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Submissions from 2019
Chapter 2 - Statistical analysis for air pollution data, Jingjing Yin, Hao Zhang, and Lixin Li
Quasi-likelihood Ratio Tests for Homoscedasticity of Variance in Linear Regression, Lili Yu, Varadan Sevilimedu, Robert Vogel, and Hani Samawi
Submissions from 2018
Field Evaluation of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators on Construction Jobsites for Protection against Airborne Ultrafine Particles, Atin Adhikari, Anirudda Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Imaobong B. Ekpo, Jacob Schwartz, and Jefferson W. Doehling
World Pneumonia Day 2011–2016: Twitter Contents and Retweets, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Lang, King-Wa Fu, Nitin Saroha, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Isaac Fung
Understanding Epidemiologists Who Serve as Preceptors, Jessica Arrazola, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Jingjing Yin, and Elizabeth Harper
The Impact of Tides on Microbial Water Quality at an Inland River Beach, Asli Aslan, Kendell W. Anderson, and Asheley Chapman
Presence of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Utilized as Water Reuse for Irrigation, Asli Aslan, Zach A. Coles, Anunay Bhattacharya, and Oghenekpaobor Oyibo
Beach Quality Information Boards on Jekyll Island, Asli Aslan and Jeffery A. Jones
Molecular identification of the sources of non-point pollution and microbial risk assessment upon exposure to recreational waters at Jekyll Island Beaches, Phase II: Microbial Risk Assessment, Asli Aslan and Jeffery A. Jones
Eastern Equine Encephalitis and YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Isaac Fung, Christina C. Yarborough, R. Christopher Rustin, and Jingjing Yin
Fluoride-Related Youtube Videos: A Cross-Sectional Study, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth Blankenship, Mary Goff, Jingjing Yin, Charles E. Basch, Aurea J. DeLeon, and Isaac Fung
YouTube as a Source of Information on Skin Bleaching: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, A. A. Brown, M. Dottington Fullwood, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin
Public Online Information About Tinnitus: A Cross-Sectional Study of Youtube Videos, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Betty Kollia, Adeyemi Adedokun, Stephanie Trusty, Felicia Yeboah, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Sentiment, Contents and Retweets: A Study of Two Vaccine-Related Twitter Data Sets, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, King-Wa Fu, Hai Liang, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Health Care Disparities Among Octogenarians and Nonagenarians With Stage III Lung Cancer, Richard J. Cassidy, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Pretesh R. Patel, Joseph W. Shelton, Sibo Tian, Ronica H. Nanda, Conor E. Steuer, Rathi N. Pillai, Taofeek K. Owonikoko, Suresh S. Ramalingam, Felix G. Fernandez, Seth D. Force, Theresa W. Gillespie, Walter J. Curran, and Kristin A. Higgins
Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Mortality among Hispanic Women - Sub-Ethnic Disparities and Survival Trend across Time: An Analysis of SEER 1992-2013, Chen Chen, Talar Markossian, Abigail Silva, and Yelena Tarasenko
Self-efficacy and Leisure-time Physical Activity Levels Among Rural Residents, Gabriele Ciciurkaite, Yelena Tarasenko, and Nancy Schoenberg
Periodontal Disease and Incident Venous Thromboembolism: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan Cowan, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Pamela L. Lutsey, Aaron R. Folsom, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher, and James S. Pankow
Inpatient and Outpatient Infection as a Trigger of Cardiovascular Disease: The ARIC Study, Logan Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, Junichi Ishigami, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Fish Consumption Is Associated With a Decreased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes: 18-Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Abraham Deng, Anunay Bhattacharya, Congjian Liu, Jingjing Yin, Levi Ross, and Jian Zhang
Fish Consumption Is Associated With a Decreased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes: 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Abraham Deng, Swaha Pattanaik, Anunay Bhattacharya, Jingjing Yin, Levi Ross, Congjian Liu, and Jian Zhang
In memoriam: Irina V. Tarasevich, Marina Eremeeva
Other Rickettsial Species, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Detection and characterization of a novel spotted fever group Rickettsia genotype in Haemophysalis leporispalustris from California, USA, Marina Eremeeva, Lindsey M. Weiner, Maria L. Zambrano, Gregory A. Dasch, Renjie Hu, Inger Vilcins, Martin B. Castro, Denise L. Bonilla, and Kerry A. Padgett
