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Flexible Distributed Lag Models Using Random Functions With Application To Estimating Mortality Displacement From Heat-Related Deaths, Roger D. Peng Dec 2011

Flexible Distributed Lag Models Using Random Functions With Application To Estimating Mortality Displacement From Heat-Related Deaths, Roger D. Peng

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

No abstract provided.


Assessing Association For Bivariate Survival Data With Interval Sampling: A Copula Model Approach With Application To Aids Study, Hong Zhu, Mei-Cheng Wang Nov 2011

Assessing Association For Bivariate Survival Data With Interval Sampling: A Copula Model Approach With Application To Aids Study, Hong Zhu, Mei-Cheng Wang

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In disease surveillance systems or registries, bivariate survival data are typically collected under interval sampling. It refers to a situation when entry into a registry is at the time of the first failure event (e.g., HIV infection) within a calendar time interval, the time of the initiating event (e.g., birth) is retrospectively identified for all the cases in the registry, and subsequently the second failure event (e.g., death) is observed during the follow-up. Sampling bias is induced due to the selection process that the data are collected conditioning on the first failure event occurs within a time interval. Consequently, the …


Effectively Selecting A Target Population For A Future Comparative Study, Lihui Zhao, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai, Brian Claggett, L. J. Wei Aug 2011

Effectively Selecting A Target Population For A Future Comparative Study, Lihui Zhao, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai, Brian Claggett, L. J. Wei

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

When comparing a new treatment with a control in a randomized clinical study, the treatment effect is generally assessed by evaluating a summary measure over a specific study population. The success of the trial heavily depends on the choice of such a population. In this paper, we show a systematic, effective way to identify a promising population, for which the new treatment is expected to have a desired benefit, using the data from a current study involving similar comparator treatments. Specifically, with the existing data we first create a parametric scoring system using multiple covariates to estimate subject-specific treatment differences. …


On The Covariate-Adjusted Estimation For An Overall Treatment Difference With Data From A Randomized Comparative Clinical Trial, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai, Lihui Zhao, L. J. Wei Jul 2011

On The Covariate-Adjusted Estimation For An Overall Treatment Difference With Data From A Randomized Comparative Clinical Trial, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai, Lihui Zhao, L. J. Wei

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Reduced Bayesian Hierarchical Models: Estimating Health Effects Of Simultaneous Exposure To Multiple Pollutants, Jennifer F. Bobb, Francesca Dominici, Roger D. Peng Jul 2011

Reduced Bayesian Hierarchical Models: Estimating Health Effects Of Simultaneous Exposure To Multiple Pollutants, Jennifer F. Bobb, Francesca Dominici, Roger D. Peng

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Quantifying the health effects associated with simultaneous exposure to many air pollutants is now a research priority of the US EPA. Bayesian hierarchical models (BHM) have been extensively used in multisite time series studies of air pollution and health to estimate health effects of a single pollutant adjusted for potential confounding of other pollutants and other time-varying factors. However, when the scientific goal is to estimate the impacts of many pollutants jointly, a straightforward application of BHM is challenged by the need to specify a random-effect distribution on a high-dimensional vector of nuisance parameters, which often do not have an …


A Unified Approach To Non-Negative Matrix Factorization And Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing, Karthik Devarajan, Guoli Wang, Nader Ebrahimi Jul 2011

A Unified Approach To Non-Negative Matrix Factorization And Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing, Karthik Devarajan, Guoli Wang, Nader Ebrahimi

COBRA Preprint Series

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) by the multiplicative updates algorithm is a powerful machine learning method for decomposing a high-dimensional nonnegative matrix V into two matrices, W and H, each with nonnegative entries, V ~ WH. NMF has been shown to have a unique parts-based, sparse representation of the data. The nonnegativity constraints in NMF allow only additive combinations of the data which enables it to learn parts that have distinct physical representations in reality. In the last few years, NMF has been successfully applied in a variety of areas such as natural language processing, information retrieval, image processing, speech recognition …


Threshold Regression Models Adapted To Case-Control Studies, And The Risk Of Lung Cancer Due To Occupational Exposure To Asbestos In France, Antoine Chambaz, Dominique Choudat, Catherine Huber, Jean-Claude Pairon, Mark J. Van Der Laan Mar 2011

Threshold Regression Models Adapted To Case-Control Studies, And The Risk Of Lung Cancer Due To Occupational Exposure To Asbestos In France, Antoine Chambaz, Dominique Choudat, Catherine Huber, Jean-Claude Pairon, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Asbestos has been known for many years as a powerful carcinogen. Our purpose is quantify the relationship between an occupational exposure to asbestos and an increase of the risk of lung cancer. Furthermore, we wish to tackle the very delicate question of the evaluation, in subjects suffering from a lung cancer, of how much the amount of exposure to asbestos explains the occurrence of the cancer. For this purpose, we rely on a recent French case-control study. We build a large collection of threshold regression models, data-adaptively select a better model in it by multi-fold likelihood-based cross-validation, then fit the …


Estimating Subject-Specific Treatment Differences For Risk-Benefit Assessment With Competing Risk Event-Time Data, Brian Claggett, Lihui Zhao, Lu Tian, Davide Castagno, L. J. Wei Mar 2011

Estimating Subject-Specific Treatment Differences For Risk-Benefit Assessment With Competing Risk Event-Time Data, Brian Claggett, Lihui Zhao, Lu Tian, Davide Castagno, L. J. Wei

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Population Functional Data Analysis Of Group Ica-Based Connectivity Measures From Fmri, Shanshan Li, Brian S. Caffo, Suresh Joel, Stewart Mostofsky, James Pekar, Susan Spear Bassett Feb 2011

Population Functional Data Analysis Of Group Ica-Based Connectivity Measures From Fmri, Shanshan Li, Brian S. Caffo, Suresh Joel, Stewart Mostofsky, James Pekar, Susan Spear Bassett

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In this manuscript, we use a two-stage decomposition for the analysis of func- tional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the first stage, spatial independent component analysis is applied to the group fMRI data to obtain common brain networks (spatial maps) and subject-specific mixing matrices (time courses). In the second stage, functional principal component analysis is utilized to decompose the mixing matrices into population- level eigenvectors and subject-specific loadings. Inference is performed using permutation-based exact conditional logistic regression for matched pairs data. Simulation studies suggest the ability of the decomposition methods to recover population brain networks and the major direction of …


A Flexible Spatio-Temporal Model For Air Pollution: Allowing For Spatio-Temporal Covariates, Johan Lindstrom, Adam A. Szpiro, Paul D. Sampson, Lianne Sheppard, Assaf Oron, Mark Richards, Tim Larson Jan 2011

A Flexible Spatio-Temporal Model For Air Pollution: Allowing For Spatio-Temporal Covariates, Johan Lindstrom, Adam A. Szpiro, Paul D. Sampson, Lianne Sheppard, Assaf Oron, Mark Richards, Tim Larson

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Given the increasing interest in the association between exposure to air pollution and adverse health outcomes, the development of models that provide accurate spatio-temporal predictions of air pollution concentrations at small spatial scales is of great importance when assessing potential health effects of air pollution. The methodology presented here has been developed as part of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air), a prospective cohort study funded by the US EPA to investigate the relationship between chronic exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular disease. We present a spatio-temporal framework that models and predicts ambient air pollution by …