Brian S. Caffo

Information

Department of Biostatistics       Office: E3610 Wolfe Street Building
Johns Hopkins UniversityEmail:bcaffo@jhsph.edu
615 N Wolfe StreetPhone: (410) 955-3504
Baltimore, MD, 21205 Fax: (410) 955-0958
Official web page

Of Note

"Flexible Random Intercept Models for Binary Outcomes Using Mixtures of Normals" with Ming Wen An and Charles Rohde. Download the manuscript here. Code can be downloaded here and derivations of the full conditionals can be found here.

A very preliminary R package (no documentation as of yet) that I'm developing, binaryGLMM, contains a collection of utilities for fitting binary GLMMs. Here is some code I'm using to test the various programs.

"Power Conjugate Models with Applications in Genomics", with Dongmei Liu and Giovanni Parmigianni. Download a copy here. Software available free for download here.

"On the Potential for Ill-logic With Logically Defined Outcomes". Download the manuscript here.

"Accounting for within patient correlation in assessing relative sensitivity of an adjunctive diagnostic test: application to lung cancer" by Ryea, Scharfstein and Caffo. Download a copy here.

"New methods for visualization of transitional phenomena" by Swihart, Caffo, Strand and Punjabi. Download a copy here. Also the abstract and some matlab code

"A Mechanistic Latent Variable Model for Estimating Drug Concentrations in the Male Genital Tract" by Leena Choi, Brian Caffo, Charles Rohde, Thomas Ndovi and Craig Hendrix. Download a copy here.

"Fixed-width output analysis for Markov chain Monte Carlo", with Galin Jones, Murali Haran and Ron Neath. Download a copy here.

"Optimal Sampling Times in Bioequivalence Studies Using a Simulated Annealing Algorithm" by Leena Choi, Brian Caffo and Chuck Rohde. Download a copy here.

"Are Multilevel Models Helpful in Screening for Differentially Expressed Genes?" Currently under review. Download a copy here.