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18 * !
Sun, 7/28/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-203
CURRENT and FUTURE DIRECTIONS of INTENSIVE LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Biometrics Section
Organizer(s): Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
Chair(s): Joey Zhou, Q2
2:05 PM Current and Future Directions of Intensive Longitudinal Data Analysis
Presentation
Summer Frank-Pearce; Michael Businelle, Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Darla Kendzor, Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Emily Hébert, Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
2:25 PM The Role of Time-Dependent Covariates in Models for the Risk of Repeated Events
Presentation
Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
2:45 PM Shared Parameter Mixed-Effects Location Scale Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data
Presentation
Donald Hedeker, University of Chicago; Robin Mermelstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:05 PM Discussant: Jeffrey Wilson, W. P. Carey School of Business, ASU
3:25 PM Discussant: Saul Shiffman, University of Pittsburgh
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

24 * !
Sun, 7/28/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-102
Emerging Opportunities for Utilizing Real-World Evidence to Impact Drug Development and Regulatory Decision-Making — Topic Contributed Panel
Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Joo-Yeon Lee, U.S Food and Drug Administration
Chair(s): Hana Lee, U.S Food and Drug Administration
2:05 PM Emerging Opportunities for Utilizing Real-World Evidence to Impact Drug Development and Regulatory Decision-Making
Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3 Presentation 4
Panelists: David Martin , FDA
David Benkeser, Emory
Jessica M Franklin, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Weili He, AbbVie
3:40 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

65 * !
Sun, 7/28/2019, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-706
New Methods for Identifying and Testing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in One or a Pair of Studies — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
Chair(s): Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College
4:05 PM Inference for the Smoothed Proportion Whose Average Treatment Effect Exceeds a Threshold
Presentation
Jonathan Levy
4:25 PM Proposing and Testing Sub-Groups with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: a Sequence of Two Studies
Presentation
Rahul Ladhania, Carnegie Mellon University; Amelia M Haviland, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College; Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California; Ateev Mehrotra, Harvard Medical School
4:45 PM Discovering Heterogeneous Exposure Effects in Air Pollution Studies
Presentation
Kwonsang Lee, Harvard University; Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
5:05 PM Best Practices for Detecting Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Multisite Trials
Presentation
Luke Miratrix, Harvard University
5:25 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

218815
Mon, 7/29/2019, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM H-Mineral Hall F
Health Policy Statistics Section Executive Committee Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 
 

Register 93
Mon, 7/29/2019, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM H-Centennial Ballroom G-H
Health Policy Statistics Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
ML04: Leveraging Large Publicly Available Data Resources to Address Critical Questions in Health Services and Health Policy Research
Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 
 

100 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-709
Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trials: Challenges and Impact on Clinical Practice and Health Policies — Invited Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Statistics in Marketing
Organizer(s): Valentina Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim
Chair(s): Victoria Gamerman, Boehringer Ingelheim
8:35 AM Key Elements in the Design of Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trials
Presentation
Valentina Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim
9:00 AM Estimating the Per-Protocol Effect in Pragmatic Trials
Miguel Hernan, Harvard University
9:25 AM Generalization of Randomized Trial Results with Latent Motivation Effect
Andrea B Troxel, NYU School of Medicine; Chenxiang Li, NYU School of Medicine
9:50 AM Data Sources Used in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: How Do the Puzzle Pieces Fit Together?
Vincent Willey, HealthCore
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

111 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-102
Evidence Beyond Traditional Clinical Trials — Invited Papers
Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Martin Ho, FDA
Chair(s): Chava Zibman, FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
8:35 AM Recent Statistical Developments in Considering Real World Evidence for Regulatory Decisioin Making
Martin Ho, FDA; Weili He, AbbVie
8:55 AM Propensity Score-Integrated Approaches for Incorporating Real-World Evidence in Clinical Studies
Presentation
Chenguang Wang, John Hopkins University
9:15 AM External Evidence: Latest Developments from the Eponymous Medical Device Innovation Consortium Working Group
Presentation
Theodore Lystig, Medtronic
9:35 AM Use of Past Control Observations Within a Perpetual Platform Trial
Presentation
Kert Viele, Berry Consultants; Scott Berry, Berry Consultants
9:55 AM Discussant: Telba Irony, FDA CBER
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

143 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-507
Critical Role of Statistics in Evaluating Real World Evidence for Legal and Regulatory Applications — Invited Papers
Stats. Partnerships Among Academe Indust. & Govt. Committee, Advisory Committee on Forensic Science, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Pamela McGovern, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Chair(s): Ying Ding, University of Pittsburgh
10:35 AM Statistics and the Fair Administration of Justice
Presentation
Hal Stern, University of California, Irvine; Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University; Bill Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University; Karen Kafadar, University of Virginia
11:00 AM How Appropriate Analysis Can Improve the Legal System’s Appreciation of the Strength of Statistical Evidence Submitted in EEO Cases
Presentation
Joseph Lewis Gastwirth, George Washington University
11:25 AM Critical Role of Statistics in Leveraging Real World Data and Evidence for Regulatory Decision-Making
Presentation
Lilly Yue, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
11:50 AM Discussant: Barry Nussbaum
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

