NMMAPS

Frequently asked questions 

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Reports of the Health Effects Institute (HEI)

HEI Report: NMMAPS Part I [pdf];

HEI Report: NMMAPS Part II [pdf]

HEI Special Report: Revised Analyses of Time series Studies on Air Pollution and Health [pdf]

Statement of the HEI Review Panel [pdf]

Press Release [pdf]

GAM-EXACT

Dominici F. McDermott A. Hastie T. Improved Semi-Parametric Time Series Models of Air Pollution and Mortality, REVISED september 1 2003 [pdf] Appendix [pdf] [Sofware]

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOSTATISTICS

1999
• Zeger S.L. Dominici F. and Samet J.M. Harvesting--Resistant Estimates of Pollution Effects on Mortality. Epidemiology, 10, 2, 171-175. [pdf]
  2000
• Dominici F. Zeger S.L. and Samet J.M. Combining Evidence on Air Pollution and Daily Mortality from the Largest 20 US cities: A Hierarchical Modeling Strategy. Royal Statistical Society, Series A, with discussion, 163, 263-302 [ps][pdf]
• Dominici F. Zeger S.L. and Samet J.M. A Measurement Error Model for Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Mortality. Biostatistics,l 2, 157-175. [ps][pdf]
• Zeger S.L. Thomas D. Dominici F. Cohen A. Schwartz J. Dockery D. and Samet J.M. Measurement Error in Time-series Studies of Air Pollution: Concepts and Consequences. Environmental Health Perspectives, 108,5, 419-426. [pdf]
• Daniels M. Dominici F. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. Estimating PM10-Mortality Dose-Response Curves and Threshold Levels: An Analysis of Daily Time-Series For the 20 Largest US Cities. American Journal of Epidemiology, with discussion, 152,5,397-412. [pdf] pictures [pdf]
• Samet J.M. Dominici F. Curriero F. Coursac I. and Zeger S.L. Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality: Findings from 20 U.S. Cities. New England Journal of Medicine,  343,24,1742-1757. [pdf]
  2002
• Dominici F. Daniels M. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. Air Pollution and Mortality: Estimating Regional and National Dose-Response Relationships. Journal of American Statistical Association,  97, 457, 100-111 [pdf]
• Dominici F. Air Pollution and Health: what can we learn from a hierarchical approach? Invited Commentary on the paper by Hwang and Chan: Air Pollution effects on daily clinic visits for lower respiratory illness. American Journal of Epidemiology, 155,  1, 11-15. [pdf]
• Dominici F. and McDermott A. and Zeger S.L. and Samet J.M On the Use of Generalized Additive Models in Time Series of Air Pollution and Health American Journal of Epidemiology vol 156, no 3, 193-203. [pdf]
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• Zeger S.L. Dominici F. McDermott A. Samet J.M. Modeling the Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in Urban America [pdf] in Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Methods for Public Health Surveillance, (Edited by Brookmeyer R. and Stroup D.), Oxford University Press.
  2003
• Dominici F. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. National Maps of the Effects of PM on Mortality: Exploring Geographical Variation [pdf] Environmental Health Perspectives vol 111 no 1, 39-43
• Samet J.M. Dominici F. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. New Problems for an Old Design: Time-Series Analyses of Air Pollution and Health [pdf]  Epidemiology vol 14 no 1 11-12
• Dominici F. Sheppard L. and Clyde M. Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Statistical Review [pdf]  International Statistical Review vol 71, 243-276.
• Dominici F. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. and Samet J.M. Airborne Particulate Matter and Mortality: Time-Scale Effects in Four US Cities. [pdf] commentary by Richard L. Smith [pdf] rejoinder by the authors [pdf] American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 157, pages 1055-1073 [software]
• Dominici F. Zeger S.L. Zanobetti A. Schwartz J. and Samet J.M. Hierarchical Bivariate Time-Series Models: A Combined Analysis of the Effects of Particulate Matter on Morbidity and Mortality  [pdf] (revised for Biostatistics)
• Daniels M. Dominici F. Zeger S.L. Underestimation of Standard Errors in Multi Site Time Series Studies [pdf]  (Epidemiology to appear)
• Dominici F. Daniels M. McDermott A. Zeger S.L. Samet J.M. Re-analyses of the NMMAPS Data Base: Shape of the Exposure-Response Relationship and Mortality Displacement [pdf] 
• Burnett R. Dewanji A. Dominici F. Goldberg M. Cohen A. Krewski D. On the Relationship Between Time Series Studies, Dynamic Population Studies, and Estimating Life Lost Due to Short-Term Exposure to Environmental Risks [pdf]  EHP abstract [pdf]  Environmental Health Perspective vol 111, 1170-1174
• Bell M. Samet J.M. Dominici F. Time-Series Studies of Particulate Matter [pdf] Annual Review of Public Health (accepted for publication)

