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Statistician specializing in Bayesian methods and applications.

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CRC Press eBooks, Apr 20, 2000

This paper presents contributions at a symposium about Carolina Alternatives (CA), a North Caroli... more This paper presents contributions at a symposium about Carolina Alternatives (CA), a North Carolina program that blends capitated financing with public sector managed care for mental health and substance abuse services for children and youth eligible for Medicaid. The symposium focused on stakeholders' perspectives and on expenditure patterns of inpatient and outpatient services. First, Dan Tweed presented "Stakeholders' Perspectives: Overview of Carolina Alternatives." Next, Dalene Stangl presented "Stakeholders' Perspectives: Area Programs, Hospitals, and Departments of Social Services." The perspectives of three groups (the 10 area programs responsible for care management, the hospitals that provide mental health and substance abuse services, and the county directors of departments of social services) regarding how CA restructured service delivery, implemented care management, and redefined interagency relations are defined. Elizabeth Farmer and Julia Gagliardi presented "Stakeholder's Perspectives: Client Satisfaction and Outcomes." Preliminary results indicated overall client satisfaction and acceptability of the outcome measures to clients and staff. The final contribution, by David Langmeyer, "Stakeholders' Perspectives: Preliminary Cost Findings," compared service costs between area programs that participated in CA and those that did not. It found CA was successful in reducing costs associated with inpatient services but this decrease was offset by a dramatic increase in non-inpatient services for participating area programs. (DB)

PubMed, Dec 1, 1987

Presence of personality disorders was assessed with the Structured Interview for the DSM-III Pers... more Presence of personality disorders was assessed with the Structured Interview for the DSM-III Personality Disorders (SIDP) in a series of 78 nonpsychotic inpatients with major depression. Measures of severity of depression were administered at admission, at discharge, and 6 months after admission. Outcome for the depression was especially poor in patients meeting criteria for multiple personality disorders from multiple DSM-III clusters. A subgroup of 38 patients received both the SIDP interview and a self-report measure of personality disorder, the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire. Depressed inpatients who met more than the median number of personality disorder criteria by either measure were approximately half as likely to show improvement at discharge and at 6-month follow-up than were patients with less than the median number of criteria.

Access to statistical information is at an all-time high, and the information age is fuelling thi... more Access to statistical information is at an all-time high, and the information age is fuelling this access at an extraordinary pace. This access increases the capacity for medical researchers to use statistics to guide decision making, yet few courses teach methods to do so. Rarely does statistics training include methods for incorporating statistical output into decision making. Mass education and educational reform is needed. Technological advances of the past decade make this goal possible, and allow us to dramatically change how we use, teach, and think about statistics. This paper covers the conceptual development of an Internet continuing-education course designed to teach the basics the Bayesian statistics to medical researchers. Two questions are discussed: Why the Internet, and why the Bayesian paradigm?

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008

Archives of General Psychiatry, Apr 1, 1987

... To the Editor.\p=m-\In the March 1986 is-sue of the Archives, Zimmerman et al1 attempted to &... more ... To the Editor.\p=m-\In the March 1986 is-sue of the Archives, Zimmerman et al1 attempted to "validate" four defi-nitions of ... MD, Phd Department of Psychiatry Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 1000 WCarson Street Torrance, CA 90509 1. Zimmerman M, Coryell W, Pfohl B, Stangl D ...

CHANCE, 2017

Anyone who has been at the Joint Statistics Meetings (JSM) or other professional statistics confe... more Anyone who has been at the Joint Statistics Meetings (JSM) or other professional statistics conferences will have seen dozens of sessions titled “In honor of.” Rarely are those words “In honor of” ...

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1996

Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 1999