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In Press

Davis B, Flegal K. Comparing the Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves for Complex Survey Designs. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section of the American Statistical Association. (In Press)

Pickle LW. Usability testing of map designs. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Interface of Computing Science and Statistics. (In Press)

Shavers V, Brown ML, Klabunde CN, Potosky AL, Davis B, Moul J , Fahey A . Race/ethnicity and the intensity of medical monitoring under "watchful waiting" for prostate cancer. Medical Care. (In Press)

Shavers V, Brown ML, Klabunde CN, Potosky AL, Davis B, Moul J , Fahey A . Race/ethnicity and the receipt of watchful weighting for the initial management of prostate cancer. Journal of General Internal Medicine. (In Press)

Yu B , Tiwari R, Cronin K, Feuer EJ. Cure fraction estimation from the mixture cure models for grouped survival data. Statistics in Medicine. (In Press)

2004

Jemal A , Tiwari R, Murray T , Ghafoor A , Samuels A , Ward E , Feuer EJ, Thun MJ. Cancer Statistics, 2004. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2004;54:8-29.

Tiwari R, Ghosh K , Jemal A , Hachey M , Ward E , Thun MJ, Feuer EJ. A New Method of Predicting U.S. and State-Level Cancer Mortality Counts for the Current Calendar Year. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2004;54:30-40.

2003

Berrigan Ds, Dodd KW, Troiano R, Krebs-Smith S, Ballard-Barbash RM. Patterns of health behavior in US adults. Preventive Medicine 2003;36:615-623.

Boer R, Ries LA, van Ballegooijen M, Feuer EJ, Legler JM, Habbema JF. Ambiguities In Calculating Cancer Patient Survival: The SEER Experience for Colorectal and Prostate Cancer. Technical Report # 2003-05, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2003 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

Breslau ES, Davis B, Doner L , Eisner E, Goodman NR, Meissner H, Rimer B, Rossouw JE. The Hormone Therapy Dilemma: Women Respond. Journal of the American Medical Women`s Association 2003;58:33-43.

Cronin K, Feuer EJ, Wesley MN, Mariotto A, Scoppa S, Green DT. Current Estimates for 5 and 10 Year Relative Survival. Technical Report # 2003-04, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2003 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

Cronin K, Mariotto A, Scoppa S, Green DT, Clegg L. Differences Between Brenner et al. and NCI Methods for Calculating Period Survival. Technical Report # 2003-02, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2003 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

Davis B, Graubard B, Hartman AM, Stillman F. Descriptive methods for evaluation of state-based intervention programs. Evaluation Review 2003;27:506-534.

Fay MP, Pfeiffer R , Cronin K, Le C , Feuer EJ. Age-conditional probabilities of developing cancer. Statistics in Medicine 2003;22:1837-1838.

Fay MP. Estimating age-conditional probablity of developing cancer using a piecewise mid-age joinpoint model for the rates. Technical Report # 2003-03, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2003 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

Freedman AN, Wideroff LJ, Olson L , Davis B, Klabunde CN, Srinath KP, Reeve B , Croyle R, Ballard-Barbash RM. U.S. physicians attitudes toward genetic testing for inherited cancer susceptibility. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2003;120A:63-71.

MacEachren A, Hardisty F , Dai X , Pickle LW. Supporting visual analysis of federal geospatial statistics. Communications of the ACM 2003;46:63-64.

Mariotto A, Warren J, Knopf K, Feuer EJ. The Prevalence of Colorectal Cancer Patients Under Care in the U.S. Cancer 2003;98:1253-1261.

Meissner H, Rimer B, Davis B, Eisner E, Siegler IC. Another Round in the Mammography Controversy. Journal of Women's Health & Gender Based Mediciene 2003;12:261-276.

Shavers V, Harlan LC, Winn D, Davis B. Racial/ethnic patterns of care for cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, sinuses, and salivary glands. Cancer Metastasis Review 2003;22:25-38.

Wideroff LJ, Freedman AN, Olson L , Klabunde CN, Davis B, Srinath KP, Ballard-Barbash RM, Croyle R. Physician use of cancer susceptibility tests in the U.S.: results of a national survey. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2003;12:295-303.

2002

Bell S. Spatial Analysis of Disease - Applications. Bell S. Spatial Analysis of Disease - Applications. In Beam, C. editor. Biostatistical Applications in Cancer Research. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002;151-182.[View PDF]

Brewer C, Pickle LW. Evaluation of methods for classifying epidemiological data on choropleth maps in series. Annals of the Amer Assoc of Geographers 2002;92(4):662-681.

Clegg L, Feuer EJ, Midthune D, Fay MP, Hankey BF. Impact of reporting delay and reporting error on cancer incidence rates and trends. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94(20):1537-45.

