Recent RAND Statistics Publications
2012 Publications
The trace restriction: An alternative identification strategy for the Bayesian multinomial probit model. — 2012
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30(3): 404-410
Exploratory quantile regression with many covariates: An application to adverse birth outcomes. — 2012
Epidemiology, 22(6): 859-866
Modeling adverse birth outcomes via confirmatory factor quantile regression — 2012
Biometrics, 68(1): 92-100
Nonparametric Bayesian multiple imputation for missing data due to mid-study switching of measurement methods — 2012
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 107(498): 439-449
A Population-Based Survey of Mental Health Disorders in Singapore — 2012
Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, (In press)
Temporal Ordering of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) and Non-Bladder Conditions — 2012
Journal of Urology, (In press)
ExpertLens: A System for Eliciting Opinions from a Large Pool of Non-Collocated Experts with Diverse Knowledge — 2011
Journal of Technology Forecasting and Social Change
Using Machine Learning to Facilitate Systematic Review Updating — 2012
Journal of Medical Decision Making, AHRQ Publication No. 11-EHC045-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Food Policy Research: We need Better Measurement, Better Study Designs and Reasonable Actions Based on Available Evidence. Obesity — 2012
(In press)
Measurement properties of park use questionnaire — 2012
Environment and Behavior, (In press)
Gender Balance in ASA Activities — 2012
Amstat News, (In press)
Bias and variance trade-offs when combining propensity score weighting and regression: with an application to HIV status and homeless men — 2012
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, (In press)
Assessing the Sensitivity of Treatment Effect Estimates to Differential Follow-Up Rates: Implications for Translational Research — 2012
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1007/s10742-012-0089-7
Use of Alternative Time Scales in Cox Proportional Hazard Models: Implications for Time-Varying Environmental Exposures — 2012
Statistics in Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/sim.5347
Nonparametric Matching and Propensity Scores — 2012
Chapter for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics, (In press)
Assessing the Sensitivity of Treatment Effect Estimates to Differential Follow-Up Rates: Implications for Translational Research — 2012
Health Services Research and Outcomes Methodology, 12(2): 84-103
A Bernstein-type estimator for decreasing density with application to p-value adjustment — 2012
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 427-437
Simultaneous One-sided Tests with Application to Education Evaluation Systems — 2012
Journal of Educational & Behavioral Statistics, 37, 114-136
Teacher Effect Estimates and Decision Rules for Establishing Student-Teacher Linkages: What are the Implications for High-Stakes Personnel Policies in an Urban School District? Statics, Politics, and Policy — 2012
(In press)
Immunization Disparities by Hispanic Ethnicity and Language Preference — 2011
Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(2):158-165
Evaluating treatment efficacy — 2012
P. Miller (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Addictive Behaviors, Oxford, UK: Elsevier Limited
Conducting Online Expert Panels: A Feasibility and Experimental Replicability Study — 2012
BMC Medical Research Methodology, (In press)
Understanding Nonresponse to the 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey — 2011
The Gerontologist, 51 (6): 843-855
Smoothing across time in repeated cross-sectional data — 2011
Statistics in Medicine, 30: 584-594
Understanding racial/ethnic and other socio-demographic disparities in patient experience of primary care: evidence from the English General Practice Patient Survey — 2011
BMJ Quality & Safety, 21(1):21-29
How can healthcare organizations be reliably compared?: Lessons from a national survey of patient experience — 2011
Medical Care, 49(8): 724-733
The Academic Effects of Summer Instruction and Retention in New York City — 2012
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, (In press)
Reporting CAHPS and HEDIS Data by Race/Ethnicity for Medicare Beneficiaries — 2012
Health Services Research, (In press)
Machine Learning for Automatic Identification of Terrorist Incidents in Worldwide News Media — 2012
IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Page(s): 84 - 89 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISI.2012.6284096 (link)
Missing data in value-added modeling of teacher effects — 2011
Annals of Applied Statistics, 5 (2A): 773-797
Inverse probability weighting with error-prone covariates — 2011
Biometrika, (available as a RAND Working Paper)
A review of Stata routines for fixed effects estimation in normal linear models — 2012
The Stata Journal, (In press)
A Bayesian growth mixture model to examine maternal hypertension and birth outcomes — 2011
Statistics in Medicine, 30(22): 2721-2735
Should measures of patient experience in primary care be adjusted for case mix? Evidence from the UK General Practice Patient Survey — 2012
BMJ Quality & Safety, doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000737
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in 5th-Graders in 3 US Metropolitan Areas — 2012
New England Journal of Medicine, (In press)
A graphical method for assessing risk factor threshold values using the generalized additive model: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis — 2012
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 12, 62-79
Using Generalized Additive Modeling to Empirically Identify Thresholds Within the ITERS in Relation to Toddlers' Cognitive Development — 2012
Developmental Psychology, doi: 10.1037/a0028738
Combinatorial Enlargement of Ground-Truth Datasets and Efficient Evaluation of Segmentation Algorithms — 2012
ACM International Workshop on Visual Interfaces for Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Application, (link)
Using Information Mining of the Medical Literature to Improve Drug Safety — 2011
Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, 18(5):668-7
Understanding Pregnancy-Related Attitudes and Behaviors: A Mixed Method Study of Homeless Youth — 2012
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, (In press)
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