Provider profiling is used to gauge the level of care that is being offered across providers. The extensive repercussions of provider profiling on the health …
This thesis work is motivated by the specific challenges in analyzing data from clinical trials in behavioral medicine. Specifically, smoking cessation and physical activity trials. …
Abstract of Analysis of temporal trends in opioid prescribing: Assessing the Effectiveness of an opioid prescribing policy using segmented regression, difference in difference versus propensity …
This dissertation addresses causal inference problems when information is available from diverse sources of data. In Chapter 1 we propose methods for estimating subgroup effects …
Causal mediation analysis is widely applied in the social, economic and biological sciences to assess the causal mechanism between three variables: a treatment, an intermediate …
In this dissertation I examine the effects that a poverty-alleviating cash transfer administered in Pakistan for the past ten years, the Benazir Income Support Program …
This dissertation contains four contributions to nonparametric econometrics in three chapters. The first and main chapter introduces two results for instrumental variable models with a …
Cluster randomization trials (CRTs) have been increasingly used to evaluate public health and public policy interventions in which individual units are clustered by social organizations …
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 …
Smartphone and tablet users are sensitive to the battery drain exerted by mobile applications. In this dissertation, we focus on extending the battery lifetime of …
Across studies that use household-based survey samples, clinical diagnostic interviews, and medical records, estimates of the life-time prevalence of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders in …
Estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) in the target population is often a main interest of epidemiologic studies. I consider three different ways to estimate …
