Recent publications on Biostatistics

Shi X, Zhai Y, Yu X, Li X, Hazlehurst BL, Nyongesa DB, Sapp DS, Williamson BD, Carrell DS, Healy L, Cushing-Haugen KL, Wong J, Wang SV, Floyd JS, Shattuck K, McGown S, Alam S, Hernández-Muñoz JJ, Li J, Ma Y, Stojanovic D, Raman SR, Davis SE, Cai T, Nelson JC, Heagerty PJ Statistical methods to harmonize electronic health record data across healthcare systems: case study and lessons learned 2026 Feb 28;42(3). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag107. PubMed

Hsu C, Glass D, Cruz S, Corage Baden A, Senturia K Beyond saturation: A qualitative framework for operationalizing respondent sampling (Q-FORS) for data adequacy 2026 Feb;390:118781 doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118781. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118781. Epub 2025-11-12. PubMed

Williamson BD, Krakauer C, Johnson E, Gruber S, Shepherd BE, van der Laan MJ, Lumley T, Lee H, Hernández-Muñoz JJ, Zhao F, Dutcher SK, Desai R, Simon GE, Shortreed SM, Nelson JC, Shaw PA Assessing Treatment Effects in Observational Data With Missing Confounders: A Comparative Study of Practical Doubly-Robust and Traditional Missing Data Methods 2026 Feb;45(3-5):e70366. doi: 10.1002/sim.70366. PubMed

Slone J, Amorim G, Semeere A, Diero L, Otero L, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Tao R, Duda SN, Musick B, Yiannoutsos C, Lumley T, Shaw PA, Shepherd BE Analysis approaches to combine error-prone data with a subset of validated data: an application to a multinational study of Kaposi sarcoma and HIV 2026 Jan 22 doi: 10.1093/aje/kwag015. Epub 2026-01-22. PubMed

Ye S, Cruz M, Wang Z, Yu Y A marginalized three-part interrupted time series regression model for proportional data 2026 Jan 18; doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2026.261475. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2026.2614752. Epub 2026-01-18. PubMed

Hyun N, Idu AE, Cook AJ, Bobb JF Increased risk of type I errors for detecting heterogeneity of treatment effects in cluster-randomized trials using mixed-effect models 2026 Jan 12 doi: 10.1186/s12874-025-02744-6. Epub 2026-01-12. PubMed

Minus E, Coley RY, Shortreed SM, Williamson BD Behavior of prediction performance metrics with rare events 2026 Jan;189:112046 doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.112046. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.112046. Epub 2025-11-10. PubMed

Hyun N, Boe L, Shaw PA An Augmented Likelihood Approach Incorporating Error-Prone Auxiliary Data Into a Survival Analysis 2025 Dec;44(28-30):e70321. doi: 10.1002/sim.70321. PubMed

Johnson JJ, Ghosh S, Shaw PA, Neuhouser ML, Lampe JW, Tinker LF, Prentice RL, Tasevska N, Freedman LS, Boyer BB, Hopkins SE, Nash SH, Votruba SB, Krakoff J, O'Brien DM The carbon isotope ratio of alanine is a biomarker of added sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage intakes: a pooled analysis of 4 studies 2025 Dec;122(6):1769-1777 doi:10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.09.049. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.09.049. Epub 2025-10-03. PubMed

Amorim G, Slone J, Semeere A, Diero L, Otero L, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Tao R, Duda SN, Musick B, Yiannoutsos C, Lumley T, Shaw PA, Shepherd BE Data validation in multinational observational studies with error-prone data: applying an optimal validation sampling strategy in a study of Kaposi sarcoma and HIV 2025 Nov 25 doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf264. Epub 2025-11-25. PubMed