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A Study Of Mexican Free-Tailed Bat Chirp Syllables: Bayesian Functional Mixed Modeling Of Nonstationary Time Series Data With Time-Dependent Spectra, Josue G. Martinez, Kirsten M. Bohn, Raymond J. Carroll, Jeffrey S. Morris
A Study Of Mexican Free-Tailed Bat Chirp Syllables: Bayesian Functional Mixed Modeling Of Nonstationary Time Series Data With Time-Dependent Spectra, Josue G. Martinez, Kirsten M. Bohn, Raymond J. Carroll, Jeffrey S. Morris
Jeffrey S. Morris
We describe a new approach to analyze chirp syllables of free-tailed bats from two regions of Texas in which they are predominant: Austin and College Station. Our goal is to characterize any systematic regional differences in the mating chirps and assess whether individual bats have signature chirps. The data are analyzed by modeling spectrograms of the chirps as responses in a Bayesian functional mixed model. Given the variable chirp lengths, we compute the spectrograms on a relative time scale interpretable as the relative chirp position, using a variable window overlap based on chirp length. We use 2D wavelet transforms to …
Global Quantitative Assessment Of The Colorectal Polyp Burden In Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Using A Web-Based Tool, Patrick M. Lynch, Jeffrey S. Morris, William A. Ross, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas, Juan Posadas, Rossa Khalaf, Diane M. Weber, Valerie O. Sepeda, Bernard Levin, Imad Shureiqi
Global Quantitative Assessment Of The Colorectal Polyp Burden In Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Using A Web-Based Tool, Patrick M. Lynch, Jeffrey S. Morris, William A. Ross, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas, Juan Posadas, Rossa Khalaf, Diane M. Weber, Valerie O. Sepeda, Bernard Levin, Imad Shureiqi
Jeffrey S. Morris
Background: Accurate measures of the total polyp burden in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) are lacking. Current assessment tools include polyp quantitation in limited-field photographs and qualitative total colorectal polyp burden by video.
Objective: To develop global quantitative tools of the FAP colorectal adenoma burden.
Design: A single-arm, phase II trial.
Patients: Twenty-seven patients with FAP.
Intervention: Treatment with celecoxib for 6 months, with before-treatment and after-treatment videos posted to an intranet with an interactive site for scoring.
Main Outcome Measurements: Global adenoma counts and sizes (grouped into categories: less than 2 mm, 2-4 mm, and greater than 4 mm) were …
Dose-Response And Finding In Phase Ii Clinical Studies — Mcp-Mod Methodologies, Zhao Yang
Dose-Response And Finding In Phase Ii Clinical Studies — Mcp-Mod Methodologies, Zhao Yang
Zhao (Tony) Yang, Ph.D.
This presentation give an overall introduction to the MCP-Mod methodology with detailed step-by-step demonstration.
Phase I Design For Multiple Treatment Schedules, Nolan A. Wages
Phase I Design For Multiple Treatment Schedules, Nolan A. Wages
Nolan A. Wages
No abstract provided.
Early-Phase Dose-Finding Design For Oncology Trials Of Molecularly Targeted Agents, Nolan A. Wages
Early-Phase Dose-Finding Design For Oncology Trials Of Molecularly Targeted Agents, Nolan A. Wages
Nolan A. Wages
No abstract provided.
Bayesian Inferences For Beta Semiparametric Mixed Models To Analyze Longitudinal Neuroimaging Data, Xiaofeng Wang, Yingxing Li
Bayesian Inferences For Beta Semiparametric Mixed Models To Analyze Longitudinal Neuroimaging Data, Xiaofeng Wang, Yingxing Li
Xiaofeng Wang
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging technique that measures the three-dimensional diffusion of water molecules within tissue through the application of multiple diffusion gradients. This technique is rapidly increasing in popularity for studying white matter properties and structural connectivity in the living human brain. The major measure derived from the DTI process is known as fractional anisotropy, a continuous measure restricted on the interval (0,1). Motivated from a DTI study of multiple sclerosis, we use a beta semiparametric mixed-effect regression model for the longitudinal neuroimaging data. This work extends the generalized additive model methodology with beta …
Bayesian Nonparametric Regression And Density Estimation Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, Xiaofeng Wang
Bayesian Nonparametric Regression And Density Estimation Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, Xiaofeng Wang
Xiaofeng Wang
Integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA) are a recently proposed approximate Bayesian approach to fit structured additive regression models with latent Gaussian field. INLA method, as an alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques, provides accurate approximations to estimate posterior marginals and avoid time-consuming sampling. We show here that two classical nonparametric smoothing problems, nonparametric regression and density estimation, can be achieved using INLA. Simulated examples and \texttt{R} functions are demonstrated to illustrate the use of the methods. Some discussions on potential applications of INLA are made in the paper.
