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Heterosexual anal intercourse and HIV infection risks in the context of alcohol serving venues, Cape Town, South AfricaSeth C Kalichman
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
BMC Public Health 11:807. 2011..The objective is to examine the prevalence of heterosexual unprotected anal intercourse among men and women who drink at informal alcohol serving establishments (shebeens) in South Africa...
Multiple imputation for correcting verification biasOfer Harel
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road Unit 4120 Storrs, CT 06269 4120, USA
Stat Med 25:3769-86. 2006..We show that our imputation methods are better than the existing methods with regard to nominal coverage and confidence interval length...
Multiple imputation: review of theory, implementation and softwareOfer Harel
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road Unit 4120 Storrs, CT 06269 4120, USA
Stat Med 26:3057-77. 2007..Analysis of incomplete data requires making unverifiable assumptions. These assumptions are discussed in detail in the text. Relevant S-Plus code is provided...
Population inference with mortality and attrition in longitudinal studies on aging: a two-stage multiple imputation methodOfer Harel
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 4120, USA
Exp Aging Res 33:187-203. 2007..An empirical example using data from the OCTO-Twin study is presented that shows the utility of his procedure for making inferences conditional on mortality when mortality data are incomplete...
Consumption of a DHA-containing functional food during pregnancy is associated with lower infant ponderal index and cord plasma insulin concentrationAmber B Courville
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Br J Nutr 106:208-12. 2011..743, P < 0.05) than infants of mothers consuming the placebo. Thus, DHA consumption during pregnancy may be advantageous with respect to infant body composition at birth and insulin sensitivity...
Multiple imputation for the comparison of two screening tests in two-phase Alzheimer studiesOfer Harel
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road, Unit 4120 Storrs, CT 06269 4120, USA
Stat Med 26:2370-88. 2007..Our simulation results show that the use of multiple imputation is superior to other commonly used methods. We demonstrate our finding using Alzheimer data...
Maternal consumption of a DHA-containing functional food benefits infant sleep patterning: an early neurodevelopmental measureMichelle P Judge
University of Connecticut, School of Nursing, Storrs, CT 06269 2026, USA
Early Hum Dev 88:531-7. 2012..Infant ability to organize sleep and wake states following parturition is highly associated with later developmental outcomes. The impact of maternal DHA intake on sleep organization has not been previously investigated...
