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New Publication on Trend-in-Trend Design

October 20, 2016

The Trend-in-Trend Research Design for Causal Inference. Ji X, Small DS, Leonard CE, Hennessy S. Cohort studies can be biased by unmeasured confounding. We propose a hybrid ecologic-epidemiologic design called […]

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New Publication on Second Control Groups

October 18, 2016

Constructed Second Control Groups and Attenuation of Unmeasured Biases Samuel D. Pimentel, Dylan S. Small & Paul R. Rosenbaum The informal folklore of observational studies claims that if an irrelevant […]

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New Publication on Sensitivity Analysis

October 4, 2016

An adaptive Mantel-Haenszel test for sensitivity analysis in observational studies. Rosenbaum PR, Small DS In a sensitivity analysis in an observational study with a binary outcome, is it better to […]

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New Publication on Causal Mediation

August 1, 2016

A framework for Bayesian nonparametric inference for causal effects of mediation. Kim C, Daniels MJ, Marcus BH, Roy JA We propose a Bayesian non-parametric (BNP) framework for estimating causal effects […]

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Predicting Degree and Spatial Pattern of MS Lesion Tissue Recovery

July 15, 2016

PREVAIL: In this work, our lab developed a model for predicting the degree and spatial pattern of MS lesion tissue recovery. The model is based solely on lesion presentation at […]

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New Publication on Bayesian Marginal Structural Models

June 26, 2016

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to marginal structural models for point treatments and a continuous or survival outcome. Roy J, Lum KJ, Daniels MJ. Marginal structural models (MSMs) are a general […]

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New Publication on Instrumental Variable Methods

May 1, 2016

Selection Bias When Using Instrumental Variable Methods to Compare Two Treatments But More Than Two Treatments Are Available. Ertefaie A, Small D, Flory J, Hennessy S. Instrumental variable (IV) methods […]

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New Publication on Propensity Scores

April 19, 2016

An evaluation of bias in propensity score-adjusted non-linear regression models Fei Wan, Nandita Mitra Propensity score methods are commonly used to adjust for observed confounding when estimating the conditional treatment […]