Recent publications on Biostatistics

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

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