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Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-09)
This article presents the results from an experimental evaluation of a voluntary health insurance program for informal sector workers in Nicaragua. Costs of the premiums as well as enrollment location were randomly allocated. ...
Differences in the perceived impact of sleep deprivation among surgical and non-surgical residents
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-05)
Training of the next generation of biostatisticians: a call to action in the U.S.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-10-30)
Two workshops (2001, 2003) were held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the need to train more biostatisticians in the U.S. to meet the increasing opportunities in the biomedical research enterprise. The ...
On Bayesian methods of exploring qualitative interactions for targeted treatment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012-12-10)
Developing multicomponent interventions using fractional factorial designs
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-09-20)
Multicomponent interventions composed of behavioral, delivery, or implementation factors in addition to medications are becoming increasingly common in health sciences. A natural experimental approach to developing and ...
Generalizing the TITE-CRM to adapt for early- and late-onset toxicities
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
Due to the staggered entry of subjects in phase I trials, some subjects will only be partially through the study when others are ready to be enrolled. Nonetheless, many phase I designs focus solely upon whether or not ...
Semiparametric Bayesian modeling of random genetic effects in family-based association studies
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-01-15)
We consider the inference problem of estimating covariate and genetic effects in a family-based case-control study where families are ascertained on the basis of the number of cases within the family. However, our interest ...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Risk of Posttraumatic Stress and Related Disorders: A Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation in U.S. Army Soldiers
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.American Psychiatric Association, 2018-12)
Crossâ sectional associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been observed, but longitudinal studies assessing this association are lacking. This ...
Modelling tumour biology–progression relationships in screening trials
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
There has been some recent work in the statistical literature for modelling the relationship between tumour biology properties and tumour progression in screening trials. While non-parametric methods have been proposed for ...