167
Mon, 7/29/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-502
SPEED: Missing Data and Causal Inference Methods, Part 1 — Contributed Speed
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Donna L. Coffman, Temple University
Poster Presentations for this session.
10:35 AM Developing and Evaluating Methods to Impute Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset
Gabriella Silva, Brown University; Amal N. Trivedi, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University
10:40 AM Impact of Missing Data on Bias and Precision When Estimating Change in Patient-Reported Outcomes from a Clinical Registry
Presentation
Olawale Fatai Ayilara, University of Manitoba; Lixia Zhang, University of Manitoba; Tolulope T Sajobi, University of Calgary; Richard Sawatzky, School of Nursing, Trinity Western University; Eric Bohm, University of Manitoba; Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
10:45 AM Comparison of Missing Data Imputation Methods in Longitudinal Study of ADRD Patients
Presentation
Yi Cao, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University; Heather Allore, Yale University ; Brent Vander Wyk, Yale University
10:50 AM Latent Class Analysis for Classification of Latent Policy Environments: a Case Study
Presentation
Bryan Blette, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Leah Frerichs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Annie Green Howard, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:55 AM Measuring Hospital Acquired Infection Rates Under Incomplete Sampling
Presentation
Derek Sonderegger, Northern Arizona University
11:05 AM Clustering of Longitudinal Trajectories with Multinomial EM Algorithm Based on State-Transition Templates
John Rice, Colorado School of Public Health; Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, University of Colorado Denver; James Feinstein, University of Colorado, Denver
11:10 AM Bayesian Inference of Separable Covariance Models for Health Care Quality Measures
Presentation
Judith Law, Harvard Medical School; Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School; Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School
11:15 AM HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: a Semiparametric Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Scarce and Imbalanced Data
Presentation
Amy Zhang, Pennsylvania State University; Le Bao, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Daniels, University of Florida
11:20 AM Using a Combination of Nearest Matching and Synthetic Control Methods in Causal Inference Study
Presentation
Zhiyiuan Dong
11:30 AM Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounders: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) in Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Lewei Duan, Kaiser Permanente
11:35 AM Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Subgroups via the Overlap Weights
Elizabeth Lorenzi
11:40 AM Generalizing Health Insurance Plan Effects on Medicaid Spending with Randomized and Observational Data
Presentation
Irina Degtiar, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
11:45 AM The Impact of Covariance Priors on Arm-Based Bayesian Network Meta-Analyzes with Binary Outcomes
Presentation
Zhenxun Wang, University of Minnesota,; Lifeng Lin, Florida State University; JIM HODGES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
11:50 AM A Tutorial on Applying Propensity Score Methods for Characterization of Treatment Effects on Patient Outcomes Using a Medical Claims Database
Presentation
Ryan Ross, University of Michigan; Megan Caram, Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan Medical School; Paul Lin, Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan Medical School; Min Zhang, University of Michigan; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
11:55 AM Variable Selection in Causal Inference
Presentation
Tingting Zhou, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan; Roderick J Little, University of Michigan School of Public Health
12:00 PM True Trend or Just Pretend? Alternative Loss Functions to Reduce Overfitting in Synthetic Controls
Alyssa Bilinski; Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
12:05 PM Hospital Report Cards: Matched Design Versus Machine Learning
Frank Yoon
12:10 PM A Generalized Interrupted Time Series Model for Assessing Complex Health Care Interventions
Presentation
Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

174 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-504
Statistical Methods to Assess the Performance of Health Providers — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jason Brinkley, Abt Associates Inc
10:35 AM Using the MBISG 2.0 to Estimate Racial/Ethnic/Language Differences in Voluntary Health Plan Disenrollment
Marc Elliott, RAND
10:50 AM Predicting 30-Day Hospital Readmissions Using Deep Learning
Wenshuo Liu, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan; Brahmajee Nallamothu, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Akbar Waljee, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Karandeep Singh, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Andrew Ryan, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Devraj Sukul, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Elham Mahmoudi, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
11:05 AM Effects of Risk Adjustment for Groups of Variables: Sicker, Poorer, Readmitted to the Hospital
Presentation
Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School; Eric T. Roberts, University of Pittsburgh; J. Michael McWilliams, Harvard University Medical School
11:20 AM Measuring Value-Added Quality in Medicare Advantage Contracts
Presentation
Matthew Brault, Harvard University; Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School; Bruce E. Landon, Harvard University Medical School
11:35 AM A Comparison of Provider Profiling Approaches with Respect to Low-Volume Providers
Presentation
Jessica Lavery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Diane G Li, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Peter B Bach, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Kathy Panageas, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
11:50 AM Implementing Template Matching for Hospital Benchmarking in a Diverse Multi-Hospital System
Presentation
Daniel Molling, United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Hallie Prescott, VA CCMR; Sarah Seelye, VA CCMR; Brenda Vincent, VA CCMR
12:05 PM Hospital-Specific Template Matching for Benchmarking Performance in the Veterans Affairs Health System
Presentation
Brenda Vincent, VA CCMR; Daniel Molling, United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Sarah Seelye, VA CCMR; Hallie Prescott, VA CCMR
 
 

216 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-704
Promises and Pitfalls of Making Decisions with Real World Data — Invited Papers
Biometrics Section, ENAR, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
Chair(s): Ying Liu, Medical College of Wisconsin
2:05 PM A Decision Theoretic Approach to Pre-Emptive Genotyping
Presentation
Jonathan Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:30 PM Data Enriched Regression via Generalized Linear Models
Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Sayan Dasgupta, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Cheng Zheng, University of Wisconsin at Milwakee; Yuxiang Xie, University of Washington
2:55 PM Integrative Analysis of Multivariate Temporal Biomarkers in Electronic Health Records
Donglin Zeng, UNC Chapel Hill
3:20 PM Learning Treatment Strategies from Randomized Trials Supplemented by Information in Electronic Health Records
Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

229 * !
Mon, 7/29/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-708
Advances in the Neyman-Pearson Classification — Topic Contributed Papers
WNAR, Health Policy Statistics Section, Biometrics Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Organizer(s): Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair(s): Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles
2:05 PM Neyman-Pearson Classification: An Umbrella Algorithm
Xin Tong, University of Southern California; Yang Feng, Columbia University; Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles
2:25 PM A Unified View of Asymmetric Binary Classification
Wei Vivian Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Xin Tong, University of Southern California
2:45 PM Neyman-Pearson Classification: Parametrics and Power Enhancement
Yang Feng, Columbia University
3:05 PM Intentional Control of Type I Error Over Unconscious Data Distortion: a Neyman-Pearson Approach to Text Classification
Presentation
Richard Zhao, Pennsylvania State University; Lucy Xia, Stanford University; Xin Tong, University of Southern California; Yanhui Wu, University of Southern California
3:25 PM Neyman-Pearson Criterion (NPC): a Model Selection Criterion for Asymmetric Binary Classification
Presentation
Yiling Chen, University of California, Los Angeles; Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Xin Tong, University of Southern California
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

