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Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2001-12)
This paper discusses problems that are common to both the epidemiologic risk-factor approach and the demographic variable-based approach to studying population health. We argue that there is a shared reluctance to move ...
Excitatory and inhibitory amino acid binding sites in human dentate nucleus
(Elsevier, 1991-09-27)
Autoradiography of excitatory and inhibitory amino acid binding sites in human dentate nuclei indicated virtually no binding to N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) or [gamma]-aminobutyric acidB (GABAB) binding sites, and a low ...
A false-discovery-rate-based loss framework for selection of interactions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-05-20)
Interaction effects have been consistently found important in explaining the variation in outcomes in many scientific research fields. Yet, in practice, variable selection including interactions is complicated due to the ...
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 ...
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...
A Bayesian model for longitudinal count data with non-ignorable dropout
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-12)
Good item or bad—can latent class analysis tell?: the utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-06)
Combining information from multiple surveys to enhance estimation of measures of health This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the U.S.A.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-04-15)
Survey estimates are often affected by non-sampling errors due to missing data, coverage error, and measurement or response error. Such non-sampling errors can be difficult to assess, and possibly correct for, using ...