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417 Applied Session Wed, 8/9/06, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-604
Combining Information, Missing Data, and Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for Health Outcomes Data - Contributed - Papers
Section on Health Policy Statistics, Biometrics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, ENAR
Chair(s): Christopher Schmid, Tufts-New England Medical Center
     10:35 AM   Imputaion and Forecasting for State Mortality — Guanhua Lu, University of Maryland/National Center for Health Statistics; Benjamin Kedem, University of Maryland; Rong Wei, National Center for Health Statistics
     10:50 AM   The Impact of Using Different Imputation Methods for Missing Quality-of-Life Scores on the Estimation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery — David Blough, University of Washington; Sean Sullivan, University of Washington; Scott Ramsey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Roger Yusen, Washington University School of Medicine
     11:05 AM   Combining Information from Various Data Sources To Improve Analyses of Adjuvant Cancer Therapies — Yulei He, Harvard Medical School; Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School
     11:20 AM   Do Teenagers Always Tell the Truth? Bayesian Methods To Estimate the Prevalence of Adolescent Risk Behaviors from Self-Report — Janet Rosenbaum, Harvard University
     11:35 AM   Bayesian Simultaneous Intervals for Small Areas: an Application to Variation in Maps — Erik B. Erhardt, University of New Mexico; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jai Choi, National Center for Health Statistics
     11:50 AM   Spatial Statistical Methods for Small-Area Health Data with Application to the Association of Breast Cancer Incidence and Local Power Plant Emissions — Heather Watson, New York University; Judith D. Goldberg, New York University School of Medicine; Mengling Liu, New York University School of Medicine
     12:05 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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