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Thu, Jan 17

C-1 Your Health at Risk

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Laura Lee Johnson, National Institutes of Health

8:30 AM

Smoking Cessation and Cigarrette Tax Avoidance: A Latent Variable Panel Data Analysis
View Presentation View Presentation Margaret S Loudermilk, University of Illinois at Chicago

8:45 AM

Substance Abuse Prevention - A National Picture
Javaid Kaiser, SAMHSA

9:00 AM

Model for planning and evalutaion of programs aimed at changing risk behaviors: the VEER model
Sharon R. Kimmel, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network

9:15 AM

Patient teenagers: Virginity pledges as a marker for lower sexual activity
Janet Rosenbaum, Harvard University

9:30 AM

The Role of Health and Health Behaviors in the Formation and Dissolution of Friendship Ties
A James O'Malley, Harvard Medical School

9:45 AM

Using a Modified Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient to Enhance Interpretation of Treatment Effect on Patient-reported Outcomes
View Presentation View Presentation Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc

 

I-8 Assessing Causation in Observational Studies: Propensity Scores and Instrumental Variables

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University

Chair(s): Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University

8:30 AM

Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Treatment Selection Bias: Effects of Invasive Cardiac Management on AMI Survival using Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods
Therese A Stukel, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

9:00 AM

Propensity Score Uses and Misuses in Observational Research
Ralph B. D'Agostino, Jr., Wake Forest University School of Medicine

9:30 AM

The Strength of Instrumental Variables and Their Sensitivity to Unobserved Biases
View Presentation View Presentation Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania

 

TC-1 Missing and Latent Data in Health Policy Research: Advances in Applications

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Susan M Paddock, RAND Corporation

Chair(s): Marika Suttorp, RAND

8:30 AM

Using an Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap to Multiply Impute Nonignorable Missing Data
View Presentation View Presentation Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago

8:55 AM

Bayesian variable selection for analyzing longitudinal substance abuse treatment data with informative censoring
Susan M Paddock, RAND Corporation

9:20 AM

Imputation in a Complex Survey of Cancer Care
Yulei He, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

9:45 AM

Bayesian Analysis for Mixtures of Continuous, Ordinal and Nominal Repeated Measures
Xiao Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

WK1 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS): A National Data Resource to Inform Health Policy

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

8:30 AM

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS): A National Data Resource to Inform Health Policy
View Presentation View Presentation Jeffrey Rhoades, AHRQ

 

C-2 Applied Modeling of Health Outcomes

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Arlene S Ash, Boston U and DxCG, Inc.

10:30 AM

Burden of Diabetes in Quetta – Pakistan: A statistical approach
View Presentation View Presentation Zahid Ahmad, GC University Lahore

10:45 AM

Impact of a Depression Disease Management Program on Productivity
Kara Zivin, University of Michigan

11:00 AM

Predicting Depression Status in the Elderly: An Example from Medicare CAHPS Surveys
Marc N. Elliott, The RAND Corporation

11:15 AM

Transitions in Depression Status among Elderly: How to Analyze?
M. Ataharul Islam, USM

11:30 AM

Repeated Measures Analysis of Functional Limitations in Elderly
Rafiqul I Chowdhury, Kuwait University

11:45 AM

A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Chronic Disease Incidence from Linked Administrative Health Data
View Presentation View Presentation Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba

 

I-1 Alternative Estimators for Cost Data

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Chair(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

10:30 AM

Comparing Methods of Modeling Health Care Expenditures
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, RAND

11:00 AM

Two-part random effects models for longitudinal cost data
View Presentation View Presentation Matthew L Maciejewski, Durham VA HSR&D & UNC

11:30 AM

Use of propensity scores in non-linear response models
Anirban Basu, University of Chicago

12:00 PM

Discussant:
Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou, University of Washington

 

I-9 Multiple Imputation Algorithms for Response Errors and Nonignorable Mechanisms

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand

Chair(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand

10:30 AM

Multiply eliminating outliers using multiple imputation
View Presentation View Presentation Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan

11:00 AM

Missing Data
Joseph L. Schafer, Department of Statistics

11:30 AM

Imputing underreported treatments using multiple sources of treatment information in a cancer services study
Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard University

 

