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Modeling ecological drivers in marine viral communities using comparative metagenomics and network analyses by Hurwitz, Bonnie L., Westveld, Anton H., Brum, Jennifer R., Sullivan, Matthew B.

“…Long-standing questions in marine viral ecology are centered on understanding how viral assemblages change along gradients in space and time. However,…”
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Analysis of survey on menstrual disorder among teenagers using Gaussian copula model with graphical lasso prior by Wang, Jiali, Westveld, Anton H, Welsh, A H, Parker, Melissa, Loong, Bronwyn

“…A high prevalence of menstrual disturbance has been reported among teenage girls, and research shows that there are delays in diagnosis of endometriosis among…”
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unifying approach for food webs, phylogeny, social networks, and statistics by Chiu, Grace S, Westveld, Anton H

“…A food web consists of nodes, each consisting of one or more species. The role of each node as predator or prey determines the trophic relations that weave the…”
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A MIXED EFFECTS MODEL FOR LONGITUDINAL RELATIONAL AND NETWORK DATA, WITH APPLICATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CONFLICT by Westveld, Anton H., Hoff, Peter D.

“…The focus of this paper is an approach to the modeling of longitudinal social network or relational data. Such data arise from measurements on pairs of objects…”
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The use of metformin is associated with decreased lumbar radiculopathy pain by Taylor, Amber, Westveld, Anton H, Szkudlinska, Magdalena, Guruguri, Prathima, Annabi, Emil, Patwardhan, Amol, Price, Theodore J, Yassine, Hussein N

“…Lumbar radiculopathy pain represents a major public health problem, with few effective long-term treatments. Preclinical neuropathic and postsurgical pain…”
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Latent health factor index: a statistical modeling approach for ecological health assessment by Chiu, Grace S., Guttorp, Peter, Westveld, Anton H., Khan, Shahedul A., Liang, Jun

“…Multimetric indices (MMIs) are appealing scalar‐valued tools for policy makers when rating ecosystems with respect to biological conditions that are not…”
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Modeling of the learning process in centipede games by Westveld, Anton H., Hoff, Peter D.

“…According to classic game theory, individuals playing a centipede game learn about the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium via repeated play of the game. We…”
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A unifying approach for food webs, phytogeny, social networks, and statistics by Chiu, Grace S., Westveld, Anton H.

“…A food web consists of nodes, each consisting of one or more species. The role of each node as predator or prey determines the trophic relations that weave the…”
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A statistical social network model for consumption data in trophic food webs by Chiu, Grace S., Westveld, Anton H.

“…We adapt existing statistical modeling techniques for social networks to study consumption data observed in trophic food webs. These data describe the feeding…”
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Curricular Reform in Two Medical School Tracks and the Impact on USMLE Scores by Lundy, Michele B., Standley, Cynthia A., Westveld, Anton H.

“…Purpose The University of Arizona College of Medicine underwent several curricular revisions that began in 2006. These changes included (1) moving from a…”
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Adaptive Shrinkage with a Nonparametric Bayesian Lasso by Marin, Santiago, Loong, Bronwyn, Westveld, Anton H

“…Modern approaches to perform Bayesian variable selection rely mostly on the use of shrinkage priors. That said, an ideal shrinkage prior should be adaptive to…”
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BOB: Bayesian Optimized Bootstrap for Uncertainty Quantification in Gaussian Mixture Models by Marin, Santiago, Loong, Bronwyn, Westveld, Anton H

“…A natural way to quantify uncertainties in Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) is through Bayesian methods. That said, sampling from the joint posterior…”
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Latent Causal Socioeconomic Health Index by Kuh, Swen, Chiu, Grace S, Westveld, Anton H

“…This research develops a model-based LAtent Causal Socioeconomic Health (LACSH) index at the national level. Motivated by the need for a holistic national…”
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Initial clinical trial of a closed loop, fully automatic intra-aortic balloon pump by Kantrowitz, A, Freed, P S, Cardona, R R, Gage, K, Marinescu, G N, Westveld, A H, Litch, B, Suzuki, A, Hayakawa, H, Takano, T

“…A new generation, closed loop, fully automatic intraaortic balloon pump (CL-IABP) system continuously optimizes diastolic augmentation by adjusting balloon…”
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Modeling National Latent Socioeconomic Health and Examination of Policy Effects via Causal Inference by Kuh, F. Swen, Chiu, Grace S, Westveld, Anton H

“…This research develops a socioeconomic health index for nations through a model-based approach which incorporates spatial dependence and examines the impact of…”
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A Copula-based Imputation Model for Missing Data of Mixed Type in Multilevel Data Sets by Wang, Jiali, Loong, Bronwyn, Westveld, Anton H, Welsh, Alan H

“…We propose a copula based method to handle missing values in multivariate data of mixed types in multilevel data sets. Building upon the extended rank…”
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A Statistical Social Network Model for Consumption Data in Food Webs by Chiu, Grace S, Westveld, Anton H

“…We adapt existing statistical modeling techniques for social networks to study consumption data observed in trophic food webs. These data describe the feeding…”
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A mixed effects model for longitudinal relational and network data, with applications to international trade and conflict by Westveld, Anton H, Hoff, Peter D

“…Annals of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2A, 843-872 The focus of this paper is an approach to the modeling of longitudinal social network or relational…”
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A Statistical View of Learning in the Centipede Game by Westveld, Anton H, Hoff, Peter D

“…Stat 2 (1), 242-254. 2013 In this article we evaluate the statistical evidence that a population of students learn about the sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium…”
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