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Sample size calculation for time-averaged differences in the presence of missing dataSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390 9066, United States
Contemp Clin Trials 33:550-6. 2012..The proposed sample size formula is illustrated using a clinical trial example...
A close examination of double filtering with fold change and T test in microarray analysisSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 10:402. 2009..Due to its simplicity, the double filtering procedure has been popular with applied researchers despite the development of more sophisticated methods...
A Bayesian semiparametric survival model with longitudinal markersSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
Biometrics 66:435-43. 2010..e., we implicitly model the desired regression by modeling the reverse conditional distribution...
Calculating sample size in trials using historical controlsSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Clin Trials 7:343-53. 2010..Many researchers have pointed out that the Makuch-Simon approach does not preserve the nominal power and type I error when considering the uncertainty in the true historical control treatment effect...
GO-Bayes: Gene Ontology-based overrepresentation analysis using a Bayesian approachSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, U T Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75390 9072, USA
Bioinformatics 26:905-11. 2010..As a result, this method tends to identify sets of closely related GO terms rather than individual isolated GO terms. The advantage of the GO-Bayes approach is demonstrated with a simulation study and an application example...
Aesthetic subunit of the breast: an analysis of women's preference and clinical implicationsSteven H Bailey
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1801 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Ann Plast Surg 68:240-5. 2012..Patient outcomes following surgery can be enhanced by restoring volume and minimizing scars in this upper medial subunit of the breast...
National trends in incidence rates of hospitalization for stroke in children with sickle cell diseaseTimothy L McCavit
Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390 9063, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 60:823-7. 2013..Therefore, we aimed to generate national incidence rates of hospitalization for stroke in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) before and after publication of the Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP trial) in 1998...
Bayesian optimal discovery procedure for simultaneous significance testingJing Cao
Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 10:5. 2009..Several current approaches demonstrate that test statistics with shrinking variance estimates have more power over the traditional t statistic...
Effects of correlation and missing data on sample size estimation in longitudinal clinical trialsSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Pharm Stat 9:2-9. 2010..A simulation study is conducted to investigate the performance of GEE sample size formula with small sample sizes, damped exponential family of correlation structure and non-ignorable missing data...
Sequential intrarectal diazepam and intravenous levetiracetam in treating acute repetitive and prolonged seizuresPradeep N Modur
Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
Epilepsia 51:1078-82. 2010..In addition, we speculate that a more reliable onset of action after IVL treatment results in rapid seizure control and fewer ER transfers, despite seizure recurrence...
Noninvasive quantification of pancreatic fat in humansIldiko Lingvay
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:4070-6. 2009....
Pegylated interferon and ribavirin promote early evolution of nonstructural 5A protein in individuals with hepatitis C who demonstrate a response to treatmentMamta K Jain
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 4323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
J Infect Dis 200:866-76. 2009..We evaluated the influence of HCV therapy on changes in the nonstructural 5A (NS5A) protein...
Insulin-based versus triple oral therapy for newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: which is better?Ildiko Lingvay
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Diabetes Care 32:1789-95. 2009..Early use of insulin after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is met with resistance because of associated weight gain, hypoglycemia, and fear of decreased compliance and quality of life (QoL)...
Ictal high-frequency oscillations in neocortical epilepsy: implications for seizure localization and surgical resectionPradeep N Modur
Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
Epilepsia 52:1792-801. 2011..To investigate the characteristics of intracranial ictal high-frequency oscillations (HFOs)...
Predicting out of intensive care unit cardiopulmonary arrest or death using electronic medical record dataCarlos A Alvarez
School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 5920 Forest Park Rd, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 13:28. 2013....
How many measurements for time-averaged differences in repeated measurement studies?Song Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 32:412-7. 2011..Finally, we show that by introducing measurement error into the AR(1) model, the counterintuitive behavior disappears. That is, additional measurements per subject result in reduced sample sizes...
An automated model to identify heart failure patients at risk for 30-day readmission or death using electronic medical record dataRuben Amarasingham
Center for Clinical Innovation, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
Med Care 48:981-8. 2010..A real-time electronic predictive model that identifies hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients at high risk for readmission or death may be valuable to clinicians and hospitals who care for these patients...
Sample size calculation for studies comparing binary outcomes using historical controlsSong Zhang
Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Biom J 55:190-202. 2013..We also show that the controlling percentiles can be used to describe the joint behavior of the power and type I error. It provides a new perspective on the assessment of HCTs...
Hospitalization for invasive pneumococcal disease in a national sample of children with sickle cell disease before and after PCV7 licensureTimothy L McCavit
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 58:945-9. 2012..To estimate national hospitalization rates for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) before and after the 2000 licensure of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7)...
Predicting risk of perioperative death and stroke after carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients: derivation and validation of a clinical risk scoreLinda Calvillo-King
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 8889, USA
Stroke 41:2786-94. 2010..We developed and validated a multivariate model of risk of death or stroke within 30 days of CEA for asymptomatic disease and a related clinical prediction rule...
Breast reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi flap: women's preference for scar locationSteven Bailey
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 9132, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 126:358-65. 2010....
