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Sunday, 08/01/2010
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Rethinking John Snow: The Statistics of Cholera
Tom Koch, The University of British Columbia; Kenneth Denike, The University of British Columbia
2:05 PM
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Spatiotemporal Biosurveillance Under Nonhomogeneous Population
Sung Won Han, Georgia Institute of Technology; Seoung Bum Kim, Korea University; Kwok-Leung Tsui, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:05 PM
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Statistical Issues of Measuring and Monitoring Childhood Obesity from Administrative Records: The New York City FITNESSGRAM
Kevin J. Konty, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2:20 PM
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Modeling Latent Effects in Space-Time Small-Area Health Data
Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
2:35 PM
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Skew-Elliptical Spatial Random-Effect Modeling for Areal Data with Application to Mapping Health Utilization Rates
Farouk Salim Nathoo, University of Victoria; Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
2:35 PM
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The Impact of Unemployment on Insurance Coverage in California
Shana Alex Lavarreda, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Jenny Chia, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Dylan Roby, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Livier Cabezas, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Richard Kronick, University of California, San Diego; Wen Jiao Lin, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research
2:35 PM
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Smoke Plume Estimation from Satellite Images
Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University; Victoria Wan, Simon Fraser University; John Braun, The University of Western Ontario; Sarah Henderson, The University of British Columbia
3:05 PM
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Frequent Deadlines in Statistics Courses: If Health Executives Learn Better When They Are Enforced, Why Won't Undergraduate Students?
Lawrence Fulton, Texas State University, San Marcos; Lana Ivanitskaya, Central Michigan University; Dmitry Erofeev, Central Michigan University
4:05 PM
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Marginally Specified Hierarchical Models for Networks and Relational Data: An Application to Health Policy
Andrew C. Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University; Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard University
4:25 PM
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Sequential Analytic Methods for Prospective Drug Safety Surveillance
Lingling Li, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
4:30 PM
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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Health, Disability, and Employment Status Effects of a Diabetes Management Life Coaching and Pharmacist Counseling Intervention
Tammy Tom, The University of Hawaii
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The Role of Statistics and the Statistician in Public Health Surveillance
Myron Katzoff, CDC; Taha Kass-Hout, CDC
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Bayesian Modeling for Space-Time Surveillance of Disease
Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
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Comparison of Quadratic Inference Functions and Generalized Estimating Equations: Longitudinal Case Study of Act 1220 of 2003 Health Policy in Arkansas
Zoran Bursac, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; D. Keith Williams, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Clinton Heath Gauss, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Page Moore, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Melanie E. Goodell, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Rebecca A. Krukowski, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Delia Smith West, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; Martha M. Phillips, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ; James M. Raczynski, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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The Relationship Between Attitude and Knowledge of Health Care Statistics
Heibatollah Baghi, George Mason University; Ellen Swartwout, George Mason University
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Analysis of National Survey Data on Public Concerns About H1N1 Pandemic Influenza
William Pollard, CDC; Sharmily Roy, CDC/Oakridge Institute for Science and Education
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Application of a Fay-Modified Balanced Repeated Replication Method to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics
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Modeling Menstrual Cycle Length at the Approach of Menopause Using Bayesian Changepoint Models
Xiaobi Huang, University of Michigan; Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan
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Application of Fuzzy Clustering and Discriminant Analysis to Identify Neighborhood Population Characteristics and Health Needs
Ashely Pedigo, University of Tennessee; William Seaver, University of Tennessee; Agricola Odoi, University of Tennessee
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Gastrointestinal Side Effects in Postmenopausal Women Using Osteoporosis Therapy: One-Year Findings in the POSSIBLE U.S. Study
Guozhi Gao, Amgen Inc.; Claudine Woo, Amgen Inc.; Sally Wade, Wade Outcomes Research and Consulting; Marc Hochberg, University of Maryland
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A Simulation to Evaluate the Impact of Design on Model-Based Methods for National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data Linked with Environmental Exposures
Jennifer Parker, National Center for Health Statistics; Lester Randolph Curtin, CDC; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics
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Effects of Social and Psychological Factors on Health
Man Hung, The University of Utah; Melody Perez-Ollerton, The University of Utah