Clegg L, Gail M, Feuer EJ. Estimating the variance of disease prevalence estimates from population-based registries. Biometrics 2002;58(3):684-8.

Etzioni R, Berry K, Legler JM, Shaw P . PSA testing in black and white men: an analysis of Medicare claims from 1991-1998. Urology 2002;59:251-255.

Etzioni R, Penson DF, Legler JM, Gann PH, di Tommaso D , Boer R, Feuer EJ. Overdiagnosis due to prostate-specific antigen screening: Lessons from U.S. prostate cancer incidence trends. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94:981-990.

Fay MP, Follmann Ds. Designing Monte Carlo implementations of permutation or bootstrap hypothesis tests. American Statistician 2002;56:63-70.

Fay MP, Pfeiffer R , Cronin K, Le C , Feuer EJ. Comparison of Two Methods for Calculating Age-Conditional Probabilities of Developing Cancer. Technical Report # 2002-01, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2002 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

Feuer EJ, Mariotto A, Merrill RM. Modeling the impact of the decline in distant stage disease on prostate cancer mortality rates. Cancer 2002;95(4):870-80.

Klabunde CN, Jones E , Brown M , Davis B. Colorectal cancer screening with double-contrast barium enema: A national survey of diagnostic radiologists. American Journal of Radiology 2002;179:1419-1427.

Legler JM, Meissner H, Coyne C, Breen N, Chollette V, Rimer B. The effectiveness of interventions to promote mammography among women with historically lower rates of screening. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2002;11:59-71.

Mariotto A, Capocaccia R, Verdecchia A, Micheli A, Feuer EJ, Pickle LW, Clegg L. Projecting SEER cancer survival rate to the US: an ecological regression approach. Cancer Causes and Control 2002;13:101-111.

Mariotto A, Feuer EJ, Harlan LC, Wun L, Johnson K, Abrams J. Trends in use of Adjuvant Multi-Agent Chemotherapy and Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer in the United Sates: 1975-1999. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94:1626-34.

Mariotto A, Gigli A, Capocaccia R, Clegg L, Scoppa S, Ries LA, Tesauro Gs, Rowland Js, Feuer EJ. Complete and Limited Duration Prevalence Estimates. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1999 2002;19.

Pickle LW, Heineman E, Ward MH, Nuckols JR, Gumpertz M, Bell S. Applications of GIS to cancer research at the National Cancer Institute. Proceedings of the 2001 ESRI international health geographics conference, Washington DC (URL: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/health01/papers/hc01_p01a/hc01_p01a.html ).

Pickle LW, Su Y . Within-state geographic patterns of health insurance coverage and health risk factors in the U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002;22:75-83.

Pickle LW. Spatial Analysis of Disease. Pickle, LW. Spatial analysis of disease. In: Beam, C. editor. Biostatistical Applications in Cancer Research. Boston: Klewer Academic Publishers 2002;113-150. [View PDF]

Singh G, Miller BA, Hankey BF, Feuer EJ, Pickle LW. Changing area socioeconomic patterns in U.S. cancer mortality, 1950-1998: Part I - All cancer among men. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94:904-915.

Stables G, Subar AF, Patterson B, Dodd KW, Heimendinger J, VanDuyne M, Nebeling L. Changes in fruit and vegetable consumption and awareness of US adults: Results of the 1991 and 1997 5 A Day for Better Health Program Surveys. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2002;102:809-817.

Wang X , Chen JX, Carr DB, Bell S, Pickle LW. Geographic statistics visualization: Web-based linked micromap plots. Computing in Science & Engineering 2002;4:90-94.

Warren J, Brown ML, Fay MP, Schussler N, Potosky AL, Riley GF. Costs of treatment for elderly women with early-stage breast cancer in fee-for-service settings. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2002;20:307-316.

2001

Breen N, Wagener DK, Brown ML, Davis B, Ballard-Barbash RM. Progress in cancer screening over a decade: Results of cancer screening from the 1987, 1992, and 1998 National Health Interview Surveys. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001;93:23-32.

Cronin K, Krebs-Smith S, Troiano R, Feuer EJ, Ballard-Barbash RM. Evaluating the impact of population changes in diet, physical activity and weight status on population risk for colon cancer in the United States. Cancer Causes and Control 2001;12:305-316.

Fay MP, Graubard B. Small sample adjustments for Wald-type tests using sandwich estimators. Biometrics 2001;57:1198-1206.

Knopf K, Warren J, Feuer EJ, Brown ML. Bowel surveillance patterns following a diagnosis of colorectal cancer in Medicare beneficiaries. Gastroinstestinal Endoscopy 2001;54:563-571.

