Publications by authors named "J B Fine"
Background: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or another non-heterosexual or cisgender identity (LGBTQ+) cancer survivors experience high financial hardship. However, structural drivers of inequities do not impact all LGBTQ+ individuals equally. Using All of Us data, we conducted an intersectional analysis of behavioral financial hardship among LGBTQ+ cancer survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeneralized estimating equations (GEE) are of great importance in analyzing clustered data without full specification of multivariate distributions. A recent approach by Luo and Pan jointly models the mean, variance, and correlation coefficients of clustered data through three sets of regressions. We note that it represents a specific case of the more general estimating equations proposed by Yan and Fine which further allow the variance to depend on the mean through a variance function.
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- The study aimed to assess the effects of suprachoroidal triamcinolone acetonide (TA) injections on patients with noninfectious uveitis, focusing on key outcomes like central subfield thickness (CST) and visual acuity.
- Data was collected from 61 eyes of 51 patients over two years, revealing a significant reduction in CST from 437.61 microns to 348.17 microns within 6 weeks following treatment, along with an improvement in fluorescein angiography scores.
- Results showed that while some patients needed additional treatment for macular edema over time, 41.2% of those followed for 24 weeks did not require further interventions, and
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- Mental operations, like evaluating options, require significant attentional effort, and determining the right amount of effort is essential for maximizing rewards without excessive cost.
- A study involving macaques explored choices and brain activity, linking local reward rates to improved decision-making accuracy and increased attentional effort, as shown by physiological indicators like pupil size.
- Findings indicated that higher reward rates not only enhanced the clarity of value coding in specific brain regions (ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex) but also suggested that attentional effort operates via distinct population codes for value, contributing to the understanding of rational inattention in economic decisions.