WK2 Competing Risks

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

10:30 AM

Competing Risks
View Presentation View Presentation Per Kragh Andersen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

 

Luncheon Data on Risk and Insurance Financing in a World of Decentralized Health Reform

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Mark V. Pauly is Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Systems at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches health care systems, insurance and risk management, and business and public policy at the Wharton School and economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission and a former member of the advisory committee to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Most recently, he was a member of the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel, and he is an active member of the Institute of Medicine. He is coeditor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Pauly’s books include Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Related Health Insurance, Supplying Vaccine: An Economic Analysis of Critical Issues, and Financing Long Term Care: What Should Be the Government’s Role?

 

C-3 How Much Does It Cost?

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Anirban Basu, University of Chicago

2:15 PM

Use of Weighted Predictor in Insurance Pricing
View Presentation View Presentation Heungsun Park, Dept. of Statistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

2:30 PM

Individual vs. Group Predictive Modeling for Small Group Renewal Underwriting
Donghui Wu, MEDai, Inc

2:45 PM

Estimating the marginal costs of training a physician in the US.
View Presentation View Presentation Martey Dodoo, The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

3:00 PM

Avoiding Retransformation in Nonnnegative Health Economic Models with Sample Selection
Joseph Vincent Terza, University of Florida

3:15 PM

Robust regression approach to the analysis of cost data
Michele Petrinco, Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin, Italy

3:30 PM

Hybrid (classification and regression) approach for selection of members for disease management programs
Ognian Konstantinov Asparouhov, MEDai, Inc.

 

TC-2 Value of Information (VOI): Analyses for Health Care Decisions and Future Research

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer(s): Glenn Davies, Merck Research Laboratories

Chair(s): Glenn Davies, Merck Research Laboratories

2:15 PM

Value of Information Analysis in Health Policy Decision-Making: Current States and Future Applications
Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Section of Health Services Research, Dept. of Biostatistics, Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

2:40 PM

EVI and the design and interpretation of clinical trials
Andrew R Willan, SickKids Research Institute

3:05 PM

Bringing value of information analysis to the masses – Challenges and practical steps
View Presentation View Presentation Joshua T. Cohen, Tufts-New England Medical Center

3:30 PM

VOI: is it ready for prime time?
Khajak Ishak, United BioSource

 

WK3 Microsimulation Modeling

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

2:15 PM

Microsimulation Modeling
Carolyn M Rutter, Group Health

 

C-4 Meta-Analysis I

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc

4:15 PM

Data Extraction Errors in Meta-analyses of Diagnostic Tests
View Presentation View Presentation Thomas Trikalinos, Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis, Tufts-NEMC

4:30 PM

Cochrane Back Group Quality Items and Bias in Back Pain Trials
Marika Suttorp, RAND

4:45 PM

Evaluation of Reporting Quality in Publications of Diagnostic Tests
View Presentation View Presentation Gowri Raman, Tufts-New England Medical Center

5:00 PM

What If I’d Known Then What I Know Now? Re-Evaluating Diagnostic Test Meta-Analyses With New Statistical Models
View Presentation View Presentation Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

5:15 PM

Can Sequential Monitoring Boundaries reduce Spurious Inferences from Meta-Analyses?
Kristian Thorlund, Copenhagen trial

5:30 PM

Estimating required information size and quantifying diversity in a meta-analysis.
View Presentation View Presentation Jørn Wetterslev, Copenhagen Trial Unit

 

I-2 Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratios (ICERs) and Net Health Benefits (NHBs): Statistical, Economic, and Policy Issues

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): George Carides, Merck & Co.

Chair(s): John Cook, Merck and Co., Inc.