Pickle LW, Feuer EJ, Edwards B. Predicting cancer incidence in non-SEER counties. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section of the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2001;45-52.

Potosky AL, Feuer EJ, Levin DL. Impact of screening on incidence and mortality of prostate cancer in the United States. Epidemiologic Reviews 2001;23:181-186.

Rimer B, Meissner H, Breen N, Legler JM, Coyne C. Social and behavioral interventions to increase breast cancer screening. Chapter 9 in Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences with Public Health eds N Schneiderman, MA Speers, JM Silva, H Tomes and JH Gentry APA, Washington DC 2001.

Rowland Js, Aziz Ns, Tesauro Gs, Feuer EJ. The changing face of cancer survivorship. Seminars in Oncology Nursing 2001;17:236-240.

Stillman F, Cronin K, Evans W, Ulasevich A. Can media advocacy influence newspaper coverage of tobacco: Measureing the effectiveness of the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study`s (ASSIST) media advocacy strategies. Tobacco Control 2001;10:137-144.

VanDuyne M, Kristal A, Dodd KW, Campbell M, Glanz K, Subar AF, Stables G, Nebeling L. Association of diet-related psychosocial factors with fruit and vegetable consumption: A national survey. American Journal of Health Promotion 2001;16:69-78.

Yoder C, Weitzen S, Pickle LW, Grant B, Herrmann D, Schnitzer S. Cognitive functioning in the last year of life as a function of age, gender, and race. Experimental Aging Research 2001;27:241-256.

2000

Cronin K, Feuer EJ. Cause-specific mortality for cancer patients in the presence of other causes: a crude analogue of relative survival. Statistics in Medicine 2000;19:1729-1740.

Cubbin C, Pickle LW, Fingerhut L. Sociostructural context and the geography of homicide among black and white males in the U.S. American Journal of Public Health 2000;90(4):579-587.

Gamel JW, Weller EA, Wesley MN, Feuer EJ. Parametric cure models of relative and cause-specific survival for grouped survival times. Computer Programs in Biomedicine 2000;61:99-110.

Hankey BF, Ries LA, Kosary C, Feuer EJ, Merrill RM, Clegg L, Edwards B. Partitioning linear trends in age-adjusted rates. Cancer Causes and Control 2000;11(1):31-35.

Kim H, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Midthune D. Permutation test for joinpoint regresssion with application to cancer rates. Statistics in Medicine 2000;19;335-351:(Corr.:2001;20:655).

Klabunde CN, Potosky AL, Legler JM, Warren J. Development of a comorbidity measure using physician claims data. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2000;53:2158-2167.

Legler JM, Potosky AL, Stanford J, Gilliland F. Validation of retrospective recall of disease-specific function and bother: Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study. Medical Care 2000;38(8):847-857.

Legler JM, Ries LA, Merrill RM, Warren J, Heineman E, Kaplan R, Linet M. Response to Segal. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000;92:77.

Merrill RM, Capocaccia R, Feuer EJ, Mariotto A. Cancer prevalence estimates based on tumor registry data in the SEER program. International Journal of Epidemiology 2000;29:197-207.

Nandram B, Pickle LW. A Bayesian analysis of trends in U.S. homicide rates. Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2000;66-71.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Cognitive research for the design of statistical rate maps. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2000;185-91.

Pickle LW. Exploring the spatio-temporal patterns of mortality using mixed effects models. Statistics in Medicine 2000;19:2251-63.

Pickle LW. Mapping mortality data in the United States. Spatial Epidemiology 2000;240-252.

Potosky AL, Legler JM, Albertsen PC, Stanford J, Gilliland F, Hamilton AH, Eley JW, Stephenson R, Harlan LC. Health outcomes after prostatectomy or radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Results from the prostate cancer outcomes study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000;92:1582-1592.

1999

Breen N, Wesley MN, Merrill RM, Johnson K. The relationship of socioeconomic status and health care access to minimum expected treatment among female breast cancer patients in the National Cancer Institute Black-White Cancer Survival Study. Ethnicity and Disease 1999;9:112-125.

Cronin K, Freedman L, Lieberman R, Weiss H, Beenken S, Kelloff G. Bayesian monitoring of phase II trial in cancer chemoprevention. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1999;52:705-711.

Cronin K, Freedman L, Lieberman R. Reply to the Dissent by Hans C. van Houwelingen. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1999;52:715-716.

Etzioni R, Feuer EJ, Sullivan S, Lin DY, Hu C, Ramsey SD. On the use of survival analysis techniques to estimate medical care costs. Journal of Health Economics 1999;18:365-380.

