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Jul 13, 2026
The aim of the study was to determine the direct medical cost of illness from essential tremor from a patient perspective.
Mar 16, 2026
We investigate whether propensity score weighting can balance differences between probability and nonprobability samples of Twitter users to evaluate the feasibility of using social media data for producing generalizable inferences on public opinion.
Oct 29, 2025
In this study, we compared different strategies of incorporating sampling weights into causal mediation analysis.
Aug 7, 2025
In this paper, we propose robust methods to evaluate a longitudinal surrogate marker in a censored time-to-event outcome setting.
Mar 10, 2025
We extend prior work and show with analytic results that using survey sampling or attrition weights in the GPS estimation stage and the outcome model stage for continuous treatments can result in a more robust estimator than one that does not.
Jan 21, 2025
This study examines participation in North Carolina's CTE Dual Enrollment pathway. It shows that CTE dual enrollment participation was associated with earning more college credits earned in high school, high school graduation and college enrollment.
Jul 1, 2024
This article examines whether the SEC's authority to move cases into administrative court has led to a home-court advantage due to administrative law judges' relative lack of formal independence.
Jun 26, 2024
Among pregnant individuals with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity, loss of control (LOC) over eating was associated with poorer cardiovascular health (CVH) even after controlling for known risk factors for poor CVH.
Apr 17, 2024
To provide step-by-step guidance and STATA and R code for using propensity score (PS) weighting to estimate moderation effects with categorical variables.
Mar 6, 2024
Medicaid managed care has not improved the inequitable allocation of mental health care across racial and ethnic groups. Attention to monitoring of racial and ethnic differences in use of mental health care in Medicaid managed care is warranted.
Jun 24, 2022
The study used statistical methods designed to approximate RCTs when comparing more than two nonequivalent groups that include an assessment of the potential impact of omitted variables in order to address potential dosage effects for a commonly used evidence based substance use treatment program for adolescents.
We explore the potential benefit of using higher-order moments in the balancing conditions for covariate-balancing propensity scores and entropy balance.
