BOOK

 

Weiss, R. E. (2005).  Modeling Longitudinal Data.  Springer: New York.  432+xxii pages.

 

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS 

1.                Weiss, R. E. and Cook, R. D. (1992).  A Graphical Case Statistic for Assessing Posterior Influence.  Biometrika, 79, 51-55. 

 

2.                Weiss, R. E. and Lazaro, C. G. (1992).  Residual Plots for Repeated Measures.  Statistics in Medicine, 11, 115-124. 

 

3.                Berk, R. A., Weiss, R. E. and Boger, J. (1993).  Chance and the Death Penalty, (with discussion).  Law & Society Review, 27, 89-110, 125-127. 

 

4.                Weiss, R. E. (1994).  Pediatric Pain, Predictive Inference and Sensitivity Analysis.  Evaluation Review, 18, 651-678. 

 

5.                Weiss, R. E. (1995).  The Influence of Variable Selection: A Bayesian Diagnostic Perspective.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90, 619-625. 

 

6.                Berk, R. A., Western, B. and Weiss, R. E. (1995).  Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations, with discussion.  Sociological Methodology, 25, 421-485. 

 

7.                Weiss, R. E. (1996).  Exactness of the Laplace Approximation for Bayesian Marginal Calculations.  Bayesian Analysis of Statistics and Econometrics, eds. D. Berry, K. Chaloner, and J. Geweke, 383-386. 

 

8.                Shi, M., Weiss, R. E., and Taylor, J. M. G. (1996).  An Analysis of Pediatric CD4 Counts for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome using Flexible Random Curves.  Applied Statistics, 45, 151-163. 

 

9.                Taylor, J. M. G., Siqueira, A. and Weiss, R. E. (1996).  The Cost of Adding Parameters to a Model.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 593-607. 

10.            Weiss, R. E. (1996).  An Approach to Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 739-750.  

 

11.            Weiss, R. E., Berk, R. A., and Lee, C. Y. (1996).  Assessing the Capriciousness of Death Penalty Charging.  Law & Society Review, 30, 607-626. 

 

12.            Weiss, R. E. (1996).  Sufficiency and Influence (with Discussion).  Bayesian Robustness, IMS Lecture Notes – Monograph Series, Volume 29, 213-230. 

 

13.            Zeltzer, L. K., Chen, E., Weiss, R., Guo, M. D., Robison, L. L., Meadows, A. T., Mills, J. L., Nicholson, H. S., and Byrne, J. (1997).  Comparison of Psychologic Outcome in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Versus Sibling Controls:  A Cooperative Children’s Cancer Group and National Institutes of Health Study.  Journal of Clinical Oncology, 15, N2:547-556. 

 

14.            Weiss, R. E., Wang, Y., and Ibrahim, J. G. (1997).  Predictive Model Selection for Repeated Measures Random Effects Models Using Bayes Factors.  Biometrics, 53, 159-169. 

 

15.            Weiss, R. E. and Cho, M. (1998).  Bayesian Marginal Influence Assessment.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 71, 163-177. 

 

16.            Weiss, R. E. (1997).  Bayesian Sample Size Computations for Hypothesis Testing.  The Statistician, 46, 185–191. 

 

17.            Tao, M. L., Guo, M. D., Weiss, R., Byrne, J., Mills, J. L., Robison, L. L., and Zeltzer, L. K. (1998).  Smoking in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 90, 219–225. 

 

18.            Bradlow, E. T., Weiss, R. E. and Cho, M. (1998).  Bayesian Identification of Outliers in Computerized Adaptive Tests.  JASA, 93, 910–919. 

 

19.            Weiss, R. E. and Marshall, C. R. (1999).  The Uncertainty in the True End Point of a Fossil's Stratigraphic Range When Stratigraphic Sections are Sampled Discretely.  Mathematical Geology, 31, 435–453. 

 

20.            Liu, H., Weiss, R., E., Jennrich, R. I. and Wenger, N. S. (1999).   PRESS Model Selection in Repeated Measures Data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 30, 169–184. 

21.            Weiss, R. E., Cho, M. and Yanuzzi, M. (1999).  On Bayesian Calculations for Mixture Priors and Likelihoods.  Statistics in Medicine, 18, 1555–1570. 

