Publications

Methodology

L.L. Chen, N. Blumm, N.A. Christakis, A.L. Barabasi, T.S. Deisboeck, "Cancer Metastasis Networks and the Prediction of Progression Patterns," British Journal of Cancer  101(5): 749-758 (August 2009) MS#101

C.A. Hidalgo, N. Blumm, A.L. Barabasi, and N.A. Christakis, "A Dynamic Network Approach for the Study of Human Phenotypes," PLoS Computational Biology 5(4): e1000353. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000353 (April 2009) MS#098

N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler, "Social Network Visualizations in Epidemiology," Norwegian Journal of Epidemiology 19(1): 5-16 (March 2009) MS#097

J.H. Fowler, C.T. Dawes, and N.A. Christakis, "Model of Genetic Variation in Human Social Networks," PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  106(6): 1720-1724 (February 2009) MS#096  [Supplementary Information | Supplementary Appendix]  (Editorial)

K. Lewis, J. Kaufman, and N.A. Christakis, "The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network," Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 14(1): 79-100 (December 2008) MS#094

D. Davis, N. Chawla, N. Blumm, N.A. Christakis, A.L. Barabasi. "Predicting Individual Disease Risk Based on Medical History," Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)  769-778 (2008) MS#093

K. Lewis, J. Kaufman, M. Gonzalez, A. Wimmer, and N.A. Christakis, "Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New (Cultural, Multiplex, and Longitudinal) Social Network Dataset Using Facebook.com," Social Networks  30(4): 330-342 (October 2008) MS#090

E.B. Lamont, J.E. Herndon, J. C. Weeks, I.C. Henderson, R. Lilenbaum, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, "Measuring Clinically Significant Chemo-therapy-Related Toxicities Using Medicare Claims from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Trial Participants," Medical Care  46(3): 303-308 (March 2008) MS#082

K. E. Steinhauser, E. C. Clipp, J. C. Hays, M. Olsen, R. Arnold,  N.A. Christakis,  J.H. Lindquist,  and J.A. Tulsky, "Identifying, Recruiting, And Retaining Seriously-Ill Patients And Their Caregivers in Longitudinal Research At The End Of Life," Palliative Medicine  20(8): 745-754 (December 2006) MS#077

E.B. Lamont, J.E. Herndon, J.C. Weeks, I.C. Henderson, C.C. Earle, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, "Measuring Disease-Free Survival and Cancer Relapse Using Medicare Claims from CALGB Breast Cancer Trial Participants," Journal of the National Cancer Institute  98(18): 1335-1338(September 2006) MS#076

P.D. Allison and N.A. Christakis, "Fixed Effects Methods for the Analysis of Non-Repeated Events," Sociological Methodology  36(1): 155-172 (Summer 2006) MS#075

K.E. Steinhauser, C.I. Voils, E.C. Clipp, H.B. Bosworth, N.A. Christakis, and J.A. Tulsky, "’Are You at Peace?’ One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life," Archives of Internal Medicine  166(1): 101-105 (January 2006) MS#071

E.B. Lamont, J.E. Herndon, J. C. Weeks, I.C. Henderson, R. Lilenbaum, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, "Criterion Validity of Medicare Chemotherapy Claims in Cancer and Leukemia Group B Breast and Lung Cancer Trial Participants," Journal of the National Cancer Institute  97(14): 1080-1083 (July 2005) MS#067

K.E. Steinhauser, H.B. Bosworth, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly, N.A. Christakis, J. Parker, and J.A. Tulsky, "Initial Assessment of a New Instrument to Measure Quality of Life at the End of Life," Journal of Palliative Medicine   5(6): 829-841 (December 2002) MS#057

T.J. Iwashyna, G. Brennan, J.X. Zhang, and N.A. Christakis, "Finding Married Couples in Medicare Claims Data," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology  3(1): 75-86 (December 2002) MS#055

N.A. Christakis, T.J. Iwashyna, and J.X. Zhang, "Care After the Onset of Serious Illness (COSI): A Novel Claims-Based Dataset Exploiting Substantial Cross-Set Linkages to Study End-of-Life Care," Journal of Palliative Medicine  5(4): 515-529 (August 2002) MS#052

E.B. Lamont, D.S. Lauderdale, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, "Construct Validity of Medicare Chemotherapy Claims: The Case of 5FU," Medical Care  40(3): 201-211 (March 2002) MS#049

T.J. Iwashyna, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, "Refinements of a Methodology for Detecting Married Couples in the Medicare Data," Demography  37(2): 251-252 (May 2000) MS#044

J. Zhang, T.J. Iwashyna, N.A. Christakis, "The Performance of Different Lookback Periods and Sources of Information for Charlson Comorbidity Adjustment in Medicare Claims," Medical Care  37(11): 1128-1139 (November 1999) MS#039

T.J. Iwashyna, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, "A Methodology for Identifying Married Couples in Medicare Data: Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Use Among the Married Elderly," Demography  35(4): 413-419  (November 1998) MS#034

D.A. Asch, N.A. Christakis, and P.A. Ubel, "Conducting Physician Mail Surveys on a Limited Budget: A Randomized Trial Comparing $2 Bill Versus $5 Bill Incentives," Medical Care  36(1): 95-99  (January 1998) MS#029

D.A. Asch, M.K. Jedrziewski, and N.A. Christakis, "Response Rates to Mail Surveys Published in Medical Journals," Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  50(10): 1129-1136 (October 1997) MS#028

P.D. Allison and N.A. Christakis, "Logit Models for Sets of Ranked Items," Sociological Methodology  24: 199-228 (1994) MS#017

D.A. Asch and N.A. Christakis, "Different Response Rates in a Trial of Two Envelope Styles in Mail Survey Research," Epidemiology  5(5): 364-365 (May 1994) MS#015

N.C. Ware, N.A. Christakis, and A. Kleinman, "An Anthropological Approach to Social Science Research on the Health Transition," in L.C. Chen, A. Kleinman, and N. Ware, eds.,  Advancing Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Social Research,  New York, NY: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1992, pp. 23-38 BC#01

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