2:45 PM

Joint Distribution Approaches to Quantifying Benefit and Risk in Clinical Trials
View Presentation View Presentation Michele Lee Shaffer, Penn State College of Medicine

3:15 PM

Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios, Net Benefit and Healthcare Decision-Making: A Policy Perspective
Michael Drummond, University of York

3:45 PM

Discussant:
Andrew R Willan, SickKids Research Institute

4:15 PM

ICER vs. INHB: The Statistical Issues
View Presentation View Presentation Daniel F. Heitjan, University of Pennsylvania

 

I-3 Trends in Medical Costs for Persons with Chronic Conditions

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): Steven B Cohen, AHRQ

Chair(s): Joshua T. Cohen, Tufts-New England Medical Center

4:15 PM

Testing for Survey Attrition Effects on Chronic Disease Care Cost Estimates in a National Longitudinal Medical Expenditure Survey
Steven B Cohen, AHRQ

4:45 PM

Predicting Expenditures for Persons with Chronic Conditions
View Presentation View Presentation John A. Fleishman, AHRQ

5:15 PM

Accuracy of Household Reported Medical Conditions: Findings from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Steven R. Machlin, AHRQ

 

TC-3 Models for Measuring Health Disparities at the National, Regional and Local Levels

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): Marc N. Elliott, The RAND Corporation

Chair(s): Amelia Haviland, RAND Corporation

4:15 PM

Measuring Health Disparities in Healthy People 2010
View Presentation View Presentation Richard J. Klein, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

4:40 PM

Measuring Disparity over Inherently Ranked Groups
View Presentation View Presentation Elsie Pamuk, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

5:05 PM

A New Method for Estimating Race/Ethnicity and Associated Disparities Where Administrative Records Lack Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity
Marc N. Elliott, The RAND Corporation

5:30 PM

Emerging Interactive Mapping Tools for Identifying Disparities and Targeting Interventions
Allen Fremont, The RAND Corporation

 

WK4 Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Policy Research

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

4:15 PM

Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Policy Research
Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University

 

Poster Session and Reception

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

P1 - Introducing Bayesian Data Analysis to Non-Statisticians in a Frequentist Course: Illustration with NDNQI Data
View Presentation View Presentation Byron J Gajewski, University of Kansas Schools of Nursing and Allied Health, Center for Biostatistics

P2 - Grouping Hospitals by Quality - A PRIDIT Approach with Bootstrapping
View Presentation View Presentation Robert Dan Lieberthal, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

P3 - Analysis of Policy-Induced Therapy Change among Patients on Olanzapine Using Florida (FL) Medicaid Claims Database
Anthony Howard Lawson, Eli Lilly and Company

P4 - Evaluation of Selection Bias in Literacy Studies for English- and Spanish-Speaking Cancer Patients
View Presentation View Presentation Hongyan Du, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Center on Outcomes, Research and Education

P5 - Multilevel Spatial Logistical Model for Neighborhood Effects Analysis
Xingyou Zhang, The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

P6 - The contribution of risk adjustment methods when estimating medical costs for persons by specialty of their usual source of care.
Martey Dodoo, The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

P7 - Evaluation of methods for estimating the incremental costs of providing behavioral change services in primary care physician practices.
View Presentation View Presentation Martey Dodoo, The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

P8 - Weighting Within Strata: A New Propensity Weight
View Presentation View Presentation Michael A. Posner, Villanova University

 

Fri, Jan 18

C-5 Applications of Multi-Level Hierarchical and Cluster Data Models

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): James O'Malley, Harvard Medical School

8:30 AM

The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation
View Presentation View Presentation Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

8:45 AM

A Flexible Two-Part Random Effects Model for Correlated Medical Costs
Lei Liu, University of Virginia

9:00 AM

Cross-Classified Random Effects Analysis of Hospital and Surgeon Volume
Sujata Patil, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

9:15 AM

Using and Testing Constructs related to Evidence-based Medicine to Improve the Quality of Care in Office Practices
View Presentation View Presentation Gerald K Arnold, American Board of Internal Medicine

9:30 AM

Combining National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and Census Data to Estimate Healthcare Access Deprivation Index for Small Neighborhood Areas in US: A Multilevel Approach
View Presentation View Presentation Xingyou Zhang, The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

9:45 AM

Predictors of Nonresponse to 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey
David J. Klein, The RAND Corporation

 

I-10 Statistical and Economic Perspectives on Utilzation, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Chair(s): Roslyn A. Stone, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

8:30 AM

Providing Primary Care Providers with Incentives for Appropriate Emergency Department Use
Arlene S Ash, Boston U and DxCG, Inc.

