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Palmer J.E., Williams E., and Mennicke A. (2022).

Interpersonal violence experiences and disclosure patterns among lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer+, and heterosexual university students.

Journal of Family Violence, 37(3), 505-519.
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McLaren J.L., Barnett E.R., Acquilano S.C., Concepcion Zayas M.T., Drake R.E., and Leyenaar J.K. (2022).

Psychotropic polypharmacy and antipsychotics in children: A survey of caregiver's perspectives.

Community Mental Health Journal, 58(3), 512-516.
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Bruce C., Gearing M.E., DeMatteis J., Levin K., Mulcahy T., Newsome J., and Wivagg J. (2022).

Financial vulnerability and the impact of COVID-19 on American households.

PLoS One, 17(1).
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Erciulescu A.L., Opsomer J.D., and Schneider B.J. (2022).

Statistical data integration using multilevel models to predict employee compensation.

Canadian Journal of Statistics.
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Amsbary M., Hubbard F., Green J., Morganstein D., and Lewis K. (2021).

2018 CBECS stratum misclassification: Issue and solutions.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Establishment Statistics. Virtual: American Statistical Association.
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Sharma E., Yang D.-H., and Stroud L.R. (2021).

Variations in Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) device types and association with cigarette quit attempts.

Preventive Medicine, 148, 106588.
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Bryan L.N., Brener N., Barker L., Lo A., and Underwood J.M. (2021).

US nationwide assessment of school health policies and practices using state-level data.

Health Education Journal, 80(6), 724-733.
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Sugarbaker P.H. and Chang D. (2021).

Treatment of advanced pseudomyxoma peritonei using cytoreductive surgery including total gastrectomy and perioperative chemotherapy.

Journal of Surgical Oncology, 124(3), 378-389.
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Velie E.M., Marcus L.R., Pathak D.R., Hamilton A.S., DiGaetano R., Klinger R., Gollapudi B., Houang R., Carnegie N., Olson L.K., Allen A., Zhang Z., Modjesk D., Norman G., Lucas D.R., Gupta S., Rui H., and Schwartz K. (2021).

Theory, methods, and operational results of the Young Women's Health History Study: A study of young-onset breast cancer incidence in Black and White women.

Cancer Causes and Control, 32(10), 1129-1148.
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Johnson M.A., Lott C., Qiu C., Galagedera N., Flynn J.M., Cahill P.J., and Anari J.B. (2021).

Rib-based distraction device implantation before age 3 associated with higher unplanned rate of return to the operating room.

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 41(6), e369-e373.
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Heley K., Popova L., Moran M.B., Ben Taleb Z., Hart J.L., Wackowski O.A., Westling E., Smiley S.L., and Stanton C.A. (2021).

Targeted tobacco marketing in 2020: The case of #BlackLivesMatter.

Tobacco Control.
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Sugarbaker P.H., Deng T., and Chang D. (2021).

Peritoneal cytology as an indicator of peritoneal metastases in colorectal cancer.

Journal of Surgical Oncology, 124(3), 361-366.
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Donnelly R.E., Minami H., Hecht J., Bloom E.L., Tashima K., Selva Kumar D., Abrantes A., Stanton C., and Brown R.A. (2021).

Relationships among self-efficacy, quality of life, perceived vulnerability, and readiness to quit smoking in people living with HIV.

Journal of Smoking Cessation, 2021.
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Stroud L.R., Papandonatos G.D., Sharma E., Jao N.C., Goldman S., Vergara-Lopez C., and Scott-Sheldon L.A.J. (2021).

Flavored waterpipe tobacco preferences, perceptions, and use in pregnant women: A latent factor mapping approach.

Addictive Behaviors, 126.
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Sugarbaker P.H., Chang D., and Jelinek J.S. (2021).

Concerning CT features predict outcome of treatment in patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma.

European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 47(9), 2212-2219.
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Sugarbaker P.H. and Chang D. (2021).

Cytoreductive surgery plus HIPEC with and without NIPEC for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: A propensity-matched analysis.

Annals of Surgical Oncology, 28(12), 7109-7117.
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Oh A.Y., Caporaso A., Davis T., Dwyer L.A., Nebeling L.C., Liu B., and Hennessy E. (2021).