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Interrelating of Longitudinal Processes: An Empirical Example
Tamika Y.N. Royal-Thomas, Florida State University; Daniel McGee, Florida State University; Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; Clive Osmond, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre; Terrence Forrester, Tropical Medicine Research Institute
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Improvements in Ability to Detect Undiagnosed Diabetes by Using Information on Family History Among Adults in the United States
Quanhe Yang, CDC; Tiebin Liu, CDC; Ramal Mooneshinghe, CDC; Rodolfo Valdez, CDC; Muin Khoury, CDC
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Statistical Reasons Why Preference-Scored Measures of HRQoL Disagree
Mari Palta, University of Wisconsin
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Association Study of Health Outcomes Based on Combined Data from Primary and Ancillary Surveys
Tianle Hu, University of Michigan; Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan; Ana Diez-Roux, University of Michigan
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Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Statistics of Health Sciences Students
Laura Pontiggia, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia; Carl Walasek, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
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Issues of Data Capacity and Statistical Quality to Support Health Care Modeling and Microsimulation Efforts
Joel Cohen, AHRQ
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Inference for Kappas for Longitudinal Study Data: Applications to Sexual Health Research
Yan Ma, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Wan Tang, University of Rochester; Changyong Feng, University of Rochester Medical Center; Xin M. Tu, University of Rochester
8:50 AM
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Simpson's Paradox: Aggregating and Partitioning Populations in Health Care Disparities of Lung Cancer Patients
Pingfu Fu, Case Western Reserve University; Mark Schluchter, Case Western Reserve University; Rom Leidner, Case Western Reserve University; Balazs Halmos, Columbia University Medical Center
9:05 AM
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Teaching to Diversity
Patrick Arbogast, Vanderbilt University; Nora Donaldson, Kings College London Dental Institute; Jodi Lapidus, Oregon Health & Science University; Gary Shapiro, Statistics Without Borders; Violeta Alicia Nolberto Sifuentes, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
10:35 AM
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The Evolution of NHANES Content and Data Collection Methods
Vicki L. Burt, CDC/NCHS; Clifford Leroy Johnson, National Center for Health Statistics
10:35 AM
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Making It Happen on the Ground: Practical Challenges with Administrative Records in the Health Policy Arena
Christine S. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics
10:55 AM
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Using Multiple Control Groups as Evidence About Unobserved Biases in an Observational Study of Mental Health Care Parity
Frank Yoon, Harvard Medical School; Haiden A. Huskamp, Harvard Medical School; Alisa B. Busch, Harvard Medical School; Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
10:55 AM
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Procedures to Reduce the Risk of Disclosure in Health Surveys
Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics; Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., National Center for Health Statistics; Peter Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics
10:55 AM
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Dual-Frame Sample Sizes (RDD and Cell) for Future Minnesota Health Access Surveys
Steven Pedlow, NORC; Kanru Xia, NORC; Michael Davern, NORC
10:55 AM
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Hierarchical Model Building, Fitting, and Checking: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Bayesian Analysis of Arsenic Exposure Pathways
Peter F. Craigmile, The Ohio State University; Catherine Calder, The Ohio State University; Hongfei Li, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Rajib Paul, Western Michigan University; Noel A. Cressie, The Ohio State University
11:05 AM
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Dual-Frame Weights (Landline and Cell) for the 2009 Minnesota Health Access Survey
Kanru Xia, NORC; Steven Pedlow, NORC; Michael Davern, NORC
11:15 AM
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The Influence of Prior Experiences in Managing Current and Future Risks During Survey Transition Points on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Joe Gfroerer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Jonaki Bose, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
11:25 AM
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Minimizing Survey Error Through Interviewer Training: New Procedures Applied to the National Health Interview Survey
James M. Dahlhamer, National Center for Health Statistics; Marcie L.. Cynamon, National Center for Health Statistics; Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics; Andrea Piani, U.S. Census Bureau; Michael J. Weiler, U.S. Census Bureau
11:35 AM
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Trait Well-Being Predicts Placebo Response in Healthy Controls
Hamdan Azhar, University of Michigan; Christian Stohler, University of Maryland; Jon-Kar Zubieta, University of Michigan
11:50 AM
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Can Post-Stratification Adjustments Do Enough to Reduce Bias in Telephone Surveys That Do Not Sample Cell Phones? It Depends
Kathleen Thiede Call , University of Minnesota, SHADAC; Michael Davern, NORC; Michel Boudreaux, University of Minnesota, SHADAC; Pamela Jo Johnson, Allina Health Systems; Justine Nelson, Minnesota Department of Health
2:05 PM
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Conditional Logistic Regression with Survey Data
Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute; Edward L. Korn, National Cancer Institute
2:20 PM
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Statistical Analyses of Correlated Medical Cost Data
