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How Much Can You Trust the Results of This Health Policy Evaluation: A Pragmatic Guide for State Policymakers 2023
The Role of Pre-Treatment Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Outcomes 2023
Assessing the State of Care for Huntington Disease in the United States: Results from a Survey of Practices Treating Huntington Disease Patients 2022
Comparative Effectiveness of Individual Versus Family-Based Substance Use Treatment on Adolescent Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors 2022
Concurrent Policies Simulation Tool 2022
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation 2022
Methodological Considerations for Estimating Policy Effects in the Context of Co-Occurring Policies 2022
Scaling Interventions to Manage Chronic Disease: Innovative Methods at the Intersection of Health Policy Research and Implementation Science 2022
Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny App for Two Treatments 2022
Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial for the R TWANG Package 2022
A Tutorial Comparing Different Covariate Balancing Methods with an Application Evaluating the Causal Effects of Substance Use Treatment Programs for Adolescents 2022
Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents: Using Propensity Score Based Methods to Understand Dosage Effects Within a Randomized Controlled Trial 2022
Best Practices in Statistical Computing 2021
Brief Tutorial for twangContinuous 2021
Buprenorphine Prescriber Monthly Patient Caseloads: An Examination of 6-Year Trajectories 2021
Moving Beyond the Classic Difference-In-Differences Model: A Simulation Study Comparing Statistical Methods for Estimating Effectiveness of State-Level Policies 2021
State-Level Opioid Policy Analyses: Moving Beyond the Classic Difference-in-Differences Model 2021
Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Time-Varying Treatments 2021
Changes in Firearm Mortality Following the Implementation of State Laws Regulating Firearm Access and Use 2020
Comparing the Army's Suicide Rate to the General U.S. Population: Identifying Suitable Characteristics, Data Sources, and Analytic Approaches 2020
Methodological Challenges and Proposed Solutions for Evaluating Opioid Policy Effectiveness 2020
Practical Factors Determining Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Settings: Results from Four Online Stakeholder Panels 2020
Quantifying the Bias Due to Observed Individual Confounders in Causal Treatment Effect Estimates: A Tutorial for the Selection Bias Decomposition (SBdecomp) Package 2020
State-of-the-Art Strategies for Addressing Selection Bias When Comparing Two or More Treatment Groups 2020
The State of the Science in Opioid Policy Research 2020
Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny Application for Three or More Treatment Groups 2020
When Is a Match Sufficient? A Score-based Balance Metric for the Synthetic Control Method 2020
Eat, Pray, Move: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos 2019
An Online Alcohol and Risky Sex Prevention Program for College Students Studying Abroad: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial 2019
Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Effect of State Laws on Firearm Deaths: A Simulation Study 2018
The Science of Gun Policy: A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States 2018
Developing Adaptive Interventions for Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Settings: Protocol of an Observational, Mixed-Methods Project 2017
Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on Opioid Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries in 10 U.S. States 2017
Optimizing Variance-Bias Trade-Off in the TWANG Package for Estimation of Propensity Scores 2017
Propensity Scores for Repeated Treatments: A Tutorial for the iptw Function in the TWANG Package 2017
A Propensity-Score-Weighted Population-Based Study of the Health Benefits of Dogs and Cats for Children 2017
The Role of Urban Congregations in Addressing HIV 2017
Church-Based HIV Screening in Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities of California, 2011–2012 2016
The Deployment Life Study: Longitudinal Analysis of Military Families Across the Deployment Cycle 2016
Effects of a Pilot Church-Based Intervention to Reduce HIV Stigma and Promote HIV Testing Among African Americans and Latinos 2016
Employment Gaps Between Military Spouses and Matched Civilians 2016
Examining the Implementation of Technology-Based Blended Algebra I Curriculum at Scale 2016
How Military Families Respond Before, During and After Deployment: Findings from the RAND Deployment Life Study 2016
Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and the Association Between Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease 2016
Landmark Estimation of Survival and Treatment Effects in Observational Studies 2016
Toward Evidence-Based Measures of Implementation: Examining the Relationship Between Implementation Outcomes and Client Outcomes 2016
Acculturation and Drug Use Stigma Among Latinos and African Americans: An Examination of a Church-Based Sample 2015
Correlates of HIV Testing Among African American and Latino Church Congregants: The Role of HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes and Discussions About HIV 2015
Health Implications of Social Networks for Children Living in Public Housing 2015
