Recent publications on Biostatistics

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

Shortreed SM, Bogart A, McClure J. Using multiple imputations to accommodate time-outs in online interventions. J Med Internet Res. 2013 Nov 21;15(11):e252. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2781. PubMed

Fenton JJ, Onega T, Zhu W, Balch S, Smith-Bindman R, Henderson L, Sprague BL, Kerlikowske K, Hubbard RA. Validation of a Medicare claims-based algorithm for identifying breast cancers detected at screening mammography. Med Care. 2013 Aug 6. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a303d7. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

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