238
Mon, 7/29/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-103
SPEED: Environment and Health, Governmental Policies and Population Surveys, Part 1 — Contributed Speed
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Government Statistics Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Lifetime Data Science Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): James Lymp, Juno Therapeutics, A Celgene Company
Poster Presentations for this session.
2:05 PM Optimal Sampling Regimes for Estimating Population Dynamics
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Rebecca Bergee
2:10 PM Application of Stochastic Search Variable Selection to Modeling Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Irma
Presentation
Sierra Bainter, University of Miami; Caitlin Brown, University of Miami; Kiara Timpano, University of Miami
2:15 PM Bayesian Finite Population Estimates from a Two-Stage Sample with Spatial Correlation
Presentation
Alec M Chan-Golston, University of California, Los Angeles; Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA; Mark Handcock, University of California, Los Angles
2:20 PM Transitions Between Homelessness States(Safe Haven, Temporary Housing , Emergency Shelter and Unsheltered) Before and After Operation Rio Grande in the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area
Presentation
Prem Narayanan, Salt Lake County
2:25 PM Assessing to the Impact of Differential Response Rates Across National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Locations
Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB; Tala Fakhouri, CDC/NCHS
2:30 PM A New Methodology for Frame Building and Sample Design for the State Heating Oil and Propane Program (SHOPP)
Presentation
Edgardo Cureg, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); Marcela Bradbury, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
2:35 PM Report on Industry Births and Deaths in PPI Frames
Presentation
Andy Sadler, Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:40 PM Determining the Distance Between Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Regarding Their Fulfillment of the SDGs in 2017
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Andres Esteban Arguedas Leiva, University of Costa Rica
2:45 PM Providing Access to the Federal Information Base for Evidence Based Policy Making
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Marilyn Seastrom, US Department of Education; Jennifer Nielsen, National Center for Education Statistics/IES/Dept of Education
2:50 PM Imputation as a Practical Alternative to Data Swapping
Presentation
Saki Kinney, RTI International; David Wilson, RTI International; Alan Karr, RTI International; Kelly Kang, NSF
3:00 PM Using Efficient Sampling Methods for Fixed-Margin Matrices to Assess Judicial Innovation
Presentation
Alex Fout
3:05 PM Examining Public Comments for Financial and Net Neutrality Regulations
Shawn Mankad, Cornell University; Abhinav Gaiha, Cornell University
3:10 PM Using Supervised Machine Learning to Classify Customer Input
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Adrianna Steers-Smith, USDA/FSIS
3:15 PM Weighting Adjustments Can Help with Low Response Rates, but at What Cost to Data Quality?
Presentation
Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration
3:20 PM Annualizing Energy Consumption in Residential Households in the 2015 RECS
Presentation
Jay Olsen, U.S. Department of Energy
3:25 PM Methodology for Allocating Municipal Solid Waste to Biogenic and Non-Biogenic Energy
Presentation
Joy Liu, US Department of Energy
3:30 PM On the Small Count Inflated Poisson Distribution
Michael Floren, Misericordia Univerisity; Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
3:35 PM Conditional Survival Methods for Evaluating the Effect of a Time-Dependent Treatment on the Survival Function
Presentation
Danting Zhu; Douglas Schaubel, University of Michigan
3:40 PM Hyper Prior Dirichlet Partial Multinomial Logistic Regression Through Multiple Binary Responses for Mozambique HIV/AIDS
Diana Gonzalez, Arizona State University; Di Fang, University of Arkansas
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

259
Mon, 7/29/2019, 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Hall C
SPEED: Missing Data and Causal Inference Methods, Part 2 — Contributed Poster Presentations
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Donna L. Coffman, Temple University
Oral Presentations for this session.
1: Developing and Evaluating Methods to Impute Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset
Gabriella Silva, Brown University; Amal N. Trivedi, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University
2: HIV Prevalence in Key Populations: a Semiparametric Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Scarce and Imbalanced Data
Amy Zhang, Pennsylvania State University; Le Bao, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Daniels, University of Florida
3: Using a Combination of Nearest Matching and Synthetic Control Methods in Causal Inference Study
Zhiyiuan Dong
4: Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounders: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) in Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Lewei Duan, Kaiser Permanente
5: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Subgroups via the Overlap Weights
Elizabeth Lorenzi
6: Generalizing Health Insurance Plan Effects on Medicaid Spending with Randomized and Observational Data
Irina Degtiar, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
7: The Impact of Covariance Priors on Arm-Based Bayesian Network Meta-Analyzes with Binary Outcomes
Zhenxun Wang, University of Minnesota,; Lifeng Lin, Florida State University; JIM HODGES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
8: A Tutorial on Applying Propensity Score Methods for Characterization of Treatment Effects on Patient Outcomes Using a Medical Claims Database
Ryan Ross, University of Michigan; Megan Caram, Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan Medical School; Paul Lin, Institute for Health Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan Medical School; Min Zhang, University of Michigan; Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan
9: Variable Selection in Causal Inference
Tingting Zhou, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan; Roderick J Little, University of Michigan School of Public Health
10: True Trend or Just Pretend? Alternative Loss Functions to Reduce Overfitting in Synthetic Controls
Alyssa Bilinski; Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
11: Hospital Report Cards: Matched Design Versus Machine Learning
Frank Yoon
12: Impact of Missing Data on Bias and Precision When Estimating Change in Patient-Reported Outcomes from a Clinical Registry
Olawale Fatai Ayilara, University of Manitoba; Lixia Zhang, University of Manitoba; Tolulope T Sajobi, University of Calgary; Richard Sawatzky, School of Nursing, Trinity Western University; Eric Bohm, University of Manitoba; Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
13: A Generalized Interrupted Time Series Model for Assessing Complex Health Care Interventions
Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
14: Comparison of Missing Data Imputation Methods in Longitudinal Study of ADRD Patients
Yi Cao, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University; Heather Allore, Yale University ; Brent Vander Wyk, Yale University
15: Latent Class Analysis for Classification of Latent Policy Environments: a Case Study
Bryan Blette, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Leah Frerichs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Annie Green Howard, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
16: Measuring Hospital Acquired Infection Rates Under Incomplete Sampling
Derek Sonderegger, Northern Arizona University
17: WITHDRAWN: Developing a Generalizable Algorithm for Classifying COPD Using Electronic Health Record Data: Combining Expert Medical Curation and Surrogate-Assisted Feature Extraction
Su Chu, Harvard Medical School; Jessica Lasky-Su, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Michael Cho, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Emily Wan, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Scott Weiss, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Elizabeth Karlson, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
18: Clustering of Longitudinal Trajectories with Multinomial EM Algorithm Based on State-Transition Templates
John Rice, Colorado School of Public Health; Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, University of Colorado Denver; James Feinstein, University of Colorado, Denver
19: Bayesian Inference of Separable Covariance Models for Health Care Quality Measures
Judith Law, Harvard Medical School; Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School; Alan M. Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School
Oral Presentations for this session.
 
