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Effects of Causal Beliefs About Gout on Public Views About Gout Management: A Randomized Experimental Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Despite well‐described biologic causes, the public views unhealthy lifestyle choices as the primary cause of gout. This study investigated how causal beliefs about gout influence the public's views about its management. Methods In a randomized study, 201 members of the public viewed one of two 2‐minute videos about gout.
Rachel Murdoch, Borislav Mihov, Anne Horne, Keith J. Petrie, Gregory D. Gamble, Lachlan Fleck, Nicola Dalbeth   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Administrative Records for Official Statistics on People and Households

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
The availability and excessiveness of alternative (non-survey) data sources, collected on a daily, hourly, and sometimes second-by-second basis, has challenged the federal statistical system to update existing protocol for developing official statistics.
Misty L Heggeness
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Male Participants in a Multicenter Longitudinal Australian Study Cohort

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to determine the differences in demographic, serologic, and clinical characteristics between male and female patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an Australian cohort. Methods This was a retrospective observational study using data from the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study.
Emily Lin, Dylan Hansen, Laura Ross, Gene‐Siew Ngian, Susanna Proudman, Gabor Major, Maryam Tabesh, Mandana Nikpour, Jennifer Walker, Lauren Host, Nava Ferdowsi, Alannah Quinlivan, Wendy Stevens, Joanne Sahhar, Diane Apostolopoulos   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Efficient Sample Strata Through Application of Random Forest Classifiers to Administrative and Survey Data

Data Science in Science
Surveys aiming to oversample certain classes of households to reduce the variance of estimates for small subgroups typically randomly oversample units in geographies where the characteristic(s) of interest are more densely concentrated.
Jonathan Eggleston, Linden McBride, Mark Klee   +2 more
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How Uncertainty about Privacy and Confidentiality is Hampering Efforts to More Effectively Use Administrative Records in Producing U.S. National Statistics

The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2011
U.S. federal statistical agencies continually face challenges in obtaining and using administrative records and in providing useful analytic products to support policy analysis and program planning.
Gerald W. Gates
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Coronary Artery Calcium Progression: A Case Cohort Analysis From ELSA‐Brasil

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To investigate the association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and coronary artery calcium (CAC) prevalence, incidence, and progression over four years in adults without prior cardiovascular disease. Methods A case‐cohort study within the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA‐Brasil) included 585 participants (86 patients with ...
Patrícia Fonseca Estrada, Marcos Rafael N. Cavalcante, Itamar de Souza Santos, Márcio S. Bittencourt, Vandrize Meneghini, Paulo A. Lotufo, Alessandra C. Goulart, Isabela M. Bensenor   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inference with Pólya-Gamma Augmentation for US Election Law

Mathematics
Pólya-gamma (PG) augmentation has proven to be highly effective for Bayesian MCMC simulation, particularly for models with binomial likelihoods. This data augmentation strategy offers two key advantages.
Adam C. Hall, Joseph Kang
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Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in U.S. and implications for infectious disease spread

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Diseases such as COVID-19 are spread through social contact. Reducing social contacts is required to stop disease spread in pandemics for which vaccines have not yet been developed.
Audrey M. Dorélien, Aparna Ramen, Isabella Swanson, Rachelle Hill   +3 more
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Health Care Use Among Patients Presenting to Emergency Department for Gout Flares in Ontario, Canada: A Population‐Based Health Systems Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We characterized emergency department (ED) gout visits and identified patient characteristics and health services patterns contributing to ED presentations. Methods We conducted a population‐based study of ED gout visits in Ontario, Canada, between 2014 and 2023.
Timothy S. H. Kwok, Samantha Morais, William K. Silverstein, Clare L. Atzema, Gregory Choy, Priyanka Chandratre, Ping Li, Jessica Widdifield   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slowly Scaling Per-Record Differential Privacy

The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
We develop formal privacy mechanisms for releasing statistics from data with many outlying values, such as income data. These mechanisms ensure that a per-record differential privacy guarantee degrades slowly in the protected records’ influence on the ...
Brian Finley, Anthony Caruso, Justin Doty, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Mikaela Meyer, David Pujol, William Sexton, Zachary Terner   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source