Factors associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among US children: results from a national surveyRavi K Lingineni
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
BMC Pediatr 12:50. 2012
..This includes variables that have not been previously studied such as watching TV/playing video games, computer usage, family member's smoking, and participation in sports...
Logistic Bayesian LASSO for identifying association with rare haplotypes and application to age-related macular degenerationSwati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA
Biometrics 68:587-97. 2012
..Our results show that LBL is much more powerful in identifying rare associated haplotypes when the false positive rates for both approaches are kept the same...
- Assessing the added value of breast tumor markers in genetic risk prediction model BRCAPRO
Swati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107 2699, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 133:347-55. 2012
..These results support the use of the enhanced version of BRCAPRO in clinical settings...
- Accounting for disease model uncertainty in mapping heterogeneous traits--a Bayesian model averaging approach
Swati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Hum Hered 69:242-53. 2010
..As with any parametric approach, its application requires specification of the disease model, which limits its practical utility...
- A new Bayesian approach incorporating covariate information for heterogeneity and its comparison with HLOD
Swati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, The University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107 2699, USA
BMC Genet 6:S138. 2005
..We had knowledge of the simulation models at the time we performed the analyses...
Incorporating covariates in mapping heterogeneous traits: a hierarchical model using empirical Bayes estimationSwati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107 2699, USA
Genet Epidemiol 31:684-96. 2007
..Additionally, we compare the performances of microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms for our approach and find that the latter clearly outperforms the former...
- Bayesian clinical trials at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Swati Biswas
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Clin Trials 6:205-16. 2009
..The Bayesian approach is being used increasingly in medical research. In particular, it has become a standard in designing clinical trials at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center...
