Recent publications on Biostatistics

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

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

Shinde MU, Shapiro K, Hou L, Coughlin K, Madow AM, Shebl FM, Bright P, Pocobelli G, Ralston JD, Graham VF, Nolan MB, Binswanger IA, Pratt N, Hua W, Cocoros NM, Perez-Vilar S Identifying COVID-19 Disease Severity in Real-World Data: Implications for Medical Product Effectiveness Studies 2026 Apr;35(4):e70363. doi: 10.1002/pds.70363. PubMed

Zou R, D Williamson B, M Shortreed S, Coley RY Validation of a Risk-Prediction Model in the Presence of Outcome Misclassification 2026 Apr;45(8-9):e70377. doi: 10.1002/sim.70377. PubMed

Li D, Cruz M, Mooney SJ, Cook AJ, Bobb JF Mitigating the risk of bias exacerbation when controlling for unmeasured spatial confounding for binary exposures 2026 Mar 17;195(4):1063-1072 doi:10.1093/aje/kwaf248. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf248. Epub 2025-11-07. PubMed

Cook AJ, Wellman RD, Marsh T, Tiwari RC, Nguyen MD, Russek-Cohen E, Peng Y, Nelson JC Estimating Risk Differences Using Large Healthcare Data Networks for Medical Product Post-Market Safety Outcomes in a Distributed Data Setting and Allowing for Active Post-Market Surveillance 2026 Mar;45(6-7):e70440 doi:10.1002/sim.70440. doi: 10.1002/sim.70440. PubMed

Gatto NM, Cronkite DJ, Wartko PD, Ball R, Carrell DS, Eniafe R, Desai R, Floyd JS, Lee T, Nelson JC, Shebl FM, Schoeplein R, Toh S, Zhang M, Dublin S, Hernández-Muñoz JJ A Systematic Process for Assessing Fitness-for-Purpose of Health Outcomes for Computable Phenotyping With Electronic Health Record Data 2026 Mar;35(3):e70346. doi: 10.1002/pds.70346. PubMed

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