 

218817
Tue, 7/30/2019, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM H-Agate B
Health Policy Statistics Section ICHPS 2020 Planning Meeting — Other Cmte/Business
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 
 

Register 265
Tue, 7/30/2019, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM H-Centennial Ballroom G-H
Health Policy Statistics Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
TL04: Psychometric Models Making an Impact in Health Policy
Samantha Robinson, University of Arkansas
 
 

281 * !
Tue, 7/30/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-205
When Statistical Methods Impact Policy — Invited Panel
Health Policy Statistics Section, Biometrics Section
Organizer(s): Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
Chair(s): Samrachana Adhikari, New York University
8:35 AM When Statistical Methods Impact Policy
Presentation
Panelists: Dionne Price, Food and Drug Administration
Michael Baiocchi, Stanford University
Miguel Marino, Oregon Health Sciences University
Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

311
Tue, 7/30/2019, 9:25 AM - 10:10 AM CC-Hall C
SPEED: Environment and Health, Governmental Policies and Population Surveys, Part 2 — Contributed Poster Presentations
Government Statistics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Health Policy Statistics Section, Lifetime Data Science Section, Text Analysis Interest Group
Chair(s): Wendy Meiring, University of California At Santa Barbara
Oral Presentations for this session.
21: Optimal Sampling Regimes for Estimating Population Dynamics
Rebecca Bergee
22: Application of Stochastic Search Variable Selection to Modeling Evacuation Ahead of Hurricane Irma
Sierra Bainter, University of Miami; Caitlin Brown, University of Miami; Kiara Timpano, University of Miami
23: Bayesian Finite Population Estimates from a Two-Stage Sample with Spatial Correlation
Alec M Chan-Golston, University of California, Los Angeles; Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA; Mark Handcock, University of California, Los Angles
24: Transitions Between Homelessness States(Safe Haven, Temporary Housing , Emergency Shelter and Unsheltered) Before and After Operation Rio Grande in the Salt Lake Metropolitan Area
Prem Narayanan, Salt Lake County
25: Assessing to the Impact of Differential Response Rates Across National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Locations
Te-Ching Chen, CDC/NCHS; Jennifer Parker, CDC/NCHS/OAE/SPB; Tala Fakhouri, CDC/NCHS
26: A New Methodology for Frame Building and Sample Design for the State Heating Oil and Propane Program (SHOPP)
Edgardo Cureg, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); Marcela Bradbury, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
27: Report on Industry Births and Deaths in PPI Frames
Andy Sadler, Bureau of Labor Statistics
28: Determining the Distance Between Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Regarding Their Fulfillment of the SDGs in 2017
Andres Esteban Arguedas Leiva, University of Costa Rica
29: Providing Access to the Federal Information Base for Evidence Based Policy Making
Marilyn Seastrom, US Department of Education; Jennifer Nielsen, National Center for Education Statistics/IES/Dept of Education
30: Imputation as a Practical Alternative to Data Swapping
Saki Kinney, RTI International; David Wilson, RTI International; Alan Karr, RTI International; Kelly Kang, NSF
31: Using Efficient Sampling Methods for Fixed-Margin Matrices to Assess Judicial Innovation
Alex Fout
32: Examining Public Comments for Financial and Net Neutrality Regulations
Shawn Mankad, Cornell University; Abhinav Gaiha, Cornell University
33: Using Supervised Machine Learning to Classify Customer Input
Adrianna Steers-Smith, USDA/FSIS
34: Weighting Adjustments Can Help with Low Response Rates, but at What Cost to Data Quality?
Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration
35: Annualizing Energy Consumption in Residential Households in the 2015 RECS
Jay Olsen, U.S. Department of Energy
36: Methodology for Allocating Municipal Solid Waste to Biogenic and Non-Biogenic Energy
Joy Liu, US Department of Energy
37: On the Small Count Inflated Poisson Distribution
Michael Floren, Misericordia Univerisity; Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
38: Conditional Survival Methods for Evaluating the Effect of a Time-Dependent Treatment on the Survival Function
Danting Zhu; Douglas Schaubel, University of Michigan
39: Hyper Prior Dirichlet Partial Multinomial Logistic Regression Through Multiple Binary Responses for Mozambique HIV/AIDS
Diana Gonzalez, Arizona State University; Di Fang, University of Arkansas
Oral Presentations for this session.
 
 

334 *
Tue, 7/30/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-710
Health Policy Statistics Student Paper Awards — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Roee Gutman, Brown University
Chair(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
10:35 AM The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Health Care Costs: a Synthetic Control Approach Using Bayesian Structural Time Series
Presentation
Christoph Kurz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
10:55 AM A Latent Class Based Joint Model for Recurrence and Termination with Application to Heart Transplants
Zhixing Xu, Florida State University; Debajyoti Sinha, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; Jonathan R. Bradley, Florida State University
11:15 AM Posterior Predictive Treatment Assignment Methods for Causal Inference in the Context of Time-Varying Treatments
Presentation
Shirley Liao
11:35 AM A Bayesian Difference-In-Differences Framework for Measuring the Impact of Primary Care Redesign on Diabetes Outcomes
Presentation
James Normington, Univ of Minnesota; Eric Lock, University of Minnesota; Caroline Carlin, University of Minnesota; Kevin Peterson, University of Minnesota; Bradley Carlin, Counterpoint Statistical Consulting, LLC
11:55 AM A Bayesian Hierarchical Causal Effect Model Accounting for Incomplete Noncompliance Data in Meta-Analysis
Jincheng Zhou, University of Minnesota; JIM HODGES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