Improving Sleep Health for U.S. Servicemembers: Policies, Programs, Barriers to Implementation, and Recommendations 2015
Intergenerational Social Networks and Health Behaviors Among Children Living in Public Housing 2015
Predictors of HIV-Related Stigmas Among African American and Latino Religious Congregants 2015
Propensity Scores for Multiple Treatments: A Tutorial for the MNPS Macro in the TWANG SAS Macros 2015
Provision of Mental Health Services as a Quality Indicator for Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities 2015
Sleep in the Military: Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U.S. Servicemembers 2015
Sleep Problems and Their Impact on U.S. Servicemembers: Results of a Cross-Service Survey 2015
TWANG Short Course/Educational Videos: Three Videos — Introduction, Propensity Score Weighted Analyses with 2 Groups, and Propensity Score Weighted Analyses with More Than 2 Groups 2015
The Urban Child Institute CANDLE Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description 2015
Addendum to Effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor Algebra I at Scale 2014
Assessing the Generalizability of the CSAT-sponsored GAIN Dataset: Are the CSAT Sites Representative of Adolescent Treatment Programs in the U.S.? 2014
Effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor Algebra I at Scale 2014
Effectiveness of Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use: Is Biological Drug Testing Sufficient? 2014
Estimating the Causal Effects of Cumulative Treatment Episodes for Adolescents Using Marginal Structural Models and Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting 2014
The Impact of Public Housing on Social Networks: A Natural Experiment 2014
Predictors of the Existence of Congregational HIV Programs: Similarities and Differences Compared with Other Health Programs 2014
Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial for the TWANG SAS Macros 2014
Does an Algebra Course with Tutoring Software Improve Student Learning? 2013
Drug Use Among Gay and Bisexual Men at Weekend Dance Parties: The Role of Intentions and Perceptions of Peers' Behaviors 2013
The Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Coronary Heart Disease in Women 2013
A Tutorial on Propensity Score Estimation for Multiple Treatments Using Generalized Boosted Models 2013
Assessing Operation Purple: A Program Evaluation of a Summer Camp for Military Youth 2012
Assessing the Sensitivity of Treatment Effect Estimates to Differential Follow-Up Rates: Implications for Translational Research 2012
The Effectiveness of Community-Based Delivery of an Evidence-Based Treatment for Adolescent Substance Use 2012
Examining Moderated Effects of Additional Adolescent Substance Use Treatment: Structural Nested Mean Model Estimation Using Inverse-Weighted Regression with Residuals 2012
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Prediction in a Nationally Representative Sample 2012
Use of Alternative Time Scales in Cox Proportional Hazard Models: Implications for Time-Varying Environmental Exposures 2012
Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Venous Thromboembolism in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials 2011
Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth 2011
Using a Cross-Study Design to Assess the Efficacy of Motivational Enhancement Therapy-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5) in Treating Adolescents with Cannabis-Related Disorders 2011
Emergency Department Chief Complaint and Diagnosis Data to Detect Influenza-Like Illness with an Electronic Medical Record 2010
Housing Affordability and Health Among Homeowners and Renters 2010
How Perceptions of Mortality and HIV Morbidity Relate to Substance Abuse Problems and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Former Juvenile Offenders 2010
Nonparametric Inference and Uniqueness for Periodically Observed Progressive Disease Models 2010
Ambulatory Surgery Facility Services Provided to California's Injured Workers 2009
Disparities in Detection and Treatment History Among Mothers with Major Depression in Los Angeles 2009
Early Detection of Influenza Outbreaks Using the DC Department of Health's Syndromic Surveillance System 2009
Incorporating Mortality Risk Into Estimates of 5-Year Glaucoma Risk 2009
An Application of the Principal Stratification to Control for Institutionalization at Follow-Up in Studies of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs 2008
Design and Analysis of Arm-In-Cage Experiments: Inference for Three-State Progressive Disease Models with Common Periodic Observation Times 2008
Inconsistencies in Self-Reported Drug Use by Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment: Implications for Outcome and Performance Measurements 2008
A Prospective Investigation of Suicide Ideation, Attempts, and Use of Mental Health Service Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment 2008
Factors Associated with Major Depression Among Mothers in Los Angeles 2007
Interpreting Treatment Effects When Cases Are Institutionalized After Treatment 2007
Interpreting Treatment Effects When Cases Are Institutionalized After Treatment 2007
Smoking Rates Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs 2007
Analysis of Failure Time Data Arising from Studies with Alternating Treatment Schedules 2006
Policies and Practices Related to Breastfeeding in Massachusetts: Hospital Implementation of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding 2006

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