Etzioni R, Legler JM, Feuer EJ, Merrill RM, Cronin K, Hankey BF. Interpreting trends in prostate cancer - Part III: Quantifying the link between population PSA testing and recent declines in prostate cancer mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:1033-1039.

Fay MP, Midthune D, Graubard B, Freedman L. Meta Analyses using conditional logistic regression with sandwich estimators. Proceedings of the Biopharmaceutical Section, American Statistical Association 1999.

Fay MP. Approximate confidence intervals for rate ratios from directly standardized rates with sparse data. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1999;28:2141-2160.

Fay MP. Comparing several score tests for interval censored data. Statistics in Medicine 1999;18:273-285.

Feuer EJ, Merrill RM, Hankey BF. Interpreting trends in prostate cancer - Part II: Cause of death misclassification and the recent rise and fall in prostate cancer mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:1025-1032.

Feuer EJ, Sheinfeld J, Bosl GJ. Does size matter? Association between number of patients treated and patient outcome in metastatic testicular cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:816-818.

Hankey BF, Feuer EJ, Clegg L, Hayes R, Legler JM, Prorok P, Ries LA, Merrill RM, Kaplan R. Interpreting trends in prostate cancer- Part I: Evidence of the effects of screening in recent prostate cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:1017-1024.

Legler JM, Ries LA, Merrill RM, Warren J, Heineman E, Kaplan R, Linet M. Response to Schechter. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:2050-2051.

Legler JM, Ries LA, Smith M, Warren J, Heineman E, Kaplan R, Linet M. Brain and other CNS cancers: Recent trends in incidence and mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:1382-1390.

Merrill RM, Brown ML, Potosky AL, Riley GF, Taplin SH, Barlow W, Fireman B. Survival and treatment for colorectal cancer Medicare patients in two group/staff health maintenance organizations and the fee-for-service setting. Medical Care Research and Review 1999;56(2):177-196.

Merrill RM, Feuer EJ, Warren J, Schussler N, Stephenson R. The role of transurethral resection of the prostate in population-based prostate cancer incidence rates. American Journal of Epidemiology 1999;150:848-860.

Merrill RM, Kessler L, Udler J, Rasband G, Feuer EJ. Comparison of risk estimates for selected diseases and causes of death. Preventive Medicine 1999;28:816-818.

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH. Application of a weighted head-banging algorithm to mortality data maps. Statistics in Medicine 1999;18:3201-9.

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH. Effects of smoothing mortality data using the weighted head-banging algorithm. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1998 Meeting, Dallas, TX 1999;43-51.

Nandram B, Sedransk J, Pickle LW. Bayesian analysis of mortality rates for U.S. Health Service Areas. Sankhya 1999;Series B, 61(1):145-165.

Pickle LW, Gillum R. Geographic variation in cardiovascular disease mortality in U.S. blacks and whites. Journal of the National Medical Association 1999;91(10):545-556.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Exploring spatial patterns of mortality: The new Atlas of United States Mortality. Statistics in Medicine 1999;18:3211-20.

Potosky AL, Harlan LC, Stanford J, Gilliland F, Hamilton AH, Albertsen PC, Eley JW, Legler JM. Prostate cancer practice patterns and quality of life: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91:1719-24.

Potosky AL, Merrill RM, Riley GF, Taplin SH, Barlow W, Fireman B, Lubitz JD. Prostate cancer treatment and 10-year survival among group/staff HMO and fee-for-service Medicare patients. Health Services Research 1999;34(2):523-541.

Shih JH, Fay MP. A class of permutation tests for stratified survival data. Biometrics 1999;55:1156-1161.

Stillman F, Hartman AM, Graubard B, Gilpin EA, Chavis D, Garcia J, Wun L, Lynn W, Manley M. The Americal Stop Smoking Intervention Study: Conceptual framework and evaluation design. Evaluation Review 1999;23:259-280.

Warren J, Feuer EJ, Potosky AL, Riley GF, Lynch C. Use of Medicare hospital and physician data for to assess breast cancer incidence. Medical Care 1999;37:445-56.

Weller EA, Feuer EJ, Frey CM, Wesley MN. Parametric relative survival modelling using generalized linear models with application to Hodgkin Lymphoma. Applied Statistics: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society -Series C 1999;48:79-89.

1998

Cronin K, Legler JM, Etzioni R. Assessing uncertainty in microsimulation modeling with application to cancer screening interventions. Statistics in Medicine 1998;17:2509-2523.

Cronin K, Weed DL, Connor RJ, Prorok P. Case-control studies of cancer screening: theory and practice. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1998;90(7):498-504.

Edwards MJ, Gamel JW, Feuer EJ. Improvement in the prognosis of breast cancer from 1965 to 1984. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1998;16:1030-1035.