339
Tue, 7/30/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-105
SPEED: Biopharmaceutical and General Health Studies: Statistical Methods and Applications, Part 1 — Contributed Speed
Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Health Policy Statistics Section, ENAR
Chair(s): Sedigheh Mirzaei Salehabadi, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Poster Presentations for this session.
10:35 AM Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data with Applications to Clinical Trial Data
Yun Zhang
10:40 AM Adjusting Response Adaptive Allocation for Subject Dropout
Presentation
Katharine Stromberg, Virginia Commonwealth University; Adam Sima, Virginia Commonwealth University
10:45 AM The Use of a New Classifier to Maximize the Classification Performance
Presentation
Hua Ma, Merck; Joe Heyse, Merck
10:50 AM Reproducibility of Living Data - Validation of Published Research Using the Parkinson’s Progression Marker Initiative Living Database
Elliot Burghardt, University of Iowa; Christopher Coffey, University of Iowa; Chelsea Caspell-Garcia, University of Iowa; Eric Foster, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
10:55 AM Blinding in Open Label Study with Adaptive Design
Presentation
Bo Xu, Boston Biomedical Inc; Bo Jin, Boston Biomedical Inc; Alex Dmitrienko, Mediana Inc
11:00 AM Estimating the Relative Risk for Response-Biased Samples: Calibration and Conditional Likelihood
Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3 Presentation 4
Claudia Rivera-Rodriguez, University of Auckland
11:05 AM Another Estimation Method Besides MMRM for Treatment Effects in Diabetes Clinical Trials
Presentation
Yu Du, Eli Lilly and Company
11:10 AM Criteria for Choosing a Futility Method for Clinical Studies
Presentation
Richard McNally, Covance-Chiltern
11:15 AM Random Forests for Exploring Factors Driving Opioid Prescribing in National Outpatient Health Care Data Using Complex Survey Design
Presentation
Yong Ma, FDA; JaeJoon Song, FDA
11:20 AM An Adaptive Phase II Dose Finding Study Using Sample Size Re-Estimation Design
Qingyang Liu, University of Connecticut; Guanyu Hu, University of Connecticut; Yaoshi Wu, Boehringer-Ingelheim ; Binqi Ye, Boehringer-Ingelheim; Susan Wang, Boehringer-Ingelheim
11:30 AM Sieve Maximum Likelihood Method for Interval-Censored Data with Missing Covariates Under Proportional Hazards Model
Ruiwen Zhou, University of Missouri-Columbia; Huiqiong Li, Yunnan University; (Tony) Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
11:35 AM Quantifying the Number of Events Borrowed from External Data in Hybrid Control Arms
Presentation
Brian Segal, Flatiron Health; Carrie Bennette, Flatiron Health; Somnath Sarkar, Flatiron Health
11:40 AM Characterizing Irreproducibility in Drug Sensitivity Data from a Large Pharmacogenomic Study
Zoe Rehnberg, University of Michigan; Johann A Gagnon-Bartsch, University of Michigan
11:45 AM Closest Similar Subset Imputation
Macaulay Okwuokenye, Brio Dexteri Pharmaceutical Consultant & UNE; Karl E Peace, Georgia Southern University
11:50 AM Planning and Analyzing Clinical Trials with Competing Risks: Recommendations for Choosing Appropriate Statistical Methodology
Presentation
Misun Yu Lee, Astellas Pharma; Joseph Poythress, University of Georgia; James Young, Astellas Pharma
11:55 AM Estimating and Using the Attained Power Distribution to Ensure We Get the Trial Power We Expect
Yongdong Ouyang, University of British Columbia; Hubert Wong, University of British Columbia; Ehsan Karim, University of British Columbia; Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
12:00 PM Bayesian Semiparametric Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Predictors and a Binary Outcome
Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3 Presentation 4 Presentation 5 Presentation 6
Woobeen Lim, The Ohio State University; Michael Pennell, Ohio State University
12:05 PM Clustering of Multivariate Data with Varying Dimensions
Presentation
Xiaoqi Lu, Columbia University; Bin Cheng, Columbia University; Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Columbia University
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

Register 365
Tue, 7/30/2019, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM H-Centennial Ballroom G-H
Health Policy Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
TL09: APHA Applied Public Health Statistics Section - Calling for Collaborations
Wenjun Li, Univ. of Mass. Medical School; Lei Zhang, Mississippi State Department of Health
 
 

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Tue, 7/30/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-107
Modern Statistical Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Health Policy Statistics Section, ENAR
Organizer(s): Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chair(s): Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2:05 PM Balancing Weights for Causal Inference: Theory and Practice
Presentation
Fan Li, Duke University
2:30 PM Model-Assisted Sensitivity Analysis for Hidden Bias in CER
Bo Lu, The Ohio State University; Giovanni Nattino, The Ohio State University
2:55 PM Errors in Electronic Health Records: What Two Phase Sampling Teaches Us About Data Validation
Bryan E Shepherd, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Gustavo Amorim, Vanderbilt University; Ran Tao, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Sarah Lotspeich, Vanderbilt University; Pamela Shaw, University of Pennsylvania
3:20 PM Incorporating Information from a Network of Personalized Trials to Facilitate Individualized Treatment Choice
Presentation
Christopher Schmid, Brown University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

