A unified approach to measurement error and missing data: overview and applications

M Blackwell, J Honaker, G King - Sociological Methods & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Although social scientists devote considerable effort to mitigating measurement error during
data collection, they often ignore the issue during data analysis. And although many …

[HTML][HTML] Model checking in multiple imputation: an overview and case study

CD Nguyen, JB Carlin, KJ Lee - Emerging themes in epidemiology, 2017 - Springer
Background Multiple imputation has become very popular as a general-purpose method for
handling missing data. The validity of multiple-imputation-based analyses relies on the use …

Exploratory factor analysis with small samples and missing data

D McNeish - Journal of personality assessment, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is an extremely popular method for determining the
underlying factor structure for a set of variables. Due to its exploratory nature, EFA is …

A clinical prediction model to assess risk for pancreatic cancer among patients with new-onset diabetes

B Boursi, B Finkelman, BJ Giantonio, K Haynes… - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Approximately 50% of all patients with pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDA) develop diabetes mellitus before their cancer diagnosis. Screening …

Missing data methods for arbitrary missingness with small samples

D McNeish - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Missing data are a prevalent and widespread data analytic issue and previous studies have
performed simulations to compare the performance of missing data methods in various …

Into the red and back to the nest? Student debt, college completion, and returning to the parental home among young adults

JN Houle, C Warner - Sociology of Education, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Rising student debt has sparked concerns about its impact on the transition to adulthood. In
this paper, we examine the claim that student debt is leading to a rise in ''boomeranging,''or …

Victimization and depressive symptomology in transgender adults: The mediating role of avoidant coping.

JM White Hughto, JE Pachankis, TC Willie… - Journal of counseling …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Victimization and depressive distress symptoms represent serious and interconnected
public health problems facing transgender communities. Avoidant coping is hypothesized to …

Barriers to gender transition-related healthcare: Identifying underserved transgender adults in Massachusetts

JM White Hughto, AJ Rose, JE Pachankis… - Transgender …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Purpose: The present study sought to examine whether individual (eg, age, gender),
interpersonal (eg, healthcare provider discrimination), and structural (eg, lack of insurance …

Risk factors for chronic cough among 14,669 individuals from the general population

Y Çolak, BG Nordestgaard, LC Laursen, S Afzal… - Chest, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Risk factors for chronic cough in the general population have not been
described systematically. We identified and ranked chronic cough risk factors at the …

Jim Crow and estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer: US-born black and white non-Hispanic women, 1992–2012

N Krieger, JL Jahn, PD Waterman - Cancer Causes & Control, 2017 - Springer
Purpose It is unknown whether Jim Crow—ie, legal racial discrimination practiced by 21 US
states and the District of Columbia and outlawed by the US Civil Rights Act in 1964—affects …