2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

4264.0
Applications of Public Health Data Techniques

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Poster
This poster session will provide an opportunity to discuss current statistical techniques, motivated by applications of public health data.
Session Objectives: Identify current issues in data analysis techniques as applied to public health data.

Board 1
Mortality Rates for Areas Smaller than US Counties: Predictions based on Machine Learning   
Anna Belova, Jacqueline Haskell and Mark Corrales, MPP
Board 2
CKD Surveillance Using Laboratory Data of the National Preventive Healthcare Service Program For Adults: Experience from Taiwan   
Li-Nien Chien, PhD, Chih-Chi Wang and Hung-Yi Chiou, PhD
Board 3
A 20-year longitudinal epidemiologic study and its continued applicability for new research findings and directions: The Air Force Health Study   
Anne Styka, MPH and David A. Butler, PhD
Board 4
25 Year Evolution of State Health Rankings - a retrospective review of the change in methodology   
Thomas Eckstein, MBA and Sarah Milder, MPH
Board 5
Comparison of ordinal multinomial models with missing data: Application to length of stay in mental health healing community   
Niloofar Ramezani
Board 6
Relationship between mean, median and mode with grouped data   
Shimin Zheng, PhD, Eunice Mogusu, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, MBBS, DrPH, MPH and Megan Quinn, DrPH, MSc
Board 7
Chiraq Online: A Computational Analysis of Social Media Data to Better Understand Neighborhood Violence Among Youth in Chicago   
Alicia Riley, MA MA MPH
Board 8
Identification of Deliveries in Claims Datasets   
Linh Nguyen, M.S, Suja Rajan, PhD, Ellerie Weber, PhD, Cecilia Ganduglia, MD DrPH and Maria Ukhanova, MD, MPA
  
Board 9
Weighting the Factors Associated with Children Obesity: A Random Forest Approach   
Dario Gregori, Giulia Lorenzoni, Nicola Soriani and Paola Berchialla

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Applied Public Health Statistics
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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