Contents, Followers and Retweets of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (@CDC_AMD) Twitter Profile: Cross-Sectional Study, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsey A. Mullican, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, and Mary Elizabeth Goff
Striving to Meet Healthy People 2020 Objectives: Trend Analysis of Maternal Smoking, Andrew Hansen, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Zachary McGalliard, Laura Belle-Isle, and Jian Zhang
Choosing the Function of Baseline Run-In Data for Use as a Covariate in the Analysis of Treatment Data from Phase III Clinical Trials in Hypertension, Yi Hao and Karl E. Peace
Trends in Weight Loss Efforts Among Us Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity, Daneisha Hawkins, Kathryn Kazmierski, Andrew Hansen, Cathony Reid, Alicia Brown, Samuel T. Opoku, and Jian Zhang
On Estimation of Overlapping Measures for Exponential Populations Under Progressive First Failure Censoring, Amal Helu and Hani M. Samawi
Methods Improving the Estimate of Diagnostic Odds Ratio, Yisong Huang, Jingjing Yin, and Hani M. Samawi
#CDCGrandRounds and #VitalSigns: A Twitter Analysis, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, Hai Lang, King-Wa Fu, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jimmy J. Jenkins III, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Fung
Water Quality and the Perception of Risk: A Study of Georgia, USA, Beachgoers, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann
Data on the risk perceptions of beach water safety in coastal Georgia, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria I. Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann
Using Twitter for Public Health Surveillance from Monitoring and Prediction to Public Response, Sophie E. Jordan, Sierra Hovet, Isaac Fung, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz-Ho Tse
The Impact of Shared Sanitation Facilities On Diarrheal Diseases With and Without an Environmental Reservoir: A Modeling Study, Matthew R. Just, Stephen W. Carden, Sheng Li, Kelly K. Baker, Manoj Gambhir, and Isaac Fung
The Impact of PM 2.5 on Lung and Bronchial Cancers: Regression and Time Series Analysis in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014, Jing X. Kersey, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Weitian Tong, and Lixin Li
Impact of the Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Subtype on Survival: PTLD Subtype and Survival, Jean L. Koff, Jing-Xia Li, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Christopher R. Flowers, and Edmund K. Waller
Increased Fisher's Information for Parameters of Association in Count Regression via Extreme Ranks, Daniel F. Linder, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, and Sanjay Sethi
Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening Adherence Among Women in the U.S.: Findings from HINTS 2013–2014, John S. Luque, Yelena Tarasenko, and Chen Chen
Utilization of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Hispanic Immigrant Women in the Nuevo South, John Luque, Yelena Tarasenko, Hong Li, Caroline Davila, Rachel N. Knight, and Rosa E. Alcantar
Global Distribution of Human-Associated Fecal Genetic Markers in Reference Samples from Six Continents, Rene E. Mayer, Georg H. Reischer, Simone K. Ixenmaier, Julia Derx, Alfred Paul Blaschke, James E. Ebdon, Rita Linke, Lukas Egle, Warish Ahmed, Thomas A. Edge, Margit A. Schade, Asli Aslan, Yolanda Brooks, Regina Sommer, Yoshifumi Masago, Maria I. Sato, Huw D. Taylor, Joan B. Rose, Stefan Wuertz, Orin C. Shanks, Harald Piringer, Robert L. Mach, Domenico Savio, Matthias Zessner, and Andreas H. Farnleitner
Interesting Applications from Three Decades of Biostatistical Consulting, Karl E. Peace, Uche Eseoghene Okoro, and Kao-Tai Tsai
A Serious Flaw in Nutrition Epidemiology: A Meta-Analysis Study, Karl E. Peace, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Sarbesh R. Pandeya, and Stanley Young
On Inference of Multivariate Means Using Efficient Sampling Designs, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani M. Samawi, and Viral Panchal
A Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, and Jingjing Yin
On Quantiles Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling With Optimal Allocation, Hani Samawi, Arpita Chatterjee, Jingjing Yin, and Haresh Rochani
Comparative Health Systems: Jordan, Hani M. Samawi
Reducing Sample Size Needed for Accelerated Failure Time Model Using More Efficient Sampling Methods, Hani M. Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Notes on Kernel Density Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel F. Linder, and Robert L. Vogel
Reducing Sample Size Needed for Cox-Proportional hazards model Analysis Using More Efficient Sampling Method, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert Vogel
