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Survey Methodology, Design, and Analysis

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Schenk AP, Klabunde CN, Warren JL, Peacock S, Davis WW, Hawley ST, Pignone M, Ransohoff D. Evaluations of claims, medical records and self-report for measuring fecal occult blood testing among medicare enrollees in fee-for-service. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev In Press.

2007

Davis WW, Hartman AM, Gibson JT. Weighting the overlap sample obtained from two tobacco supplements to the Current Population Survey. Oct 2007. Available at http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/studies/tus-cps/TUS-CPS_overlap.pdf.

Davis WW, Soman C, Zou J. Small area prevalence estimates using two surveys . Proceedings of American Statistical Association Survey Research Methods Section; 2007. p. 2923-30.

Parsons VL, Schenker N, Raghunathan TE, Xie D, Davis WW. Assessment of small area estimates from a complex survey cancer surveillance project. Proceedings of the 2006 American Statistical Association 20071645-1647.

Raghunathan TE, Xie D, Schenker N, Parsons VL, Davis WW, Dodd KW, Feuer EJ. Combining Information from two surveys to estimate county level prevalence rates of cancer risk factors and screening. J Am Stat Assoc 2007;102(478):474-86.

Schenck AP, Klabunde CN, Warren JL, Peacock S, Hawley ST, Pignone M, Ransohoff D. Data sources for measuring colorectal endoscopy use among Medicare enrollees. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007;16:2118-2127.

2006

Davis WW, Hartman AM, Gibson JT. Bridging Estimates by Race for the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey – (TUS-CPS). May 2006. Available at http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/studies/tus-cps/race_bridging_071307.pdf.

Davis WW, McNeel T, Lee S, Brick M, Nguyen HA, Flores-Cervantes I. Examining trends and averages using combined cross-sectional survey data from multiple years. CHIS 2005 Methodology Paper. Oct 2006. Available at http://www.chis.ucla.edu/pdf/chis_pooling_10302006.pdf.

Klabunde CN, Schenck AP, Davis WW. Barriers to colorectal cancer screening among Medicare consumers. Am J Prev Med Apr 2006;30(4):313-9.

Schenck AP, Klabunde CN, Davis WW. Racial differences in colorectal cancer test use by Medicare consumers. Am J Prev Med Apr 2006;30(4):320-6.

Swan J, Breen N, Burhansstipanov L, Satter DE, Davis WW, McNeel T, Snipp CM. Cancer screening and risk factor rates among American Indians. Am J Public Health Feb 2006;96(2):340-50.

2005

Bastian LA, Breslau ES, Davis WW, Moser RP. Hormone Therapy for Menopausal Symptoms: Tracking the Translation of Women's Health Initiative findings into practice. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 2005;12(3):140-146.

Elliott M, Davis WW. Obtaining Cancer Risk Factor Prevalence Estimates in Small Areas: Combining data from two surveys. Applied Statistics: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society -Series C Jun 2005;54:595-609.

Potischman N, Troisi R, Thadhani R, Hoover RN, Dodd K, Davis WW, Sluss PM, Hsieh CC, Ballard-Barbash R. Pregnancy hormone concentrations across ethnic groups: implications for later cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Jun 2005;14(6):1514-20.

2003

Breslau ES, Davis WW, Doner L, Eisner EJ, Goodman NR, Meissner HI, Rimer BK, Rossouw JE. The hormone therapy dilemma: women respond. J Am Med Womens Assoc 2003;58(1):33-43.

Davis WW, Flegal KM. Comparing the Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves for Cluster Designs. Proceedings of Survey Research Section of the American Statistical Association; Aug 2003; San Francisco, California. 2003. p. 1182-1189.

Freedman AN, Wideroff L, Olson L, Davis W, Klabunde C, Srinath KP, Reeve BB, Croyle RT, Ballard-Barbash R. US physicians' attitudes toward genetic testing for cancer susceptibility. Am J Med Genet A 1 Jul 2003;120(1):63-71.

Meissner HI, Rimer BK, Davis WW, Eisner EJ, Siegler IC. Another round in the mammography controversy. J Womens Health (Larchmt) Apr 2003;12(3):261-76.

Wideroff L, Freedman AN, Olson L, Klabunde CN, Davis W, Srinath KP, Croyle RT, Ballard-Barbash R. Physician use of genetic testing for cancer susceptibility: results of a national survey. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev Apr 2003;12(4):295-303.

2002

Klabunde CN, Jones E, Brown ML, Davis WW. Colorectal cancer screening with double-contrast barium enema: a national survey of diagnostic radiologists. AJR. American journal of roentgenology Dec 2002;179(6):1419-27.

2001

Breen N, Wagener DK, Brown ML, Davis WW, Ballard-Barbash R. Progress in cancer screening over a decade: results of cancer screening from the 1987, 1992, and 1998 National Health Interview Surveys. J Natl Cancer Inst 21 Nov 2001;93(22):1704-13.


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