Effect of incentive amount on US adolescents’ participation in an accelerometer data collection component of a national survey.

Field Methods, 33(3), 219-235.
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Lin T.-H., Flores Cervantes I., Saito S., and Bain R. (2021).

Evaluating nonresponse weighting adjustment for the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment Surveys on incorporating survey outcomes.

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 87(Supplement 1), S52-S56.
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Hu M., Freedman V.A., Ehrlich J.R., Reed N.S., Billington C., and Kasper J.D. (2021).

Collecting objective measures of visual and auditory function in a national in-home survey of older adults.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9(2), 309-334.
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McLaren J.L., Lichtenstein J.D., Metcalfe J.D., Charlot L.R., Drake R.E., and Beasley J.B. (2021).

Psychotropic use among youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Psychiatric Services, 72(9), 988-997.
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Kumar V. and Encinosa W. (2021).

Racial disparities in the perceived risk of COVID-19 and in getting needed medical care.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
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Li Z., Hallisey E., Lewis B., Berney K., Williams A.M., Whiteman A., Rivera-González L.O., Clarke K.E.N., Clayton H., Tincher T., Opsomer J.D., Gundlapalli A., and Jones J. (2021).

Social vulnerability and rurality associated with higher SARS-CoV-2 infection-induced seroprevalence: A nationwide blood donor study, United States, July 2020 – June 2021.

Lancet.
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Bornstein M.H., Manian N., and Henry L.M. (2021).

Clinically depressed and typically developing mother–infant dyads: Domain base rates and correspondences, relationship contingencies and attunement.

Infancy, 26(6), 877-900.
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Li J. and Krenzke T. (2021).

A proposed 'bottom-up' differential privacy approach for disclosure prevention in data query tool.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Establishment Statistics. Virtual: American Statistical Association.
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Krenzke T. and Li J. (2021).

Data protection toolkit’s playbook as demonstrated through the PIAAC Prison Study.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Establishment Statistics. Virtual: American Statistical Association.
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Raithel M.A. (2021).

Using the SAS HPBIN procedure to create format value ranges for numeric variables.

Proceedings of the Southeast SAS Users Group Conference (SESUG 2021). Virtual: Southeast SAS Users Group.
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Jones J.M., Stone M., Sulaeman H., Fink R.V., Dave H., Levy M.E., Di Germanio C., Green V., Notari E., Saa P., Biggerstaff B.J., Strauss D., Kessler D., Vassallo R., Reik R., Rossmann S., Destree M., Nguyen K.-A., Sayers M., Lough C., Bougie D.W., Ritter M., Latoni G., Weales B., Sime S., Gorlin J., Brown N.E., Gould C.V., Berney K., Benoit T.J., Miller M.J., Freeman D., Kartik D., Fry A.M., Azziz-Baumgartner E., Hall A.J., MacNeil A., Gundlapalli A.V., Basavaraju S.V., Gerber S.I., Patton M.E., Custer B., Williamson P., Simmons G., Thornburg N.J., Kleinman S., Stramer S.L., Opsomer J.D., and Busch M.P. (2021).

Estimated US infection- and vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence based on blood donations, July 2020-May 2021.

Journal of the American Medical Association, 326(14), 1400-1409.
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Xu X., Meyer M.C., and Opsomer J.D. (2021).

Improved variance estimation for inequality-constrained domain mean estimators using survey data.

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 215, 47-71.
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Brick J.M., Kennedy C., Flores Cervantes I., and Mercer A.W. (2021).

An adaptive mode adjustment for multimode household surveys.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
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Treviño M., Zhu X., Lu Y.Y., Scheuer L.S., Passell E., Huang G.C., Germine L.T., and Horowitz. T.S. (2021).

How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests.

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, 51.
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Jones M., Brick J.M., and Van de Kerchkove W. (2021).

Effects of address coverage enhancement on estimates from address-based sampling studies.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology smab032.
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Paolicelli C., Borger C., DeMatteis J., Gollapudi B., Machado J., Reat A., Ritchie L., Sun B., Whaley S., and Zimmerman T.P. (2021).

The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2) through age 5: What we've learned, what questions remain, and how you can use this longitudinal dataset.

