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82 * Sun, 7/29/2012, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM HQ-Sapphire C
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Causal Modeling — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Chair(s): Philip Twumasi-Ankrah, University of Kansas School of Medicine
4:05 PM Measuring Changes in the Distribution of Incident-Outcome Severities and the Method's Implications for Health Care Policy William Goodman, University of Ontario Institute of Technology ; Kim Sears, Queen's University
4:20 PM Bayesian Analysis for Semicontinuous Data Distribution: Forecasting Hospital Cost of Care Using Double Hurdle Model Hsiu-Ching Chang, BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan
4:35 PM Model Selection and Combination for Estimating Treatment Effects Craig Rolling, University of Minnesota ; Yuhong Yang, University of Minnesota
4:50 PM Calculating Expected Health Losses in Prospective Drug Safety Monitoring Jessica Myers, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Amanda Patrick, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Milton Weinstein, Harvard School of Public Health ; Robert Glynn, Harvard Medical School ; Sebastian Schneeweiss, Brigham and Women's Hospital
5:05 PM Examining the Effects of Soft Drink Consumption Using the Rubin Causal Model Takisha Watson, Iowa State University ; Ulrike Genschel, Iowa State University ; Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University ; Alicia L. Carriquiry, Iowa State University
5:20 PM Estimation of Disease-specific Health Care Costs Using Causal Inference Framework Irina Bondarenko, University of Michigan ; Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan
5:35 PM Comparative Effectiveness Studies Using Large Administrative Data: Are Designs and Methods Important? Bassam Dahman, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine



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