Lei Liu, University of Virginia
2:45 PM
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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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CTSpedia Education Initiatives: Statistics Teaching, the Clinical and Translational Science Award Sites, and the Web
Laurel Beckett, University of California, Davis; Mary Banach, University of California, Davis; Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Sally W. Thurston, University of Rochester
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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMIS(R) Item Banks and Short-Form Instruments
Laura Lee Johnson, National Institutes of Health
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Methodological Comparison of Estimates of Ambulatory Health Care Use from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Other Data Sources
Jeff Rhoades, AHRQ; Joel Cohen, AHRQ; Steven Machlin, AHRQ
8:35 AM
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The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS): Sample Design and Related Methods
William D. Kalsbeek, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J. Michael Bowling, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Krishna M. Palipudi, CDC
8:35 AM
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Plausible 'Nuisance' Contributor to Decreasing Deleterious Association of Overweight and Obese on Mortality Rate Over Calendar Time
Tapan Mehta, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Nicholas Pajewski, The University of Alabama at Birmingham; Scott Keith, Thomas Jefferson University; Kevin Fontaine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; David B. Allison, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
8:35 AM
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Evaluation of Health Care Utilization Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Jonaki Bose, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Joe Gfroerer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Michael Pemberton, RTI International
8:55 AM
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Application of Small-Area Estimation Methods to Emergency Department Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Vladislav M. Beresovsky, National Center for Health Statistics; Cathy Burt, National Center for Health Statistics; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics; Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM
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Is There Nonrandom Selection in Matched Administrative Earnings Data? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
9:35 AM
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Overdiagnosis and the Will Rogers Effect: Bias in Risk Adjustment
Daniel Gottlieb, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Jason Sutherland, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
10:35 AM
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A Multiple Imputation Model for Ascertaining Chronic Disease Cases in Administrative Data: Application to Osteoporosis
Lisa M. Lix, University of Saskatchewan; Heather J. Prior, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy; Chel Hee Lee, University of Saskatchewan; Marina Yogendran, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
10:50 AM
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Developing a Randomization Protocol in a Community-Partnered Participatory Research Project to Reduce the Burden of Depression
Thomas R. Belin, University of California, Los Angeles; Susan E. Stockdale, University of California, Los Angeles; Lingqi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles; Felica Jones, Healthy African American Families II; Andrea Jones, Healthy African American Families II; Aziza Wright, Healthy African American Families II; Judy Perlman, RAND Corporation; Esmeralda Ramos, University of California, Los Angeles; Loretta Jones, Healthy African American Families II; Elizabeth Dixon, Queenscare; Kenneth B. Wells, University of California, Los Angeles
10:50 AM
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Measuring Women's Compliance to Guidelines for Getting Mammograms
Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics; Nancy Breen, National Cancer Institute; Judith H. Mopsik, The Lewin Group; Jeannine Schiller, National Center for Health Statistics; Pete Welch, The Lewin Group
10:55 AM
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Health Insurance Estimates from the ACS: An Analysis of Directly Purchased Coverage
Victoria Lynch, The Urban Institute
10:55 AM
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Health Insurance Estimates from the ACS: The Ability to Detect Difference at Small Levels of Geography
Jeanette Ziegenfuss, Mayo Clinic; Michel Boudreaux, University of Minnesota, SHADAC
11:15 AM
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Bayesian Calibration of Microsimulation Models
Carolyn M. Rutter, Group Health Research Institute
11:25 AM
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Statistical Challenges in Modeling Health Symptoms During Menopausal Transition
Annette Dobson, University of Queensland; Gita Mishra, University of Queensland
11:35 AM
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Health Insurance Estimates from the CPS vs. ACS: An Analysis of State-Specific Program Names
Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau
11:35 AM
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Assessment of Alternative Weighting Methods for the National Health Interview Survey
David Shaw, University of Maryland; Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr., National Center for Health Statistics; Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics
11:50 AM
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An Experiment in Measuring Health Insurance Status and Type
Dianne Rucinski, Institute for Health Research and Policy
11:50 AM
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Address-Based Sampling and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Evaluating the Effects of Coverage Bias
Katherine Morton, RTI International; Joseph P. McMichael, RTI International; Jamie L. Ridenhour, RTI International; Jonaki Bose, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
12:05 PM
