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New publications by faculty and doctoral students

Professor Din Chen:
Chen, D. G. (2015, November). Big data perspective in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Presentation at The South African Statistical Association’s 57th Annual Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Chen, D. G. (2015, December). Meta-analysis and its efficiency. Presentation at The South African Statistical Association’s 57th Annual Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Chen, D. G. (2015, December). Interval-censored time-to-event data: From parametric to nonparametric survival data analysis. Presentation at The South African Statistical Association’s 57th Annual Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Chen, D. G. (2015, December). Meta-analysis using R. Presentation at The South African Statistical Association’s 57th Annual Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Chen, D. G., Ting, N. & Ho, S. (in press). Informative priors or non-informative priors? A Bayesian re-analysis of binary data from Macugen Phase III Clinical Trials. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation.

Chen, J. & Chen, D. G. (Series Eds.). (2015). ICSA book series in statistics. New York, NY: Springer. Retrieved from http://www.springer.com/series/13402
Hu, X., Chen, X., Cook, R. L., Chen, D. G., & Okafor, C. (2015). Modeling drinking progression in youths: A non-identified probability discrete event system using cross-sectional data. Current HIV Research, 13, 1. Advance online publication. Retrieved from http://www.eurekaselect.com/node/136223/article

Lin, F., Heffner, K., Ren, P., Tivarus, M., Brasch, J., Chen, D. G., Mapstone, M., Porsteinsson, A., & Tadin, D. (in press). Cognitive and neural effects of vision-based speed of processing training in older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A pilot study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Xie, C. & Chen, D. G. (2016). Multiple testing adjustment in clinical trials and genetic epidemiology studies with R (Chapman & Hall/Biostatistics Series). Oxford, UK: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://www.crcpress.com/Multiple-Testing-Adjustment-in-Clinical-Trials-and-Genetic-Epidemiology/Xie-Chen/9781466586918

Associate Professor Gina Chowa, and Assistant Professors Rainier Masa and David Ansong:
Chowa, G., Masa, R., Ramos, Y., & Ansong, D. (2015). How do student and school characteristics influence youth academic achievement in Ghana? A hierarchical linear modeling of Ghana YouthSave baseline data. International Journal of Educational Development, 45, 129-140. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.09.009 Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059315001157

Ph.D. ’15 Graduate Will Hall and Associate Professor Mimi Chapman:
Hall, W. J., Chapman, M. V., Lee, K. M., Merino, Y. M., Thomas, T. W., Payne, B. K., … & Coyne-Beasley, T. (2015). Implicit racial/ethnic bias among health care professionals and its influence on health care outcomes: A systematic review. American Journal of Public Health, 105(12), 60-76. Retrieved from http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302903

Assistant Professor Paul Lanier:
Parrish, J., Shanahan, M., Arvidson, J. & Lanier, P. (2015). Maternal intimate partner violence victimization before and during pregnancy and post-birth child welfare contact: A population based assessment. Child Maltreatment, 1-11. Advance online publication. doi:

Assistant Professor Rainier Masa:
Masa, R. (2015, November). Predictors of condom use among Ghanaian youth: Longitudinal association. Presented at 2015 American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Chicago.

Assistant Professor Cindy Fraga Rizo:
Rizo, C. F. (2015). Intimate partner violence related stress and the coping experiences of survivors: “There’s only so much a person can handle.” Journal of Family Violence. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10896-015-9787-6

Rizo, C. F., Macy, R. J., Ermentrout, D. M., O’Brien, J., Pollock, M. K., & Dababnah, S. (2015). Research with children exposed to partner violence: Perspectives of service-mandated, CPS- and court-involved survivors on research with their children. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi:10.1177/0886260515596534

O’Brien, J., Ermentrout, D. M., Rizo, C. F., Wen, L., Macy, R. J., & Dababnah, S. (2015). “I never knew which way he would swing…:” Exploring the roles of substances in the lives of system-involved intimate partner violence survivors. Journal of Family Violence. doi:10.1007/s10896-015-9747-1

Assistant Professor LaToya Small:
Parchment, T. M., Jones, J., Del-Villar, Z., Small, L. & McKay, M. (in press). Integrating positive youth development and clinical care to enhance mental health and improve high school graduation rates of young men of color. Journal of Public Mental Health.

Quarless-Kingsberry, S., Quarless, J. C., Phillips, L. S., Meehan, J., & Small, L. (2015). A Matter of HOPE: Case management as an intervention strategy for children and families affected by parental incarceration. In K. Rice and M.V. Felizzi, (Eds.). Global Youth: Understanding Challenges, Identifying Solutions, Offering Hope. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Professor Kim Strom-Gottfried:
Strom-Gottfried, K. (2015). Educational interventions: Principles for practice. In A. Roberts and K. Corcoran (Eds.), Social workers desk reference (3rd ed., pp. 767-773). New York: Oxford University Press.

Strom-Gottfried, K. (2015). Navigating complex boundary challenges. In A. Roberts and K. Corcoran (Eds.), Social workers desk reference (3rd ed., pp. 189-197). New York: Oxford University Press.

Clinical Associate Professor Kirsten Kainz:
Dynarski, M., & Kainz, K. (2015, November). Why federal spending on disadvantaged students (Title I) doesn’t work (Evidence Speaks No. 15). Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution. Retrieved from http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2015/11/20-title-i-spending-disadvantaged-students-dynarski-kainz

Ph.D. Student Charity Watkins:
Powers, J. D., Swick, D. C., Wegmann, K. M., & Watkins, C. S. (2015). Supporting prosocial development through school-based mental health services: A multi-site evaluation of social and behavioral outcomes across one academic year. Social Work in Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/15332985.2015.1048842

Clinical Assistant Professor Lisa Zerden, Associate Professor Betsy Bledsoe, Clinical Instructor Teresa Ilinitch, and Professor Matthew Howard:
de Saxe Zerden, L., Ilinitch, T. L., Carlston, R., Knutson, D., Blesdoe, B. E. & Howard, M. O. (2015). Social work faculty development: An exploratory study of non-tenure-track women faculty. Journal of Social Work Education, 51, 738-753. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/10437797.2015.1076284 Retreived from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10437797.2015.1076284