9:00 AM

Statistical and economic perspectives on utilization, costs, and cost-effectiveness
Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou, University of Washington

9:30 AM

Analysis of costs for cost-effectiveness from the perspective of a health economist
Henry A Glick, University of Pennsylvania

 

I-4 Future Directions in Health Policy Statistics

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Organizer(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago

Chair(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago

8:30 AM

The Statistics of Suicide
Robert D Gibbons, Center for Health Statistics - University of Illinois at Chicago

9:00 AM

Combining Information from Multiple Surveys to Enhance Estimation of Measures of Health
Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics

9:30 AM

Using Latent Variable Models for Assessing Quality of Health Care: Issues and Applications
Sharon-Lise T Normand, Harvard Medical School

 

WK5 Applied Longitudinal Analysis

8:30 AM - 10:15 AM

8:30 AM

Applied Longitudinal Analysis
Garrett Fitzmaurice, Harvard School of Public Health

 

C-6 Meta-Analysis II

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc

10:30 AM

Incorporating uncertainty of between-study variance estimates increases the reliability of biased random-effects meta-analysis
Kristian Thorlund, Copenhagen trial

10:50 AM

Disagreements in statistical inferences from the random-effects meta-analyses model based on different between-study variance estimators
Kristian Thorlund, Copenhagen trial

11:10 AM

What is the Effect of Zero Cells in a Meta-Analysis
Ingram Olkin, Stanford University

11:30 AM

Meta-Analysis for Drug Safety Assessment
View Presentation View Presentation Michael A Stoto, Georgetown Universtity

11:50 AM

Much Ado About Avandia: The meta-analysis of rare events in the service of health policy
View Presentation View Presentation Russell Localio, Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 

C-9 Applications of Survival Analyses to Health Related Outcomes

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Norma Terrin, Tufts-New England Medical Center

10:30 AM

Association Between Nurse Staffing and Hospital Mortality: Methodological considerations
Luwis Diya, Biostatistical Center, Catholic University of Leuven

10:45 AM

A Temporal, Multi-City Model to Estimate the Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution on Health
Hwashin Hyun Shin, Health Canada

11:00 AM

A Strategy to Characterize Chemotherapy Diffusion with Population-Based Data
Cami Sima, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

11:15 AM

Profiling hospital differences in the quality of CABG surgery using quality-adjusted life years
View Presentation View Presentation Justin W Timbie, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, HSRD

11:30 AM

An intrinsically valid approach to integrate several health outcomes into a comprehensive score
View Presentation View Presentation Knut M. Wittkowski, The Rockefeller University

11:45 AM

A Shared Parameter Model for Continuous Longitudinal Data with Dropouts under Latent Class Structure
Lingfeng Yang, Wyeth

 

I-5 Causal Methods: Advances and Applications in Health

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Organizer(s): Amelia Haviland, RAND Corporation

Chair(s): Thomas R Belin, The University of California-Los Angeles

10:30 AM

Defining "baseline" using propensity score matching: Application to a clinical trial
View Presentation View Presentation Elizabeth A. Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

10:55 AM

Propensity Scores and Multiple Treatments: Application to CAHPS Health Care Ratings
Marc N. Elliott, The RAND Corporation

11:20 AM

Intervening on Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: An Application of the Parametric G-Formula
View Presentation View Presentation Sarah Taubman, University of Pennsylvania

11:45 AM

Gangs and Teen Violence: A Matched Analysis using Trajectory Groups and Propensity Scores
Amelia Haviland, RAND Corporation

 

WK6 Reducing the Impact of Selection Bias with Propensity Scores

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM

10:30 AM

Reducing the Impact of Selection Bias with Propensity Scores
Thomas Ezra Love, Case Western Reserve University

 

C-7 Statistical Potpourri

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Juned Siddique, The University of Chicago

2:15 PM

Economic and Statistical Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Inference
View Presentation View Presentation Robert L. Obenchain, Risk Benefit Statistics LLC

2:30 PM

Use of a Listed Sample to Supplement and Improve the Accuracy of a Probability Sample
Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand

2:45 PM

An Analytical Study: Better Approach For Health Policy Statistics
Zahid Ahmad, GC University Lahore

3:00 PM

The Positive Influence Generation
View Presentation View Presentation John F Loase, Chair- Concordia College-NY

