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Theses and Dissertations--Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

POPULATION BURDEN OF RARE INFECTIOUS AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE HEART, Meera Marji

THE PERFORMANCE OF MARGINAL MODELING METHODS FOR RARE EVENTS WITH APPLICATION TO OPIOID OVERDOSE MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY, Shawn Nigam

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Maternal Occupation and Pediatric Brain Cancer in Kentucky, Mary Elizabeth Begley

CLUSTERING HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE USING GROUP-BASED MULTI-TRAJECTORY MODELING WITH SINGULAR BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION, Gaixin Du

EVALUATING TRENDS IN K-12 TEACHERS’ WELL-BEING AND CAREER PLANS THROUHGOUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Madeline Dunfee

Potential Alzheimer's Disease Plasma Biomarkers, Taylor Estepp

STUDIES OF POLYPHARMACY AND MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT IN POPULATION-BASED COHORTS, Ximena A. Oyarzun Gonzalez

Evaluating The Impact of Mental Health Needs and Services Disruption: Covid-19 & Wisconsin Children’s Welfare Services, Gavin Rienne

STATISTICAL ANALYSES TO IDENTIFY GENETIC VARIANTS ASSOCIATED WITH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL AND MRI-BASED ENDOPHENOTYPES OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Lincoln M. P. Shade

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

A Novel Nonparametric Test for Heterogeneity Detection and Assessment of Fluid Removal Among CRRT Patients in ICU, Shaowli Kabir

OPIOID USE DISORDER TREATMENT WITH BUPRENORPHINE: ANALYSIS OF TREATMENT UTILIZATION AND ASSOCIATED OUTCOMES IN KENTUCKY, Feitong Lei

Addressing Ascertainment Bias in the Study of Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Opioid Use Disorders - Application of Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Records, Jade Huang Singleton

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

DESIGN AND ANALYSES OF SCHOOL-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIALS, Md. Tofial Azam

Investigations into the Genetics of Mixed Pathologies in Dementia, Adam Dugan

ENVIRONMENTAL RESPIRATORY EXPOSURES AND PULMONARY FUNCTION AMONG RESIDENTS OF RURAL APPALACHIA, KENTUCKY, John C. Flunker

MULTIPLE PROTEINOPATHIES AND THEIR ROLE IN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, Shama D. Karanth

EVALUATING THE INCIDENCE OF MELANOMA AND LUNG CANCER OF CURRENT AND FORMER ACTIVE-DUTY U.S. MILITARY WHO WERE DEPLOYED IN SUPPORT OF OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, Brian Kovacic

SEXUAL BEHAVIORS ASSOCIATED WITH ONLINE PARTNER-SEEKING AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN FROM SMALL/MIDSIZED TOWNS OR RURAL AREAS IN KENTUCKY, Vira Pravosud

An Assessment of Kentucky Birth Records, Focusing on Early-Onset Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, Environmental Metal Exposures, and Geocoding Precision, 2008-2017, Courtney J. Walker

Enhancing Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance through Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Patrick J. Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

OPIOID USE IN VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, GYeon Oh

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

ESTIMATING DISEASE SEVERITY, SYMPTOM BURDEN AND HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PULMONARY DISEASES, Radmila Choate

EVALUATING THE IMPACTS OF ANTIDEPRESSANT USE ON THE RISK OF DEMENTIA, Ran Duan

Differential Abundance and Clustering Analysis with Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimation of Variance (DASEV) for Proteomics and Metabolomics Data, Zhengyan Huang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Improved Methods and Selecting Classification Types for Time-Dependent Covariates in the Marginal Analysis of Longitudinal Data, I-Chen Chen