COBRA Preprint Series

The COBRA Preprint Series contains manuscripts by top researchers, many of which will eventually appear in leading journals. For a look ahead to tomorrow's cutting edge research, browse the papers below.

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Papers from 2008
Properties of Monotonic Effects on Directed Acyclic Graphs (April 15, 2008) Tyler J. VanderWeele and James M. Robins
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Papers from 2007
Estimation of Dose-Response Functions for Longitudinal Data (November 13, 2007) Erica E M Moodie and David A. Stephens
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Bootstrap Confidence Regions for Optimal Operating Conditions in Response Surface Methodology (November 12, 2007) Roger D. Gibb, I-Li Lu, and Walter H. Carter Jr
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Estimating the Prevalence of Disease Using Relatives of Case and Control Probands (August 6, 2007) Kristin N. Javaras, Nan M. Laird, James I. Hudson, and Brian D. Ripley
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An Example of How to Write the Statistical Section of a Bioequivalence Study Protocol for FDA Review (July 25, 2007) William F. McCarthy
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Adjustment to the McNemar’s Test for the Analysis of Clustered Matched-Pair Data (July 17, 2007) William F. McCarthy
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Assessment of Sample Size and Power for the Analysis of Clustered Matched-Pair Data (July 17, 2007) William F. McCarthy
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Lachenbruch’s Method for Determining the Sample Size Required for Testing Interactions: How It Compares to nQuery Advisor and O’Brien’s SAS UnifyPow. (July 16, 2007) William F. McCarthy
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The Existence of Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Binary Response Logistic Regression Model (July 16, 2007) William F. McCarthy
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The Assessment of the Degree of Concordance Between the Observed Values and the Predicted Values of a Mixed-Effect Model Using “Method of Comparison” Techniques (July 12, 2007) William F. McCarthy and Nan Guo
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The Analysis of Pixel Intensity (Myocardial Signal Density) Data: The Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion by Imaging Methods. (May 21, 2007) William F. McCarthy and Douglas R. Thompson
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Coronary Evaluation Using Multi-detector Spiral Computed Tomography Angiography: Statistical Design and Analysis (May 21, 2007) William F. McCarthy, Douglas R. Thompson, and Bruce A. Barton
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Review of the Maximum Likelihood Functions for Right Censored Data. A New Elementary Derivation. (May 3, 2007) Stefano Patti, Elia Biganzoli, and Patrizia Boracchi
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A Flexible Semi-Parametric Approach to Estimating a Dose-Response Relationship: the Treatment of Childhood Amblyopia. (March 29, 2007) David A. Stephens and Erica E M Moodie
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False Discovery Rate Analysis of Brain Diffusion Direction Maps (March 28, 2007) Armin Schwartzman, Robert F. Dougherty, and Jonathan E. Taylor
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A Bayesian hierarchical model for spot fluorescence in microarrays (March 28, 2007) Federico Mattia Stefanini
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Bias Correction in Non-Differentiable Estimating Equations for Optimal Dynamic Regimes (March 1, 2007) Erica E M Moodie and Thomas S. Richardson
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Improving GSEA for Analysis of Biologic Pathways for Differential Gene Expression across a Binary Phenotype (January 7, 2007) Irina Dinu, John D. Potter, Thomas Mueller, Qi Liu, Adeniyi J. Adewale, Gian S. Jhangri, Gunilla Einecke, Konrad S. Famulski, Philip Halloran, and Yutaka Yasui
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Papers from 2006
Properties of Monotonic Effects (November 8, 2006) Tyler J. VanderWeele and James M. Robins
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Exploration of distributional models for a novel intensity-dependent normalization (October 12, 2006) Nicola Lama, Patrizia Boracchi, and Elia Mario Biganzoli
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Crude Cumulative Incidence in the form of a Horvitz-Thompson like and Kaplan-Meier like Estimator (October 2, 2006) Laura Antolini, Elia Mario Biganzoli, and Patrizia Boracchi
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A Theory of Sufficient Cause Interactions (September 27, 2006) Tyler J. VanderWeele and James M. Robins
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Biologic Interaction and Their Identification (September 27, 2006) Tyler J. VanderWeele and James Robins
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A unifying approach for haplotype analysis of quantitative traits in family-based association studies: Testing and estimating gene-environment interactions with complex exposure variables (September 6, 2006) Stijn Vansteelandt and Christoph Lange
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A Flexible Statistical Method for Detecting Genomic Copy-Number Changes Using Hidden Markov Models with Reversible Jump MCMC (August 24, 2006) Oscar M. Rueda and Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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Survival Analysis of Longitudinal Microarrays (July 24, 2006) Natasa Rajicic, Dianne M. Finkelstein, and David A. Schoenfeld
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Causal Comparisons in Randomized Trials of Two Active Treatments: The Effect of Supervised Exercise to Promote Smoking Cessation (July 3, 2006) Jason Roy and Joseph W. Hogan
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New Spiked-In Probe Sets for the Affymetrix HGU-133A Latin Square Experiment (June 10, 2006) Monnie McGee and Zhongxue Chen
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Simple Records Matching Method for diagnostic and clinical datasets of patient’s records (April 11, 2006) Salvo Reina, Vito M. Reina, and Eugenio A. Debbia
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Papers from 2005
Sample size and power calculations for body weight in beef cattle (August 29, 2005) Claudia Cristina Paro Paz, Alfredo Ribeiro de Freitas, Irineu Umberto Packer, Daniela Tambasco-Talhari, Luciana Correa de Almeida Regitano, and Mauricio Mello Alencar
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