Propensity score methods
- Stuart, E.A. (2010). Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A review and a look forward. Statistical Science 25(1): 1-21.
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- Stuart, E.A. and Ialongo, N.S. (2010). Matching methods for selection of subjects for follow-up. Multivariate Behavioral Research 45(4): 746-765. PMCID NIHMS 223762.
- Harder, V.S., Stuart, E.A., and Anthony, J. (2010). Propensity Score Techniques and
the Assessment of Measured Covariate Balance to Test Causal Associations in Psychological Research. Psychological Methods 15(3): 234-249. PMCID NIHMS 192966.
- Ho, D.E., Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (in press). MatchIt: Nonparametric preprocessing for parametric causal inference. Forthcoming in Journal of Statistical Software. [Webpage]
- Lee, B., Lessler, J., and Stuart, E.A. (2009). Improving propensity score weighting using machine learning.
Statistics in Medicine 29(3): 337-346. PMCID NIHMS153529.
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- Stuart, E.A., Marcus, S.M., Horvitz-Lennon, M.V., Gibbons, R.D., and Normand, S-L.T. (2009). Using non-experimental data to estimate treatment effects. Psychiatric Annals 39(7): 719-728. PMCID NIHMS94293.
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- Marcus, S.M., Siddique, J., Ten Have, T.R., Gibbons, R.D., Stuart, E.A., and Normand, S-L.T. (2008). Balancing treatment comparisons in longitudinal studies. Psychiatric Annals 38(12): 805-811. [Journal page ].
- Stuart, E.A. and Rubin, D.B. (2008). Matching with multiple control groups and adjusting for group differences. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 33(3): 279-306. doi:10.3102/1076998607306078. [PDF].
- Stuart, E.A. (2008). Developing practical recommendations for the use of propensity scores: Discussion of "A critical appraisal of propensity score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003" by Peter Austin, Statistics in Medicine. Statistics in Medicine 27(12): 2062-2065. DOI: 10.1002/sim.3207.
- Stuart, E.A., and Green, K.M. (2008). Using Full Matching to Estimate Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Examining the Relationship between Adolescent Marijuana Use and Adult Outcomes. Developmental Psychology 44(2): 395-406.
- Stuart, E.A. (2007). Estimating causal effects using school-level datasets. Educational Researcher 36: 187-198. [Abstract, PDF].
- Stuart, E.A. and Rubin, D.B. (2007). Best Practices in Quasi-Experimental Designs: Matching methods for causal inference. Chapter 11 (pp. 155-176) in Best Practices in Quantitative Social Science. J. Osborne (Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [Book Webpage]
- Ho, D.E., Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (2007) Matching as nonparametric preprocessing for reducing model dependence in parametric causal inference. Political Analysis 15(3): 199-236. Winner of Warren Miller Prize for best paper published in Volume 15 of Political Analysis. Selected as a Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Social Sciences, general, by Thomson Reuters, due to its being one of the most-cited papers in its discipline published between 2006 and 2008. [Abstract, PDF , Webpage]
- Rubin, D.B. and Stuart, E.A. (2006) Affinely invariant matching methods with discriminant mixtures of proportional ellipsoidally symmetric distributions. The Annals of Statistics 34(4); 1814-1826. [PDF]
- Rubin, D.B. and Stuart, E.A. (2005). Matching with multiple control groups and adjusting for group differences. 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , Section on Health Policy Statistics [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.[PDF]
- Stuart, E.A. (2003) Propensity scores. Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Lewis-Beck, M., Bryman, A.E., and Liao, T.F. (Eds.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Propensity score applications
- Kuramoto, S.J., Stuart, E.A., Runeson, B., Lichtenstein, P., Langstrom, P., and Wilcox, H. (in press). Maternal versus Paternal Suicide and Offspring Risk of Hospitalization for Psychiatric Disorders and Suicide Attempt.
Forthcoming in Pediatrics.
- Green, K.M., Doherty, M., Stuart, E.A., and Ensminger, P. (2010). Does Heavy Adolescent Marijuana Lead to Criminal Involvement in Adulthood?
Evidence from a Multiwave Longitudinal Study of Urban African Americans. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 112: 117-125.
- Werner, R.M., Konetzka, R.T., Stuart, E.A., Norton, E.C., Polsky, D., and Park, J. (2009). The impact of public reporting on quality of postacute care. Health Services Research 44(4): 1169-1187. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00967.x [PDF]
- Harder, V.S., Stuart, E.A., & Anthony, J. (2008). Adolescent cannabis problems and young adult depression: Male-female stratified propensity score analyses. American Journal of Epidemiology 168: 592-601. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwn184.