22.            Berk, R., Bond, J., Lu, R., Turco, R., Weiss, R. (2000).  Real Evaluations in Virtual Worlds:  Using Program Evaluation Tools to Assess the Validity of Computer Simulations. In L. Bickman (ed.), Research Designs:  Donald Campbell's Legacy, vol 2. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 195–214. 

 

23.            Weiss, R. E., Berk, R. A., Li, W. and Farrell-Ross, M. (1999).  Death Penalty Charging in Los Angeles County: An Illustrative Data Analysis Using Skeptical Priors. Sociological Methods and Research, 28, 91–115. 

24.            Zhang, F. and Weiss, R. E. (2000).  Diagnosing Explainable Heterogeneity of Variance in Random Effects Models. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28, 3–18. 

25.            Bradlow, E. T., and Weiss, R. E. (2001).  Outlier Measures and Norming Methods for  Computerized Adaptive Tests.  Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 26, 85–104. 

26.            Schoenberg, F., Berk, R. , Fovell, R., Li, C. , Lu, R., Weiss R. E. (2001).  Approximation and inversion of a complex meteorological system via linear filters.  Journal of Applied Meteorology, 40(3), 446–458. 

27.            Taylor, J. M. G. T., Weiss, R. E., Li., W., Hsu, C. H. and Suwinski, R. (2001).  Estimation for Paired Binomial Data with Application to Radiation Therapy.  Statistics in Medicine, 20, 3375– 3390. 

28.            Suchard, M. A., Weiss, R. E. and Sinsheimer, J. S. (2001).  Bayesian Selection of Continuous-Time Markov Chain Evolutionary Models.  Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18 1001–1013.  

29.            Machado, AF, Zimmerman, EF, Hovland Jr DN, Weiss, RE and Collins, MD.  (2001).  Diabetic Embryopathy in C57BL/6J Mice: Altered Fetal Sex Ratio and Impact of the Splotch Allele.  Diabetes, 50, 1193–1199. 

30.            Chen, M.-H., Ibrahim, J. G., Shao, Q.-M., and Weiss, R. E. (2003).  Prior Elicitation for Model Selection and Estimation in Generalized Linear Mixed Models.  JSPI, 111, 57–76. 

31.            Berk, R. A., Fovell, R. G., Schoenberg, F. and Weiss, R. E. (2001). The Use of Statistical Tools for Evaluating Computer Simulations – An Editorial Essay.  Climatic Change, 51, 119–130.

32.            Suchard, M. A., Weiss, R. E., Dorman, K. S., Sinsheimer, J. S. (2002).  Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? A Bayes Factor Test for Recombination with Uncertain Heritage.  Systematic Biology, 51, 715-728.  (Recipient: Publisher's Award for best Systematic Biology paper authored by a student in the year 2002.)

33.            Lester, P., Chesney, M., Cooke, M., Weiss, R., Whalley, P., Perez, B., Glidden, D., Petru, A., Dorenbaum, A., and Wara, D. (2002).  When the Time Comes to Talk about HIV:  Factors Associated with Diagnostic Disclosure and Emotional Distress in HIV-Infected Children.  JAIDS, 31, 309-317. 

34.            Suchard Marc A., Weiss Robert E., and Sinsheimer Janet S. (2003).  Testing a Molecular Clock without an Outgroup: Derivations of Induced Priors on Branch-Length Restrictions in a Bayesian Framework. Systematic Biology, 52, 48–54. 

35.            Weiss, R. E., Basu, S., and Marshall, C. R. (2003).  A Framework for Analyzing Fossil Record Data.  In Tools for Constructing Chronologies: crossing disciplinary boundaries, Buck, CE and Millard, AR eds., Springer-Verlag, London. 

36.            Ansell, B. J., Watson, K. E., Weiss, R. E., Fonarow, G. C. (2002).  hsCRP and HDL Effects of Statins Trial (CHEST): Rapid Effect of Statin Therapy on C-Reactive Protein and High-Density Lipoprotein Levels A Clinical Investigation.  Heart Disease, 5, 2–7. 

37.            Comulada, W. S., Swendeman, D. T., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Mattes, K. M. and Weiss R. E. (2003).  Utilization of HAART Among Young People Living with HIV.  American Journal of Health Behavior, 27, 389–400. 