Etzioni R, Cha R, Feuer EJ, Davidov O. Asymptomatic incidence and duration in prostate cancer. American Journal of Epidemiology 1998;148:775-785.

Fay MP, Graubard B, Freedman L, Midthune D. Conditional logistic regression with sandwich estimators: application to a meta-analysis. Biometrics 1998;54:195-208.

Fay MP, Shih JH. Permutation tests using estimated distribution functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1998;93:387-396.

Ferris DG, Cox TJ, Burke L, Litaker MS, Harper DM, Campion MJ, Greenberg MD, McShane L, Wun L. Colposcopy quality control: Establishing colposcopy criteron standards for the NCI ALTS trial. Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease 1998;2:195-203.

Kulldorff M, Athas WF, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Key CR. Evaluating cluster alarms: A space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos. American Journal of Public Health 1998;88:1377-1380.

Legler JM, Feuer EJ, Potosky AL, Merrill RM, Kramer BS. The role of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing patterns in the recent prostate cancer incidence decline in the U.S.A. Cancer Causes and Control 1998;9:519-527.

MacEachren AM, Boscoe F, Haug D, Pickle LW. Geographic visualization: Designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Research Triangle Park, NC 1998;87-94.

MacEachren AM, Brewer CA, Pickle LW. Visualizing georeferenced data: Representing reliability in health statistics. Environment and Planning 1998;30:1547-1561.

MacEachren AM, Polsky C, Haug D, Brown D, Boscoe F, Beedasy J, Pickle LW, Marrara M. Visualizing spatial relationships among health, environmental, and demographic statistics: Interface design issues. Proceedings of the 18th International Cartographic Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997 1998;880-887.

Meissner H, Breen N, Coyne C, Legler JM, Green DT, Edwards B. Breast and cervical cancer screening intervention research: A critical assessment of the literature. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 1998;7:951-961.

Troendle J, Legler JM. Identifying significant individual outcomes in a multiple outcome setting: stepwise tests or global tests with closed testing. Statistics in Medicine 1998;17(11):1245-60.

Wun L, Merrill RM, Feuer EJ. Estimating lifetime and age-conditional probabilities of developing cancer. Lifetime Data Analysis 1998;4:169-186.

1997

Breen N, Feuer EJ, Depuy S, Zapka J. The effect of Medicare reimbursement for screening mammography on utilization and payment. Public Health Reports 1997;112:423-432.

Brewer CA, MacEachren AM, Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Mapping mortality: Evaluating color schemes for choropleth maps. Annals of the Amer Assoc of Geographers 1997;87(3):411-438.

Brewer CA, MacEachren AM, Pickle LW. Choice of colors for the new NCHS mortality atlas. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Tampa FL, Feb. 14, 1995 1997;14-20.

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. Confidence intervals for directly standardized rates: A method based on the Gamma distribution. Statistics in Medicine 1997;16:791-801.

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. A semi-parametric estimate of extra-poisson variation for vital rates. Statistics in Medicine 1997;16:2398-2401.

Fay MP, Freedman L, Clifford C, Midthune D. Effects of different types and amounts of fat on the development of mammary tumors in rodents: a review. Cancer Research 1997;57:3979-3988.

Fay MP, Freedman L. Meta-Analyses of dietary fats and mammary neoplasms in rodent experiments. Breast Cancer Res Treat 1997;46(2-3):215-223.

Kulldorff M, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Freedman L. Breast cancer clusters in the northeastern United States: A geographical analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology 1997;146:161-170.

Lin DY, Feuer EJ, Etzioni R, Wax Y. Estimating medical costs from incomplete follow-up data. Biometrics 1997;53:419-434.

Manley M, Pierce JP, Gilpin EA, Rosbrook B, Berry C, Wun L. Impact of American Stop Smoking Intervention Study on cigarette consumption. Tobacco Control 1997;6 Suppl 2:S12-6.

Merrill RM, Brawley OW. Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates among white and black men. Epidemiology 1997;8:126-131.

Merrill RM, Weed DL, Feuer EJ. The lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer in white and black men. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 1997;6:763-768.

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH, White AA. Application of a weighted headbanging algorithm to mortality data maps. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section of the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 1997;45-49.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Mungiole M, White AA. Design of the new U.S. mortality atlas. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Tampa FL, Feb. 14, 1995 1997;4-12.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Gillum R. Geographic variation in stroke mortality in blacks and whites in the United States. Stroke 1997;28:1639-47.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Analysis of mapped mortality data by mixed effects models. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1996 Meeting, Chicago, IL 1997;227-232.

Pickle LW, White AA, Mungiole M, Jones GK. Atlas of United States Mortality. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1996 Meeting, Chicago, IL 1997;40-44.