Are Evidence-Based, Community-Engaged Energy Balance Interventions Enough for Extremely Vulnerable Populations?, Nancy E. Schoenberg, Yelena Tarasenko, and Claire Snell-Rood
Earthquake Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents From Phulpingdanda Village, Nepal: A Cross-sectional Study, Jessica S. Schwind, Clara B. Formby, Susan L. Santangelo, Stephanie A. Norman, Rebecca Brown, Rebecca Hoffman Frances, Elisabeth Koss, and Dibesh Karmacharya
Application of the Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure to Log-Logistic Accelerated Failure Time Models in Survival Analysis, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
The Impact of Rurality on Likelihood of Drunk Driving and Riding With a Driver Under the Influence Among High School Students, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob Warren, Yelena Tarasenko, and K. Nikki Barefoot
Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Snook et al. Change in percentages of adults with overweight or obesity trying to lose weight, 1988-2014. JAMA. 2017;317(9):971-973, Kassandra R. Snook, Andrew R. Hansen, Carmen H. Duke, Amy Hackney, and Jian Zhang
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep: Persistent Association Through Life, Kelly L. Sullivan and Diane Donaly
Association of Mildly Insufficient Sleep with Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression, Kelly L. Sullivan and Collins Ordiah
Muscle-strengthening and Aerobic Activities and Mortality Among 3+ Year Cancer Survivors in the U.S., Yelena Tarasenko, Daniel F. Linder, and Eric A. Miller
Attributes of Videos on YouTube Related to Cupping Therapy, Jingjing Yin, Corey H. Basch, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, M. D. Fullwood, Anthony Menafro, and Isaac Fung
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces (VUS) and Generalized Youden Indices (GYIs), Jingjing Yin, Christos T. Nakas, Lili Tian, and Benjamin Reiser
Response to Comments by Pablo Martínez-Camblor on “Notes on Overlap Measure as an Alternative to Youden Index: How Are They Related?”, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
A homoscedasticity test for the accelerated failure time model, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Ding-Geng Chen
Double-blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial of EPI-743 in Friedreich’s Ataxia. Neurodegnerative Disease Management, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Jason Salemi, Susan Perlman, Kelly L. Sullivan, Jessica D. Shaw, Yangxin Huang, Charles Isaacs, Clifton Gooch, David Lynch, and Matthew B. Klein
Comprehensive Systematic Review Summary: Treatment of Cerebellar Motor Dysfunction and Ataxia, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, George Wilmot, Sheng-Han Kuo, Susan Perlman, Partricia E. Greenstein, Sarah H. Ying, Tetsuo Ashizawa, S. H. Subramony, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, K. P. Figueroa, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Ludger Schoels, Jessica D. Shaw, Richard M. Dubinsky, Melissa J. Armstrong, Gary S. Gronseth, and Kelly Sullivan
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Program, a Social Experiment on Effective Strategies to Prevent Severe Obesity Among Preschool Children, Jian Zhang and Andrew R. Hansen
Submissions from 2017
Aerosolized Bacteria and Microbial Activity in Dental Clinics During Cleaning Procedures, Atin Adhikari, Sushma Kurella, Pratik Banerjee, and Aniruddha Mitra
Effect of Different Air Flow Rates on the Collection of Atmospheric Mold Spores of Different Sizes by a Slit Impactor, Atin Adhikari, Bushra Shah, Teddye Gandy, Oreoluwa Adeyinka, and Galela Shebani
What’s in Your Water: The State of Drinking Water Quality in Evans County, Asli Aslan, S. Barron, and R. Vogel
Zika Virus on YouTube: An Analysis of English-language Video Content by Source, Corey H. Basch, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Rodney N. Hammond, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, King-Wa Fu, Patrick Ip, and Charles E. Basch
English Language YouTube Videos as a Source of Lead Poisoning and Other Lead Related Information: A Cross-Sectional Study, Corey H. Basch, Ashley M. Jackson, Jingjing Yin, Rodney N. Hammond, Atin Adhikari, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
An Exploratory Assessment of Weight Loss Videos on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Chen Mo, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin
Lyme Disease and YouTube™: A Cross-Sectional Study of Video Contents, Corey H. Basch, Lindsay A. Mullican, Kwanza D. Boone, Jingjing Yin, Alyssa Berdnik, Marina E. Eremeeva, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
TMJ Online: Investigating Temporomandibular Disorders as “TMJ” on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Nathan Walker, Aurea J. De Leon, and Isaac Fung