38.            Suchard, M. A., Weiss, R. E., Dorman, K.S., and Sinsheimer J. S. (2003).  Inferring Spatial Phylogenetic Variation Along Nucleotide Sequences: A Multiple Change-Point Model.  JASA, 98, 427 – 437. 

39.            Suchard, M. A., Weiss, R. E., Sinsheimer, J. S., Dorman, K., Patel, M. and McCabe, E. (2003).  Evolutionary Similarity Among Genes.  JASA, 98, 653–662. 

40.            Suchard, M. A., Kitchen, C. M. R., Sinsheimer, J. S. and Weiss R. E. (2003).  Hierarchical Phylogenetic Models for Analyzing Multipartite Sequence Data.  Systematic Biology, 52, 649 – 664. 

41.            Ye, Zhishen, and Weiss, R. E. (2003).  Using the Bootstrap to Select One of a New Class of Dimension Reduction Methods.  JASA, 98, 968 – 979. 

42.            Newman, P. A., Rhodes, F., and Weiss, R. E. (2004).  Correlates of Sex Trading Among Men who have Sex with Men.  American Journal of Public Health, 94, 1998 – 2003. 

43.            Whaley, S. E., Sigman, M., Neumann, C., Bwibo, N., Guthrie, D., Weiss, R. E., Alber S. and Murphy, S. P. (2003).  The Impact of Dietary Intervention on the Cognitive Development of Kenyan Schoolchildren.  Journal of Nutrition, 133, 3965S – 3971S. 

44.            Neumann, C., Bwibo, N. O., Murphy, S. P., Sigman, M., Whaley, S. E., Allen, L. H., Guthrie, D., Weiss, R. E., and Montague, W. (2003).  Animal Source Foods Improve Dietary Quality, Micronutrient Status, Growth and Cognitive Function in Kenyan School Children: Background, Study Design and Baseline Findings.  Journal of Nutrition, 133, 3941S – 3949S. 

45.            Sinsheimer, J.S., Suchard, M. A., Dorman, K. S., Fang, F., and Weiss R.E. (2003).  Are You My Mother? Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference of Recombination Among Putative Parental Strains.  Applied Bioinformatics, 2, 131 – 144. 

46.            Basu, I., Jana, S., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Swendeman, D., Das, S., Lee, S. J., Newman, P., and Weiss, R. (2004).  HIV Prevention among Sex Workers in India.  JAIDS, 36, 845 – 852. 

47.            Sherbourne, C.D., Weiss, R. E., Duan, N., Bird, C. E., Wells, K. B. (2004).  Do the Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression Care Differ for Men and Women?  Results of a Group-Level Randomized Controlled Trial.  Medical Care, 42, 1186 – 1193. 

48.            Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Swendeman, D., Comulada, S. Weiss, R. E., and Lightfoot, M. (2004).  Prevention for HIV Positive Young People: Telephone and In-person Delivery. JAIDS, 37, S68 – S77. 

49.            Lightfoot, M., Swendeman, D., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Comulada, S. and Weiss, R. E. (2005).  Variation in the Risk Behaviors of Youth Living with HIV: Pre- and Post-HAART.  American Journal of Health Behavior, 29, 162-71. 

50.            Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Weiss, R., Alber, S., and Lester. P. (2005).   Adolescent Adjustment Before and After HIV-related Parental Death.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 221 – 228. 

51.            Suchard, M. A., Weiss, R. E., Sinsheimer, J. S., and Tai, Y. C. (2005).  Models for Estimating Bayes Factors with Applications to Phylogeny and Tests of Monophyly.  Biometrics, 61, 665 – 673. 

52.            Grillenberger, M., Neumann C. G., Murphy S. P., Bwibo N. O., Weiss R. E., Jiang L., Hautvast, J. G. A. J., West, C. E. (2006).  Intake of micronutrients high in animal source foods is associated with better growth in rural Kenyan schoolchildren.  British Journal of Nutrition, 95, 379-390. 

53.            Swendeman, D., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Comulada, S., Weiss, R. E. and Ramos, M. E. (2005).  Predictors of HIV-related stigma among young people living with HIV.  Health Psychology, 25, 501-509. 

