This collection contains an archive for the presentations produced by faculty members in the College of Public Health- Department of Biostatistics at Georgia Southern University.
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Submissions from 2018
Twitter Sentiment Toward Autism During Autism Awareness Month, Jeffrey P. Kaleta, Jingjing Yin, and Sushmita Khan
The Efficiency of Ranking Count Data with Excess Zeros, Deborah A. Kanda and Jingjing Yin
Applying Survival Analysis and Count Models to Twitter Data, Congjian Liu, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Lindsay A. Mullican
Application of Regression Analysis on Text-Mining Data Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Twitter: A Pilot Study, Chen Mo, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
On Quantiles Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling with Optimal Allocation, Hani M. Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Arpita Chatterjee, and Haresh Rochani
New Applications of Kullback-Leibler Information as a Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy and Its Relation to Common ROC Indices, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert L. Vogel
Submissions from 2017
World Pneumonia Day 2011-2016: Twitter Contents and Retweets, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Nitin Saroha, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
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
Information Available on YouTube Related to Tinnitus, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Betty Kollia, Adeyemi Adedokun, Stephanie Trusty, Felicia Yeboah, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Contents Affect Retweets: A Cross-Sectional Study of Highly Retweeted Pro-Vaccine Tweets, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Jingjing Yin, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Burning of Scrap Tires, Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuel Sources for Singeing Meat in Ghana: Chemical Emissions via Smoke and Health Concerns, Alicia Brown, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Haresh Rochani, and Rachel Barham
#GlobalHealth on Twitter: Analysis of Tweets on #Malaria, #HIV, #TB, #NCDS, and #NTDS, 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
Identifying Factors Associated With Autism Spectrum Disorder Based on a Comprehensive National Survey, Chen Mo, Kotwoallama Zerbo, Jingjing Yin, and Hani Samawi
Health Care Provider Practices around Emergency Contraception: An Analysis of a Nationwide Provider Survey, H. Pamela Pagano, James H. Stephens, Haresh Rochani, Julie Reagan, Lauren Zapata, Maura Whiteman, and Kate Curtis
Hot Deck Imputation for Mixed Typed Datasets using Model Based Clustering, Sarbesh Raj Pandeya and Haresh Rochani
Efficient Sampling Design for Making Inference on Mean Estimation in Longitudinal Data, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani Samawi, and Viral Panchal
Kernel Density Estimation Based on Progressive Type-II Censoring, Hani Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert L. Vogel
A Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani M. Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, and Jingjing Yin
Twitter Reactions to Global Health News Related to Five Different Countries: A Case Study of #Polio, Braydon J. Schaible, Kassandra R. Snook, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Isaac Fung
Diagnostic Validity of Static and Dynamic Postural Assessments Within 24-48 Hours Post-Concussion, Brian Szekely, Nicholas G. Murray, Megan E. Mormile, Katelyn E. Grimes, Jingjing Yin, and Doug W. Powell
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under ROC Surfaces and Generalized Youden Indices, Jingjing Yin
The Spike-and-Slab Lasso Cox Model for Survival Prediction and Associated Genes Detection, Xinyan Zhang, Zaixiang Tang, Yueping Shen, and Nengjun Yi
Submissions from 2016
Chemical Emissions via Smoke Produced Through Burning of Scrap Tires, Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuel Sources for Singeing Meat in Ghana, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, Alicia Brown, Rachel Barham, and Haresh Rochani
More Efficient Treatment Comparison in Cross-Over Design by Allocating Subject Based on Ranked Auxiliary Variables, Yisong Huang and Hani M. Samawi
How Did Ebola Information Spread on Twitter?, Hai Liang, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Chung-Hong Chan, L. Pechta, B. Smith, Rolando J. Marquez, Martin Meltzer, K. Lubell, and King-Wa Fu
Multivariate Mean Estimation Under Efficient Sampling Designs, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, and Viral Panchal
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under ROC Surfaces and Generalized Youden Indices, Christos T. Nakas, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Benjamin Reiser
The Bayesian Multivariate Regression for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data with Heavy-Tailed Errors, Viral Panchal, Daniel Linder, and Hani M. Samawi
Whys and Hows of Adverse Event Monitoring, Karl E. Peace
MLEs for Diagnostic Measures of Accuracy by Log-Linear Models for Correction of Workup Bias, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Jingjing Yin
Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani M. Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Haresh Rochani, and Daniel F. Linder