407
Tue, 7/30/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-210/212
Novel Methods for Causal Inference in Health Policy — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Chair(s): Phillip Schulte, Mayo Clinic
2:05 PM Estimation of Average Causal Effect in Clustered Data Using Multiple Imputation
Recai Yucel, SUNY Albany School of Public Health; Meng Wu, Department of Health, NY State
2:20 PM Directional Penalties for Optimal Matching in Observational Studies
Ruoqi Yu, University of Pennsylvania; Paul Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania
2:35 PM Matching Algorithms for Causal Inference with Multiple Treatments
Presentation
Anthony D. Scotina, Simmons University; Roee Gutman, Brown University
2:50 PM Causal Inference Under Interference in Dynamic Therapy Group Studies
Susan Paddock, NORC at the University of Chicago; Bing Han, RAND Corporation; Lane Burgette, RAND Corporation
3:05 PM A Probabilistic Approach to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with Censored Outcomes
Presentation
Nicholas Illenberger, University of Pennsylvania; Andrew J. Spieker, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania
3:35 PM A Simulation Study for the Statistical Performance of Matching Adjusted Indirect Comparison
Presentation
Fan Wu, Biogen; Xiaoyu Jiang, Biogen; Katherine Riester, Biogen
 
 

420
Tue, 7/30/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Hall C
Contributed Poster Presentations: Health Policy Statistics Section — Contributed Poster Presentations
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Wendy Meiring, University of California At Santa Barbara
47: Multivariate Joint Modeling of Mean and Variation and Time-Lagged Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Assess Associations Between Outcomes and Predictor Variation
Maryam Skafyan, University of Northern Colorado; Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
48: A Multinomial Hurdle Model, Interpretation in the Context of Post Discharge Cost of Care
Carter Sevick; Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, University of Colorado Denver; Lisa McLeod, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine
49: Generalized Mixed Functional Modeling Approach for Discrete Scalar Outcomes and Account for the Cross-Dependence of Repeated Functional Observations
Mostafa Zahedjahromi, University of Northern Colorado; Trent L Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
50: Alternative Method to Determine High and Low Performing Facilities
Allen Haas, University of Texas Medical Branch, Dept of OB/GYN; Yong-Fang Kuo, The University of Texas Medical Branch; James Graham, Colorado State University
51: Unknown Unknowns: Silently Missing Administrative Data
Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
52: Statistical De-Identification of a Health Dataset Based on a Common Data Model
Megan Branda, University of Colorado - Denver; Debashis Ghosh, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
53: Asymptotic Properties and Optimal Threshold Selection in Probabilistic Record Linkage Analyzes
Nicole Solomon, Duke University; Sean M O'Brien, Duke University Medical Center
54: Estimating Time to Intermediate Endpoints Using Population-Level Survival Data and Deconvolution Methods, with Application to Cancer Progression and Recurrence
Marlena Bannick, University of Washington
55: The Trim-And-Fill Method for Publication Bias: Practical Guidelines and Recommendations Based on a Large Database of Meta-Analyzes
Linyu Shi, Florida State University; Lifeng Lin, Florida State University
56: Water Fluoridation
Katherine Brinkers
57: Comparison Between Individual-Level and Ecological Models: a HIV PrEP Prescription Example Using a National Pharmacy Database
Jun Zhang, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Neal Carnes, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Ya-lin Huang, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; Deborah Gelaude, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Yuko Mizuno, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Karen W. Hoover, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA
58: Using Interactive Web-Based Monitoring to Increase Breastfeeding
Jordan-Taylor Harris, Purdue Univ; Azza Ahmed, Purdue University
59: Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the Immunotherapy Module of the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI-Immunotherapy)
Tito Mendoza, Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Ajay Sheshadri, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Ken Hess, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Mehmet Altan, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Bettzy Stephen, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,; Charles Cleeland, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; David Hong, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Aung Naing, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
 

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Tue, 7/30/2019, 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Hall C
SPEED: Biopharmaceutical and General Health Studies: Statistical Methods and Applications, Part 2 — Contributed Poster Presentations
Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, ENAR
Chair(s): Sedigheh Mirzaei Salehabadi, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Oral Presentations for this session.
1: Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data with Applications to Clinical Trial Data
Yun Zhang
2: An Adaptive Phase II Dose Finding Study Using Sample Size Re-Estimation Design
Qingyang Liu, University of Connecticut; Guanyu Hu, University of Connecticut; Yaoshi Wu, Boehringer-Ingelheim ; Binqi Ye, Boehringer-Ingelheim; Susan Wang, Boehringer-Ingelheim
4: Quantifying the Number of Events Borrowed from External Data in Hybrid Control Arms
Brian Segal, Flatiron Health; Carrie Bennette, Flatiron Health; Somnath Sarkar, Flatiron Health
5: Characterizing Irreproducibility in Drug Sensitivity Data from a Large Pharmacogenomic Study
Zoe Rehnberg, University of Michigan; Johann A Gagnon-Bartsch, University of Michigan
6: Closest Similar Subset Imputation
Macaulay Okwuokenye, Brio Dexteri Pharmaceutical Consultant & UNE; Karl E Peace, Georgia Southern University
7: Planning and Analyzing Clinical Trials with Competing Risks: Recommendations for Choosing Appropriate Statistical Methodology
Misun Yu Lee, Astellas Pharma; Joseph Poythress, University of Georgia; James Young, Astellas Pharma
8: Estimating and Using the Attained Power Distribution to Ensure We Get the Trial Power We Expect
Yongdong Ouyang, University of British Columbia; Hubert Wong, University of British Columbia; Ehsan Karim, University of British Columbia; Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
9: Bayesian Semiparametric Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Predictors and a Binary Outcome
Woobeen Lim, The Ohio State University; Michael Pennell, Ohio State University
10: Clustering of Multivariate Data with Varying Dimensions
Xiaoqi Lu, Columbia University; Bin Cheng, Columbia University; Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Columbia University
11: Sieve Maximum Likelihood Method for Interval-Censored Data with Missing Covariates Under Proportional Hazards Model
Ruiwen Zhou, University of Missouri-Columbia; Huiqiong Li, Yunnan University; (Tony) Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri
12: Adjusting Response Adaptive Allocation for Subject Dropout
Katharine Stromberg, Virginia Commonwealth University; Adam Sima, Virginia Commonwealth University
13: Estimating the Relative Risk for Response-Biased Samples: Calibration and Conditional Likelihood
Claudia Rivera-Rodriguez, University of Auckland
14: The Use of a New Classifier to Maximize the Classification Performance
Hua Ma, Merck; Joe Heyse, Merck
15: Reproducibility of Living Data - Validation of Published Research Using the Parkinson’s Progression Marker Initiative Living Database
Elliot Burghardt, University of Iowa; Christopher Coffey, University of Iowa; Chelsea Caspell-Garcia, University of Iowa; Eric Foster, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
16: Blinding in Open Label Study with Adaptive Design
Bo Xu, Boston Biomedical Inc; Bo Jin, Boston Biomedical Inc; Alex Dmitrienko, Mediana Inc
17: Another Estimation Method Besides MMRM for Treatment Effects in Diabetes Clinical Trials
Yu Du, Eli Lilly and Company
18: Criteria for Choosing a Futility Method for Clinical Studies
Richard McNally, Covance-Chiltern
19: Random Forests for Exploring Factors Driving Opioid Prescribing in National Outpatient Health Care Data Using Complex Survey Design
Yong Ma, FDA; JaeJoon Song, FDA
Oral Presentations for this session.
 