- Slade, E.P., Stuart, E.A., Salkever, D.S., Karakus, M., Green, K.M., and Ialongo, N. (2008). Impacts of age of onset of substance use disorders on risk of adult incarceration among disadvantaged urban youth: A propensity score matching approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 95: 1-13.
Assessing the generalizability of randomized trial results
- Stuart, E.A., Cole, S.R., Bradshaw, C.P., and Leaf, P.J. (in press). The use of propensity scores to assess the generalizability of results
from randomized trials. Forthcoming in The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. PMC Journal In progress.
- Cole, S.R. and Stuart, E.A. (2010). Generalizing evidence from randomized clinical trials to target populations: the ACTG-320 trial. American Journal of Epidemiology
172: 107-115. [Journal page ].
- Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (2008). Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 171: 481-502. On All-Time Top 10 list of downloads, Social Science Research Network, Quantitative Methods: Econometrics, Polimetrics, and Statistics Section (as of April 15, 2008). Also recognized as a "New Hot Paper in Economics and Business" by Thomson Reuters for being among the most cited in those fields. [PDF]
Dealing with post-treatment variables: Truncation due to death, noncompliance
- Jo, B., and Stuart, E.A. (2009). On the use of propensity scores in principal causal effect estimation. Statistics in Medicine 28:2857-2875. PMCID PMC2757143.
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- Stuart, E.A., Perry, D.F., Le, H-N., & Ialongo, N.S. (2008). Estimating intervention effects of prevention programs: Accounting for noncompliance. Prevention Science 9(4): 288-298. 10.1007/s11121-008-0104-y. [PDF]
- McConnell, S., Stuart, E.A., and Devaney, B. (2008). The truncation-by-death problem: What to do in an experimental evaluation when the outcome is not always defined. Evaluation Review 32(2): 157-186. April 2008: 9th most-read article in Evaluation Review.
- Cook, S.R. and Stuart, E.A. (2007). Discussion of Dominici et al. "Does the effect of micronutrient supplementation on neonatal survival vary with respect to the percentiles of the birth weight distribution?" Bayesian Analysis 1(5): 33-38.
Missing data
- Azur, M., Stuart, E.A., Frangakis, C.M., and Leaf, P.J. (in press). Multiple imputation by chained equations: What is it and how does it work?
Forthcoming in International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.
- Stuart, E.A., Azur, M., Frangakis, C.E., & Leaf, P. (2009). Multiple imputation with large datasets: A case study of the Children's Mental Health Initiative. American Journal of Epidemiology 169(9): 1133-1139. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp026 [Journal page].
Drug and alcohol abuse and dependence
- Wang, Y., Browne, D.C., Petras, H., Stuart, E.A., Wagner, F.A., Lambert, S.F., Kellam, S.G., & Ialongo, N.S. (2009). Depressed Mood and the Effect of Two Universal First Grade Preventive Interventions on Survival to the First Tobacco Cigarette Smoked Among Urban Youth. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 100: 194-203. DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.08.020. [Journal page].
- Crum, R.M., Green, K.M., Storr, C.L., Chan, Y-F., Ialongo, N., Stuart, E.A., and Anthony, J.C.
(2008). Depressed mood in childhood and subsequent alcohol use through adolescence and young adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry 65(6): 702-712. [Journal page]
Autism
- Landa, R.J., Holman, K.C., O’Neill, A.H., and Stuart, E.A. (in press). Intervention targeting development of socially synchronous engagement in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Forthcoming in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry .
Other
- Le, H-N., Perry, D., and Stuart, E.A. (in press). Randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention for perinatal depression in high-risk Latinas.
Forthcoming in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology .
- Werner, R., Konetzka, T., Stuart, E.A., and Polsky, D. (in press). Changes in patient sorting to nursing homes under public reporting: Improved
patient matching or provider gaming? Forthcoming in Health Services Research .
- Karakus, M.C., Salkever, D.S., Slade, E.P., Ialongo, N., and Stuart, E.A. (in press). Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults: Estimation of a Recursive Model.
Forthcoming in Education Economics .
- Werner, R., Polsky, D., and Stuart, E.A. (2010). Public Reporting Contributes To
Provider And Consumer-Driven Quality Gains At Nursing Homes. Health Affairs 29(9): 1706-1713.
