141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

5095.0
Model comparisons and applications in public health

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Oral

Moderator:

Ofer Harel, PhD

10:30am

Computing values for viral load below test detection limit and comparing its effect on measures of central tendency and outcome (medication error)
Nisha Kini, MBBS, MPH, Bruce Barton, PhD, Adam Brady, MD and Mireya Wessolossky, MD

10:50am

A power comparison between hierarchical and marginal longitudinal logistic regression models: Application to marijuana usage
Trent Lalonde, PhD, Kristina Phillips, PhD and Michael Phillips, PhD

11:10am

An empirical assessment on the robustness of propensity score estimation to unobserved covariates
Wei Pan, PhD

11:30am

Nonparametric/functional contributable-risk model with the application to trend decomposition for HIV/AIDS incidence rate in rakai teenagers, Uganda
Xiaoyu Song, Ying Wei, PhD, John S. Santelli, MD, MPH, FSAHM and Zoe Edelstein, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Applied Public Health Statistics
Endorsed by: Epidemiology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Applied Public Health Statistics