 

Register 431
Wed, 7/31/2019, 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM H-Centennial Ballroom G-H
Health Policy Statistics Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables AM Roundtable Discussion
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
WL03: Electronic Health Data Quality Impacts on Policy-Relevant Research
Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
 
 

447 * !
Wed, 7/31/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-201
Recent Advances in Propensity Score Methods for Observational Studies with Multiple Treatments — Invited Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Biopharmaceutical Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Elande Baro, US Food and Drug Administration; Jessica Kim, US Food and Drug Administration
Chair(s): Jessica Kim, US Food and Drug Administration
8:35 AM Generalized Propensity Score Matching: Updates and Challenges Toward Establishing Best Practices
Douglas Faries, Eli Lilly & Company; Zhanglin Cui, Eli Lilly & Company; Li Li, Eli Lilly & Company; Shu Yang, North Carolina State University; Shuhan Tang, The Ohio State University
9:00 AM Approximate Bayesian Bootstrap Procedures to Estimate Multilevel Treatment in Observational Studies with Application to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment Regimens
Presentation
Roee Gutman, Brown University; Anthony D. Scotina, Simmons University; Robert J Smith, Brown University; Andrew R Zullo, Brown University
9:25 AM Utility of Regression Splines for Propensity Score Adjustment in Post Market Safety Analyzes with Multiple Treatments
Elande Baro, US Food and Drug Administration; Yuxi Tian, University of California Los Angeles; Rongmei Zhang, Food and Drug Administration; Yuqin Wei, Acumen LLC; Mao Hu, Acumen LLC; Jiemin Liao, Acumen LLC; Sandia Akhtar, Acumen LLC; Michael Wernecke, Acumen LLC; Jeffrey Kelman, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; David Graham, Acumen LLC
9:50 AM Discussant: Jessica M Franklin, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
10:00 AM Discussant: Yi Huang, University of Maryland Baltimore Country
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

493 * !
Wed, 7/31/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-506
Leveraging Historical Data and Real World Evidence in Drug Development Program Evaluation — Topic Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Biopharmaceutical Section, International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Freda Cooner, Amgen Inc.
Chair(s): Yang Wang, Amgen
10:35 AM From Quantitative Drug Safety to Real-World Evidence: Activities at the US FDA
Hana Lee, U.S Food and Drug Administration; Mark Levenson, FDA CDER
10:55 AM Leveraging Historical Data in Diabetes Cardiovascular Outcome Trials
Shuang Li, Southern Methodist University; Freda Cooner, Amgen
11:15 AM Sources of Data and Statistical Strategies for Design and Analysis: Real World Insights
Presentation
Olga Marchenko, Bayer
11:35 AM Real World Evidence Use in CBER
Jennifer Kirk, FDA, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
11:55 AM Discussant: Freda Cooner, Amgen Inc.
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Wed, 7/31/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-113
Identifying and Addressing Sources of Bias in Causal Inference — Topic Contributed Papers
Biometrics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Caleb Miles, Columbia; Linda Valeri, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Chair(s): Joseph Antonelli, University of Florida
10:35 AM Measurement Error-Robust Causal Inference via Synthetic Instrumental Variables
Presentation
Caleb Miles, Columbia; Brent A. Coull, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Linda Valeri, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
10:55 AM Causal Mediation Analysis for Stochastic Interventions
Presentation
Ivan Diaz, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
11:15 AM Observational Studies of Peer Effects:
Dean Eckles, MIT; Eytan Bakshy, Facebook
3:05 PM Discussant: Elizabeth Ogburn, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:25 PM Discussant: Linda Valeri, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

Register 532
Wed, 7/31/2019, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM H-Centennial Ballroom F
Health Policy Statistics Section Speaker with Lunch (Added Fee) — Roundtables Speaker with Lunch
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
WL07: The Rise and Rise of Patient-Oriented Research: What Implications for Health Services and Policy Research?
Stirling Bryan
 
 

Register 534
Wed, 7/31/2019, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM H-Centennial Ballroom G-H
Health Policy Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee) — Roundtables PM Roundtable Discussion
Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
WL09: Collecting Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Registries
Olawale Fatai Ayilara, University of Manitoba; Lisa M Lix, University of Manitoba
WL10: Mixture Wait-Time Models
Jimmy Efird, Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology (VA)
 
 

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Wed, 7/31/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-507
New Research Synthesis Methods in Data Science — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota
Chair(s): Jing Zhang, University of Maryland College Park
2:05 PM Bayesian Inference for Network Meta-Regression Using Multivariate Random Effects with Applications to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
Presentation
Joseph G Ibrahim, UNC; Sungduk Kim, NIH; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Arvind Shah, Merck, Inc.; Jianxin Lin, Merck, Inc.; Hao Li, Boehringer Ingelheim; Andrew Tershakovec, Merck, Inc
2:30 PM Innovative Methods for Assessing Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis
Lifeng Lin, Florida State University
2:55 PM Bayesian Meta-Regression Model Using Heavy-Tailed Random-Effects with Missing Sample Sizes for Self-Thinning Meta-Data
Zhihau Ma, Jinan University and University of Connecticut ; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Yi Tang, Liaoning University
3:20 PM Bias Correction and Sensitivity Analysis for Meta-Analysis of Studies with Zero-Inflated Outcomes
Zhengyang Zhou, University of North Texas Health Science Center; Minge Xie, Rutgers University; Thomas Trikalinos, Brown University; Eun-Young Mun, University of North Texas Health Science Center
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

