RAND Statistics Publications

2004 Publications

Abuse in the Close Relationships of People with HIV — 2004

Aids & Behavior, 8(4), 441-451.
Galvan, F.H., Collins, R., Burnam, M.A., Kanouse, D.E., Paddock, S.M., Beckman, R., Mitchell, S

Air Education and Training Command Cost And Capacity System: Implications for Organizational and Data Flow — 2004

Manacapilli T, Bennet B, Galway L, Weed J.

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The Allan Variance as an Estimator for the Long-Memory Parameter — 2004

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting, Washington, DC, December 2004.
Schmidt L, Skinner J

Analysis of Contaminant Co-Occurrence in Community Water Systems — 2004

Journal of the American Statistical Association 99(465) 36-44.
Lockwood JR, Schervish MJ, Gurian PL, Small MJ.

The Applicability of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS(R)) to Preferred Provider Organizations in the United States: a discussion of industry concerns — 2004

The International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16(3) 219-27.
Morales LS, Elliott MN, Brown J, Rahn C, Hays RD.

Assessing Nationwide Cost-Benefit Implications of Multi-Contaminant Drinking Water Standards — 2004

Journal of the American Water Works Association 96(3) 70-83.
Gurian PL, Small MJ, Lockwood JR, Schervish MJ.

Attempting to Adjust for Selection Bias in Web Surveys With Propensity Scores: the Case of the Health And Retirement Survey (HRS) — 2004

In Proceedings of the Section on Survey Statistics, American Statistical Association; 2004, CD-ROM
Schonlau M., Van Soest A, Couper M, Winter J, Kapteyn

Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trial. California jury verdicts under Micra. — 2004

Pace NM, Golinelli D, Zacaras L.

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Career Paths of School Administrators in Illinois: Insights from an Analysis of State Data — 2004

Ringel J, Gates SM, Ghosh-Dastidar B, with Brown a and Chung C.

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Career Paths of School Administrators in North Carolina: Insights from an Analysis of State Data — 2004

Gates SM, Guarino C, Santibañez L, Ghosh-Dastidar B with Brown a and Chung C.

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A Comparison Between a Propensity Weighted Web Survey And an Identical Rdd Survey — 2004

Soc Sci Comput Rev. 2004;22(1).
Schonlau M, Zapert K, Payne Simon L, Sanstad K, Marcus S, Adams J, Spranca M, Kan H-J, Turner R, Berry S

Comparison of Quality of Care for Patients in the Veterans Health Administration And Patients in a National Sample — 2004

Ann Intern Med. 2004; 141(12):938-945.
Asch SM, McGlynn EA, Hogan MM, Hayward RA, Shekelle P, Rubenstein L, Keesey J, Adams J, Kerr EA

Discussion of “Least Angle Regression” by B. Efron, T. Hastie, I. Johnstone, and R. Tibshirani — 2004

Annals of Statistics 32(2).
Madigan D and Ridgeway G.

Does Alcohol Advertising Promote Adolescent Drinking? Results from a Longitudinal Assessment — 2004

Addiction, 100, 235-246, 2004
Ellickson, P., Collins, R., Hambarsoomians, K., McCaffrey, D.

Emotional and Behavioral Impact of Terrorism on Children: Results from a National Survey — 2004

Applied Developmental Science. 8(4): 184-194.
Stein BD, Jaycox LH, Elliot MN, Collins RL, Berry SH, Marshall GN, Klein DJ, Schuster MA

Evaluating Disease Management Program Effectiveness: an Introduction To Survival Analysis — 2004

Dis Manag. 2004 Fall;7(3):180-90.
Linden A, Adams JL, Roberts N

Evaluating the Planned Substitution of the Minimum Data Set-Post Acute Care for Use in the Rehabilitation Hospital Prospective Payment System. — 2004

Medical Care 42(2) 155-163.
Buchanan JL, Andres P, Haley SM, Paddock SM, Zaslavsky A.

Generalizing Disease Management Program Results: How To Get from Here To there — 2004

Manag Care Interface. 2004;17(7):38-45.
Linden A, Adams JL, Roberts N

Going to the Mines to Look for Diamonds: Experimenting with Military Recruiting Stations in Malls — 2004

Fricker R and Fair CC.