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Life and Work of Barry H. Margolin: An Appreciation
Pranab Kumar Sen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:05 PM
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Ambient Air Pollutants and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis
Elizabeth Anne Stanwyck, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Bimal K. Sinha, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2:50 PM
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Dose-Response Analysis Using Generalized Propensity Score: An Application in Home Health Care
Iordan Slavov, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
3:05 PM
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Challenges in the Design of the Canadian Community Health Survey on Healthy Aging
Leon Jang, Statistics Canada; Martin Provost, Statistics Canada; Adam Sherk, Statistics Canada
3:20 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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Comparison of Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machine Models to Predict Diabetes
Wei Yu, CDC; Tiebin Liu, CDC; Rodolfo Valdez, CDC; Marta Gwinn, CDC; Nicole Dowling , CDC; Muin J. Khoury, CDC
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Promoting Statistical Literacy Among Clinical and Laboratory Researchers
Jeri E.F. Harwood, University of Colorado, Denver; Samantha MaWhinney, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver; John Kittelson, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver
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A Statistician at the Policy Table: Integrating Modeling in the Development of Public Health Guidelines
Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Exon-Based Microarrays and Their Applications in Personalized Health Care
Wei-min Liu, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.; Yu Chuan Tai, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.; Yan Li, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
8:35 AM
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Electronic Medical Data, Public Health Decisions, and Statisticians: An FDA Perspective
Robert T. O'Neill, FDA
8:35 AM
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Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the American Community Survey
Joanna Marie Turner, University of Minnesota, SHADAC; Brett O'Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
8:35 AM
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Application of Left Truncation Survival Methods in a Large Disease Registry: A Case Study with Practical Implications
Dave P. Miller, ICON Clinical Research; Aimee J. Foreman, ICON Clinical Research
8:35 AM
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Age-Specific Differences in the Epidemic Curves for Influenza A Virus: Do School Children Drive the Spread of Influenza Epidemics?
Dena Lynn Schanzer, Public Health Agency of Canada
8:50 AM
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The Role of Statistics and Opportunities for Statisticians in Active Drug Safety Surveillance
Patrick Ryan, GlaxoSmithKline
9:05 AM
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Use of CUSUM Control Charts When Population Size Changes Over Time
J. Brooke Marshall, Merck Research Laboratories; Dan J. Spitzner, University of Virginia
9:20 AM
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Heterogeneity of Variance in One-Way Random Effect Model: A Meta-Analysis Review of the National Health Interview Survey Data
Abera Wouhib, National Center for Health Statistics; Myron Katzoff, CDC; Meena Khare, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM
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Logistic Growth Curve Modeling for Health-Related Quality-of-Life Data
Zugui Zhang, Christiana Care Health System ; Paul Kolm, Christiana Care Health System; William S. Weintraub, Christiana Care Health System
9:50 AM
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Intersecting Variance Function Regression and Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Analysis, with Applications to the Study of Self-Reported Health
Kenneth C. Land, Duke University; Hui Zheng, Duke University
10:35 AM
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Collider Stratification Bias as a Threat to Validity in U.S.-Based Health Disparities Research
Whitney R. Robinson, University of Michigan; Jay Kaufman, McGill University
10:55 AM
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Statistical Concepts Busy Clinicians Need to Know
Darcy Vavrek, Western States Chiropractic College; Gordon Gyatt, McMaster University; Peter Wyer, Columbia University
11:05 AM
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Adjustment of Regional Differences Using Generalized Additive Mixed Model to Estimate Health Effect of PM2.5
Ayano Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo; Yutaka Matsuyama, The University of Tokyo; Hiroshi Nitta, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Masaji Ono, National Institute for Environmental Studies
11:05 AM
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Measuring Health Disparities in a Geographic Context: Spatial Estimates of Local Health Disparities
Lance Waller, Emory University; Megan Price, Benetech; Eric Tassone, Google; David C. Wheeler, National Cancer Institute
11:15 AM
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Quality Improvement Studies in Statistics for Healthcare: A Short Miniature Unit on Control Charts Included at the University of Central Oklahoma
Robert Dean Curley, University of Central Oklahoma
11:20 AM
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A Symmetric, Entropy-Based, Relative and Quasi-Absolute Measure of Health Disparities: An Example Using Dental Caries in U.S. Children and Adolescents
Luisa N. Borrell, Lehman College - CUNY; Makram Talih, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
11:35 AM
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Underlying Properties of Health Disparity Indices
Stuart A. Gansky, University of California, San Francisco; Nancy F. Cheng, University of California, San Francisco; Gloria C. Mejia, University of California, San Francisco
11:55 AM
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Teaching Statistics in Master of Public Health Programs: The Opportunities and Challenges of an Online Format
