The ABCD study is a new and ongoing project of very substantial size and scale involving
21 data acquisition sites. It aims to recruit 11,500 children and follow them for ten years with …

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However,
lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting …

The inpatient burden of dysphagia has primarily been evaluated in patients with stroke. It is
unclear whether dysphagia, irrespective of cause, is associated with worse clinical …

This narrative review aims to evaluate the evidence for the different nutritional approaches
employed during neoadjuvant therapy in patients with locoregional esophageal cancer …

Purpose: Many studies have investigated the impact of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
and its sanctions on students and teachers. Little research, however, has systematically …

Researchers are increasingly using complex population-based sample surveys to estimate
the effects of treatments, exposures and interventions. In such analyses, statistical methods …

The popularity of online surveys has increased the prominence of using sampling weights to
enhance claims of representativeness. Yet, much uncertainty remains regarding how these …

Importance Expanding Medicaid eligibility could affect prescriptions of buprenorphine with
naloxone, an established treatment for opioid use disorder, and opioid pain relievers …

Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort of 1998 (n=
15,070), this study used propensity scores to examine the short-and long-term academic …

Although prior research links parental incarceration to deleterious outcomes for children
during the life course, few studies have examined whether such incarceration affects the …