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Volume 4 (2008), Issue 5 (May)

1. Clinical magnification error in lateral spinal digital radiographs.
   Spine, 33(10): E311-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Effect of body mass index on the risk of anal incontinence and defecatory dysfunction in women.
   Am J Obstet Gynecol, 198(5): 596.e1-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Comparison of skeletal and soft-tissue changes following unilateral mandibular distraction osteogenesis.
   Plast Reconstr Surg, 121(5): 1751-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Body mass, diabetes and smoking, and endometrial cancer risk: a follow-up study.
   Br J Cancer, 98(9): 1582-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Impact of body mass index and tobacco smoking on outcome after open appendicectomy.
   Br J Surg, 95(6): 751-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Body mass index, prostate-specific antigen, and digital rectal examination findings among participants in a prostate cancer screening clinic.
   Urology, 71(5): 787-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Knee height and arm span: a reflection of early life environment and risk of dementia.
   Neurology, 70(19): 1818-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. A high body mass index has a protective effect on the amount of joint destruction in small joints in early rheumatoid arthritis.
   Ann Rheum Dis, 67(6): 769-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Generalized face super-resolution.
   IEEE Trans Image Process, 17(6): 873-86. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Sensitivity analysis: distributional assumptions and confounding assumptions.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 645-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Simple, defensible sample sizes based on cost efficiency.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 577-85; discussion 586-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. A nonparametric mean estimator for judgment poststratified data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 355-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Population size estimation in a two-list surveillance system with a discrete covariate.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 371-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. An enhanced quantile approach for assessing differential gene expressions.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 449-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Varying coefficients model with measurement error.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 519-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. A signed-rank test for clustered data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 501-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. An application of a mixed-effects location scale model for analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 627-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for k-component poisson mixture with random effects.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 508-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Spatially explicit maximum likelihood methods for capture-recapture studies.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 377-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. "Smooth" semiparametric regression analysis for arbitrarily censored time-to-event data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 567-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. A semiparametric response surface model for assessing drug interaction.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 396-405. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. A general class of pattern mixture models for nonignorable dropout with many possible dropout times.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 538-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Modeling longitudinal data with nonparametric multiplicative random effects jointly with survival data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 546-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Gamma generalized linear models for pharmacokinetic data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 620-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Judgement post-stratification for designed experiments.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 345-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Nonparametric bayes testing of changes in a response distribution with an ordinal predictor.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 413-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Modeling longitudinal biomarker data from multiple assays that have different known detection limits.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 527-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. A Bayesian approach to a logistic regression model with incomplete information.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 424-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Determining the effective sample size of a parametric prior.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 595-602. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Quantifying the predictive performance of prognostic models for censored survival data with time-dependent covariates.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 603-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Semiparametric approaches for joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data with time-varying coefficients.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 557-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Aberrant crypt foci and semiparametric modeling of correlated binary data.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 490-500. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. A two-part joint model for the analysis of survival and longitudinal binary data with excess zeros.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 611-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Modeling unobserved sources of heterogeneity in animal abundance using a Dirichlet process prior.
    Biometrics, 64(2): 635-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Accuracy of predicting the pharyngeal airway space on the cephalogram after mandibular setback surgery.
    J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 66(6): 1099-103. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Body mass index and employment-based health insurance.
    BMC Health Serv Res, 8: 101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Body mass index and magnetic resonance markers of brain integrity in adults.
    Ann Neurol, 63(5): 652-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Comorbidities of overweight/obesity in Australian preschoolers: a cross-sectional population study.
    Arch Dis Child, 93(6): 502-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Cone beam computed tomography: an innovative tool for airway assessment.
    Anesth Analg, 106(6): 1803-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Multicenter evaluation of vancomycin dosing: emphasis on obesity.
    Am J Med, 121(6): 515-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Impact of body mass index on incident hypertension and diabetes in Chinese Asians, American Whites, and American Blacks: the People's Republic of China Study and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
    Am J Epidemiol, 167(11): 1365-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Classifying preadolescent boys based on their weight status and percent body fat produces different groups.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 108(6): 1018-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Prevalence of malnutrition in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome orphans in the Nyanza province of Kenya: a comparison of conventional indexes with a composite index of anthropometric failure.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 108(6): 1014-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Discordance in the assessment of prepregnancy weight status of adolescents: a comparison between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sex- and age-specific body mass index classification and the Institute of Medicine-based classification used for maternal weight gain guidelines.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 108(6): 998-1002. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006.
    JAMA, 299(20): 2401-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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