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Submissions from 2013
Childhood Asthma in Georgia: Comparison against the Nation, Hani Samawi, James H. Stephens, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Ren Chunfeng
More Efficient Approximation of Multiple Integration Using Steady State Ranked Simulated Sampling, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, USA, Jia Tian, Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders, and Dongmei Chen
Analysis of Subgroup Data of Clinical Trials, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
A Merged Model of Quality Improvement and Evaluation: Maximizing Return on Investment, Lynn D. Woodhouse, Russ Toal, Trang Nguyen, DeAnna Keene, Laura H. Gunn, Andrea Kellum, Gary Nelson, Simone M. Charles, Stuart H. Tedders, Natalie Williams, and William C. Livingood
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Weighted Least-Squares Method for Right-Censored Data in Accelerated Failure Time Model, Lili Yu, Liang Liu, and Dinggeng Chen
Body Mass Index and Suicidal Behaviors: A Critical Review of Epidemiological Evidence, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, Yanfeng Li, and Robert E. McKeown
Revealing the Ubiquitous Effects of Quantum Entanglement-Toward a Notion of God Logic, Wen-Ran Zhang and Karl E. Peace
Submissions from 2012
Rickettsia felis in Cat Fleas, Ctenocephalides felis Parasitizing Opossums, San Bernardino County, California, Kyle F. Abramowicz, J. W. Wekesa, C. N. Nwadike, Maria L. Zambrano, Sandor E. Karpathy, D. Cecil, J. Burns, R. Hu, and Marina E. Eremeeva
Bias and its Remedy in Interval Censored Time-to-Event Applications, Ding-Geng Chen, Lili Yu, Karl E. Peace, and Jianguo Sun
Health Insurance Coverage Diabetic Adults from Three Major Ethnic Groups in the United States, Linda I. Ekperi, Shamola Greene, Ahmed Dehal, and Jian Zhang
Rickettsial (Spotted & typhus fevers) & related infections (Anaplasmosis & ehrlichiosis), Marina Eremeeva
Molecular Epidemiology of Rickettsial Diseases in North America, Marina E. Eremeeva
Rickettsial (Spotted And Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Tick-borne Agents: Can You Predict Whether a New Rickettsia Is a Human Pathogen?, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Two Pathogens and One Disease: Detection and Identification of Flea-Borne Rickettsiae in Areas Endemic for Murine Typhus in California, Marina Eremeeva, Sandor E. Karpathy, Laura Krueger, Erica K. Hayes, Ashley M. Williams, Yamitzel Zaldivar, Stephen Bennett, Robert Cummings, Art Tilzer, Robert K. Velten, Nelson Kerr, Gregory A. Dasch, and Renjie Hu
The Effect of Music Listening Interventions on the Volume, Fat Content and Caloric Content of Breast Milk Produced by Mothers of Premature and Critically Ill Infants, Douglas R. Keith, Barbara S. Weaver, and Robert L. Vogel
Bartonella and Bartonella Infections in China: From the Lab to the Clinic, Qiyong Liu, Marina Eremeeva, and Dongmei Li
Association Between Increased BMI and Severe School Absenteeism Among US Children and Adolescents: Findings from a National Survey, 2005–2008, Yanfeng Li, Swati Raychowdhury, Stuart H. Tedders, Rodney S. Lyn, Ana López-De Fede, and Jian Zhang
One Country, Two Worlds – Health Disparity in China, Qingue Meng, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, Edward J. Hoekstra, and Jiatong Zhuo
Mercury and Environmental Justice Issues, J. Nriagu, R. Charles, and Simone M. Charles
A Comparison of Two Methods for Generating Data That Follow The Lindley Distribution, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
An Assessment of America’s Tobacco-Free Colleges and Universities, Sara S. Plaspohl, Anthony V. Parrillo, Robert L. Vogel, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew Epstein
Calcium Montmorillonite Clay Reduces Urinary Biomarkers of Fumonisin B₁ Exposure in Rats and Humans, Abraham Robinson, Natalie M. Johnson, A. Strey, John F. Taylor, Alicia Marroquin-Cardona, N. J. Mitchell, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Nii-Ayi Ankrah, Jonathan H. Williams, Jia-Sheng Wang, Pauline E. Jolly, R. J. Nachman, and Timothy D. Phillips
Steady State Gibbs Sampler, Hani Samawi, Martin Dunbar, and Din Chen
General Pivotal Goodness of Fit Test Based on Kernel Density Estimation, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Disparities of Childhood Limited Abilities and Special Health Care Needs in Georgia Comparing with Other States, James H. Stephens, Hani Samawi, Gerald R. Ledlow, and Rohit Tyagi
Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides felis from Guatemala and Costa Rica, Adriana Troyo, Danilo Alvarez, Lizeth Taylor, Gabriela Abdalla, Olger Calderon-Arguedas, Maria L. Zambrano, Gregory A. Dasch, Kim A. Lindblade, Laya Hun, Marina Eremeeva, and Alejandra Estevez
