2020
Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020
Weinberger DM, Chen J, Cohen T, Crawford FW, Mostashari F, Olson D, Pitzer VE, Reich NG, Russi M, Simonsen L, Watkins A, Viboud C. Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 1336-1344. PMID: 32609310, PMCID: PMC7330834, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3391.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19Excess deathsOfficial COVID-19 deathsCoronavirus disease 2019Entire US populationPublic health impactCOVID-19 diagnostic testsCOVID-19 burdenCOVID-19 deathsCause deathReported deathsMortality burdenObservational studyDisease 2019Influenza activityMAIN OUTCOMEDeath AssociatedWeekly deathsTotal deathsUS deathsMore deathsDeath recordsUS populationHealth StatisticsTest availability
2015
Markov counting models for correlated binary responses
Crawford FW, Zelterman D. Markov counting models for correlated binary responses. Biostatistics 2015, 16: 427-440. PMID: 25792624, PMCID: PMC5963474, DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxv006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExchangeable Bernoulli random variablesBernoulli random variablesCorrelated binary responsesMaximum likelihood estimatesInterpretable parameterizationsRandom variablesLikelihood estimatesCounting processDifferent cluster sizesBinary responsesCorrelated outcomesNatural wayCluster sizeBinary dataImproved fitPrevious modelsNew model