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Amelia Haviland Send Email

Statistician

Pittsburgh Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

Fields

Analysis of observational data, propensity score analysis, latent trajectory group mixture modeling, nonparametrics, sampling, bootstrapping under complex sampling

Policy Areas

Health: Trauma and substance abuse, gangs and violence, patient safety Labor and Population: Economic demography, gender and racial/ethnic wage gaps; Civil Justice

Recent Projects

  • AHRQ Patient Safety Evaluation Center, Data Sources for Small Business Research
  • Estimating Wage Gaps: Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition models and propensity scores
  • Gang Membership and Violence: Causal Analysis with Latent Trajectory Mixture Models
  • IMPACT study on Trauma, IV Drug Use and Risky Sexual Behavior

Previous/Other Positions

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
  • Statistician, Epidemiology Data Center, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 1999, 2000

Selected Publications

Can We Measure the Causal Effect of Discrimination? - 2003

A Comment on ’Statistics and Causal Inference: A Review’ by Judea Pearl,
Test, 12(2): 319-327
Fienberg, Stephen, and Haviland, Amelia

To What Degree Does Food Assistance Help Poor Households Acquire Enough Food? - 2004

Journal of Poverty, 8(2): 63-87
Daponte, Beth O., Haviland, Amelia M. and Kadane, Joseph B.

Improved Outcomes For Women Undergoing Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry - 2002

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 39(10): 1608-1614
Jacobs, Alice J., Johnston, Janet J., Haviland, Amelia M., et al.

Angina One Year after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report from the NHLBI Dynamic Registry - 2002

American Heart Journal, 144(5): 826-833
Holubkov, Richard, Laskey, Warren K., Haviland, Amelia M., et al.
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