Modern Statistical Methods for Health Research

1. Alternative Capture-Recapture Point and Interval Estimators Based on Two Surveillance Streams – Lyles, Wilkinson, Williamson, Chen, Taylor, Jambai, Kaiser.- 2. On-Gaussian Model Based Object Tracking Analysis with Time Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy Images – Marcus, Kong.- 3. Detecting Changepoint in Gene Expressions over Time: An Application to Childhood Obesity – Mathur, Sung.- 4. How “Big” Are EHR Data? The Effective Sample Size of EHR Data Under Biased Sampling – Hubbard.- 5. A Nested Clustering Method to Detect and Cluster Transgenerational DNA Methylation Sites via Beta Regressions – Wang, Zhang, Han, Arshad, Karmaus.- 6. Controlling the False Discovery Rate of Grouped Hypotheses – MacDonald, Wilson, Liang, Qin.- 7. Approaches to Combining Phase II Proof-of-Concept and Dose-Finding Trials – Ting.- 8. On the Multiply Robust Estimation with Missing Data – Chen, Haziza.- 9. Recent Advances in Spectral Clustering and Their Applications in Bioinformatics – Xue.- 10. Functional DataModeling and Hypothesis Testing for Longitudinal Alzheimer Genome-Wide Association Studies – Li, Xu, Liu.- 11. Misuse of Classifiers in Biological Networks – Maharaj.- 12. A Selective Inference-based Two-stage Procedure for Clinical Safety Studies – Zhu, Guo.- 13. Inferring Stage of HCV Infections as Recent or Chronic by Machine Learning approach – Icer.- 14. Graphical Modeling of Multiple Biological Pathways in Genomic Studies – Cao, Zhang, Chen, Wang.- 15. Online Updating of Nonparametric Survival Estimator and Nonparametric Survival Test – Xue, Schifano, Hu.- 16. Mixed-Effects Negative Binomial Regression with Interval Censoring: A Simulation Study and Application to Precipitation and All-Cause Mortality Rates among Black South Africans over 1997-2013 – Landon, Lyles, Scovronick, Abadi, Bilotta, Hauer, Bell, Gribble.- 17. SAS Macros for Linear Mediation Analysis of Complex Survey Data Using Balanced Repeated Replication – Mai, Zhang.- 18. Joint Modeling of Multiple Skewed Longitudinal Processes with Excess of Zero and Time-to-Event:  An Application to Fecundity Studies – Mirzaei, Kundu, Sundaram.- 19. Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Forecasting the Ongoing 2018-19 Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Using Phenomenological Growth Models – Tariq, Chowell.- 20. Models and Estimation Methods for Item Factor Analysis: An Overview – Chen, Zhang.