Potosky AL, Merrill RM, Riley GF, Taplin SH, Barlow W, Fireman B, Ballard-Barbash RM. Breast cancer survival and treatment in health maintenance organizations and fee-for-service settings. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1997;89(22):1683-91.

Sammel MD, Ryan LM, Legler JM. Latent variable models for teratogensis using multiple binary outcomes. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1997;92(437):13-20.

Sammel MD, Ryan LM, Legler JM. Latent variable models for mixed discrete and continuous outcomes. J Royal Stat Soc, Series B 1997;59:667-678.

1996

Black MM, Zachrau RE, Hankey BF, Feuer EJ. Prognostic significance of in situ carcinoma associated with invasive breast carcinoma. Cancer 1996;78:778-788.

Bunin GR, Feuer EJ, Witman PA, Meadow A. Increasing incidence of childhood cancer: report of 20 years experience from the Greater Delaware Valley Pediatric Tumor Registry. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1996;10:319-338.

Fay MP, Gennings C. Nonparametric two-sample tests for repeated ordinal responses. Statistics in Medicine 1996;15:429-442.

Fay MP. Rank invariant tests for interval censored data under the grouped continuous model. Biometrics 1996;52:811-822.

Feuer EJ. Lifetime probability of cancer (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1996;89:279.

Gamel JW, Meyer JS, Feuer EJ, Miller BA. The impact of stage and histology on the long-term clincial course of 163,808 patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer 1996;77:1459-1464.

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. A cognitive subtask model of statistical map reading. Visual Cognition 1996;3:165-190.

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. The new cognitive perspective in statistical map reading. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1995 Meeting, Orlando, FL 1996;4-7.

Jones GK, Pickle LW, Mungiole M. The use of the SAS programming language and procedures to model and process data used in creating the new U.S. Mortality Atlas. Proceedings of the 21st Annual SAS Users’ Group International Conference 1996;1074-1079.

Legler JM, Lefkopoulou M, Ryan LM. Efficiency and power of tests for multiple binary outcomes. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1996;90(430):680-693.

Merrill RM, Feuer EJ. Risk-adjusted cancer incidence rates (United States). Cancer Causes and Control 1996;7:553-556.

Merrill RM, Potosky AL, Feuer EJ. Changing trends in US prostate cancer incidence rates. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1996;88:1683-1685.

Merrill RM. Changes in the use of radical prostatectomy for treating prostate cancer in the USA. Lancet 1996;348:963.

Merrill RM. Trends in prostate cancer incidence rates (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1996;88:1617.

Merrill RM. Trends in prostate cancer incidence and surgery (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1996;88:403.

Merrill RM. Corpus uteri cancer rates and trends (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1996;88:1019.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Statistical analysis and graphical design for the new U.S. mortality atlas. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1995 Meeting, Orlando, FL 1996;573-8.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Book. Atlas of United States Mortality 1996.

Riley GF, Feuer EJ, Lubitz JD. Disenrollment of medicare cancer patients from health maintenance organizations. Medical Care 1996;34:826-836.

Roetzheim R, Fox SA, Leake B, Houn F, NCI Breast Cancer Screening Co . The influence of risk factors on breast carcinoma screening of Medicare-insured older women. Cancer 1996;78:2526-2534.

Tilley BC, Marler J, Geller NL, Lu M, Legler JM, Brott T, Lyden P, Grotta J. Use of a global test for multiple outcomes in stroke trials with application to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke t-PA stroke trial. Stroke 1996;27:2136-2141.

1995

Feuer EJ. Incidence of testicular cancer in U.S. men (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1995;87:405.

MacEachren A, Brewer CA, Pickle LW. Mapping health statistics: Representing data reliability. Proceedings of the 17th International Cartographic Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 11, 1995 1995;311-9.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Cognitive Aspects of Statistical Mapping. NCHS Working Paper Series Report, No. 18, 1995.

Pickle LW, White AA. Effect of the choice of age-adjustment method on maps of death rates. Statistics in Medicine 1995;14:615-627.

White AA, Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Croner CM, Wilson BF. Map design preferences associated with professional discipline. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1994 Meeting, Toronto, Canada 1995;54-59.

Wun L, Feuer EJ, Miller BA. Are increases in mammographic screening still a valid explanation for trends in breast cancer incidence in the United States? Cancer Causes and Control 1995;6:135-144.

1994

Campbell MK, Feuer EJ, Wun L. Cohort-specific risks of developing breast cancer to age 85 in Connecticut. Epidemiology 1994;5:290-296.

Chu K, Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. A method for partitioning cancer mortality trends by factors associated with diagnosis: an application to breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1994;47:1451-1461.