Spatial Variations in the Associations of Birth Weight with Socioeoncomic, Environmental, and Behavioral Factors in Georgia, U.S.A., Wei Tu, Jun Tu, and Stuart H. Tedders
Report from the office of International Chinese Statistical Association, Lili Yu
Spline Nonparametric Quasi-Likelihood Regression Within the Frame of the Accelerated Failure Time Model, Lili Yu and Karl E. Peace
Extended Quasi-Likelihood in the Generalized Linear Model for Right-Censored Data, Lili Yu, Ruifeng Yu, Liang Liu, and Dinggeng Chen
The Incoherence of China’s National Health Development Strategies, Jian Zhang, Fei Yan, and Shenglan Tang
Submissions from 2011
Fish Consumption and Severe Depressed Mood, Findings from the First National Nutrition Follow-Up Study, Qi Dai, Yanfeng Li, Linda I. Ekperi, Ahmed Dehal, and Jian Zhang
Anaplasma Phagocytophilum, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Anaplasmataceae as Human Pathogens : Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Epidemic Typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Rickettsia rickettsii, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii), Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
The Genus Rickettsia: Microbiology, Diversity and Taxonomy, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Body Mass Index and Death Rate of Colorectal Cancer among a National Cohort of U.S. Adults, Tiatiannia Garrett, Ahmed Dehal, Stuart H. Tedders, Cassandra Arroyo, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, and Jian Zhang
On Inference of Overlapping Coefficients in Two Lomax Populations Using Different Sampling Methods, Amal Helu and Hani M. Samawi
Nonparametric Overlap Coefficient Estimate Using Ranked Set Sampling, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, and Robert L. Vogel
Estimating Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Trees, Liang Liu and Lili Yu
A Bayesian Model for Gene Family Evolution, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Venugopal Kalavacharla, and Zhanji Liu
Rickettsia and Coxiella, Robert F. Massung, Marina E. Eremeeva, and Gregory A. Dasch
Early Cardiac Pacemaker Placement for Life-Threatening Bradycardia in Traumatic Spinal-Cord Injury, Jacob R. Moerman, Benjamin D. Christie, Leon N. Sykes, Robert L. Vogel, Tracy L. Nolan, and Ashley W. Dennis
Case Study in Optimal Dosing in Duodenal Ulcer, Karl E. Peace
Clinically Optimal Dosing in the Treatment of Duodenal Ulcers: A Case Study of a Phase III SNDA Clinical Program, Karl E. Peace
Varied Set Size Ranked Set Sampling with Application to Mean and Ratio Estimation, Hani Samawi
Distribution-Free Runs Test for Conditional Symmetry, Hani M. Samawi and Amal Helu
Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on Overlapping Coefficient, Hani M. Samawi, Amal Helu, and Robert L. Vogel
Tests of Homogeneity for Partially Matched-Pairs Data, Hani Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Low Serum Cholesterol is Associated with Depression among Household US Population, T. Stuart, F. Kunuwo, L. Parker, W. Cholrelia, and Jian Zhang
Low Cholesterol is Associated with Depression among US Household Population, Stuart H. Tedders, Kunuwo D. Fokong, Lindsey E. McKenzie, Cholrelia Wesley, Lili Yu, and Jian Zhang
Genetic Matching: A Better Algorithm for Adjusting Covariate Imbalance for Statistical Data Analysis and Modeling, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Joint Modeling of the Treatment Effect in Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoint and Safety Covariates, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Dietary Protein and Protein-Rich Food in Relation to Severely Depressed Mood: A 10 Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Allen R. Wolfe, Cassandra Arroyo, Stuart H. Tedders, Yanfeng Li, Qi Dai, and Jian Zhang
Nonparametric Quasi-Likelihood for Right Censored Data, Lili Yu
Epidemiological Link Between Low Cholesterol and Suicidality: A Puzzle Never Finished, Jian Zhang
MentalSquares − A Generic Bipolar Support Vector Machine for Mental Disorder Classification, Diagnostic Analysis, and Neurobiological Data Mining, Wen-Rang Zhang, Anand K. Pandurangi, Karl E. Peace, and Yan-Qing Zhang
Impact of Mass Immunization Campaign in Measles-Endemic Areas: A Case-Study from Guangxi, China, Jiatong Zhuo, Edward J. Hoekstra, Wenkui Geng, Zhigang Zheng, Xiaofeng Liang, and Jian Zhang
Innovatively Using Surveillance Data to Harness Political Will to Accelerate Measles Elimination: Experience from Guangxi, China, Jiatong Zhuo, Edward Hoekstra, Ge Zhong, Wei Lui, Zhigang Zheng, and Jian Zhang
