ME Karim

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• High-dimensional propensity score and its machine learning extensions in residual confounding control
• A pragmatic randomized controlled trial testing the effects of the international scientific SCI exercise guidelines on SCI chronic pain: protocol for the EPIC-SCI trial
• Application of decision tree-based techniques to veneer processing
• Are perceived barriers to accessing health care associated with inadequate antenatal care visits among women of reproductive age in Rwanda?
• Are US adults with low-exposure to methylmercury at increased risk for depression? A study based on 2011--2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)
• Comparative effectiveness of buprenorphine-naloxone versus methadone for treatment of opioid use disorder: a population-based observational study protocol in British Columbia, Canada
• Comparative efficacy, tolerability and safety of dolutegravir and efavirenz 400mg among antiretroviral therapies for first-line HIV treatment: A systematic literature review and network meta-analysis
• Dealing with Treatment-confounder Feedback and Sparse Follow-up in Longitudinal studies-Application of a Marginal Structural Model in a Multiple Sclerosis Cohort
• The Association of Residential Instability and Hospitalizations among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study
• The relationship between mood disorder diagnosis and experiencing an unmet health-care need in Canada: findings from the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey
• Authors' reply: Letter to the Editor: Comparison of statistical approaches dealing with time-dependent confounding in drug effectiveness studies (SMMR, Vol 27, Issue 6, 2018)
• Comparative cardiovascular safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) among individuals with osteoarthritis; findings from provincial prescription claim records in British Columbia, Canada
• Comparison of fingolimod, dimethyl fumarate and teriflunomide for multiple sclerosis
• Effect of natalizumab on information processing speed in multiple sclerosis: a nationwide phase IV study
• Longitudinal Associations between Perceived Quality of Living Spaces and Health-Related Quality of Life among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals Living in Three Canadian Cities
• Multimorbidity prevalence in Canada: a comparison of Northern Territories with Provinces, 2013/14
• Nephrology consultation and mortality in people with stage 4 chronic kidney disease: a population-based study
• Nurses Seeing Forest for the Trees in the Age of Machine Learning: Using Nursing Knowledge to Improve Relevance and Performance
• Role of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs in the Association Between Osteoarthritis and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Longitudinal Study
• The effect of serious offending on health: a marginal structural model
• The randomization-induced risk of a trial failing to attain its target power: assessment and mitigation
• Using External Data to Estimate Omitted Variables in Observational Data: A Plasmode Simulation Study Investigating the Relationship Between Osteoarthritis and Cardiovascular Diseases to Compare Alternative Approaches in Imputing the Body Mass Index Variable
• When exposure is subject to nondifferential misclassification, are validation data helpful in testing for an exposure--disease association?
• Can we train machine learning methods to outperform the high-dimensional propensity score algorithm?
• Comparison of statistical approaches dealing with time-dependent confounding in drug effectiveness studies
• Effectiveness of contrast-associated acute kidney injury prevention methods; a systematic review and network meta-analysis
• Estimating the effect of referral for nephrology care on the survival of adults with advanced chronic kidney disease in a real-world clinical setting
• Examining chronic conditions, health burden and gender, and the mediating role of distress
• Guidance for Practitioners on the Choices of Software Implementation for Frailty Models: Simulations and An Application in Determining the Birth Interval Dynamics
• The role of nsaids in the association between osteoarthritis and cardiovascular diseases: a population-based cohort study
• Determinants of antibiotic tailoring in pediatric intensive care: a national survey
• Estimating inverse probability weights using super learner when weight-model specification is unknown in a marginal structural Cox model context
• On the application of statistical learning approaches to construct inverse probability weights in marginal structural cox models: hedging against weight-model misspecification
• Comparison of statistical approaches for dealing with immortal time bias in drug effectiveness studies
• Hypothesis testing for an exposure--disease association in case--control studies under nondifferential exposure misclassification in the presence of validation data: Bayesian and frequentist adjustments
• Interferon beta and long-term disability in multiple sclerosis
• UBC Department of Statistics - Technical Reports - 276
• Antibody dissociation rates are predictive of neutralizing antibody (NAb) course: A comparison of interferon beta-1b-treated Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients with transient versus sustained NAbs
• Beta-interferon exposure and onset of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
• Causal inference approaches for dealing with time-dependent confounding in longitudinal studies, with applications to multiple sclerosis research
• Directed Acyclic Graphs to Identify Confounders: A Case Study Exploring the Impact of Hunger on Virologic Suppression Among HIV-Positive Illicit Drug Users Receiving HIV Treatment
• Multiple sclerosis in older adults: the clinical profile and impact of interferon beta treatment
• Investigation of heterogeneity in the association between interferon beta and disability progression in multiple sclerosis: an observational study
• Marginal structural Cox models for estimating the association between beta-interferon exposure and disease progression in a multiple sclerosis cohort
• Can joint replacement reduce cardiovascular risk?
• Can joint replacement reduce cardiovascular risk?
• Interferon beta and long-term disability in multiple sclerosis
• R graph essentials (Videobook)
• Association between use of interferon beta and progression of disability in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
• Evaluating the performance of hypothesis testing in case-control studies with exposure misclassification, using frequentist and Bayesian techniques
• Frailty Models
• Frailty Models
• Intergenerational mobility in poverty state of the chronically poor in rural Bangladesh: a Markov chain model approach