Publications
Westat researchers publish on a wide array of topics that further our understanding of the field and focus on improving lives through research. Selected publications that communicate our findings, including books, peer-reviewed articles and technical reports, conference proceedings, and more are presented here.
2020
Tourangeau R., Yan T., and Sun H. (2020).
Who can you count on? Understanding the determinants of reliability.
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 8, 903-931.
Vehmeijer F.O.L., Kupers L.K., Sharp G.C., Salas L.A., Lent S., Jima D.D., Tindula G., Reese S., Cancan Q., Gruzieva O., Page C., Rezwan F.I., Melton P.E., Nohr E., Escaramis G., Rzehak P., Heiskala A., Gong T., Tuominen S.T., Gao L., Ross J.P., Starling A.P., Holloway J.W., Yousefi P., Aasvang G.M., Beilin L.J., Bergström A., Binder E., Chatzi L., Corpeleijn E., Czamara D., Eskenazi B., Ewart S., Ferre N., Grote V., Gruszfeld D., Håberg S.E., Hoyo C., Huen K., Karlsson R., Kull I., Langhendries J.P., Lepeule J., Magnus M.C., . Maguire R.L., Molloy P.L., Monnereau C., Mori T.A., Oken E., Räikkönen K., Rifas-Shiman S., Ruiz-Arenas C., Sebert S., Ullemar V., Verduci E., Vonk J.M., Xu C.J., Yang I.V., Zhang H., Zhang W., Karmaus W., Dabelea D., Muhlhausler B.S., Breton C.V., Lahti J., Almqvist C., Jarvelin M.R., Koletzko B., Vrijheid M., Sørensen T.I.A., Huang R.C., Arshad S.H., Nystad W., Melén E., Koppelman G.H., London S.L., Holland N., Bustamante M., Murphy S.K., Hivert M.F., Baccarelli A., Relton C.L., Snieder H., Jaddoe V.W.V., and Felix J.F. (2020).
DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: Meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies.
Genome Medicine, 12(1), 105.
West B. T., Yan T., Kreuter F., Josten M., and Schroeder H. (2020).
Examining the utility of interviewer observations on the survey response process.
In K. Olson, J. Smyth, J. Dykema, A. Holbrook, F. Kreuter, and B. T. West (Eds.), Interviewer Effects from a Total Survey Error Perspective (pp. 106-119). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Yan T. (2020).
Intercoder Reliability.
In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J.W. Sakshaug, and R.A. Williams (Eds.), Sage Research Methods Foundations. London: Sage Publications.
Yan T., Fricker S., and Tsai S. (2020).
Response burden: What is it and what predicts it?.
In P. Beatty, D. Collins, L. Kaye, J. Padilla, G. Willis, and A. Wilmot (Eds.), Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing (pp. 193-212). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons.
Hagen C. A., Greene A. D., Burke J. G., O'Malley T. L. ., Kali J., Rabinovich B. A., Bravo Bueno J. N., and Crandall J.P. (2020).
Theoretically-Informed Performance Measures for the National Domestic Violence Hotline: Summary Brief from the National Domestic Violence Hotline Services Assessment Framework based on Theory Project (OPRE Report # 2020-110).
(2020-110). Washington, D.C.: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Subbian V., Solomonides A., Clarkson M., Rahimzadeh V.N., Petersen C., Schreiber R., DeMuro P.R., Dua P., Goodman K.W., Kaplan B., Koppel R., Lehmann C.U., Pan E., and Senathirajah Y. (2020).
Ethics and informatics in the age of COVID-19: Challenges and recommendations for public health organization and public policy.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Casagrande S.S., Lessem S.E., Orchard T.J., Bullard K.M., Geiss L.S., Saydah S.H., Menke A., Imperatore G., Rust K.F., and Cowie C.C. (2020).
A comparison of several survey-based algorithms to ascertain type 1 diabetes among U.S. adults with self-reported diabetes.
British Medical Journal Open Diabetes Research & Care.
Lindenberg L., Mena E., Turkbey B., Shih J.H., Reese S.E., Harmon S.A., Lim I., Lin F., Ton A., McKinney Y.L., Eclarinal P., Citrin D.E., Dahut W., Madan R., Wood B.J., Krishnasamy V., Chang R., Levy E., Pinto P., Eary J.F., and Choyke P.L. (2020).
Evaluating biochemically recurrent prostate cancer: Histologic validation of 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT with comparison to multiparametric MRI.
Radiology, 296(3), 564-572.
Price S., Chansky M., Meissner H. I., Engstrom M. C., Dunderdale T., Mayne R. G., Bahde A. L., Frechtling J. A., and Mandal R. (2020).
Methods Development and Modeling Research: Contributions to Advancing TRS and Informing Regulations.
Tobacco Regulatory Science, 6(6), 436-439.
