Biostatistics Publications: 2020

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Publications of 2020

Harrison L, Chen T, Wang R. Power calculation for cross-sectional stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials with variable cluster sizes. Biometrics 2020, 76(3): 951-962.

Rifas-Shiman SL, Bailey LC, Lunsford D, Daley MF, Eneli I, Finkelstein J, Heerman W, Horgan CE, Hsia DS, Jay M, Rao G, Reynolds JS, Sturtevant JL, Toh S, Trasande L, Young J, Pi-I Lin, Forrest CB, Block JP (PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study Group).  Academic Pediatrics. 2020 (In press).

Kim W, Prokopenko D, Sakornsakolpat P, Hobbs BD, Lutz SM, Hokanson JE, Wain LV, Melbourne CA, Shrine N, Tobin MD, Silverman EK, Cho MH, Beaty TH. Genome-wide Gene-by-smoking Interaction Study of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Oct 27;kwaa227. Online ahead of print. PMID:33106845

Rabideau D, Wang R. Randomized-based confidence intervals for cluster randomized trials. Biostatistics 2020, Feb 29. pii: kxaa007. doi: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxaa007. [Epub ahead of print]

Aris IM, Sarvet AL, Stensrud MJ, Neugebauer R, Li LJ, Hivert MF, Oken E, Young JG. Separating algorithms from questions and causal inference with unmeasured exposures: an application to birth cohort studies of early BMI rebound. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2020 (In press).

Moll M, Lutz SM, Ghosh AJ, Hersh C, Weiss ST, Tobin M, Mittleman M, Silverman EK, Hobbs BD, Cho MH. Relative Contributions of Family History and a Polygenic Risk Score on COPD and Related Outcomes: COPDGene and ECLIPSE studies. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2020 Nov;7(1):e000755. PMID:33239407; PMCID:PMC7689586. 

Song Y, Sun F, Redline S, Wang R. Random-effects Meta-analysis of combined outcomes based on reconstructions of individual patient data. Research Synthesis Methods 2020, 11(5): 594-616.

Wirth KE, Gaolathe T, Holme MP, Mmalane M, Kadima E, Chakalisa U, Manyake K, Mbikiwa A, Simon SV, Letlhogile R, Mukokomani K, van Widenfelt E, Moyo S, Bennett K, Leidner J, Powis K, Lebelonyane R, Alwano MG, Jarvis J, Dryden-Peterson S, Kgathi C, Moore J, Bachanas P, Raizes E, Abrams W, Block L, Sento B, Novitsky V, El-Halabi S, Marukutira T, Mills LA, Sexton C, Pals S, Shapiro R, Wang R, Lei Q, DeGruttola V, Makhema J, Essex M, Lockman S, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ. Population uptake of HIV testing, treatment, viral suppression, and male circumcision following a community-based intervention in Botswana (Ya Tsie/BCPP): a cluster-randomised trial. Lancet HIV 2020, 7(6): E422-E433.

Rhee C, Li Z, Wang R, Song Y, Kadri SS, Septimus EJ, Chen H, Fram D, Jin R, Poland R, Sands K, Klompas M, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Impact of risk-adjustment using clinical versus administrative data on hospital sepsis mortality comparisons. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2020, ofaa213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa213.

Strand M, Austin E, Moll M, Pratte K, Regan E, Hayden LP, Bhatt SP, Boriek AM, Casaburi R, Silverman EK, Fortis S, Ruczinski I, Koegler H, Rossiter HB, Occhipinti M, Hanania NA, Gebrekristos H, Lynch DA, Kunisaki K, Young K, Sieren JC, Ragland M, Hokanson JE, Lutz SM, Make BJ, Kinney GL, Cho MH, Pistolesi M, DeMeo DL, Sciurba FC, Comellas A, Diaz AA, Barjaktarevic I, Bowler R, Kanner RE, Peters SP, Ortega VE, Dransfield MT, Crapo JD. A risk prediction model for mortality among smokers in the COPDGene study. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2020 Oct; 7(4):346-361. PMID:32877963.

Bing A*, Hu Y*, Prague M, Hill A, Li JZ, Bosch RJ, De Gruttola V, Wang R. Comparison of empirical and dynamic models for HIV viral load rebound after treatment interruption. Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases 2020, vol. 12, no. S1, https://doi.org/10.1515/scid-2019-0021.*: Equal contribution.

Zhao, L*, Chen T*, Novitsky V, Wang R. Joint penalized spline modeling of multivariate longitudinal Data, with application to modeling HIV RNA viral load levels and CD4 cell counts. Biometrics, First published: 19 July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13339. *: Equal contribution.

Hahn G, Lutz SM, Hecker J, Prokopenko D, Cho MH, Silverman EK, Weiss ST, Lange C. locStra: Fast analysis of regional/global stratification in whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies. Genet Epidemiol. 2021 Feb;45(1):82-98. Epub 2020 Sep 14. PMID:32929743; PMCID:PMC7856019.

Cook K, Wang R. Estimation of the conditional power for cluster randomized trials with interval-censored endpoints. Biometrics, First published: 24 Aug 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13360.

Shu D, Young JG, Toh S, Wang R. Variance estimation in inverse probability weighted Cox model. Biometrics, First published: 14 July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13332.

Hsu HE, Mathew R, Wang R, Broadwell C, Horan K, Jin R, Rhee C, Lee GM. Health care-associated infections among critically ill children in the US, 2013-2018. JAMA Pediatrics. 174(12): 1176-1183.

Jiang Y, Chen S, Wang X, Liu M, Iacono WG, Hewitt JK, Hokanson JE, Krauter K, Laakso M, Li KW, Lutz SM, McGue M, Pandit A, Zajac GJM, Boehnke M, Abecasis GR, Vrieze SI, Jiang B, Zhan X, Liu DJ. Association Analysis and Meta-Analysis of Multi-Allelic Variants for Large-Scale Sequence Data. Genes (Basel). 2020 May 25; 11:(5):586. PMID:32466134; PMCID:PMC7288273.

Hsu HE, Wang R, Broadwell C, Horan K, Jin R, Rhee C, Grace LM. Association between federal value-based incentive programs and healthcare-associated infections in safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals. JAMA Network Open 2020, 3(7):e209700. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9700.

Chen T, Wang R. Inference for variance components in linear mixed models with flexible random effects and error distributions. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2020, 29(12), 3586-3604.

Zhao, L*, Chen T*, Novitsky V, Wang R. Joint penalized smoothing spline modeling of multivariate longitudinal Data, with application to modeling HIV RNA viral load levels and CD4 cell counts. Biometrics, forthcoming. *: Equal contribution.

Ogburn EL, Bierer BE, Brookmeyer R, Choirat C, Dean NE, De Gruttola V, Ellenberg SS, Halloran ME, Hanley DF, Lee JK, Wang R, Scharfstein DO. Aggregating data from COVID-19 trials. Science 2020; 368: 1198-1199.

Lutz SM, Sordillo JE, Hokanson JE, Chen Wu A, Lange C. The effects of misspecification of the mediator and outcome in mediation analysis. Genet Epidemiol. 2020 Jun;44(4):400-403. doi: 10.1002/gepi.22289. Epub 2020 Mar 13. PubMed PMID: 32166765; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7205563. 

Chen J, Loukola A, Gillespie NA, Peterson R, Jia P, Riley B, Maes H, Dick DM, Kendler KS, Damaj MI, Miles MF, Zhao Z, Li MD, Vink JM, Minica CC, Willemsen G, Boomsma DI, Qaiser B, Madden PAF, Korhonen T, Jousilahti P, Hällfors J, Gelernter J, Kranzler HR, Sherva R, Farrer L, Maher B, Vanyukov M, Taylor M, Ware JJ, Munafò MR, Lutz SM, Hokanson JE, Gu F, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Hancock DB, Gaddis NC, Baker TB, Bierut LJ, Johnson EO, Chenoweth M, Lerman C, Tyndale R, Kaprio J, Chen X. Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of FTND and TTFC Phenotypes. Nicotine Tob Res. 2020 May 26;22(6):900-909. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntz099. PubMed PMID: 31294817; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7249921. 

Lutz SM, Hokanson JE. The Use of Mendelian Randomization to Determine the Role of Metabolic Traits on Urinary Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio. Diabetes. 2020 May;69(5):862-863. doi: 10.2337/dbi19-0034. PubMed PMID: 32312903; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7171963. 

Moll M, Regan EA, Hokanson JE, Lutz SM, Silverman EK, Crapo JD, Make BJ, DeMeo DL. The Association of Multiparity with Lung Function and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Related Phenotypes. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2020 Apr;7(2):86-98. doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.7.2.2019.0166. PubMed PMID: 32324980. 

McGeachie MJ, Wang AL, Lutz SM, Sordillo JE, Weiss ST, Tantisira KG, Iribarren C, Lu MX, Wu AC. Real-Life Patterns of Exacerbations While on Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Beta Agonists for Asthma over 15 Years. J Clin Med. 2020 Mar 18;9(3). doi: 10.3390/jcm9030819. PubMed PMID: 32197337; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7141292. 

Dahlin A, Sordillo JE, McGeachie M, Kelly RS, Tantisira KG, Lutz SM, Lasky-Su J, Wu AC. Genome-wide interaction study reveals age-dependent determinants of responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroids in individuals with asthma. PLoS One.2020;15(3):e0229241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229241. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32119686; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7051058. 

Sordillo JE, Lutz SM, Kelly RS, McGeachie MJ, Dahlin A, Tantisira K, Clish C, Lasky-Su J, Wu AC. Plasmalogens Mediate the Effect of Age on Bronchodilator Response in Individuals With Asthma. Front Med (Lausanne). 2020;7:38. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00038. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32118022; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7034309.

Rhee C, Kadri SS, Dekker JP, Danner RL, Chen HC, Fram D, Zhang F, Wang R, Klompas M; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens in Culture-Proven Sepsis and Outcomes Associated With Inadequate and Broad-Spectrum Empiric Antibiotic Use. JAMA Network Open. 2020 Apr 1;3(4). PMID: 32297949

Yuhree K, Zhang F, Su K, LaRochelle M, Callahan M, Fisher D, Wharam JF, Asgari MM. Perioperative Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels as a Predictor of Postoperative Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder: A Cohort Study.  J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Jun 24 PMID 32583342.

Toh S, Rifas-Shiman SL, Lin PI, Bailey LC, Forrest CB, Horgan CE, Lunsford D, Moyneur E, Sturtevant JL, Young JG, Block JP (PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study Group). Privacy-protecting multivariable-adjusted distributed regression analysis for multi-center pediatric study. Pediatric Research. 2020; 87(6):1086-1092.

Young JG, Stensrud MJ, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Hernán MA. A causal framework for classical statistical estimands in failure time settings with competing events. Statistics in Medicine. 2020; 39(8): 1199-1236.

Chiu Y, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman K, Oken E, Young JG. Effects of intergenerational exposure interventions on adolescent outcomes: an application of inverse probability weighting to longitudinal pre-birth cohort data. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2020; 34(3): 366-375 

Her QL, Malenfant JM, Zhang Z, Vilk Y, Young J, Tabano DC, Hamilton J, Johnson R, Raebel MA, Boudreau DM, Toh S. Distributed regression analysis application in large distributed data networks: analysis of precision and operational performance.  Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020; 8(6):e15073. 

Stensrud MJ, Young JG, Didelez V, Robins JM, Hernán MA. Separable effects for causal inference in the presence of competing events. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2020 (In press). 

Young JG, Hubbard AE, Eskenazi B, Jewell NP (2020).  A machine-learning algorithm for estimating and ranking the impact of environmental risk factors in exploratory epidemiological studies.  In Almudevar A, Oakes D, Hall J (Eds.), Statistical Modeling for Biological Systems (pp.137-156). Springer Cham, Switzerland. 

Wen L, Young JG, Robins JM, Hernán MA. Parametric g-formula implementations for causal survival analyses.  Biometrics.  2020 (In press). 

Dean NE, Gsell P, Brookmeyer R, Crawford F, Donnelly CA, Ellenberg S, Eleming T, Halloran ME, Horby P, Jaki T, Krause P, Longini IM, Nason M, Smith P, Wang R, Henao-Restrepo AM, DeGruttola V. Creating a Framework for Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials during Disease Outbreaks.  New England Journal of Medicine 2020, 382:1366-1369.

Wang R, Bing A, Wang C, Bosch R, De Gruttola V. Flexible nonlinear mixed effects model for viral rebound after antiretroviral treatment interruption. Stat Med. 2020 Jul 10;39(15):2051-2066

Vinegoni C, Feruglio PF, Courties G, Schmidt S, Hulsman M, Lee S, Wang R, Sosnovik D, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R. System-wide characterization of cellular structures by fluorescence microscopy tensor imaging. Scientific Reports 2020, 10, 5632. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62233-2

Wirth KE, Gaolathe T, Holme MP, Mmalane M, Kadima E, Chakalisa U, Manyake K, Mbikiwa A, Simon SV, Letlhogile R, Mukokomani K, van Widenfelt E, Moyo S, Bennett K, Leidner J, Powis K, Lebelonyane R, Alwano MG, Jarvis J, Dryden-Peterson S, Kgathi C, Moore J, Bachanas P, Raizes E, Abrams W, Block L, Sento B, Novitsky V, El-Halabi S, Marukutira T, Mills LA, Sexton C, Pals S, Shapiro R, Wang R, Lei Q, DeGruttola V, Makhema J, Essex M, Lockman S, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ. Intervention coverage reaches UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals for treatment and viral suppression in Botswana cluster-randomized trial. Lancet HIV, forthcoming.

Chen T, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Wang R. A stochastic second-order generalized estimating equations approach for estimating association parameters. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2020, 29(3): 547-561. DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2019.1710156.Liu, W., Ye, S., Barton, B., Fischer, M.A.,

Ye, S., Zhang, H., Shi, F., Guo, J., Wang, S., Zhang, B. (2020) Ensemble methods to improve prediction accuracy of suspected fetal macrosomia and large-for-gestational age. Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 2, Issue 9. DOI: 10.3390/jcm9020380

Wang R, Bakker JP, Chervin R,  Garetz S,  Fauziya H, Ishman SL, Mitchell R, Morrical M, Naqvi K, Rueschman M, Radcliffe J,  Riggan EI, Rosen C, Ross KR, Tapia IE, Taylor HG, Zopf DA, Redline S. Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy Trial for Snoring (PATS): Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Adenotonsillectomy in Treating Mild Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing. BMJ Open 2020, Mar 15; 10(3):e033889. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033889