3:15 PM

Travel flow Scan Statistics for Infectious Disease Surveillance
Shenghai Zhang, Public Health Agency of Canada

3:30 PM

First order geometric stable process
A.P. Kuttykrishnan, Sir Syed College

 

I-6 Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan

Chair(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan

2:15 PM

Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival-Cure Model
Jeremy Taylor, University of Michigan

2:40 PM

Statistical Methods for Adjusting Selection Bias in Longitudinal Survey
Wen Ye, University of Michigan

3:05 PM

Approximate Bayesian Model Averaging for Latent Class Pattern Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Classes
Jason Roy, Geisinger Center for Health Research

3:30 PM

Evaluating Time-Varying Service Implement on Longitudinal Outcome using Joint Analysis Approach
Haiqun Lin, Yale School of Public Health

 

TC-4 Evaluating Policy Issues with a Triangulation of Methods Using the Burden of Herpes Zoster as an Example

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Organizer(s): Robbin F. Itzler, Merck Research Laboratories

Chair(s): Robbin F. Itzler, Merck Research Laboratories

2:15 PM

Analysis of Claims Data to Assess Resource Utilization and Costs Using Herpes Zoster as an Example
View Presentation View Presentation Ralph P Insinga, Merck Research Laboratories

2:35 PM

Use of Claims Data To Assess the Resource Utilization and Costs of Herpes Zoster in the First Year After Diagnosis
View Presentation View Presentation Ron White, Merck Vaccine Division

2:55 PM

Use of Propensity Score Matching with Claims Data to Assess the Resource Utilization and Costs Attributable to HZ
View Presentation View Presentation Paul Buzinec, i3 Innovus

3:15 PM

Use of Chart Abstractions Based on Reviews of Medical Records to Assess the Healthcare Resource Utilization and Cost of Herpes Zoster
View Presentation View Presentation Barbara Yawn, Olmsted Medical Center

3:35 PM

Building an Understanding of the Economics of a New Vaccine Through the Use of Clinical Trial and Non-Clinical Trial Data: The Case of the Zoster Vaccine
View Presentation View Presentation James M. Pellissier, Merck Research Laboratories

 

WK7 Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis Using WinBUGS and Brugs

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

2:15 PM

Intermediate Bayesian Data Analysis Using WinBUGS and BRugs
View Presentation View Presentation Bradley P. Carlin, University of Minnesota

 

C-8 Propensity Scores

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): Christopher H Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Chair(s): Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University

4:15 PM

Multiple Imputation for the Comparison of Two Screening Test in Two Phase Alzheimer Studies
View Presentation View Presentation Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut

4:35 PM

Comparison of Hot Deck and Multiple Imputation Methods Using Simulations for HCSDB Data
View Presentation View Presentation Donsig Jang, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

4:55 PM

Cluster Membership provides Guaranteed Balancing Scores.
View Presentation View Presentation Robert L. Obenchain, Risk Benefit Statistics LLC

5:15 PM

Sufficient Dimension Reduction Summaries
View Presentation View Presentation David Nelson, MPLS VA, Univ of MN

5:35 PM

Deconfounding small quasi-experiments using propensity scores and other dimension reduction techniques
Yevgeniya Kleyman, University of Michigan

 

I-11 Conceptual Issues (and Practical Implications) in Measuring Health Disparities

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): James Patrick Scanlan, Attorney at Law

Chair(s): Bonnie Ghosh Dastidar, Rand

4:15 PM

Can we actually measure health disparities?
View Presentation View Presentation James Patrick Scanlan, Attorney at Law

4:45 PM

Measuring Disparities in Healthy People 2010
View Presentation View Presentation Kenneth G Keppel, National Center for Health Statistics

5:15 PM

Using the concentration index to measure disparities in binary variables
Adam Wagstaff, Development Research Group, The World Bank

 

I-7 Economic Assessments in Randomized Trials

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Organizer(s): Jalpa Doshi, University of Pennsylvania; Henry A Glick, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant(s): John Cook, Merck and Co., Inc.

 

WK8 Hierarchical and Joint Longitudinal and Survival Modeling Using WinBUGS

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

4:15 PM

Hierarchical and Joint Longitudinal and Survival Modeling Using WinBUGS
Bradley P. Carlin, University of Minnesota

 
 
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