Submissions from 2010
Estimating Odds Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling, Mohammad F. Al-Saleh and Hani Samawi
Brominated Flame Retardants in Offices in Michigan, USA, Stuart A. Batterman, Sergei Chernyak, Chunrong Jia, and Simone M. Charles
Interval-Censoring in Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Clinical Trials, Ding-Geng Chen, Karl E. Peace, Lili Yu, Y. L. Lio, and Yibin Wang
Sources and Migration of VOCs in Mixed- Use Buildings, Chunrong Jia, Christopher Godwin, Stuart A. Batterman, Simone M. Charles, and J. Y. Chin
An R Package for Species Tree Analysis, Liang Liu and Lili Yu
A Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood Approach for Estimating Species Trees under the Coalescent Model, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, and Scott V. Edwards
Legume Consumption and Severe Depressed Mood, the Modifying Roles of Gender and Menopausal Status, Yanfeng Li, Qi Dai, Stuart H. Tedders, Cassandra Arroyo, and Jian Zhang
Personal Responsibility Among Adolescents, Anne McGuire and Jian Zhang
Foreword by Karl E. Peace, Karl E. Peace
Improve Membership in the APHA Statistics Section, Karl E. Peace
Letter to the Editor, Re: Make a Plan and Follow it, Karl E. Peace
Stratified Ranked Set Sample, Hani M. Samawi
An Optimal Sing Test for One-sample Bivariate Location Model Using an Alternative Bivariate Ranked Set Sample, Hani M. Samawi, Mohammed Al-Haj Ebrahem, and Noha Al-Zubaidin
On the Optimality of Bivariate Ranked Set Sample Design for Matched Pairs Sign Test, Hani M. Samawi and Mavis Pararai
On Distribution-Free Runs Test for Symmetry Using Extreme Ranked Set Sampling with an Application Involving Base Deficit Score, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Christopher K. Senkowski
Characteristics of Problem Drinking in an Urban South American Indigenous Population, Paul J. Seale, Sylva Shellenberger, Neila Sanchez, Robert L. Vogel, Elibeth Villalobos, Fred S. Girton, Dana M. Seale, and Ike S. Okosun
HIV and Hepatocellular and Esophageal Carcinomas Related to Consumption of Mycotoxin-Prone Foods in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jonathan H. Williams, Jessica A. Grubbs, Jerry W. Davis, Jia-Sheng Wang, Pauline E. Jolly, Nii-Ayi Ankrah, William O. Ellis, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Natalie M. Johnson, Abraham G. Robinson, and Timothy D. Phillips
On the Eigenstructures of Functional K-Potent Matrices and Their Integral Forms, Yan Wu and Daniel F. Linder
Submissions from 2009
Concentrations and Emissions of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers from U.S. Houses and Garages, Stuart A. Batterman, Sergei Chernyak, Chunrong Jia, Christopher Godwin, and Simone M. Charles
Coalescent methods for estimating multilocus phylogenetic trees, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Laura S. Kubatko, Dennis K. Pearl, and Scott V. Edwards
Estimating Species Phylogenies Using Coalescence Times among Sequences, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Dennis Pearl, and Scott V. Edwards
Maximum tree: a consistent estimator of the species tree, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, and Dennis K. Pearl
Comparative Health Systems: Jordan, H. Madanat and Hani M. Samawi
Monitoring Adverse Experiences in Clinical Drug Development, Karl E. Peace
Overview of Time-to-Event Endpoint Methodology, Karl E. Peace
Time-to-Event Endpoint Methods in Antibiotic Trials, Karl E. Peace
Bivariate or Composite Plots of Endpoints, Karl E. Peace and Kao-Tai Tsai
Overview of Parametric Based Inferential Methods for Time-to-Event Endpoints, Karl E. Peace and Kao-Tai Tsai
No Association between Cognitive Achievements, Academic Performance and Serum Cholesterol Concentrations among School-Aged Children, Lewis A. Perry, Cagney B. Stigger, Barbara E. Ainsworth, and Jian Zhang
HIV Rates in the State of Georgia: A Growing Threat among Predominately African American Populations, Swati Raychowdhury and Stuart H. Tedders
The Matched Pairs Sign Test Using Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling Based on Different Ranking Schemes, Hani Samawi and Mohammad F. Al-Saleh
Multivariate Dose Response Test, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
An Easy and Convenient Method for Constructing Contrasts, Robert L. Vogel
Intake of Linoleic and Oleic Fatty Acids in Relation to Severe Depressed Mood: 10 Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Allen R. Wolfe, Ekeoma M. Ogbonna, Sokny Lim, Yanfeng Li, and Jian Zhang
Complete Identification of Permissible Sampling Rates for First-Order Sampling of Multi-Band Bandpass Signals, Yan Wu and Daniel F. Linder