Suhwon Lee, University of Missouri
12:05 PM
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The Role of the Statistician in the Appraisal of Health Technologies by the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Michael Joseph Campbell, University of Sheffield
2:05 PM
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The Long Tail of Disease Modeling
Abraham D. Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Stephen S. Lim, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:05 PM
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Modification by Frailty Status of the Respiratory Health Effects of Air Pollution in Older Adults
Sandrah P. Eckel, University of Southern California; Thomas Louis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Karen Bandeen-Roche, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Paulo H. Chaves, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Helene G. Margolis, University of California, Davis; Linda P. Fried, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2:20 PM
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Multivariate Modeling of Longitudinal Health Care Costs and Time-to-Event Data in Matched Pairs
An Creemers, Universiteit Hasselt; Marc Aerts, Hasselt University; Niel Hens, Hasselt University; Ziv Shkedy, Universiteit Hasselt; Frank De Smet, National Alliance of Christian Mutualities; Philippe Beutels, Universiteit Antwerpen
2:20 PM
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Sampling Children and Teens in a Cell Phone Health Survey
David Grant, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Sunghee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Royce Park, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; J. Michael Brick, Westat; W. Sherman Edwards, Westat; W. Sherman Edwards, Westat
2:20 PM
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Small-Area Estimation of U.S. Health Disparities
Tanja Srebotniak, Ecologic Institute; Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Ali Mokdad, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Rafael Lozano, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:25 PM
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Combining Information Across Studies for Clinical Trials: What We Have Learned at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Laura Thompson, FDA/CDRH
2:30 PM
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Modeling Dependent Yearly Claim Totals Including Zero-Claims in Private Health Insurance
Vinzenz Erhardt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen; Claudia Czado, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
2:35 PM
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Noncoverage Bias in Household Landline Telephone Surveys: The BRFSS Experience
Lina Balluz, CDC; Shaohua Sean Hu, CDC; Michael P. Battaglia, Abt Associates, Inc.; Martin R. Frankel, Baruch College, CUNY
2:35 PM
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Evaluating Incentive Effects in the National Health Study for a New Generation of U.S. Veterans Survey
Pablo Aliaga, Health Research and Analysis; Steven Coughlin, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Samar DeBakey, Health Research and Analysis; Patricia Vanderwolf, Abt SRBI; Shannon Barth, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Stephanie Eber, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Jessica Maillard, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Meredith Williams, HMS Technologies; Aaron Schneiderman, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
2:35 PM
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Validity of Statistical and Computational Methods to Ascertain Causes of Death: Can They Outperform Physicians?
Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Jeanette Kurian Birnbaum, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Abraham D. Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Sean Green, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:45 PM
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Comparing Web Panel Samples vs. Non-Panel Samples of Medical Doctors
Lin Chiat Chang, LinChiat Chang Consulting, LLC; Jeremy Brody, Kantar Health
3:20 PM
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Thursday, 08/05/2010
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Risk Models for Deciding Whether to Take Tamoxifen to Prevent Breast Cancer and for Allocating Public Health Resources
Mitchell H. Gail, National Cancer Institute
8:35 AM
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Using Cardiovascular Disease Risk Functions in Public Health and Clinical Trial: The Framingham Study Experience
Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr., Boston University
9:25 AM
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Record Linkage of NCHS Surveys with SSA Administrative Data: A Demonstration of New Record-Matching Methodology That Utilizes Partial SSN in the Enumeration Verification System
Bert Kestenbaum, Social Security Administration; Kimberly Lochner, National Center for Health Statistics; Christine S. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM
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Default Bayesian Analysis for Hierarchical Spatial Multivariate Models
Sarat C. Dass, Michigan State University; Chae Young Lim, Michigan State University; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
10:55 AM
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Challenges in the Conduct of Clinical Trials in the Australasian Region
Val Gebski, University of Sydney
11:05 AM
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Use of Single Years of Age in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Weighting to Improve Drug Prevalence Estimates
Patrick Chen, RTI International; Neeraja Sathe, RTI International; Michael Jones, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Lanting Dai, RTI International; Jeff Laufenberg, RTI International; Ralph E. Folsom, RTI International; Harper Gordek, RTI International
11:20 AM
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Measuring Health Disparities: The Choice of Spatial Unit
Carol Gotway Crawford, CDC; Zhuo (Adam) Chen, CDC
11:35 AM
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