Recent publications on Biostatistics

Shaw PA, Gruber S, Williamson BD, Desai R, Shortreed SM, Krakauer C, Nelson JC, van der Laan MJ A Cautionary Note for Plasmode Simulation Studies in the Setting of Causal Inference 2026 Aug;45(18-19):e70676. doi: 10.1002/sim.70676. PubMed

Galanter N, Shortreed SM, Moodie EEM Adjustment set selection for estimating optimal treatment rules under confounding 2026 Jul 23 doi: 10.1037/met0000812. Epub 2026-07-23. PubMed

Williamson BD, Cronkite DJ, Yu O, Ramaprasan A, Fuller S, Covey J, Kiniry E, Park D, Winter R, Whitaker J, McLemore MF, Wittayanukorn S, Stojanovic D, Zhao Y, Dutcher S, Carrell DS, Jackson LA, Nelson JC, Smith JC Identifying anaphylaxis using weakly-supervised prediction models and natural language processing 2026 Jun 17 doi: 10.64898/2026.06.09.26355005. Epub 2026-06-17. PubMed

Hoffmann S, Morris T, Herrmann M, Heinze G, Wynants L, Van Calster B, Bischl B, Schmid M, Shaw PA, Mathes T, Naudet F, Harrell FE, Niethammer M, Muli S, Zimmer S, Bakhtiary F, Leistner D, Schulze PC, Sedding D, Lurz P, Rassaf T, Kelm M, Baldus S, Bauersachs J, Nickenig G, Thiele H, Lüsebrink E Using routinely collected data for research purposes: challenges and mitigation strategies 2026 Jun 2;393:e087812. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-087812. Epub 2026-06-02. PubMed

Williamson BD, Moodie EEM, Simon GE, Rossom RC, Shortreed SM Inference on summaries of a model-agnostic longitudinal variable importance trajectory with application to suicide prevention 2026 Jun;20(2):1340-1363. doi: 10.1214/26-aoas2186. Epub 2026-06-22. PubMed

Chen S, Kerlikowske K, Su YR, Hubbard RA, Gard CC, Tice JA, Sprague BL, Ahern TP, Miglioretti DL Performance of Statistical and Machine Learning Risk Prediction Models for Advanced Breast Cancers 2026 May 14 doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-25-2052. Epub 2026-05-14. PubMed

McClure DL, Hanson KE, Sundaram ME, Kieke BA, Duffy J, McNeil MM, Glanz JM, Irving SA, Williams JTB, Kharbanda EO, Xu S, Zerbo O, Nelson JC, Belongia EA, Weintraub ES Incident Epilepsy and Vaccination Status or Vaccine Aluminum Exposure in Children Under Age 4 2026 May;292:115004 doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2026.115004. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2026.115004. Epub 2026-01-19. PubMed

Lu TV, Grill JD, Gillen DL, Cruz M Interrupted Time Series Methods for Nonrandom Sampling Study Designs With Known Sampling Weights 2026 May;45(10-12):e70560. doi: 10.1002/sim.70560. PubMed

Nickel KB, Dublin S, Fuller S, Osmundson SS, Colvin R, Stwalley D, Kharbanda EO, Panozzo CA, Procknow SS, Butler AM Exploring the Impact of Missing Death Data on Identification of Congenital Malformations in Insurance Claims Data 2026 May;40(4):471-476 doi:10.1111/ppe.70146. doi: 10.1111/ppe.70146. Epub 2026-04-09. PubMed

Xie CX, Toader AM, De Simoni A, Eldridge S, Glass JE, Pinnock H, Relton C Impact of using routine healthcare data on the efficiency of implementation trials: a qualitative comparative case study 2026 Apr 11;27(1) doi:10.1186/s13063-026-09706-3. doi: 10.1186/s13063-026-09706-3. Epub 2026-04-11. PubMed