Category: Tech Talk Series

Identifying Optimal Cut-Points for Continuous Predictors to Discriminate Disease Outcomes

Tech Talk All meetings are at Christiana Hospital, conference room 1E80 from Noon – 1:00 p.m. If you cannot attend, meetings are also broadcast via the bluejeans website at the appointed meeting time. This event is brown bag – please bring your lunch. This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For […]

Constrained Randomization: Applications to Group Randomized Trials

This seminar will include a discussion about different types of randomization strategies, focusing on applications to group randomized trials. Novel randomization strategies will be outlined, along with pros and cons of each. The use of one of these new strategies in the context of an intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening will be highlighted. Dr. […]

Grouping Growth Trajectories Leading to Early Childhood Obesity: An Application of Mixed Effects Model

This seminar will present an innovative use of the mixed effects model in grouping children with distinct trajectories leading to early childhood obesity. The heterogeneity in the subject-specific effects of the mixed effects model was used to classify 488 children with differential pathways to early childhood obesity. Further investigation was performed to explore the association […]

Time Series Analysis of 30-day Readmission Rates: Program Evaluation and Causality

This seminar will present a time series analysis of 30-day readmission rates using data from the BRIDGES project. The presentation will include a description of times series analysis and how it differs from other analyses of longitudinal data, the use of interrupted times series for program evaluation, how different times series can be cross-correlated to […]