Incorporating Adaptive Survey Design in a Two-Stage National Web or Mail Mixed-Mode Survey: An Experiment in the American Family Health Study

S Zhang, BT West, J Wagner… - Journal of Survey …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article presents the results of an adaptive design experiment in the recruitment of
households and individuals for a two-stage national probability web or mail mixed-mode …

Using joint probability density to create most informative unidimensional indices: a new method using pain and psychiatric severity as examples

S Noorbaloochi, BA Clothier, M Murdoch - BMC Medical Research …, 2024 - Springer
Background Dimension reduction methods do not always reduce their underlying indicators
to a single composite score. Furthermore, such methods are usually based on optimality …

Impact of different cover letter information and incentives on Veterans' emotional responses to an unsolicited mailed survey about military traumas: a randomized …

M Murdoch, BA Clothier, S Kehle-Forbes… - BMC medical research …, 2022 - Springer
Background Altering cover letter information to reduce non-response bias in trauma
research could inadvertently leave survey participants unprepared for potentially upsetting …

Using joint probability density to create informative, unidimensional indices: A new method using pain and psychiatric severity as examples

Background. Dimension reduction methods do not always reduce their underlying indicators
to a single dimension. Furthermore, such methods are usually based on optimality criteria …

A New Measure of Psychiatric Severity Using Administrative Data: the Manifestations of Psychiatric Severity Index (MoPSI)

Administrative data are mainstay tools in managing and monitoring individuals served by
health care systems. Although psychiatric illness impacts population health, there is a near …

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BA Clothier, M Murdoch - academia.edu
Background. Dimension reduction methods do not always reduce their underlying indicators
to a single dimension. Furthermore, such methods are usually based on optimality criteria …

How much informative response/non-response bias is too much? A back-of-the-envelope answer

EGQ Nelson, M Murdoch, S Noorbaloochi - 2020 - osf.io
Background: Informative response/non-response bias in survey research may skew effect
size estimates; however, an upper limit of tolerable bias has not been established. Objective …