- Cooley-Strickland, M., Quille, T.J., Griffin, R.S., Stuart, E.A., Bradshaw, C.P., and Furr-Holden, D.M. (2009). Community violence and youth: Affect, behavior, substance use, and academics. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 12: 127-156. doi: 10.1007/s10567-009-0051-6.
- Miech, R., Azur, M., Patterson, T., Jowers, K., Goldstein, A.B., Stuart, E.A., Walrath, C., and Leaf, P.J. (2008). The potential to reduce mental health disparities through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Journal of Behavioral Health Services \& Research 35(3): 253-264.
- Salkever, D.S., Johnston, S., Karakus, M.C., Ialongo, N.S., Slade, E.P., and Stuart, E.A. (2008). Enhancing the Net Benefits of Disseminating Efficacious Prevention Programs: A Note on Target Efficiency with Illustrative Examples. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Online early access, March 16, 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10488-008-0168-9.
- McCaffrey, D., Stuart, E.A., Rubin, D.B., and Zanutto, E.L. (2006) Design and Implementation of Case-Control Matching to Estimate the Effects of Value-Added Assessment. Paper prepared for the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 2006.
- Rubin, D.B., Stuart, E.A., and Zanutto, E.L. (2004) A Potential Outcomes View of Value-Added Assessment in Education. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 29 (1): 103-116.
- Stuart, E.A. and Judson, D.H. (2003) An empirical evaluation of the use of administrative records to predict census day residency. 2003 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association , Section on Government Statistics [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. [PDF]
- Asher, J., Fienberg, S.E., Stuart, E.A. and Zaslavsky, A.M. (2003). Inferences for finite populations using multiple data sources with different reference times. Proceedings of Statistics Canada Symposium 2002: Modelling Survey Data for Social and Economic Research. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada.
- Stuart, E.A. and Zaslavsky, A.M. (2002) Using administrative records to predict census day residency. Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Volume VI, Gatsonis, C., Kass, R.E., Carriquiry, A., Gelman, A., Higdon, D., Pauler, D.K., Verdinelli, I. (Eds.) New York: Springer, 335-349. [PDF]
- Stuart, E.A. and Zaslavsky, A.M. (2001) Using administrative records to predict census day residency. 2001 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association . Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. [PDF]
- Devaney, B. and Stuart, E.A. (1998). Eating Breakfast: Effects of the School Breakfast Program. Family Economics and Nutrition Review 11(4).
Multiple imputation documentation
- Azur, M., Frangakis, C., and Stuart, E.A. (2008). Disparities Among Children Served by the CMHS Children's Services Program: Overview of Multiple Imputation and Using Multiply Imputed Data. General documentation on creating and using multiply imputed data. [PDF]
- Azur, M., Frangakis, C., and Stuart, E.A. (2007). Disparities Among Children Served by the CMHS Children's Services Program: Multiply Imputed Data Toolkit. Detailed documentation for users of the CMHS Children's Health Program multiply imputed data. [PDF]
Software
Project Reports
- Cody, S., Schirm, A., Stuart, E., Castner, L., and Zaslavsky, A. (2008). Sources of variation in state-level food stamp participation rates. Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. [Webpage]
- McConnell, S., Stuart, E.A., Fortson, K., Decker, P., Perez-Johnson, I., Harris, B., and Salzman, J. (2006). Managing Customers Training Choices: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment. Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. [Webpage]
- Torgesen, J., Myers, D., Schirm, A., Stuart, E., Vartivarian, S., Mansfield, W., Borhnstedt, G., Stancavage, F., Durno, D., Javorsky, R., and Haan, C. (2006). Closing the reading gap: First-year findings from a randomized trial of four reading interventions for striving readers. Report submitted to Congress by the Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. [Webpage]
- Stuart, E., Olsen, R., Schirm, A., Young, J., and DesRoches, D. (2006). The impacts of regular Upward Bound on postsecondary educational activities within 4-6 years after scheduled high school graduation. Draft report submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
- Schirm, A., Stuart, E., and McKie, A. (2006). The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts. Draft report submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. [Webpage]
- Stuart, E.A. Estimating School-Level Causal Effects Using School-Level Data Sets. Invited paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences Board on Testing and Assessment's Symposium on the Use of School-level Data. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
- Stuart, E.A. and Zaslavsky, A.M. (2005). Using administrative records to predict residency: Final Report. Submitted to the U.S. Bureau of the Census.