Notes on Kernel Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel Linder, and Robert L. Vogel
More Efficient Survival Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Auxiliary Covariate Sampling Method, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Comparing Two Correlated Diagnostic Tests Based on Joint Testing of the AUC and the Youden Index, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Hani Samawi
Comparing Paired Diagnostic Tests Based on Joint Testing of the AUC and the Youden Index, Jingjing Yin, Lili Tian, and Hani M. Samawi
Submissions from 2015
Does Ischemic Preconditioning Occur with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)? Comparing the Severity of Myocardial Necrosis Between the Patients with OSA and Without OSA After an Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Ravi Desai, Emily Broach, Haresh Rochani, Amanulla Khaji, Eliot Friedman, and Rizwan Sardar
Methods Improving Estimate of Diagnostic Odds Ratio, Yisong Huang, Jingjing Yin, and Hani M. Samawi
Efficacy of Delayed-Release Dimethyl Fumarate vs Glatiramer Acetate on a Novel Composite Outcome Measure of Inflammatory Disease Activity: Post-Hoc Analysis of the CONFIRM Study, M. Kremenchutzky, R. J. Fox, J. T. Phillips, Mariko Kita, Karl E. Peace, J. B. Lewin, A. Zhang, M Okwuokenye, M Edwards, and J Marantz
Discrete Time-to-Event and Score-Based Methods with Application to Composite Endpoint for Assessing Evidence of Disease Activity-Free, Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace
Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: The Impact of Early Clot Reduction with Ultrasound-Accelerated Thrombolysis on Pulmonary Hypertension, Ryan D. Reber, Ravi Desai, Matthew Hegewald, Daniel Sheibley, Joseph Bonn, Peter A. Villas, Haresh Rochani, and Lee W. Greenspon
Correction of Verification Bias by Application of Homogeneous Log-linear Models for a Single Scale Binary Diagnostic Test, Haresh Rochani Dr., Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Jingjing Yin
Explicit Estimates for Cell Counts and Modeling the Missing Data Indicators in Three-Way Contingency Table by Log-Linear Models, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Daniel Linder
Maximum Likelihood Estimates by Homogenous Log-Linear Models for Three-Way Contingency Tables with Missing Data with Application to Neuropathology Data, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Daniel Linder
Explicit Estimates for Cell Counts and Modeling the Missing Data Indicators in a Three-Way Contingency Table by Log-Linear Models, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Daniel F. Linder
Correction of Verification Bias by Application of Homogeneous Log-Linear Models for a Single Binary-Scale Diagnostic Test, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Jingjing Yin
Correction of Verification Bias by Application of Homogeneous Log-Linear Models for a Single Binary-Scale Diagnostic Tests, Haresh Rochani, Robert L. Vogel, Hani M. Samawi, and Jingjing Yin
Improving Inference of Some Clinical Studies Using Ranked Auxiliary Covariates, Hani M. Samawi, Rajai Jabrah, Robert L. Vogel, and Daniel F. Linder
Improving Some Clinical Trials Interference by Using Ranked Auxiliary Covariate, Hani M. Samawi, Rajai Jabrah, Robert L. Vogel, and Daniel F. Linder
More Efficient Logistic Analysis Using Moving Extreme Ranked Set Sampling: Application to Children Obesity, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel Linder, Jingjing Yin, Arpita Chatterjee, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Improved Estimation of Youden Index and Associated Optimal Cut-off Point Under Different Sampling Schemes, Jingjing Yin, Hani Samawi, and Daniel F. Linder
Improved Estimation of Area Under the ROC Curve Using Ranked Set Sampling, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Yi Hao
Improved Estimation of Diagnostic Cut-Off Point Associated with Youden Index Using Ranked Set Sampling, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, Chen Mo, and Daniel F. Linder
Exact Confidence Band for Binormal ROC Curve, Jingjing Yin and Lili Tian
On Stratified Bivariate Ranked Set Sampling with Optimal Allocation for Naive and Ratio Estimators, Lili Yu, Hani M. Samawi, Daniel F. Linder, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang, and Robert L. Vogel
Submissions from 2014
Regression Estimators Using Stratified Ranked Set Sampling, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, and Jingxian Cai
Regression Estimators Using Stratified Ranked Set Sampling, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
Regression Estimators Using Stratified Ranked Set Sampling an Application to Bilirubin Level in Jaundice Babies Who Stay in Neonatal Intensive Care, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
Regression Estimators Using Stratified Ranked Set Sampling an Application to Bilirubin Level in Jaundice Babies Who Stay in Neonatal Intensive Care, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
Rates of Chlamydia, Gonorhea and Genital Herpes before and after Spring Break and Homecoming at an American Southeastern University, Macaulay Okwuokenye, Karl E. Peace, E. Deloach, and G. Shah
Application of Latent Class Analysis for Screening Test of Adolescents Suicidal Behavior in United States (1991-2011 YRBSS Survey), Hani M. Samawi and Ryan Christopher Butterfield
Submissions from 2013
