Biostatistics Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Biostatistics department.

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Description:: Background: Microsimulation models (MSMs), belonging to a class of statistical models that perform simulations at the level of individual units, often persons, have been used …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Shewmaker, Peter (creator); Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula (Advisor); Jutkowitz, Eric (Reader); Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Bayesian; Alzheimer's disease; Statistical matching; Calibration--Statistical methods; Approximate Bayesian computation
Collection:: Public Health; Biostatistics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Background. Rituximab-based immunochemotherapy for Waldenström macroglobulinemia / lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (WM/LPL) showed high response rates in single-arm trials, but comparative data are lacking. We compared overall …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Chen, Chang (creator); Gutman, Roee (Advisor); Olszewski, Adam (Reader); Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: propensity score; Bayesian; survival analysis
Collection:: Public Health; Biostatistics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Probabilistic record linkage is a process to identify records in two separate datasets that represent the same entity in the absence of unique identifiers. Bayesian …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: DeVone, Frank (creator); Gutman, Roee (Advisor); Thomas, Kali (Reader); Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Bayesian; Statistics; Record Linkage; prior information
Collection:: Public Health; Biostatistics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The objective of this dissertation is to develop methods for statistical record linkage that are more robust when identifying information is limited or recorded with …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Shan, Mingyang (creator); Gutman, Roee (Advisor); Thomas, Kali (Reader); Gatsonis, Constantine (Reader); Gozalo, Pedro (Reader); Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: causal inference; Bayesian; missing data; Record Linkage
Collection:: Public Health; Biostatistics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Incorporating historical data can substantially improve statistical efficiency, but standard power prior methods typically assume that all covariates are fully observed across data sources. In …
Year:: 2026
Contributor:: Zhao, Zinan (creator); Gutman, Roee (Advisor); Oganisian, Arman (Reader); Brown University. Department of Biostatistics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Bayesian; Power Prior
Collection:: Public Health; Biostatistics; Theses and Dissertations

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