  COMBINING INFORMATION (papers from my PhD thesis)

  1997
• Dominici F. Parmigiani G. Wolpert R. and Reckhow K. Combining Information from Related Regressions. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 2, 3, 294-312. [ps] The data used in this article are available.
  1999
• Dominici F., Parmigiani G., Wolpert R. and Hasselblad V. Meta-analysis of Migraine Headache Treatments: Combining information from heterogeneous designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association,  94, 445,16-28. [ps]
• Dominici F. Combining Contingency Tables with Missing Dimensions. Biometrics,  56, 2, 546-553 [ps][pdf]
  2000
• Dominici F. Parmigiani G. and Clyde M. Conjugate Analysis of Multivariate Normal Data With Incomplete Observations. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28,7, 533-550 [ps]

TOXICOLOGY

            2001

• Dominici F. and Parmigiani G. Bayesian Semi-parametric Analysis Of Developmental Toxicology Data. Biometrics, 57, 166-173. [ps][pdf]

HEALTH ECONOMICS2001

            2003

• Johnson E. Dominici F. Griswold M. and Zeger S.L. Disease Cases and Their Medical Costs Attributable to Smoking: An Analysis of the National Medical Expediture Survey. Journal of Econometrics, Vol 112, Issue 1, 1135-151 [pdf]
• Dominici F. Cope L. Naiman D. and Zeger S.L. Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation (SQUARE) [pdf] click here for R software and data
• Dominici F. and Zeger S.L. Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation with Regression: Estimating Medical Expenditures for Smoking Attributable Diseases [pdf]

HEALTH SERVICES AND RESEARCH 2001

            2003

• Huang I.C. Dominici F. Frangakis C. Diette G. Damberg G. Wu A. The Impact of risk-adjustor selection and statistical approach on physician group profiles for satisfaction with asthma care (International Journal of Quality in Health care, under revision) [pdf]
• Huang I.C. Frangakis C. Dominici F. Diette G. Wu A. Application of propensity score approach for risk adjustment in profiling multiple physician groups on asthma care (Health Services and Research submitted) [pdf]
• Huang I.C. Diette G. Dominici F. Frangakis C. Wu A. Variations of physician group profiling indicators for asthma ccare (American Journal of Menaged Care) [pdf]

OTHERS

          2002

• Diette G.B. Krishnan J. Dominici F. Haponik E. Skinner E.A. Steinwachs D. Wu A.W. Asthma in Older Patients: Factor Associated with Hospitalization. Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol 162, 1123-1132. [pdf]
  2003
• Merialdi M. Caulfield L. Zavaleta N. Figueroa A. Costigan K. M. Dominici F. DiPietro J. Randomized Controlled Trail of Prenatal Zinc Supplementation and Fetal Growth, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, to appear [pdf]
• Merialdi M. Caulfield L. Zavaleta N. Figueroa A. Costigan K. M. Dominici F. DiPietro J. Randomized Controlled Trail of Prenatal Zinc Supplementation and the Development of Fetal Heart Rate Patterns, American Journal of Obstretics and Gynecology, to appear [pdf]
• Choi L. Dominici F. Zeger S.L. Ouyang P. Estimating Treatment Efficacy Over Time: a Logistic Regression Model for Binary Longitudinal Outcomes, [pdf]