P A P E R S

List of papers in postscript format.

List of Discussion Papers from the ISDS Series, with links to postscript files.

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Following are direct links to recent papers, and related sites, loosely organized by topic.

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Outline of a book in progress on statistical tools for medical decision making

PAPERS RELATED TO DECISION PROBLEMS IN BREAST CANCER.
  • Decision Models in Screening for Breast Cancer ;
  • "Timing Medical Exams via Intensity Functions";
  • "Modeling risk of breast cancer and decisions about genetic testing" with Don Berry, Ed Iversen, Peter Mueller, Joellen Schildkraut and Eric Winer.
  • "Genetic Susceptibility and Survival: Application to Breast Cancer" with Ed Iversen, Don Berry and Joellen Schildkraut.
  • "Missense Mutations in Disease Genes: A Bayesian Approach to Evaluate Causality" with Gloria Petersen and Duncan Thomas.

  • PAPERS AND LINKS RELATED TO THE BRCA1&2 CARRIER PROBABILITY MODEL BRCAPRO

    PAPERS FROM THE DECISON MODELING GROUP OF THE DUKE STROKE PORT.

  • "Decision Models in Clinical Recommendations Development: The Stroke Prevention Policy Model" with Marek Ancukiewicz and David Matchar;
  • "Assessing Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses: Application to a Complex Decision Model" with Greg Samsa, Marek Ancukiewicz, Joe Lipscomb, Vic Hasselblad and David Matchar;
  • "The Stroke Prevention Policy Model: Linking Evidence and Clinical Decisions" by David B. Matchar, MD; Gregory P. Samsa, PhD; J. Rosser Matthews, PhD; Marek Ancukiewicz, PhD; Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD; Vic Hasselblad, PhD; Phillip A. Wolf, MD; Ralph B. D'Agostino, PhD; and Joseph Lipscomb, PhD;

  • More links to papers about statistical methods for medical decision making from other sites.

    MODEL UNCERTAINTY AND MODEL CRITIQUE

  • "Protein Construct Storage: Bayesian Variable Selection and Prediction With Mixtures" with Merlise Clyde.
  • "Multiple Shrinkage and Subset Selection in Wavelets" with Merlise Clyde and Brani Vidakovic.
  • "Orthogonalizations and Prior Distributions for Orthogonalized Model Mixing" with Merlise Clyde.
  • "Prediction via Orthogonalized Model Mixing" with Merlise Clyde and Heather DeSimone.
  • "Diagnostic Measures for Model Criticism" with Cinzia Carota and Nick Polson.



  • The model-mixing tower of Stradella, Italy, combines a watchtower, a belltower, a covered marketplace and a parish house. Its Kullback-Leibler divergence from a randomly selected building in Lombardy is the smallest I've ever seen.


    To learn more about recent research on model uncertainty, follow this link to recent workshops in this area, or this link to Chris Volinski's Bayesian Model Averaging Home Page

    DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION

  • "Optimal Design via Curve Fitting of Monte Carlo Experiments" with Peter Mueller.
  • "Exploring Expected Utility Surfaces by Markov Chains" with Merlise Clyde and Peter Mueller.
  • "Applications of Lindley Information Measure to the Design of Clinical Experiments" with Don Berry.
  • "Optimal Design for Heart Defibrillators" with Merlise Clyde and Peter Mueller.


  • M O R E

  • "Meta-analysis of Migraine Headache Treatments: Combining information from heterogeneous designs", with Francesca Dominici, Robert Wolpert and Vic Hasselblad;
  • "Retrospective Hierarchical Modeling of Multiple Case-control Studies" with Peter Mueller Joellen Schildkraut and Luca Tardella.
  • "Bayesian Semi-parametric Analysis Of Developmental Toxicology Data" with Francesca Dominici.
  • "Conjugate Analysis of Multivariate Normal Data With Incomplete Observations" with Francesca Dominici and Merlise Clyde.
  • "Combining Information from Related Regressions" with Francesca Dominici, Robert Wolpert and Ken Reckhow. The data used in this article are available.
  • "On Bayes Factors for Nonparametric Alternatives" with Cinzia Carota.