Crofab: An Analysis of Its Use in Venomous Snake Bite Management, Tracy L. Nolan, Dudley B. Christie III, Robert L. Vogel, and Dennis W. Ashley
Simple Tests of Diagonal Symmetry for Bivariate Distributions, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
All the Statistics PhD Nurses Need to Know and More, Robert L. Vogel
The Effect of Music-Based Listening Interventions on the Volume. Fat Content, and Caloric Content of Breast milk Produced by Mothers of Premature and Critically Ill Infants, Robert L. Vogel and Barbara S. Weaver
Submissions from 2012
Noninvasive Measurements of Cardiac Hemodynamic and Tissue Perfusion Indices in Normal Infants, Eric L. Long, Barbara Weaver, Joshua Glenn, Robert L. Vogel, Andrew Bozeman, Brandon Lerner, Renee Kleris, Joseph M. Van De Water, Don K. Nakayama, and Misael Rodriguez
Daily Walking and Life Expectancy of Elderly People in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study, Hani M. Samawi
General Pivotal Goodness of Fit Test Based on Kernel Density Estimation, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Comparison of In Vivo Optical Spectroscopy and Electrical Cardiometry in Preterm Infants, Barbara Weaver, J. Glenn, Robert L. Vogel, E. L. Long, D. K. Nakayama, and M. Rodriguez
Submissions from 2011
The Effect of a Nurse Driven Music Therapy Intervention on Preterm Mothers' Milk Volume and Fat Content, Douglas Keith, Barbara Weaver, and Robert L. Vogel
Steady State Ranked Gibbs Sampler, Hani M. Samawi, Martin X. Dunbar, and Ding-Geng Chen
An Optimal Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on the Overlapping Coefficient Using an Extreme Ranked Set Sample: Application to Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Output by Electrical Velocimetry in Neonates, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
A More Efficient Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on the Overlapping Coefficient Using Extreme Ranked Set Sample, Robert L. Vogel and Hani M. Samawi
Effects of Music Therapy-Based Listening Interventions on the Quantity and Quality of Breast Milk Produced by Mothers Using a Breast Pump, Robert L. Vogel, Barbara Weaver, and Douglas Keith
Effect of a Maternal Simulated Intervention on Physiologic and Developmental Behaviors of 28-34 Week Gestation Infants in a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Robert L. Vogel, Barbara Weaver, and Kendra Russell
Submissions from 2010
Using a Checklist to Improve Family Communications in Trauma Care, Bradley M. Dennis, Leon N. Sykes, Robert L. Vogel, Cecil E. Brown, Tracy L. Nolan, Kyle Flowers, Don K. Nakayama, and Dennis W. Ashley
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection with a Vancomycin MIC>1MCG/ML, M. A. Meyer, J. Lin, M. Meloy, Kathryn Kennedy, and Robert L. Vogel
Childhood Asthma in Georgia: Comparison with Other States Together, Hani M. Samawi, James H. Stephens, and Gerald R. Ledlow
A Nonparametric Test of Symmetry Based on the Overlapping Coefficient, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Amal Helu
On Tests of Homogeneity for Partially Matched-Pair Data, Hani M. Samawi, Robert L. Vogel, and Amal Helu
Factors Leading to an Increased Frequency of ER Visits Among Uninsured Patients With an Established Medical Home, Varadan Sevilimedu, Richard Dent, Robert L. Vogel, and Miriam Rittenmeyer
Assessing Risk in Health and Health Disparities, Robert L. Vogel
Essential Statistics for Surgeons, Robert L. Vogel
Helpful Suggestions When Reading the Medical Literature, Robert L. Vogel
Submissions from 2009
Electrical Cardiometry in the NICU, is it Feasible?, M. Rodriguez, B. Weaver, A. Bozeman, B. Ngoc, Robert L. Vogel, and Joseph M. Van De Water
On Nonparametric Tests for Partially Correlated Data With Application to Public Health Issues, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Robert L. Vogel, and Laura H. Gunn
Analysis of Subgroup Data in Clinical Trials, Kao-Tai Tsai and Karl E. Peace
Designing Clinical Research, Robert L. Vogel
Electrical Cardiometry in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Robert L. Vogel
Public Health Issues in Georgia, Robert L. Vogel
Public Health Issues in Georgia, Robert L. Vogel
Testing a Test and Studying a Study, Robert L. Vogel
The Feasibility of Electrical Cardiometry in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Robert L. Vogel
Electrical Cardiometry in the NICU, is it Feasible?, B. Weaver, M. Rodriguez, A. Bozeman, B. Ho, Robert L. Vogel, and Joseph M. Van De Water
Cardiac Output in Neonates, Noninvasively, B. Weaver, M. Rodriguez, Robert L. Vogel, A. Bozeman, and Joseph M. Van De Water
Submissions from 2008
On Distribution Free Runs Test for Symmetry Using Median Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
On Distribution-Free Runs Test for Symmetry Using Median Ranked Set Sampling, Hani M. Samawi and Robert L. Vogel
Does Hemodynamic Variability Predict Outcome in Shock?, Thomas Street, Matthew Barton, Robert L. Vogel, Jonathan A. Whitten, Christopher L. Stout, and Dennis Ashley
A Brief History of Biostatistics, Robert L. Vogel
Emotion Scores May Serve as Predictors for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory Domains and Facets, D. G. Webster, James L. Pugh, Robert L. Vogel, Paul Stephen Foster, and V. Drago
Submissions from 2007
Four Years of an Aggressive Prophylaxis and Screening Protocol for Venous Thromboembolism in a Large Trauma Population, Raeanna Adams, Gage Oschner, Christopher Senkowski, and Robert L. Vogel