Prevalence and Correlates of Anxiety in Rural Populations of Southeast Georgia, R. Bohler, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, B. Philpot, and Kelly Sullivan
On Regression Estimators for Different Stratified Sampling Schemes, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
On Stratified Ranked Set Sampling for Regression Estimators, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
Hospitalization with Infection and Incident Venous Thromboembolism: The ARIC Study, Logan T. Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Mary Cushman, and Aaron R. Folsom
Association Between Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Sleep Quantity in Pregnant Women, Carmen H. Duke, Jazmin A. Williamson, Kassandra R. Snook, Kathryn C. Finch, and Kelly Sullivan
Molecular Markers of Pesticide Resistance and Pathogens in Human Head Lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) From Rural Georgia, USA, Marina E. Eremeeva, Danielle Capps, Emmanuel B. Winful, Shamta Warang, Sarah E. Braswell, Nikolay K. Tokarevich, Denise L. Bonilla, and Lance A. Durden
Zika-Virus-Related Photo Sharing on Pinterest and Instagram, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Lindsay A. Mullican, Kwun Cheung Chan, Nitin Saroha, Carmen H. Duke, Marina E. Eremeeva, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
#GlobalHealth Twitter Conversations on #Malaria, #HIV, #TB, #NCDS, and #NTDS: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jordan H. Grizzle, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, Juliet N. Sekandi, and King-Wa Fu
Twitter and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A Multi-lingual Study, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Jing Zeng, Chung-Hong Chan, Hai Lung, Jingjing Yin, Zhaochong Liu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and King-Wa Fu
On Marginal Distributions Under Progressive Type II Censoring: Similarity/Dissimilarity Properties, Amal Helu and Hani Samawi
Using Ranked Auxiliary Covariate as a More Efficient Sampling Design for ANCOVA Model: Analysis of a Psychological Intervention to Buttress Resilience, Rajai Jabrah, Hani Samawi, Robert Vogel, Haresh Rochani, and Daniel Linder
Dose-Dependent Immunomodulating Effects of Endotoxin in Allergic Airway Inflammation, Sudhir Kumar and Atin Adhikari
Assessment of Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Depression Among Residents of Southeast Georgia, M. Lawrence, O. Oyibo, E. Enabulele, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Healthcare Seeking Behaviour Among Chinese Elderly, Hui Lu, Wei Wang, Ling Xi, Zhenhong Li, Yan Ding, Jian Zhang, and Fei Yan
Association of Obesity’s and Participation in Preventive Health Activities in Southeast Georgia, K. Nance, L. Cooper, D. Oguoma-Richards, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Association of Education and Physical Activity in Rural Georgia, Olanipekun Ianny Ntukidem, P. Durfinger, Zachariah A. Coles, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Number Needed to Treat in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials, Macaulay Okwuokenye, Annie Zhang, Amy Pace, and Karl E. Peace
Subjective Sleep Quality Among Residents of Southeast Georgia, C. O. Ordiah, Oluwaseun Oguntomole, A. Nikaj, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Association of Socioeconomic Factors and Breast, Cervical and Prostate Cancer Screening in Southeast Georgia, S. Oseghale, B. Okoro, B. Buchanan, and Kelly L. Sullivan
Predictors and Respiratory Depositions of Airborne Endotoxin in Homes Using Biomass Fuels and LPG Gas for Cooking, Bijaya K. Padhi, Atin Adhikari, Prakasini Satapathy, Alok K. Patra, Dinesh Chandel, and Pinaki Panigrahi
Body Weight Misconception and Maintenance Among Female African American College Students, Amy Jo Riggs, Bridget F. Melton, Lauren E. Bigham, and Jian Zhang
Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Methods for Missing Data Under Ignorability Assumptions, Haresh Rochani and Daniel F. Linder
Estimates for Cell Counts and Common Odds Ratio in Three-Way Contingency Tables by Homogeneous Log-Linear Models with Missing Data, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Daniel Linder
Georgia’s Collaborative Approach to Expanding Mosquito Surveillance in Response to Zika Virus: A Case Study, R. Christopher Rustin, Deonte Martin, Varadan Sevilimedu, Sarbesh Pandeya, Haresh Rochani, and Rosmarie Kelly
Improving the Efficiency of the Monte-Carlo Methods Using Ranked Simulated Approach, Hani M. Samawi
On Kernel Density Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling With Optimal Allocation, Hani M. Samawi, Arpita Chatterjee, Jingjing Yin, and Haresh Rochani
More Efficient Logistic Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, and Arpita Chatterjee
