Robert Gibbons

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..The bi-factor model is useful in evaluating the multidimensional structure of mental health data. The specification of alternative IRT models is demonstrated as a noteworthy benefit over classical test theory for psychiatric measurement...

..We recommend improvements to the existing AERS system, which are likely to improve its public health value as an early warning system...

..This study investigated the combination of item response theory and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) for psychiatric measurement as a means of reducing the burden of research and clinical assessments...

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..The authors assessed whether these warnings discouraged use of antidepressants in children and adolescents and whether they led to increases in suicide rates as a result of untreated depression...

..Many of these methodologies are then illustrated through application to data on the possible relationship between taking antidepressants and increased risk of suicidality...

..This study examined the relationship between antidepressant treatment and suicide attempts in adult patients in the Veterans Administration health care system...

..Linear and nonlinear models are illustrated using an example involving a study of the relationship between mood and smoking...

..Therefore, this study examined the association between antidepressant medication prescription rate and suicide rate in children ages 5-14 prior to the FDA findings by analyzing associations at the county level across the United States...

..The purpose of this study was to determine if the antiepileptic drug gabapentin increases risk of suicide attempt in patients to which it was prescribed for various indications...

..The procedure is demonstrated on real data from an event-related design experiment of visually guided saccades and shown to be an effective alternative to existing methods...

..We conclude that the ability of clinicians and lay people to identify spoken drug names is influenced by signal-to-noise ratio, subjective familiarity, prescribing frequency, and the similarity neighborhoods of drug names...

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..This study was undertaken to compare survival between primary and repeat lung transplant recipients and to identify survival predictors after repeat lung transplantation...

..The purpose of this paper is to describe both the results of the study and the statistical foundations of the mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression model that led to the committee's conclusions...

..e., power characteristics) for a test of treatment-by-time interaction(s) for designs based on either subject-level or cluster-level randomization. The general methodology is illustrated using two characteristic examples...

..We examined the relationship of increasing prescription volume of newer antidepressants, introduced in Japan in 1999, to national rates of suicide...

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..This report examines 36-month outcomes, 2 years after treatment by the study ended...

..Despite the uncertainty involved in assessing bias that may be unobserved and unconscious, we will show how to derive a bound for the impact of rater bias...

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..The resulting CAT-based MDD diagnostic system provides a screening tool that can be used in both psychiatric and primary care settings, and is based on patient reported outcomes. ..

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..Collaboration with members of the VA (Cunningham, Valenstein), Kaiser Permanente (Clarke, Gullion), PHARMO (Erkens) and the Indian Health Service (Perez) is an integral part of the proposal. ..

..Specifically, we propose to develop the statistical theory and software that is necessary, and to then apply it to the Mood-Anxiety Spectrum Disorders Scale. ..

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