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Health Plan Effects on Patient Assessments of Medicaid Managed Care among Racial/Ethnic Minorities — 2004

Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19(2) 136-145.
Weech-Maldonado R, Elliott MN, Morales LS, Spritzer K, Marshall GN, Hays RD

Identifying and Accommodating Statistical Outliers when Setting Prospective Payment Rates for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities — 2004

Health Services Research, 39(6), 1859-1880.
Paddock, S.M., Wynn, B.O., Carter, G.M., and Beeuwkes Buntin, M

Integrated Logistics Planning for the Air and Space Expeditionary Force — 2004

J. of the Operational Research Society 55 422-430.
Amouzegar, MA, Tripp, RS, Galway, LA.

Interpersonal Violence, Substance Use, and HIV-Related Behavior and Cognitions: a Prospective Study of Impoverished Women in Los Angeles County — 2004

AIDS and Behavior, 8(4): 463-474.
Tucker JS, Wenzel S, Elliott MN, Marshall G, Williamson S

Interventions for the Prevention of Falls in Older Adults: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials — 2004

BMJ 328(7441) 680-687 [C1].
Chang JT, Morton SC, Rubenstein LZ, Mojica WA, Maglione MA, Suttorp MJ, Roth EA, Shekelle PG.

The Interview Mode Effect on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale: an Item Response theory Analysis — 2004

Medical Care, 42[3], 281-289, Mar. 2004.
Chan, K., Orlando, M., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Sherbourne, C. and Duan, N.

Let's See More Empirical Studies on Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects: a Reply to Raudenbush, Rubin, Stuart and Zanutto, and Reckase — 2004

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 29(1) 139-143. Spring 2004
McCaffrey D, Lockwood J.R., Koretz D, Louis T, Hamilton L.

Local Variation in Public Health Preparedness: Lessons from California — 2004

Health Affairs. (web exclusive on June 2, 2004).
Lurie N, Wasserman J, Stoto M, Myers S, Namkung P, Fielding J, Burciaga Valdez R.

Managing Cost And Capacity Data in the Air Force's Education and Training Command — 2004

Manacapilli T, Bennet B, Galway L, Weed J.

Research Brief

Measuring Quality in Arthritis Care: Methods for Developing the Arthritis Foundation's Quality Indicator Set — 2004

Arthritis Care & Res 51(2).
MacLean CH, Saag K, Solomon DH, Morton SC, Sampsel S, Klippel JH.

Meta-Regression Approaches: What, Why, When, and How? — 2004

Technical Review 8 (Prepared by Southern California-RAND Evidence-based Practice Center, under Contract No 290-97-0001), AHRQ Publication No. 04-0033, Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, March 2004.
Morton SC, Adams JL, Suttorp MG, Shekelle PG

Modeling the Attrition of Military Pilots — 2004

Elliott MN, Kapur K, Gresenz C

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Modeling Treatment Decisions, Costs, And Risk Implications of Regulations for the Us Water Supply Industry — 2004

Proceedings of the Engineering Systems Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge , MA.
Gurian PL, Small MJ, Lockwood JR, and Schervish MJ

Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects — 2004

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 29(1) 67-101. Spring 2004
McCaffrey D, Lockwood J.R., Koretz D, Louis T, Hamilton L.

Modifying Pro-Drug Risk Factors in Adolescents: Results from Project ALERT — 2004

Health Education & Behavior 31(3) 331-334, June.
Ghosh-Dastidar B, Longshore DL, Ellickson PE, McCaffrey DM.

A National Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Consequences of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks — 2004

Psychiatry, 67(2): 105-117.
Stein BD, Elliott MN, Jaycox LH, Collins RL, Berry SH, Klein DJ, Schuster, MA

Noncoverage and Nonresponse in an Internet Survey — 2004

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33) Amsterdam, August 2004.
Couper M, Kapteyn A, Schonlau M Winter J

Physical Violence Against Impoverished Women: a Longitudinal Analysis of Risk And Protective Factors — 2004

Women's Health Issues, 14 (5): 144-54.
Wenzel SL, Tucker JS, Elliott MN, Marshall GN, Williamson SL

Physician Recognition of Cognitive Impairment: Evaluating the Need for Improvement — 2004

Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 52:1051-59.
Chodosh J, Petitti DB, Elliott MN, Hays RD, Crooks VC, Reuben DB, Buckwalter JG, Wenger N

Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Violence, Substance Use and Disorder, and HIV Risk Behavior: a Comparison of Sheltered vs. Low-Income Housed Women in Los Angeles County — 2004

Preventive Medicine, 39, 617-624.
Wenzel SL, Tucker JS, Elliott MN, Hambarsoomian K, Perlman J, Becker K, Kollross C, Golinelli D

The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: 1981 through the Second Quarter of 2003 — 2004

Office of National Drug Control Policy, Washington DC: Executive Office of the President (Publication Number NCJ 207768).
Caulkins, J., Pacula, R.L., Arkes, J., Reuter, P., Paddock, S., Iguchi, M., and Riley, J

Process Evaluation of Project Public Health Ready — 2004

Myers S, Stoto MA.
Prepared for the National Association of County and City Health Officials

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Profiling Quality of Care: Is there a Role for Peer Review? — 2004

BMC Health Serv Res. 2004 May 19;4:9.
Hofer TP, Asch SM, Hayward RA, Rubenstein LV, Hogan MM, Adams JL, Kerr EA

Profiling the Quality of Care in Twelve Communities: Results from the CQI Study — 2004

Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 May-Jun;23(3):247-56.
Kerr EA, McGlynn EA, Adams JL, Keesey J, Asch SM

Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment — 2004

Psychological Methods 9(4).
McCaffrey D, Ridgeway G, Morral A.

Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies — 2004

Psychological Methods, 9(4), 403-425, 2004
McCaffrey, D., Ridgeway, G. Morral, A.

Public Health Preparedness in California: Lessons Learned from Seven Health — 2004

Lurie N, Burciaga Valdez R, Wasserman J, Stoto M, Myers S, Molander R, Mussington D, Solomon V, Asch SM.

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Public Involvement in Community Health Improvement — 2004

Cross-disciplinary Public Involvement Report. National Charrette Institute.
Stoto MA.

The Quality of Pharmacologic Care for Vulnerable Older Patients — 2004

Ann Int Med. 2004;140:714-20.
Higashi T, Shekelle PG, Solomon DH, Knight EL, Roth C, Chang JT, Kamberg CJ, MacLean CH, Young RT, Adams JL, Reuben DB, Avorn J, Wenger NS

Quantitative Risk Analysis for Project Management: a Critical Review — 2004

Galway L

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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parent Expectations for Antibiotics: Implications for Public Health Campaigns — 2004

Pediatrics 113(5) e385-394.
Mangione-Smith R, Elliott MN, Stivers T, McDonald L, Heritage J, McGlynn EA

Sampling Patients Within And Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research — 2004

Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2004;4(3): 151-167.
Adams JL, Schonlau M, Escarce JJ, Kilgore M, Schoenbaum M, Goldman DP

Sexual Victimization Among a National Probability Sample of Adolescent Women — 2004

Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36(6): 225-232.
Raghavan R, Bogart L, Elliott MN, Vestal KD, Schuster MA

Social Control of Health Behaviors: a Comparison of Young, Middle-Aged, And Older Adults — 2004

Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 59B, P147-P150.
Tucker JS, Klein DJ, Elliott MN

Sociodemographic Differences in Use of Preventive Services By Women Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans — 2004

Prev Med. 2004;39(4):738-45.
Morales LS, Rogowski J, Freedman VA, Wickstrom SL, Adams JL, Escarce JJ

Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population — 2004

Health Serv Res 2004;39:1277-1297.
Freedman VA, Rogowski J, Wickstrom SL, Adams JL, Marainen J, Escarce JJ

Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care — 2004

National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper 10757, Sept 2004, 35 pages
Kapur K, Rogowski JA, Freedman VA, Wickstrom SL, Adams JL, Escarce JJ

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Specificity And Sensitivity of Claims-Based Algorithms for Identifying Members of Medicare+Choice Health Plans That Have Chronic Medical Conditions — 2004

Health Serv Res. 2004;39(6):1839-1857.
Rector TS, Wickstrom SL, Shah M, Greenlee NT, Rheault P, Rogowski J, Freedman V, Adams JL, Escarce JJ

Strategies for Gene therapy Targeting Hematopoietic Stem Cells — 2004

Molecular therapy 9 566-576.
Abkowitz JL, Golinelli D, Guttorp P.

Syndromic Surveillance: Is it Worth the Effort? — 2004

Chance 17(1) 19-24.
Stoto M, Schonlau M, Mariano L.

Technical Report for the Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs Through 2003 — 2004

Office of National Drug Control Policy, Washington DC: Executive Office of the President (Publication Number NCJ 207769).
Arkes, J., Pacula, R.L., Paddock, S., Caulkins, J., and Reuter, P

Use of Preventive Services By Men Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans — 2004

Am J Public Health. 2004;94(5):796-802.
Morales LS, Rogowski J, Freedman VA, Wickstrom SL, Adams JL, Escarce JJ

Using an Empirical Method for Establishing Clinical Outcome Targets in Disease Management Programs — 2004

Dis Manag. 2004 Summer;7(2): 93-101
Linden A, Adams JL Roberts N

Visualizing Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Cluster Analyses with Clustergrams — 2004

Computational Statistics 19(1) 95-111.
Schonlau M.

Watching Sex on TV Affects Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior — 2004

Pediatrics Electronic Pages, 114: e280-289.
Collins RL, Elliott MN, Berry S, Kanouse DE, Kunkel D, Hunter S

What We Can — And Cannot — Expect from School-Based Drug Prevention — 2004

Drug and Alcohol Review 23 79-87.
Caulkins JP, Pacula RL, Paddock S, Chiesa J.

Working Around the Military: Challenges to Military Spouse Employment and Education — 2004

Harrell MC, Lim N, Castaneda LW, Golinelli D.

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