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What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-02)
To develop and validate a general method (called regression risk analysis) to estimate adjusted risk measures from logistic and other nonlinear multiple regression models. We show how to estimate standard errors for these ...
From Pubs to Scrubs: Alcohol Misuse and Health Care Use
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-10)
To analyze the relationships between alcohol misuse and two types of acute health care use—hospital admissions and emergency room (ER) episodes. Data Sources/Study Setting . The first (2001/2002) and second (2004/2005) ...
Fast times and easy questions: the effects of age, experience and question complexity on web survey response times
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-01)
This paper examines response times (RT) to survey questions. Cognitive psychologists have long relied on response times to study cognitive processes but response time data have only recently received attention from survey ...
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali, by Kris Holloway .
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2008-02)
History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
This chapter explores the micro-politics of marriage practices among a Tamang and Ghale population in north central Nepal. Based on ethnographic and survey research in Timling (Tipling), it establishes that marriage ...
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 ...
Obtaining Respondent Cooperation in Family Panel Studies
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1982)
Problems of maintaining respondent rapport in surveys are exacerbated when respondents are asked to participate repeatedly over time or when several members of a family are interviewed. This article details the techniques ...
Bringing features of human dialogue to web surveys
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-03)
When web survey respondents self-administer a questionnaire, what they are doing is in many ways similar to what goes on in human–human interviews. The studies presented here demonstrate that enabling web survey respondents ...