Tiwari RC, Wellman RD, Heckbert SR, Li L, Heagerty P, Marsh T, Nelson JC. Statistical approaches to group sequential monitoring of postmarket safety surveillance data: current state of the art for use in the Mini-Sentinel pilot. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2012;21 Suppl 1:72-81. doi: 10.1002/pds.2320. PubMed
Finkelstein S, Trotti A, Rao N, Reintgen D, Cruse W, Feun L, Sondak V, Yu D, Zhu W, Gwede C, DeConti R. The Florida Melanoma Trial I: a prospective multicenter phase I/II trial of postoperative hypofractionated adjuvant radiotherapy with concurrent interferon-alfa-2b in the treatment of advanced stage III melanoma with long-term toxicity follow-up. ISRN Immunology. 2012;2012:[10 p.]. doi:10.5402/2012/324235. PubMed