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

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Emerging Methods in Applied Public Health Statistics

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Poster
This session will allow students and new researchers the opportunity to showcase developments in applied public health statistics.
Session Objectives: Describe advances in applied public health statistics made primarily by young researchers.

Board 1
Defining a composite adolescent immunization coverage metric   
Sarah Milder, MPH and Thomas Eckstein, MBA
Board 2
Assessing US health expenditure and its increases, 1996-2012   
Joseph Dieleman, PhD, Anthony Bui, BA, Ranju Baral, PhD, Maxwell Birger, BS, Anne Bulchis, MPH, Hannah Hamavid, BA, Cody Horst, BS, Elizabeth Johnson, BA, Jonathan Joseph, BS, Liya Lomsadze, BS and Christopher Murray, MD, DPhil
Board 3
Effectiveness of Various Variable Importance Methods in A Case Study of Highly Correlated Predictors   
Jenhao (Jacob) Cheng, PhD, MS, Weihan Chen and Alice Li, MS
Board 4
Determining the Relationship Between Adult Obesity Rate and Risk Factor in Mississippi   
Kendria Irby, MSPH Student
Board 5
Maximum likelihood estimates by Homogenous log-linear models for three-way contingency tables with Missing data with application to neuropathology data   
Haresh Rochani, DrPH, MPH , M.B.B.S., Robert Vogel, Professor, Hani Samawi, PhD and Daniel Linder, PhD
Board 6
Effect of Mammography on Non-Breast Cancer Mortality   
Bilikisu Elewonibi, M.P.H. and Patricia Y. Miranda, MPH, PhD
Board 7
Exploring Substance Use and Network Composition of Homeless Youth with and without a History of Foster Care   
Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell, MSW and Eric Rice, PhD
Board 8
Social Support Promoted through Physical Activity Networks   
Whitney Garney, PhD, MPH, Kenneth McLeroy, PhD and Audrey Young
Board 9
Using simulation method and survey data to determine the relationship between BMI and risk factors in the United States   
Gabrielle McGlathery, MSPH Student and Chau-Kuang Chen, Ed.D.
Board 10
Testing measurement Invariance with ordinal categorical Items   
Jichuan Wang, PhD

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, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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