Poster

The purpose of this session is to provide a forum for public health researchers to present results of their investigations in poster format. The relevance and importance of the session is that it will help to educate attendees about several statistical methods applied to a variety of public health settings: Revising the YTS questionnaire: Results from a 2007-2008 split-ballot experiment; Increasing Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) Response Rates: Could Academic Term Be A Factor? Modeling Semi-Continuous Outcomes in Longitudinal Studies; Testing Colon Cancer Survival Years by a New Method; Collaborative Model of Data Sharing among Major Research Entities: Lessons from RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN) and Jackson Heart Study (JHS); National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program; Validity and reliability of college students' responses to the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-2) in a basic studies physical activity and wellness course; Investigating Risk Factors Affecting the United States Teenage Pregnancy Rates based on Support Vector Machine Classifier; Ranking Important Risk Factors Which Affect United States Syphilis Rates Based on Support Vector Machine; and Investigating Risk Factors Affecting the United States Male and Female Syphilis Rates Using Artificial Neural Networks.

Session Objectives: Describe several statistical methods applied to public health problems Explain how statistical methods are applied to public health problems Demonstrate the application of several statistical methods to public health data