Feuer EJ, Frey CM, Brawley OW, Nayfield SG, Cunningham JB, Geller NL, Bosl GJ, Kramer BS. After a treatment breakthrough: A comparison of trial and population-based data for advanced testicular cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1994;12:368-377.

Frey CM, Feuer EJ, Timmel MJ. Projection of incidence rates to a larger population using ecologic variables. Statistics in Medicine 1994;13:1755-1770.

Herrmann DJ, Kerwin J, Pickle LW, Croner CM, White AA, Jobe JB, Jones GK. Cognitive processes in statistical map reading. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1993 Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1994;51-54.

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. A cognitive subtask model of statistical map reading. NCHS Working Paper Series Report, No. 18, 1994;No. 11.

Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. The significance of the rising incidence of breast cancer in the U.S. Important Adv Oncology 1994;193-207.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Kerwin J, Croner CM, White AA. The impact of statistical graphic design on interpretation of disease rate maps. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1993 Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1994;111-116.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. The process of reading statistical maps: The effect of color. Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter 1994;5(1):1,12-16.

Stotts RC, Kessler L, Hershey JC, Hall JG, Gruman JG. Awarding contracts at the National Institutes of Health: A sensitivity analysis of the critical parameters. Intl Transactions in Oper Res 1994;1(2):117-124.

1993

Carr DB, Pickle LW. Topics in scientific visualization: Plot production issues and details. Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter 1993;4(2):16-20.

Feuer EJ, Wun L, Boring CC, Flanders DW, Timmel MJ, Tong T. The lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1993;85:892-897.

Gaynor JJ, Feuer EJ, Tan CC, Wu DH, Straus DJ, Clarkson , Brennan MF, Little CR. On the use of cause-specific failure and conditional failure probabilities: Examples from Clinical Oncology and the Stanford Heart Transplant Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1993;88:400-409.

Johnson KA, Pickle LW. Risk of breast cancer in the Nurses` Health Study: Applying the Gail model. Letter to editor. Journal of the American Medical Association 1993;270:2925-2926.

Kessler L, Fintor L, Muha C, Wun L, Annett D, Mazan KD. The Cancer Information Service Telephone Evaluation and Reporting System (CISTERS): A new tool for assessing quality assurance. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs 1993;61-65.

Lewandowsky S, Herrmann DJ, Behrens JT, Li S, Pickle LW, Jobe JB. Perception of clusters in statistical maps. Appl Cog Psych 1993;7:533-551.

Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. Recent incidence trends for female breast cancer: An update. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 1993;43:27-41.

Venir KJ, Feuer EJ, Gorelic L. A statistical model validating triage for the peer review process: Keeping the competitive applications in the review pipeline. FASEB Journal 1993;7:1312-1319.

Wun L, Brown CC. An alternative decision rule for quality control in sequential sampling plans. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1993;22(7):2033-2042.

1992

Byrne J, Kessler L, Devesa SS. The prevalence of cancer among adults in the United States: 1987. Cancer 1992;69:2154-2159.

Coleman EA, Feuer EJ, NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium . Breast cancer screening among women from 65-74 years of age in 1987-88 and 1991. Annals of Internal Medicine 1992;117:961-966.

Coleman EA, Kessler L, Wun L, Feuer EJ. Trends in the surgical treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in females. American Journal of Surgery 1992;164:74-76.

Coughlin SS, Pickle LW, Goodman M, Wilkens LR. The logistic modeling of interobserver agreement. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1992;45:1237-1241.

Coughlin SS, Pickle LW. Sensitivity and specificity-like measures of the validity of a diagnostic test that are corrected for chance agreement. Epidemiology 1992;3:178-181.

Coughlin SS, Trock B, Criqui MH, Pickle LW, Browner D, Tefft MC. The logistic modeling of sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of a diagnostic test. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1992;45:1-7.

Croner CM, Pickle LW, Wolf DR, White AA. A GIS approach to hypothesis generation in epidemiology. Proceedings of the American Congress on Surveys and Mapping 1992;275-283.

Feuer EJ, Hankey BF, Gaynor JJ, Wesley MN, Baker SG, Meyer JS. Graphical representation of survival curves associated with a binary non-reversible time dependent covariate. Statistics in Medicine 1992;11:455-474.

Feuer EJ, Wun L, Boring CC. Probability of developing cancer. Feuer EJ, Wun L, Borring CC. Probability of developing cancer. In Miller BA, Ries LAG, Hankey BF, Kosary CL, Edwards BK, eds. Cancer Statistics Review: 1973-1989, National Cancer Institute, NIH pub. No. 92-2789, 1992.