558 * !
Wed, 7/31/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-207
The Big Data Revolution in Health Care: Promise and Potential — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Society for Clinical Trials
Organizer(s): Satrajit Roychoudhury, Pfizer Inc
Chair(s): Satrajit Roychoudhury, Pfizer Inc
2:05 PM Perspectives on Use of Real-World Evidence in Drug Development
Demissie Alemayehu, Pfizer, Inc.; Satrajit Roychoudhury, Pfizer Inc
2:25 PM Reliable Healthcare Evidence from the Large-Scale Evidence Generation Across a Network of Databases (LEGEND) Study
Marc Suchard, UCLA
2:45 PM Longitudinal Causal Inference Using EHRs
Presentation
Roy Adams, Johns Hopkins University; Katharine E Henry, Johns Hopkins University; Hossein Soleimani, University of California - San Fransisco; Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University
3:05 PM Discussant: Aloka Chakravarty, Office of Biostatistics of CDER/FDA
3:25 PM Discussant: Ram Tiwari, CDRH, FDA
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

560 * !
Wed, 7/31/2019, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-111
Using Large Healthcare Databases and Modern Statistical Methods to Impact Health Policy — Topic Contributed Papers
ENAR, Health Policy Statistics Section, International Indian Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM Innovations to Assess Program Attribution and Calculate Return on Investment in Large-Scale Health Programs
Jiaqi Li, Booz Allen Hamilton; Ping Yu, Booz Allen Hamilton
2:25 PM A Fresh Look at Models, Assumptions, and Confounders in Diff-In-Diff
Presentation
Bret Zeldow, Harvard Medical School; Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
2:45 PM Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of Subgroup Effects in Large Healthcare Policy Evaluations
Presentation
Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research; Mariel Finucane, Mathematica Policy Research; Ignacio Martinez, Mathematica Policy Research
3:05 PM Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Zero-Inflated Outcomes: Clustering, Prediction, and Causal Inference
Arman Oganisian, Univ of Pennsylvania; Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania; Jason Roy, Rutgers University
3:25 PM Discussant: Jason Roy, Rutgers University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/1/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-107
Global Estimates of Morbidity and Mortality — Invited Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Biometrics Section
Organizer(s): Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
Chair(s): Laura A Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
9:00 AM Monitoring Maternal Mortality by the United Nations (UN MMEIG): Improved Estimates of Levels, Trends and Reporting Errors Through Bayesian Multilevel Temporal Regression Modeling
Leontine Alkema, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Emily Peterson, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Doris Chou, World Health Organization; Ann Beth Moller, World Health Organization; Lale Say, World Health Organization
9:50 AM Making Inference in Global Health When There Is Limited (Or No) Data
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Harvard Medical School
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

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Thu, 8/1/2019, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-704
Patient-Focused Clinical Trials: Challenges and Considerations for Trial Design, Endpoints, and Analysis — Topic Contributed Panel
Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section
Organizer(s): Pallavi Mishra-Kalyani, US Food and Drug Administration; Jessica Roydhouse, US Food and Drug Administration
Chair(s): Jessica Roydhouse, US Food and Drug Administration
8:35 AM Patient-Focused Clinical Trials: Challenges and Considerations for Trial Design, Endpoints, and Analysis
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Panelists: Mallorie H Fiero, US Food and Drug Administration
Melanie Bell, University of Arizona
Stacie Hudgens, Clinical Outcomes Solutions
Stephanie Manson, Novartis Oncology
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

628 * !
Thu, 8/1/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-710
Advances in Clinical Outcome Assessments — Invited Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section, Health Policy Statistics Section, Biometrics Section
Organizer(s): Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc
Chair(s): Bellinda King-Kallimanis, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10:35 AM Methods for Identifying Treatment-Emergent Symptomatic Adverse Events from the Patient Perspective with Application to the PRO-CTCAE
Presentation
Gina Lynn Mazza, Mayo Clinic; Ethan Basch, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; Lauren J. Rogak, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Amylou C. Dueck, Mayo Clinic
11:00 AM Mixed Location Scale Hidden Markov Model with an Application to Ecological Momentary Assessment Data
Presentation
Xiaolei Lin, Fudan University; Robin Mermelstein, University of Illinois at Chicago; Donald Hedeker, University of Chicago
11:25 AM Identification of Distinct Disease-Activity Trajectories in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Presentation
David Gruben, Pfizer, Inc.
11:50 AM Discussant: Joseph C Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

656 * !
Thu, 8/1/2019, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-705
Using Unique Associations to Address Health Policy Questions — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair(s): Jessica Lavery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10:35 AM A Novel Cluster Sampling Design That Entwines Three Surveys to Support Multiple Statistical Modeling Objectives
Presentation
A. James O'Malley, Dartmouth College; Seho Park , Dartmouth University
10:50 AM Use of Survey Databases in Statistical Consulting Projects
Presentation
Heather Watson, Exponent
11:05 AM Integration of Clinical and National Health Care Survey Data to Inform Disparities
Presentation
Steven Cohen, RTI International
11:20 AM Disparities in Potentially Achievable Vaccination Coverage by Selected Socio-Demographic Factors Among Children in the United States
Zhen Zhao, CDC; Holly A. Hill, CDC; Laurie D. Elam-Evans, CDC; James A. Singleton, CDC
11:35 AM A Unified Counterfactual Framework for Estimating Health Disparity
Presentation
Chen-Pin Wang, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
11:50 AM Local Item Response Theory for the Detection of Regional Differences in Contraceptive Knowledge, HIV/AIDS Knowledge, and Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence
Samantha Robinson, University of Arkansas
12:05 PM Discovering Connection Among Emergency Rooms in Terms of Alerts at Maryland Region III
Xu Zhang; Sean Barnes, University of Maryland, College Park; Bruce Golden, University of Maryland, College Park; Paul Smith, University of Maryland, College Park