Recent RAND Statistics Publications

2020 Publications

• Distinguishing High-Performing Health Systems Using a Composite of Publicly Reported Measures of Ambulatory Care2020

  Agniel, D., et al.

  Annals of Internal Medicine 173.10: 791-798.

• Identifying optimal level-of-care placement decisions for adolescent substance use treatment 2020

  Agniel, D., et al.

  Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 212: 107991.

• Doubly-Robust Evaluation of High-Dimensional Surrogate Markers 2020

  Agniel, D., Parast L., and Hejblum B.

  arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01236.

• Identifying Optimal Sequences of Individually-Tailored, Level-of-Care Placement Decisions for Adolescent Substance Use Treatment: A Novel Method Using Observational Data 2020

  Agniel D., Almirall D.R., Burkhart Q., Grant S., Hunter S.B., Pedersen E.R., Ramchand R., Griffin B.A.

  Drug & Alcohol Dependence , 212: 107991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107991

• Validation of Colorectal Cancer Models on Long-term Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial 2020

  DeYoreo M., Lansdorp-Vogelaar I., Knudsen A., Kuntz K., Zauber A., Rutter C.

  Medical Decision Making, 40(8):1034-1040.

• Bayesian Mixture Modeling for Multivariate Conditional Distributions 2020

  DeYoreo M., Reiter J.

  Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, 14(45).

• dearseq: A Variance Component Score Test for RNA-Seq Differential Analysis That Effectively Controls the False Discovery Rate 2020

  Gauthier, M, et al.

  NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2.4: lqaa093.

• An Audit Tool for Measuring the Characteristics of Urban Neighborhoods and Their Change Over Time: Implementation Methods and Reliability Results2020

  Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Hunter C., Sloan J.C., Collins R., Richardson A., Troxel W., Colabianchi N., Dubowitz T.

  BMC Public Health, 20 (1519), DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09424-8

• A Novel Approach to Anthropometric Assessment for Geographically Dispersed Samples: A Pilot Study 2020

  Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Nicosia N., Datar A.

  Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol. 19, p. 101125, DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101125.

• Expanding Outcomes When Considering the Relative Effectiveness of Two Evidence-Based Outpatient Treatment Programs for Adolescents 2020

  Griffin B.A., Ayer L., Pane J., Vegetabile B.G., Burgette L.F., McCaffrey D.M., Coffman D.L., Cefalu M., Funk R., Godley M.

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 118: 108075. PMCID: PMC519172

• Linking Statistics With Testing Policy to Manage COVID-19 in the Community 2020

  Hilborne L., Wagner Z., Cabreros I., Brook R.

  American Journal of Clinical Pathology, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqaa099

• Breaking Barriers: A Rapid Rehousing and Employment Pilot Program for Adults on Probation in Los Angeles County 2020

  Hunter S.B., Scherling A., Felician M.F., Baxi S.M., Cefalu M.

  RAND, RR-4316-BRC

• Health System Affiliation of Physician Organizations and Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries who have High Needs 2020

  Kranz A., DeYoreo M., Eshete-Roesler B., Damberg C.,Totten M., Escarce J., Timbie W.

  Health Services Reseach, 55(S3):1118-1128.

• Increased Reporting of Sexual Minority Orientation from 2009 to 2017 in England and Implications for Measuring Sexual-Minority Health Disparities 2020

  MacCarthy S., Saunders C.L., Elliott M.N.

  LGBT Health, 7(7):393-400. PMID: 32758045.

• The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations Index2020

  Mathews M., Agniel D., Elliott M.N., Martino S.C., Guerino P., Orr N., Ng J.H., Beckett MK.

  Am J Manag Care, 26(7):e225-e231. PMID: 32672921.

• Health Service Utilization and Costs at the Outset of a Permanent Supportive Housing Program 2020

  McBain, R.K., Hunter S.B., Scherling A., Palimaru A.I., Cefalu M., Mcconnell W., and Batra P.

  RAND, RR-A374-1

• Making Narrative Statements to Describe Treatment Effect 2020

  Murad M.H., Fiordalisi C., Pillay J., Wilt T.J., O’Connor E., Kahwati L., Hernandez A.V., Rutter C.M., Chou R., Balk E.M., Steele D.W.

  Journal of General Internal Medicine, 27:1-4. PMCID: PMC7858734.

• Assessing the Value of a Censored Surrogate Outcome 2020

  Parast L., Tian L., Cai T.

  Lifetime Data Analysis, 26(2): 245-265.