Feuer EJ, Wun L. How much of the recent rise in breast cancer incidence can be explained by increases in mammography utilization: A dynamic population approach. American Journal of Epidemiology 1992;136:1423-1436.

Frey CM, McMillen MM, Cowan CD, Horm JW, Kessler L. Representativeness of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Data: Recent trends in cancer mortality rates. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1992;84:872-877.

Hall NG, Hershey JC, Kessler L, Stotts RC. A model for making funding decisions at the National Cancer Institute. Operations Research 1992;40:1040-1052.

Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. Letter to the Editor, re: Medical Progress: Breast Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine 1992;327:1756-1757.

1991

Coughlin SS, Nass CC, Pickle LW, Trock B, Bunin GR. Regression methods for estimating attributable risk in population-based case-control studies: A comparison of additive and multiplicative models. American Journal of Epidemiology 1991;133(3):305-313.

Feuer EJ, Kessler L, Baker SG, Triolo HE, Green DT. The impact of breakthrough clincial trials on survival in population based tumor registries. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1991;44:141-153.

Feuer EJ. Breast and Lung/Bronchus Cancers in U.S. Women by geographic area (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1991;83:1437.

Frey CM, Hartman AM. U.S. Trends in melanoma incidence and mortality (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1991;83:1705.

Kessler L, Feuer EJ, Brown ML. Projections of the breast cancer burden to U.S. women: 1990-2000. Preventive Medicine 1991;20:170-182.

Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. Trends in invasive breast cancer incidence among American women (Stat Bite). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1991;83:678.

Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Hankey BF. The increasing incidence of breast cancer since 1982: Relevance of early detection. Cancer Causes and Control 1991;2:67-74.

Pickle LW. Maximum likelihood estimation in the new computing environment. Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter 1991;3:6-15.

Wun L, Pearl WL. Accessing the statistical characteristics of the mean absolute error of forecasting. Intl J Forecasting 1991;7:335-337.

Wun L. Regression analysis of autocorrelated poisson-distributed data. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1991;20(10):3083-3091.

1990

Extramural Committee to Assess Measures of Progress Against Cancer. Measurement of Progress Against Cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1990;82:825-835.

NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium . Screening mammography: A missed clinical opportunity? Results of the NCI Breast Cancer Screening Consortium and the National Health Interview Survey studies. Journal of the American Medical Association 1990;264:54-58.

Pickle LW, Mason TJ, Howard N, Hoover R, Fraumeni JF. Book. Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality among Nonwhites, 1950-1980 1990.

Potosky AL, Kessler L, Gridley G, Brown CC, Horm JW. Rise in prostatic cancer incidence associated with increased use of transurethral resection. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1990;82:1624-1628.

1989

Department of Health and Human Services . Comments of the Department of Health and Human Services on the General Accounting Office`s Draft Report on Breast Cancer: Patients have yet to realize the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy. In:. Breast Cancer Patients` Survival 1989;34-51.

Feuer EJ, Kessler L. Test statistic and sample size for a two sample McNemar test. Biometrics 1989;45(3):629-636.

Pickle LW, Johnson K. Estimating the long-term probability of developing breast cancer (Guest editorial). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1989;81:1854-1855.

1988

Brown CC, Kessler L. Projections of lung cancer mortality in the United States: 1985-2025. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1988;80:43-51.

Pickle LW, McCormick GP. Estimation of the variance matrix for maximum likelihood parameters using quasi-Newton methods. Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on the Interface of Computer Science and Statistics 1988.

1987

Pickle LW, Mason TJ, Howard N, Hoover R, Fraumeni JF. Book. Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality among Whites, 1950-1980 1987.

1986

Feldman AR, Kessler L, Myers MH, Naughton MD. The prevalence of cancer, estimates based on the Connnecticut Tumor Registry. New England Journal of Medicine 1986;315:1394-1397.

Levin DL, Gail M, Kessler L, Eddy DM. A model for projecting cancer incidence and mortality in the presence of prevention screening, and treatment programs. Cancer control objectives for the nation: 1985-2000 NCI Monographs Number 2, NIH Pub. No. 86-2880 1986;2:83-93.

1985

Pickle LW, Hartman AM. Indicator foods for vitamin A assessment. Nutrition and Cancer 1985;7:3-23.

1983

Pickle LW, Morris LE, Brown LM. Information available from surrogate respondents in case-control interview studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 1983;118:99-108.

1981

Pickle LW, Mulvihill JJ. An example of sample size determination for family studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 1981;114:299-303.

1980

Decoufle P, Thomas TL, Pickle LW. Comparison of the proportionate mortality rates and standardized mortality ratio risk measures. American Journal of Epidemiology 1980;111:263-269.

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