Sberia: Set Based Gene Environment Interaction Test For Rare And Common Variants In Complex Diseases, Shuo Jiao, Li Hsu, Stéphane Bézieau, Hermann Brenner, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Loic Le Marchand, Mathieu Lemire, Polly A. Newcomb, Martha L. Slattery, Ulrike Peters
Sberia: Set Based Gene Environment Interaction Test For Rare And Common Variants In Complex Diseases, Shuo Jiao, Li Hsu, Stéphane Bézieau, Hermann Brenner, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Loic Le Marchand, Mathieu Lemire, Polly A. Newcomb, Martha L. Slattery, Ulrike Peters
Shuo Jiao
Identification of gene-environment interaction (GxE) is important in understanding the etiology of complex diseases. However, partially due to the lack of power, there have been very few replicated GxE findings compared to the success in marginal association studies. The existing GxE testing methods mainly focus on improving the power for individual markers. In this paper, we took a different strategy and proposed a Set Based gene EnviRonment InterAction test (SBERIA), which can improve the power by reducing the multiple testing burdens and aggregating signals within a set. The major challenge of the signal aggregation within a set is how to …
Mixtures Of Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, Mithat Gonen
Mixtures Of Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, Mithat Gonen
Mithat Gönen
Rationale and Objectives: ROC curves are ubiquitous in the analysis of imaging metrics as markers of both diagnosis and prognosis. While empirical estimation of ROC curves remains the most popular method, there are several reasons to consider smooth estimates based on a parametric model.
Materials and Methods: A mixture model is considered for modeling the distribution of the marker in the diseased population motivated by the biological observation that here is more heterogeneity in the diseased population than there is in the normal one. It is shown that this model results in an analytically tractable ROC curve which is itself …
Penalized Regression Procedures For Variable Selection In The Potential Outcomes Framework, Debashis Ghosh, Yeying Zhu, Donna L. Coffman
Penalized Regression Procedures For Variable Selection In The Potential Outcomes Framework, Debashis Ghosh, Yeying Zhu, Donna L. Coffman
Debashis Ghosh
A recent topic of much interest in causal inference is model selection. In this article, we describe a framework in which to consider penalized regression approaches to variable selection for causal effects. The framework leads to a simple `impute, then select' class of procedures that is agnostic to the type of imputation algorithm as well as penalized regression used. It also clarifies how model selection involves a multivariate regression model, and that these methods can be applied for identifying subgroups in which treatment effects are homogeneous. Analogies and links with the literature on machine learning methods, missing data and imputation …
Using Methods From The Data-Mining And Machine-Learning Literature For Disease Classification And Prediction: A Case Study Examining Classification Of Heart Failure Subtypes, Peter C. Austin
Peter Austin
OBJECTIVE: Physicians classify patients into those with or without a specific disease. Furthermore, there is often interest in classifying patients according to disease etiology or subtype. Classification trees are frequently used to classify patients according to the presence or absence of a disease. However, classification trees can suffer from limited accuracy. In the data-mining and machine-learning literature, alternate classification schemes have been developed. These include bootstrap aggregation (bagging), boosting, random forests, and support vector machines.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We compared the performance of these classification methods with that of conventional classification trees to classify patients with heart failure (HF) …
Predictive Accuracy Of Risk Factors And Markers: A Simulation Study Of The Effect Of Novel Markers On Different Performance Measures For Logistic Regression Models, Peter C. Austin
Peter Austin
The change in c-statistic is frequently used to summarize the change in predictive accuracy when a novel risk factor is added to an existing logistic regression model. We explored the relationship between the absolute change in the c-statistic, Brier score, generalized R(2) , and the discrimination slope when a risk factor was added to an existing model in an extensive set of Monte Carlo simulations. The increase in model accuracy due to the inclusion of a novel marker was proportional to both the prevalence of the marker and to the odds ratio relating the marker to the outcome but inversely …