54.            Collins, M.D., Eckhoff, Ch., Weiss, R., Resnick, E., Nau, H. and Scott, Jr., W.J. (2006).   Differential teratogenesis of all-trans-retinoic acid in SWV and C57BL/6N mice administered at gestational day 9.5:  Emphasis on limb dysmorphology.  Birth Defects Research (Part A), 76,  96-106.

55.            Sun, B.C., Mohanty, S. A., Weiss, R. E., Tadeo, R., Hausbrouk, M., Koenig, W., Meyer, C., Asch, S. (2005).  Effects of Hospital Closures on Emergency Department Ambulance Diversion, Los Angeles County 1998-2004.  Annals of Emergency Medicine, 47, 309-316.

56.            Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Goldstein, I. B., James, J. E., and Weiss, R. E. (2006).  Hemodynamic Profile, Compensation Deficit, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure.  Psychophysiology, 43, 46—56. 

57.            Solorio, M. R., Milburn, N. G., Weiss, R. E., and Batterham, P. J. (2006).  Newly Homeless Youth STD Testing Patterns Over Time.  Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 443.e9—443.e16. 

58.            Gorbach, P. M., Sopheab, H., Chhorvann, C., Weiss, R. E., and Vun, M. C. (2006).  Changing Behaviors and Patterns Among Cambodian Sex Workers: 1997—2003.  JAIDS, 42(2):242-247.

59.            Chan, K. S., Bird, C. E., Weiss, R., Duan, N., Meredith, L. S., and Sherbourne, C. D. (2006).  Does Physician-Patient Gender Concordance Affect Mental Health Care Received by Primary Care Patients with Major Depression?  Women’s Health Issues, 16, 122-132. 

60.            Kitchen, C. M. R., Weiss, R. E., Liu, G. and Wrin, T. (2007).  HIV-1 viral fitness estimation using exchangeable on subsets priors and prior model selection.  Statistics in Medicine, 26, 975-990.

61.            Marshall, J.M. and Weiss, R. E. (2006).  A Bayesian Heterogeneous Analysis of Variance Approach to Inferring Recent Selective Sweeps.  Genetics, 173, 2357-2370.

62.            Sigman, M., Whaley, S. E., Neumann, C., Bwibo, N., Guthrie, D., Weiss, R. E., Liang, L.-J. and Murphy, S. P. (2005).  Diet Quality Impacts the Playground Activities of Kenyan Children.  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 26(2 Suppl 2):S202-12. 

63.            Comulada, W. S. and Weiss, R. E. (2007).  On Models for Binomial Data with Random Numbers of Trials.  Biometrics, 63, 610-617. 

64.            Liang, Li-Jung and Weiss, Robert E. (2007).  Importance Re-Weighting within Gibbs for Large Data Analyses with Application to Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses.  Biometrics, 63, 733-741.

65.            Guo, Hua, Weiss, Robert E., Gu, Xun and Suchard, Marc A. (2007).  Time Squared: Repeated Measures on Phylogenies.  Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24, 352-362.

66.            The Healthy Living Project Team (2007).  Effects of a behavioral intervention to reduce risk of transmission among people living with HIV: The Healthy Living Project randomized controlled study.  JAIDS, 44, 213-221. 

67.            Comulada, W. Scott, Weiss, Robert E., Cumberland, William, and Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane (2006).  Reductions in Drug Use among Young People Living with HIV.  American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 33, to appear. 

68.            Goldstein, Iris B., Shapiro, David and Weiss, Robert E. (2007).  How Family History and Risk Factors for Hypertension Relate to Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Healthy Adults.  Journal of Hypertension, to appear. 

69.            Hector, Richard D., Anderson, John P., Paul, Rosemarie C.P., Ponce, Ninez, Hays, Ron D., Weiss, Robert E., Kaplan, Robert M. (2007).  Evaluation of the Validity of the Quality of Well-being Scale in Trinidad and Tobago.  West Indian Medical Journal, to appear. 

70.            Solorio, M. Rosa, Rosenthal, Doreen,  Milburn, Norweeta G., Weiss, Robert E., Batterham, Philip J., Marla Gandara, and Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane (2007).  A Longitudinal Study of Newly Homeless Youth Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors.  Pediatrics, to appear. 

