Recent publications on Biostatistics
Cook AJ, Tiwari RC, Wellman RD, Heckbert SR, Li L, Heagerty P, Marsh T, Nelson JC. Statistical approaches to group sequential monitoring of postmarket safety surveillance data: current state of the art for use in the Mini-Sentinel pilot. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2012;21 Suppl 1:72-81. doi: 10.1002/pds.2320. PubMed
Finkelstein S, Trotti A, Rao N, Reintgen D, Cruse W, Feun L, Sondak V, Yu D, Zhu W, Gwede C, DeConti R. The Florida Melanoma Trial I: a prospective multicenter phase I/II trial of postoperative hypofractionated adjuvant radiotherapy with concurrent interferon-alfa-2b in the treatment of advanced stage III melanoma with long-term toxicity follow-up. ISRN Immunology. 2012;2012:[10 p.]. doi:10.5402/2012/324235. PubMed
Wong ES, Wang BC, Garrison LP, Alfonso-Cristancho R, Flum DR, Arterburn DE, Sullivan SD. Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomials. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2011 Dec 28;11(1):175. PubMed
Hubbard RA, Zhou XH A comparison of non-homogeneous Markov regression models with application to Alzheimer's disease progression J Appl Stat. 38(10): 2313-26. PubMed
Scholes D, Yu O, Raebel MA, Trabert B, Holt VL. Improving automated case finding for ectopic pregnancy using a classification algorithm. Hum Reprod. 2011 Nov;26(11):3163-8. Epub 2011 Sep 12. PubMed
Li L, Kulldorff M, Nelson JC, Cook AJ. A propensity score-enhanced sequential analytic method for comparative drug safety surveillance. Stat Biosci. 2011 Sept. 3(1):45-62. doi:10.1007/s12561-011-9034-5. PubMed
Hecht F, Wellman R, Busch M, Little S, Markowitz M, Collier A, Margolick J, Norris P, Routy JP, Holte S Identifying the early post-HIV antibody seroconversion period. J Infect Dis. 2011 Aug 15;204(4):526-33. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir304. PubMed
Hubbard RA. Response from the author. Stat Methods Med Res. 2011 Jun;20(3):293-5. PubMed
Xu S, Zhang L, Nelson JC, Zeng C, Mullooly J, McClure D, Glanz J. Identifying optimal risk windows for self-controlled case series studies of vaccine safety. Stat Med. 2011 Mar 30;30(7):742-52. doi: 10.1002/sim.4125. Epub 2010 Nov 30. PubMed
Haneuse S, Chen J. A multiphase design strategy for dealing with participation bias. Biometrics. 2011 Mar;67(1):309-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01419.x. PubMed


