Recent publications on Biostatistics

Harel O, Chung H, Miglioretti D. Latent class regression: inference and estimation with two-stage multiple imputation. Biom J. 2013;55(4):541-53. doi: 10.1002/bimj.201200020. Epub 2013 May 26. PubMed

Rosenberg MW, Kato CM, Carson KM, Matsunaga NM, Arao RF, Doss EJ, McCracken CL, Meng LZ, Chen Y, Laub WU, Fuss M, Tanyi JA. Circumferential or sectored beam arrangements for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) of primary lung tumors: effect on target and normal-structure dose-volume metrics. Med Dosim. 2013 Winter;38(4):407-12. doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2013.05.002. Epub 2013 Jun 28. PubMed

Liu YW, Su CT, Sung JM, Wang SP, Su YR, Yang CS, Tsai LM, Chen JH, Tsai WC. Association of left ventricular longitudinal strain with mortality among stable hemodialysis patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Sep;8(9):1564-74. doi: 10.2215/CJN.10671012. Epub 2013 May 23. PubMed

Shortreed SM, Peeters A, Forbes AB. Estimating the effect of long-term physical activity on cardiovascular disease and mortality: evidence from the Framingham Heart Study.  Heart. 2013 May;99(9):649-54. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-303461. Epub 2013 Mar 8. PubMed

Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Avery TR, Chan AK, Davis RL, Graham D, Platt R, Andrade SE, Boudreau D, Gunter MJ, Herrinton LJ, Pawloski PA, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Brown JS. Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013 May;22(5):517-23. doi: 10.1002/pds.3423. Epub 2013 Mar 20. PubMed

Cook AJ, Gold DR, Li Y. Spatial cluster detection for longitudinal outcomes using administrative regions. Commun Stat Theory Methods. 2013;42(12):2105-17. PubMed

Hubbard RA, Miglioretti DL. A semiparametric censoring bias model for estimating the cumulative risk of a false-positive screening test under dependent censoring. Biometrics. 2013 Mar;69(1):245-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01831.x. Epub 2013 Feb 5. PubMed

Zhang S, Barros SP, Moretti AJ, Yu N, Zhou J, Preisser JS, Niculescu MD, Offenbacher S. Epigenetic regulation of TNFA xpression in periodontal disease. J Periodontol. 2013 Nov;84(11):1606-16. doi: 10.1902/jop.2013.120294. Epub 2013 Jan 31. PubMed

Shan L, Chen YA, Davis L, Han G, Zhu W, Molina AD, Arango H, LaPolla JP, Hoffman MS, Sellers T, Kirby T, Nicosia SV, Sutphen R. Measurement of phospholipids improve diagnostic accuracy in ovarian cancer. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e46846. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046846. Epub 2012 Oct 17. PubMed

Su YR, Wang JL. Modeling left-truncated and right-censored survival data with longitudinal covariates. Ann Stat. 2012 Jun;40(3):1465-1488. doi: 10.1214/12-AOS996. Epub 2012 Sep 5. PubMed