Skip to page content

Regression Analysis

Journal Article
Do Hospital Characteristics Predict Racial-and-Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience? National Results from the HCAHPS Survey
Large, for-profit hospitals and hospitals serving higher proportions of Black and Hispanic patients tend to be lower performing overall but have smaller disparities in patient experience.
Nov 17, 2023
Journal Article
The Association of the Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services Waivers with Emergency Department Utilization Among Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Using 2008-2013 Medicaid files, this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate the effect of Medicaid home and community-based services waiver programs on emergency department utilizations among youth with autism spectrum disorder.
Nov 13, 2023
Journal Article
Telehealth Adoption by Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The study examined temporal and geographic trends in telehealth availability at U.S. behavioral health treatment facilities and risk factors for not offering telehealth.
Nov 13, 2023
Journal Article
Black-White Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Outcomes: A Simulation Study of Screening Benefit
This paper compares projected colorectal cancer (CRC) screening benefits for Black and White populations in the context of secular changes in CRC risk, shifts in CRC location, and Black?White disparities in CRC-specific and overall survival.
Nov 13, 2023
Journal Article
Influence of SNP*SNP Interaction on BMI in European American Adolescents: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Our results are suggestive of epistatic effects on BMI during adolescence and point to potentially interactive effects between genes in biological pathways important in obesity.
Nov 9, 2023
Journal Article
Identifying HIV PrEP Attributes to Increase PrEP Use Among Different Groups of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Latent Class Analysis of a Discrete Choice Experiment
Daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective at preventing HIV among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, although uptake remains suboptimal. This study examines preferences for PrEP use to increase its uptake.
Nov 6, 2023
Journal Article
Multi-dimensional Profiles of Risk and Their Association with Obesity-Severity in Low-Income Black Women
Multi-level strategies may support low-income Black women’s resilience to obesity who face neighborhood-level and socioeconomic stressors.
Nov 6, 2023
Journal Article
Students' Consumption of High and Low Nutrition Foods and Reduced Plate Waste by Schools' Wellness-Related Policies and Garden Program Participation
Participation in school-based programs that may support children's nutritious dietary behaviours varies across schools. We examined school participation in wellness-related policies, school-based garden programs and students' dietary behaviours.
Nov 6, 2023
Journal Article
Examining the Effects of Perceptions of Police Effectiveness, Procedural Justice, and Legitimacy on Racial Differences in Anticipated Cooperation With Law Enforcement in Pennsylvania
This study used data from a representative sample of PA residents to measure public perceptions of police. The authors examined racial differences in these perceptions and whether normative or instrumental assessments can explain these differences.
Oct 27, 2023
Journal Article
A Feasibility Study of Differentially Private Summary Statistics and Regression Analyses with Evaluations on Administrative and Survey Data
This paper studies the feasibility of using differentially private (DP) methods to make certain queries while preserving privacy.
Oct 27, 2023
Journal Article
Utilization and Spending on Mental Health Services Among Children and Youths With Commercial Insurance
In this study, we examined telehealth, in-person, and overall pediatric mental health service utilization and spending rates from January 2019 through August 2022.
Oct 5, 2023
Journal Article
National Travel Distances for Emergency Care
The paper examines the travel time/distance between a patient’s actual home address and the ED they visited and how these distances/times vary by hospital and patient characteristics using geocoded data from 50 hospital-based EDs from across the US.
Oct 4, 2023
Journal Article
Mental Health Outcomes Among Patients Living in US Counties Lacking Broadband Access and Psychiatrists
This analysis identifies the prevalence of counties without psychiatrists and broadband coverage, describes their sociodemographic characteristics, and quantifies their mental health outcomes.
Sep 20, 2023
Journal Article
Changes Over Time in POLST Use and Content by Race and Ethnicity Among California Nursing Home Residents
Racial and ethnic differences in POLST intensity of care orders increased between 2011 and 2016 suggesting that efforts to mitigate factors underlying differences were ineffective.
Sep 18, 2023
Journal Article
A Health Profile of African Immigrant Men in the United States
African immigrants (AI) are the fastest growing group of immigrants to the U.S. however, their health and health practices remains poorly characterized. This study aimed to describe their health profile.
Sep 13, 2023
Journal Article
Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Did patient hospital experiences change during the COVID-19 pandemic and, if so, did the changes differ across hospitals with different patient-staff ratios and prepandemic quality (hospital overall star rating)?
Sep 5, 2023
Journal Article
Does Removing Menthol Cigarettes in Convenience Stores Reduce Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking?
Conducted in the RAND StoreLab — a life-sized research convenience store — researchers evaluated whether the absence of menthol products from a convenience store influenced young people’s susceptibility to cigarette smoking.
Sep 5, 2023
Journal Article
Evaluation Via Simulation of Statistical Corrections for Network Nonindependence
Many statistical techniques assume independence of data points, but networked data violate this assumption. Our network simulations indicate that eight commonly used techniques intended to correct this problem in networked data fail to do so.
Aug 23, 2023
Journal Article
Proximity to Legal Cannabis Stores in Canada and Use of Cannabis Sources in the First Three Years of Legalization, 2019-2021
Proximity to legal cannabis stores may aid uptake of the legal market but there may be diminishing returns after a certain point.
Aug 15, 2023
Journal Article
Sexual Identity Differences in Tobacco (Re)Uptake: Testing Mediation by Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
We examined whether internalizing and externalizing psychological symptoms serve as mediators of tobacco (re)uptake among sexual minority individuals using data from Waves 4 and 5 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study.
Aug 11, 2023

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Next

RAND Topic:
Regression Analysis

Topic Synonyms:
Regression and Correlation Analysis

Researcher Spotlight

Matthew Forbes

Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Matthew Forbes (he/him) is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has an M.P.P. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in economics and data science from the University of…
Madeline Nightingale

Research Leader

Madeline Nightingale is a research leader at RAND Europe. Currently working in the areas of home affairs and social policy, her research interests include employment policy, family policy, wages, gender and social inclusion. She has a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in social policy and an M.Sc. in comparative…

Explore Our People »