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Keyword Search Criteria: Mortality returned 16 record(s)
Sunday, 07/29/2018
Case Study of Modeling and Simulation in Tobacco Regulation
Esther Salazar, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
4:25 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018
Counting Maternal Deaths? You Better Bayes It! a Systematic Assessment of Underreporting and Misclassification in Registration of Maternal Deaths in High and Middle Income Countrie
Emily Peterson, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Leontine Alkema, University of Massachusetts Amherst


A Bayesian Hierarchical Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal Model to Estimate Age- and Cause-Specific Child Mortality in Data-Scarce Countries
Austin Edward Schumacher, University of Washington; Jon Wakefield, Univ of Washington


Wasserstein Gradients for the Temporal Evolution of Probability Distributions
Yaqing Chen, University of California, Davis; Hans Mueller, UC Davis


Pleiotropic Effects of Genetic Variants on Aging Traits and Lifespan: Applications of Stochastic Process Models
Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Olivia Bagley, Duke University; Fang Fang , Duke University; Hongzhe Duan, Duke University; Ilya Zhbannikov, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Alexander Kulminski, Duke University; Svetlana Ukraintseva, Duke University; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
8:35 AM

Symptom Trials Vs Morbidity/Mortality Trials: Are Different Estimands Required?
Steven Snapinn, Amgen, Inc.
8:35 AM

Wasserstein Gradients for the Temporal Evolution of Probability Distributions
Yaqing Chen, University of California, Davis; Hans Mueller, UC Davis
9:45 AM

Capturing Enhanced Information with Higher-Order Tensorian Statistics and Predicting Mortality from Accelerometry-Measured Physical Activity
Junrui Di, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Vadim Zipunnikov, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
11:20 AM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018
Projecting Age-Specific Death Probabilities at Advanced Ages Using the Mortality Laws of Gompertz and Wittstein
Peter Pflaumer


Mortality Disparity Analytics in Rural Health: a Trend and Graphical Analysis
Erin Tanenbaum, NORC at the University of Chicago; Alana Knudson, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis; Devi Chelluri, NORC at the University of Chicago; Michael Meit, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis


Age-Related Variations in Cancer Mortality Rates
Keshav Pokhrel, University of Michigan-Dearborn
8:50 AM

Estimating Small Area Life Expectancy Using Hellinger Distance Spatial Correlation
Robert E. Johnson, Vanderbilt University; Sarah Lotspeich, Vanderbilt University
11:05 AM

Modeling Changes in the Age Distribution of Opioid Mortality
Patrick E Brown, University of Toronto; Ye Lennon Li, Public Health Ontario
2:20 PM

Causal Inference Using EMRs with Missing Data: a Machine Learning Approach with an Application on the Evaluation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
Changyu Shen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School; Xiaochun Li, Indiana University; Zuoyi Zhang, Regenstrief Institute; Alfred E Buxton, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2:25 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018
Mortality Prediction with Multiple Unordered Treatments for Aortic Valve Replacement
Samrachana Adhikari, Harvard Medical School; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School; Sharon-Lise Normand, Harvard University; Jordan Bloom, Harvard Medical School; David Shahian, Harvard Medical School; Jake Spertus, Harvard Medical School
8:55 AM

Thursday, 08/02/2018
The Impact of PEPFAR PMTCT Funding on Reduced Infant Mortality and Improved ANC Care in Kenya: a Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Donna Spiegelman, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Dale Barnhart, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health; Isaac Tsikhutsu , Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Fredrick Sawe , Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD ; Jane Muli, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Duncan Kirui, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; William Sugut, Walter Reed Program-Kericho, Kenya; U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Silver Spring, MD; Nareen Abboud, Office of the U.S. Global AIDs Coordinator and Health Diplomacy; Tiffany Hamm, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Peter Coakley, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Patrick W. Hickey, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Vanessa Wolfman, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Elizabeth Lee, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
11:15 AM