Recent publications on Biostatistics

Williams JTB, Kurlandsky K, Breslin K, Cruz H, Stein A, Shoup JA, Reifler LM, Daley MF, Lewin B, Goddard K, Henninger ML, Nelson JC, Vazquez-Benitez G, Hanson KE, Fuller CC, Hambidge SJ. Religious service attendance, COVID-19 vaccine attitudes, and COVID-19 vaccination status: A Vaccine Safety Datalink member survey, 2022-2023. AJPM Focus. 2025 Jul 30;4(5):100404. doi: 10.1016/j.focus.2025.100404. eCollection 2025.  PubMed

Cruz M, Shortreed SM, Simon GE, Coley Y. Evaluating clinical implementation of risk prediction based interventions using difference-in-differences.  Health Serv Res. 2025 Jul 21:e70015. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.70015 [Epub ahead of print] PubMed

Cook AJ, Heagerty PJ. Direct effect modeling methods to estimate heterogeneity of treatment effects.  JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jul 1;8(7):e2522397. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.22397. PubMed

Amorim G, Tao R, Lumley T, Shaw PA, Shepherd BE. Ascertainment conditional maximum likelihood for continuous outcome under two-phase response-selective design.  Stat Med. 2025 Jul;44(15-17):e70111. doi: 10.1002/sim.70111. PubMed

Thaweethai T, Mukherjee R, Arterburn D, Fischer H, Lee C, Shortreed SM, Haneuse S. Adjusting for selection bias due to missing data in electronic health records-based research by blending multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting.  Stat Med. 2025 Jul;44(15-17):e70151. doi: 10.1002/sim.70151. PubMed

Putt ME, Shaw PA. Proceedings of the University of Pennsylvania 16th annual conference on statistical issues in clinical trials: Optimizing dose selection across the clinical trials spectrum. Clin Trials. 2025 Jun 10:17407745251346836. doi: 10.1177/17407745251346836. Online ahead of print. PubMed

Raman SR, Hammill BG, Shaw PA, Lee H, Toh S, Connolly JG, Dandreo KJ, Nalawade V, Tian F, Liu W, Li J, Hernández-Muñoz JJ, Glynn RJ, Desai RJ, Weberpals J. Analyzing missingness patterns in real-world data using the SMDI toolkit: application to a linked EHR-claims pharmacoepidemiology study. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2024;24(1):246. doi: 10.1186/s12874-024-02330-2.  PubMed

Wolock CJ, Williamson BD, Shortreed SM, Simon GE, Coleman KJ, Yeargans R, Ahmedani BK, Daida Y, Lynch FL, Rossom RC, Ziebell RA, Cruz M, Wellman RD, Coley RY. Importance of variables from different time frames for predicting self-harm using health system data. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024:2024.04.29.24306260. doi: 10.1101/2024.04.29.24306260. PubMed

Weberpals J, Raman SR, Shaw PA, Lee H, Hammill BG, Toh S, Connolly JG, Dandreo KJ, Tian F, Liu W, Li J, Hernández-Muñoz JJ, Glynn RJ, Desai RJ. smdi: an R package to perform structural missing data investigations on partially observed confounders in real-world evidence studies.  JAMIA Open. 2024 Jan 31;7(1):ooae008. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae008. eCollection 2024. PubMed

Wyss R, van der Laan M, Gruber S, Shi X, Lee H, Dutcher SK, Nelson JC, Toh S, Russo M, Wang SV, Desai RJ, Lin KJ. Targeted learning with an undersmoothed lasso propensity score model for large-scale covariate adjustment in healthcare database studies. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Mar 21:kwae023. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae023. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed