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Submissions from 2021
Quantiles Naïve, Ratio and Difference Estimators for Efficient Stratified Sampling Designs, Haresh Rochani, Hani W. Samawi, and Xinyan Zhang
Publication bias using R and Stata, Hani Samawi
Ranked Simulated Resampling: A More Efficient and Accurate Resampling Approximations for Bootstrap Inference, Hani Samawi and Ding-Geng Chen
Medical Diagnostics Accuracy Measures and Cut-point Selection: An Innovative Approach Based on Relative Net Benefit, Hani Samawi, Ding-Geng Chen, Ferdous Ahmed, and Jing X. Kersey
Post-Test Diagnostic Accuracy Measures of a Continuous Test With a Disease of Ordinal Multistages, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Chen Mo, and Jing Kersey
Joint Confidence Region Estimation on Predictive Values, Braydon J. Schaible and Jingjing Yin
Health Reporting Characteristics among Journalists in Nepal Utilizing a One Health Framework, Jessica S. Schwind, Stephanie A. Norman, Munshi Khaledur Rahman, Holly L. Richmond, Sameer M. Dixit, Rajesh M. Rajbhandari, Sarah K. Wagner, and Dibesh Karmacharya
Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy, Jingjing Yin and Jing Kersey
Joint hypothesis testing of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and the Youden index, Jingjing Yin, Fedelis Mutiso, and Lili Tian
Joint Inference About the AUC and Youden Index for Paired Biomarkers, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Lili Tian
Network Meta-Analysis, Lili Yu and Xinyan Zhang
Submissions from 2020
Introduction to Spatiotemporal Variations of Ambient Air Pollutants and Related Public Health Impacts, Atin Adhikari
Short-Term Effects of Ambient Ozone, PM2. 5, and Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 Confirmed Cases and Deaths in Queens, New York., Atin Adhikari and Jingjing Yin
Using Twitter to Track Unplanned School Closures: Georgia Public Schools, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Ngozi Pearl Chukwudebe, Brittany Morgan Buchanan, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Gerardo Chowell, Martin I. Meltzer, and Isaac Fung
Weight Misperception and Cigarette Smoking among Healthy Weight Adolescents in the U. S: NHANES 2005–2014, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Andrew Hansen, Amy Hackney, Wei Wang, Daniella R. Thorne Williams Mrs., and Jian Zhang
Complexities of Coordinating Service-Learning Experiences in Rural Communities, Urkovia Andrews, Yelena Tarasenko, and Kara Holland
Sources of Microbiological Contamination in Sachet Water From Ghana, Asli Aslan, Haresh Rochani, Oghenekpaobor Oyibo, J. Edward Dotherow, Kendall W. Anderson, Christina J. Beslin, Asheley Chapman, Brittny Thomas, Alicia Brown, Akwasi Ampofo-Yeboah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Sewage Monitoring in Rural Communities: A Powerful Strategy for COVID-19 Surveillance, Asli Aslan, Gulzar H. Shah, Vinoth Sittaramane, and Padmini Shankar Ph.D.
Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status, Byron Breedlove and Isaac Fung
Effective Practices and Recommendations for Drive-Through Clinic Points of Dispensing: A Systematic Review, Brian Holt Buck, Logan Cowan, Lisa P. Smith, Emily Duncan, Jodi Bazemore, and Jessica S. Schwind
The WHO STEPwise Approach to Surveillance; Fact sheet on tobacco and electronic cigarette use, cessation, and secondhand smoke in Ukraine, 2019, Angela Ciobanu, Ivo Rakovac, and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Triggering of cardiovascular disease by infection type: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study (ARIC), Logan Cowan, Brian Buck, Jessica S. Schwind, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Endodontic therapy and incident cardiovascular disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, Logan Cowan, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher, and James S. Pankow
A Call for Consistency in the Official Naming of the Disease Caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Non-English Languages, Lu Dong, Zhe Li, and Isaac Fung
Fleas (Siphonaptera) Parasitizing Peridomestic and Indigenous Mammals in Panamá and Screening of Selected Fleas for Vector-Borne Bacterial Pathogens, Lance A. Durden, Sergio Bermúdez, Géminis A . Vargas, Boris E. Sanjur, Laura Gillen, Lisa D. Brown, Stephen E. Greiman, and Marina Eremeeva
Detection of Rickettsia asembonensis in Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae, Ceratophyllidae) Collected in Five Counties in Georgia, United States, Marina Eremeeva; Danielle Capps; Cynthia Logan McBride; Amanda J. Williams-Newkirk; Gregory A. Dasch; Johanna S. Salzer; Lorenza Beati; and Lance A, Durden
Molecular typing of Rickettsia akari, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsialpox – a Rare but Not Extinct Disease: a Review of the Literature and New Directions, Marina Eremeeva and Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez
SARS-CoV-2 Viral and Serological Testing When College Campuses Reopen: Some Practical Considerations, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Chi-Ngai Cheung, and Andreas Handel
Trends in US Adults With Overweight and Obesity Reporting Being Notified by Doctors About Body Weight Status, 1999–2016, Andrew Hansen, Christopher Rustin, Samuel T. Opoku, Gauri Shevatekar, Jeffery A. Jones, and Jian Zhang
Kernel density estimation based on progressive type-II censoring, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert Vogel
Epidemiology of Cancers in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM): A Protocol for Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews, Manoj Kumar Honaryar, Yelena Tarasenko, Maribel Almonte, and Vitaly Smelov
Incident Hospitalization with Major Cardiovascular Diseases and Subsequent Risk of ESKD: Implications for Cardiorenal Syndrome, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Juan-Jesus Carrero, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Hospitalization With Major Infection and Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Ryan T. Demmer, Morgan E. Grams, Pamela L. Lutsey, Josef Coresh, and Kunihiro Matsushita
Unplanned Closure of Public Schools in Michigan, 2015-2016: Cross-Sectional Study on Rurality and Digital Data Harvesting, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Xiaolu Zhou, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Fung
Significant Improvement of Somatic Symptom Disorder With Brief Psychoeducational Intervention by PMHNP in Primary Care, Kim K. Johnson, Carole Bennett, and Haresh Rochani
Evaluating the importation of yellow fever cases into China in 2016 and strategies used to prevent and control the spread of the disease, Chao Li, Dan Li, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Lei Zhou, Peng Yang, Jianming Ou, Yi He, Ruiqi Ren, Tao Ma, Nijuan Xiang, Haitian Sui, Yali Wang, Jian Zhao, Chaonan Wang, Yeping Wang, Daxin Ni, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Dexin Li, Yangmu Huang, and Qun Li
Hypertension and Diabetes Synergistically Strengthen the Association with Cataracts among Chinese: Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health Policy, Jin-Jin Li, Mo-Dong Li, Jie Li, Xiao Yang, Dan Xia, Yu Li, Wei Wang, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: An Adaptive Hybrid Design for Clinical Development in Rare Diseases, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials in Patients with COVID-19 High Risks, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: A Two-Stage Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials with Chronic Conditions, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Background, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Blinded Data Review for Adaptive Estimands (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Confirmatory Adaptive Platform Trial (CAPT) Design for COVID-19 Treatment (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Minimization Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Impacts on Permuted Block Randomization and Mitigations, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Independent DMC for Blinded Data Monitoring and Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Integrated Analysis of Efficacy (IAE) with Adaptive Estimands, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Interim Analysis with Adaptive Estimands Based, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part I), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part II), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Natural History Controls for Survival Analysis (Part III), Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Steps for Mitigation, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Unplanned Changes in Estimands with Two-Stage Adaptive Designs, Qing Liu and Karl E. Peace
Cluster analysis of urinary tobacco biomarkers among U.S. adults: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) biomarker study (2013–2014), Ban Majeed, Daniel F. Linder, Thomas Eissenberg, Yelena Tarasenko, Danielle Smith, and David Ashley
Letter to the Editor: Broader trauma: Considerations for COVID-19 psychosocial interventions in Hong Kong, Adriana S. Miu, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Kitty K.Y. Tsang, Benedict S.B. Chan, Lap-Tak Poon, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Doubling Time of the COVID-19 Epidemic by Province, China, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Gerardo Chowell, Chi-Hin Cheung, Dongyu Jia, Po-Ying Lai, Yiseul Lee, Manyun Liu, Sylvia Ofori, Kimberlyn M. Roosa, Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud, and Isaac Fung
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission Potential, Iran, 2020, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Isaac Fung, Shayesteh R. Ferdosi, Sylvia Ofori, Yiseul Lee, Amna Tariq, and Gerardo Chowell
Social Media Use in Emergency Response to Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review With a Public Health Perspective, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sylvia K. Ofori, Lauren C. Bayliss, Jessica S. Schwind, Kadiatou Diallo, Manyun Liu, Jingjing Yin, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Kernel-based estimation of P(X < Y) when X and Y are dependent random variables based on progressive type II censoring, Rola Musleh, Amal Helu, and Hani Samawi
The Use of Digital Technology to Improve and Monitor Handwashing Among Children 12 Years or Younger in Educational Settings: A Scoping Review, Sylvia Ofori, Yuen Wai Hung, Jessica S. Schwind, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Reece Kakou, Sunmisola Alade, Kadiatou Diallo, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Isaac Fung
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Accurate COVID-19 Testing in Clinical Trials, Stephan Ogenstad, Qing Liu, and Karl E. Peace
The Use of Penalized Regression Analysis to Identify County-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Variables Predictive of Increased COVID-19 Cumulative Case Rates in the State of Georgia, Holly L. Richmond, Joana Tome, Haresh Rochani, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Gulzar H. Shah, and Jessica S. Schwind
On Improving the Performance of Logistic Regression Analysis Via Extreme Ranking, Hani Samawi
Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Medical Diagnostics Accuracy and Cut-point Selection Criterion: How it is related to the Youden Index, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, Robert Vogel, and Chen Mo