• Quantifying the Bias Due to Observed Individual Confounders in Causal Treatment Effect Estimates 2020

  Parast L., Griffin B. A.

  Statistics in Medicine, 39(18), 2447-2476. PMID: 32388870

• Characteristics of Hospices Providing High Quality Care 2020

  Price R.A., Tolpadi A., Schlang D., Bradley M.A., Parast L., Teno J.M., Elliott M.N.

  Journal of Palliative Medicine, 23(12), 1639-1643. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0505

• Robust Estimation of the Causal Effect of Time-Varying Neighborhood Factors on Health Outcomes2020

  Robbins M.W., Griffin B.A., Shih R.A., Slaughter M.E.

  Statistics in Medicine, 39(5), 544-561. PMID: 31820833

• The Effect of Incentives and Mode of Contact on the Successful Recruitment of Teachers into Survey Panels 2020

  Robbins M.W., Hawes-Dawson J.

  Survey Practice, 13(1).

• A Fully Flexible Changepoint Test for Regression Models with Stationary Errors 2020

  Robbins M.W.

  Statistica Sinica, 30, 1657-1683.

• Robust Estimation of the Effect of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Cognitive Function 2020

  Robbins M.W., Griffin B.A., Shih R.A., and Slaughter M.E.

  Statistics in Medicine, 39, 544-561.

• MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development 2020

  Rodriguez, A., Edelen M.O., Scherling A., Bandini J., Farmer C.F., Schlang D., Bradley M.A., Rollison J., Vegetabile B.G, Dalton S., Ahluwalia S.C.

  RAND, WR-A400-1

• Enhancing Prehospital Outcomes for Cardiac Arrest (EPOC) study: sequential mixed-methods study protocol in Michigan, USA 2020

  Salhi R.A., Fouche S., Mendel P., Nelson C., Fetters M.D., Guetterman T., Forman J., Nham W., Goldstick J.E., Lehrich J., Forbush B., Iovan S., Hsu A., Shields T.A., Domeier R., Setodji C.M., Neumar R.W. CARES Surveillance Group, Nallamothu B.K., Abir M.

  BMJ Open, 10:e041277. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041277.

• State-Level Estimates of Household Firearm Ownership 2020

  Schell T.L., Peterson S., Vegetabile B.G., Scherling A., Smart R., Morral A.R.

  RAND, TL-354-LJAF

• Methodological Challenges and Considerations in Opioid Policy Evaluation 2020

  Schuler M.S., Griffin B.A., McGinty E.E., Cerdá M, Stuart E.A.

  Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-020-00228-2

• The State of the Science in Opioid Policy Research progress 2020

  Schuler M.S., Heins S., Smart R., Smucker S., Pardo B., Henderson J., Powell D., Griffin B.A., Stein B.D., Pacula R.L.

  Drug & Alcohol Dependence , 214: 108137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108137

• Nursing Home Responses to Performance-based Accountability: Results of a National Survey 2020

  Shetty K., Tolpadi A., Robbins M., Taylor E., Campbell K., Damberg C.

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68(9), 1979-1987. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16466

• How Statisticians Should Grapple With Privacy in a Changing Data Landscape2020

  Snoke, J., Bowen, C.M.

  Chance, 33(4), pp.6-13.

• Estimating the Effects of Fine Particulate Matter on Cardiovascular Diseases Using Multi-Outcome Regression with Tree-Structured Shrinkage 2020

  Thomas E.G., Trippa L., Parmigiani G., Dominici F.

  Journal of the American Statistical Association

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care for Health System-Affiliated Physician Organizations and Non-Affiliated Physician Organizations. 2020

  Timbie J., Kranz A., DeYoreo M., Eshete-Roesler B., Elliott M., Escarce J., Totten M., Damberg C.

  Health Services Research, 55 (S3): 1107-1117

• Nonparametric Estimation of Population Average Dose-Response Curves using Entropy Balancing Weights for Continuous Exposures 2020

  Vegetabile B.G., Griffin B.A., Coffman D., Cefalu M., Robbins M.W., McCaffrey D.

  Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, Vol. 21, pp. 69-110.

• Optimally Balanced Gaussian Process Propensity Scores for Estimating Treatment Effects 2020

  Vegetabile B.G., Gillen D.L., Stern H.S.

  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society–Series A

• Model Free Approach to Quantifying the Proportion of Treatment Effect Explained by a Surrogate Marker 2020

  Wang X., Parast L., Tian L., Cai T.

  Biometrika, 107(1): 107-122.