Publications by authors named "Bradley C Saul"
Background: The 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guidelines removed the recommendation to treat adults at risk of cardiovascular disease to goal levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). We anticipated that the frequency of LDL-C testing in clinical practice would decline as a result. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated the frequency of LDL-C testing before and after the guideline release.
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- M-estimation methods are useful for point estimation and making inferences in statistics.
- The paper introduces an R package that helps users find roots and calculate empirical sandwich variance using their own unbiased estimating equations.
- It also offers tools for correcting variances in various sampling scenarios and features a website with detailed tutorials.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency considers nutrient pollution in stream ecosystems one of the U.S.' most pressing environmental challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIs fasting safe? A chart review of adverse events during medically supervised, water-only fasting.
BMC Complement Altern Med
February 2018
Background: Evidence suggests that fasting, during which only water is consumed, results in potentially health promoting physiological effects. However, peer-reviewed research assessing the safety of water-only fasting is lacking. To address this, we conducted a chart review to describe adverse events (AEs) that occurred during medically supervised, water-only fasting.
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- * Inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators are typically used for estimating causal effects from observational data, but new methods have been developed to account for interference.
- * The paper introduces an R package that computes IPW causal effect estimates considering interference, with applications demonstrated in political science and infectious disease studies.