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Effect of spatial resolution on cluster detection: a simulation studyAl Ozonoff
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Health Geogr 6:52. 2007..Aggregation of spatial data is intended to protect privacy, but some effects of aggregation on spatial methods have not yet been quantified...
Reporting errors in infectious disease outbreaks, with an application to Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1Laura F White
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston MA 02118 USA
Epidemiol Perspect Innov 7:12. 2010..abstract:..
Estimation of the reproductive number and the serial interval in early phase of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in the USALaura Forsberg White
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Influenza Other Respi Viruses 3:267-76. 2009..Appropriate public health responses to this pandemic depend in part on early estimates of key epidemiological parameters of the virus in defined populations...
Transmissibility of the influenza virus in the 1918 pandemicLaura Forsberg White
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e1498. 2008..With a heightened increase in concern for an influenza pandemic we sought to better understand the 1918 Influenza pandemic, the most devastating epidemic of the previous century...
A likelihood-based method for real-time estimation of the serial interval and reproductive number of an epidemicL Forsberg White
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Stat Med 27:2999-3016. 2008..We provide simulation results that illustrate the efficacy of the method for estimating R(0) and the serial interval in real time. Finally, we implement our proposed method with data from three infectious disease outbreaks...
Air pollution and incidence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in black women living in Los AngelesPatricia F Coogan
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Circulation 125:767-72. 2012..Preliminary epidemiological and clinical evidence suggests that air pollution may contribute to the development of hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus...
The influence of neighborhood socioeconomic status and walkability on TV viewing timePatricia F Coogan
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Phys Act Health 9:1074-9. 2012..We assessed the relation of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and walkability with TV viewing time in the Black Women's Health Study, a prospective study of African American women...
Impact of an emergency department closure on the local emergency medical services systemMazen El Sayed
Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA mj
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:198-203. 2012....
Power to detect spatial disturbances under different levels of geographic aggregationCaroline Jeffery
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:847-54. 2009..This paper investigated the variation in power to detect a change in the spatial distribution in the presence of spatial aggregation...
Improving the evidence base for decision making during a pandemic: the example of 2009 influenza A/H1N1Marc Lipsitch
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Biosecur Bioterror 9:89-115. 2011..We describe other inputs to decision making besides epidemiologic and surveillance data, and we conclude with key lessons of the 2009 pandemic for designing and planning surveillance in the future...
Longitudinal assessment of urban form and weight gain in African-American womenPatricia F Coogan
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Prev Med 40:411-8. 2011..Numerous cross-sectional studies have found higher levels of obesity among residents of auto-oriented, sprawling areas compared to residents of more urban areas...