Current Developments in Nutrition, 5(Suppl. 2), 173.
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Marker D.A., Brock S., Steiger D., DeMatteis J., and Popick H. (2021).

Jewish community studies in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary Jewry, 41(2), 349-368.
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Jones M., Cecere W.E., Lin T.-H., Kali J., and Flores Cervantes I. (2021).

Modeling survey nonresponse under a cluster sample design: Classification and regression tree methodologies compared.

Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
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Kali J., Krenzke T., Chen Y., Chen J.A., and Green J. (2021).

Evaluation of methods to form segments from Census blocks in area sample designs.

Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
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Li J., Li L., Krenzke T., and Chang W.-Y. (2021).

An approach to estimate the reidentification risk in longitudinal survey microdata.

Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
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Yu Q., Johnson M.C., Fishbein H.A., Birch R.J., Zhu X., Mardon R., Pace W., Mathew S.M., Sawyer H.L., Merrill L.S., Umbel K.D., and Jang S. (2021).

Latent class trajectory analysis of risk factors uncovers progression to type 2 diabetes.

Journal of Endocrinological Science, 3(1), 26-35.
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Raithel M.A. (2021).

The SAS data set characterization utility.

Proceedings of SAS Global Forum 2021. Cary, NC: SAS Institute.
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Erciulescu A.L., Opsomer J.D., and Breidt F.J. (2021).

A bridging model to reconcile statistics based on data from multiple surveys.

Annals of Applied Statistics, 15(2), 1068-1079.
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Oh A.Y., Caporaso A., Davis T., Dwyer L.A., Nebeling L.C., Liu B., and Hennessy E. (2021).

Effect of incentive amount on U.S. adolescents' participation in an accelerometer data collection component of a national survey.

Field Methods, 33(3), 219-235.
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Diaz E., Brooks G., and Johanson G. (2021).

Detecting differential item functioning: Item response theory methods versus the Mantel-Haenszel procedure.

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 8(2), 376 - 393.
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Yan T. (2021).

Consequences of asking sensitive questions in surveys.

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 8, 109-127.
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Opsomer J., Chen A., Chang W.-Y., and Foley D. (2021).

U.S. employment higher in the private sector than in the education sector for U.S.-trained doctoral scientists and engineers: Findings from the 2019 Survey of Doctorate Recipients.

(NSF 21-319). Alexandria, VA: National Science Foundation.
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Fay R.E. (2021).

Constructing and disseminating small area estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007–2018.

Washington, DC: Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Olson K., Smyth J.D., Horwitz R., Keeter S., Lesser V., Marken S., Mathiowetz N.A., McCarthy J.S., O'Brien E., Opsomer J.D., Steiger D., Sterrett D., Su J., Suzer-Gurtekin Z.T., Turakhia C., and Wagner J. (2021).

Transitions from telephone surveys to self-administered and mixed-mode surveys: AAPOR task force report.

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9(3), 381-411.
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Fishbein H., Bauer D., Yu Q., Mermelstein R., Jones D., Miller A., Harrell M., Loukas A., Sterling K., Colip B., and Mittl B. (2021).

Harmonizing cigar survey data across Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science, Center for Tobacco Products, and Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Studies: The Cigar Collaborative research group.

Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23(1), 212-218.
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Caporaso A. (2020).

Survey question pretesting.

In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. W. Sakshaug, & R.A. Williams (Ed.), SAGE research methods foundations. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing Ltd.
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Oliva-Aviles C., Meyer M.C., and Opsomer J.D. (2020).

Estimation and inference of domain means subject to qualitative constraints.

Survey Methodology, 46(2), 145-180.
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Harrison S.P., Schoen R., Atcitty D., Fiegener R., Goodhue R., Havens K., House C.C., Johnson R.C., Leger E., Lesser V., Opsomer J.D., Shaw N., Soltis D.E., Swinton S.M., Toth E., and Young S.A. (2020).

Preparing for the need for a supply of native seed.

Ecological Restoration, 38(4), 203-206.
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Ren W., Li J., Erciulescu A., Krenzke T., and Mohadjer L. (2020).

A variable selection method for small area estimation modeling of the proficiency of adult competency.

JSM Proceedings, Survey Research Methods Section (pp. 924-956). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
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