Further Improving the Performance of Logistic Regression Analysis Using Double Extreme Ranking, Hani Samawi, Xinyan Zhang, and Haresh Rochani
Gaps in Public Health Workers' Awareness of Emerging Public Health Trends, Gulzar H. Shah, Kyle Bogaert, Jingjing Yin, Elizabeth Gould, and JP Leider
Informatics and the Covid-19 Crisis: the Role of Information Systems and Clinical Trials Databases, Gulzar H. Shah and Karl E. Peace
The Detrimental Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Padmini Shankar, Jessica S. Schwind, and Vinoth Sittaramane
Association Between Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Overweight in U.S.-Born Children, Shirley JoAnn Smart, Aurela Nikaj, Lili Yu, Hongxia Li, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Statistical Considerations for Clinical Trials During COVID-19: Phase 1 Cancer Trials, Michael T. Tirgan, Qing Liu, and Karl E. Peace
Red Blood Cell Folate and Cardiovascular Deaths Among Hypertensive Adults, an 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Felix Twum, Neil Morte, Yudan Wei, Stanley Nkemjika, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Interpolation Method to Estimate the Asymptotic Variance-covariance Matrix in EM Algorithm, Lili Yu, Ding-Geng Chen, and Jun Liu
Regression Multiple Imputation for Missing Data Analysis, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Karl E. Peace
Efficient Estimation of Cumulative Distribution Function Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling With Application to Reliability, Ehsan Zamanzade, M. Mahdizadeh, and Hani Samawi
Occurrence of a Human-associated Microbial Source Tracking Marker and Its Relationship With Faecal Indicator Bacteria in an Urban Estuary, Sibel Zeki, Asli Aslan, Selmin Burak, and J.B. Rose
Limited Early Warnings and Public Attention to Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China, January–February, 2020: A Longitudinal Cohort of Randomly Sampled Weibo Users, Yuner Zhu, King-Wa Fu, Karen A. Grépin, Hai Liang, and Isaac Fung
Submissions from 2019
Pet ownership and the risk of dying from lung cancer, findings from an 18 year follow-up of a US national cohort, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew R. Hansen, Yudan Wei, Kassandra Snook, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Pet Ownership and the Risk of Dying From Lung Cancer, Findings From an 18 Year Follow-up of a US National Cohort, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew Hansen, Yudan Wei, Kassandra R. Snook, Fengqi Liu, and Jian Zhang
Association between pet ownership and the risk of dying from colorectal cancer: an 18-year follow-up of a national cohort, Atin Adhikari, Yudan Wei, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew R. Hansen, Kassandra Snook, Chad E. Burleson, and Jian Zhang
Association Between Pet Ownership and the Risk of Dying From Colorectal Cancer: An 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Atin Adhikari, Yudan Wei, Naduparambil Jacob, Andrew Hansen, Kassandra R. Snook, Chad E. Burleson, and Jian Zhang
Pilot survey of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from southeastern Georgia, USA for Wolbachia and Rickettsia felis (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae), Matthew Anderson, R. Christopher Rustin, and Marina Eremeeva
Temporal distribution of opportunistic pathogens in household systems in Evans County, Asli Aslan, J. Edward Dotherow, and Robert Vogel
Pet ownership and risk of dying from cancer: observation from a nationally representative cohort, Brian Buck, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sarah H. Jillson, Li-Ting Huang, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Pet Ownership and Risk of Dying From Cancer: Observation From a Nationally Representative Cohort, Brian Buck, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sarah Jillson, Li-Ting Huang, Atin Adhikari, Naduparambil Jacob, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Cancer Control in Ukraine: Country visit report and recommendations, Marilys Corbex, Catherine Lam, Vitaly Smelov, Rolando Camacho, and Yelena Tarasenko
Cervical cancer control in Uzbekistan: Country visit report and recommendations, Marilys Corbex, Jos Luttjeboer, Vitaly Smelov, Yelena Tarasenko, Rimma Velikanova, and Karene Hoi Ting Yeung
Trajectories of Engagement in Leisure-time Physical Activity and Risk of Incident Ischemic Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan Cowan, Yelena Tarasenko, Kelly Evenson, Priya Palta, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
VOC and particle concentrations in new and old model automobiles, J. Edward Dotherow, Deonte Martin, and Atin Adhikari
Land Use and Environmental Variables Influence Tetracycline-Resistant Bacteria Occurrence in Southeastern Coastal Plain Streams, Jason A. Duff, Asli Aslan, and Risa A. Cohen
Adopting YouTube to Promote Health: Analysis of State Health Departments, Carmen H. Duke, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Elizabeth Blankenship, Sewuese Akuse, Gulzar H. Shah, Chung-Hong Chan, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, and Isaac Fung
Molecular Survey for Pathogens and Markers of Permethrin Resistance in Human Head Lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) from Madagascar, Marina E. Eremeeva; Shamta Warang; Matthew Anderson; Danielle Capps; Sarah Zohdy; and Lance A, Durden
Public Health Implications of Image-Based Social Media: A Systematic Review of Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr, Isaac Fung, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Lacey K. Cooper, Carmen H. Duke, Stacy Carswell, Ashley M. Jackson, Jimmy C. Jenkins III, Emily A. Duncan, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