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL REPORTS

 

1.                Weiss, R. E. and Wang, Y. (1998).  Bayesian Sample Size Computations in Complex Models with Application to Repeated Measures Random Effects Model Design. 

 

2.                Zhang, C. X., Li, W., and Weiss, R. E. (2000). Joint and Conditional Models for Repeated Measures Data with a Time Varying Covariate. 

3.                Weiss, R. E. (1996).  Bayesian Model Checking with Applications to Hierarchical Models.  See http://rem.ph.ucla.edu/~rob/papers/list.html.

 

4.                Zeltzer, L., Fanurik, D., Weiss, R., Mizell, T., Shin, D., and Ifekwunigwe, M.  (1995).  Identification of Stress-Vulnerable Children:  The Use of a Laboratory Pain Paradigm And The Children’s Somatic Inventory as Predictors of School Nurse Visits and School Absenteeism.

 

5.                Zeltzer, L. K., Aslam, S. N., Porges, S. W., Hamptonie, A., Weiss, R., Zhang, F., Isabel-Jones, J. (1996).  Cardiac Vagal Tone as an Index of Stress Load in Sick Children:  Response to Cardiac Catheterization.   

 

6.                Weiss, R. E. (1994).  Exploratory Data Graphics for Repeated Measures.

7.                Weiss, R. E. (2000).  Florida Presidential Vote Recount Analysis.  Two short papers (i)  Analysis of Florida county level recount data http://rem.ph.ucla.edu/~rob/florida.html and (ii) The Error in the Florida Presidential Vote Count is 800 Votes, technical report. 

 

8.                Weiss, R. E., Berk, R. A., Ye, Z., Fovell, R. Lu, R., and Schoenberg, F. (2000).  Comparing High Dimensional Computer Simulation Output and Data Using Principal Components. 

 

INVITED DISCUSSION

 

1.         Weiss, R. E. (1995).  Discussion of ‘A Bayesian Model for Organ Blood Flow Measurement with Colored Microspheres.’  Invited discussion for the Carnegie Mellon University Conference on Applied Bayesian Statistics II, pp. 37-45. In Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Volume II, (eds) C. Gatsonis, J. S. Hodges, R. E. Kass, and N. D. Singpurwalla.  

 

 

INVITED EDITORIAL

 

1.         Weiss, R. E. (1999). Demand for and Flexibility in Statistics and Statisticians.  Invited article for Consultant’s Forum, Liaison. 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

1.                   Weiss, R. E. and M. Lavine (1986),  Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Ordinary Least Squares Estimators to be Best Linear Unbiased Estimators.  Refereed Letter to the Editor, American Statistician, 40, pp. 178 – 179.

 

2.                   Weiss, R. E.  (1987),  Two statisticians look at the TA survey: Xenophobia, or objective study?  Opinions Page, Minnesota Daily, Oct. 2, 1987, p.7.

 

3.                   Weiss, R. E.  (1988),  Posterior Influence Plots.  In Computing Science and Statistics:  Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on the Interface, ed. E.J. Wegman, D.T. Gantz, and J.J. Miller.  Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 464 – 469.

 

4.                   Weiss, R. E.  (1989a),  A Graphical Statistic For Case Influence Assessment.  University of Minnesota Ph.D. Dissertation.

 

5.                   Weiss, R. E.  (1989b),  Capturing ALL the Influence:  A Graphical Case Statistic For Bayesian Influence Assessment.  In Computing Science and Statistics:  Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on the Interface, ed. K. Berk, and L. Malone. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 344 – 349. 

 

6.                   Weiss, R. E.  (1993).  Identification of Outlying Perturbations.  1993 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 196 – 201. 

 

7.                   Zhang, F., Weiss, R., E. and Zeltzer, L. (1994).  Analyzing Long Irregularly Spaced Repeated Multivariate Measures -- A Study of Infant Cardiac Catheterization Stress Responses.  Proceedings of the ASA Biopharmaceutical section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 365 – 370. 

 

8.                   Liu, H., Weiss, R., E. and Wenger, N. S. (1994).   Model Selection in Repeated Measures Random Effects Models.  Proceedings of the ASA Biopharmaceutical section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 371 – 376. 

9.                   Zhang, Charlie Xiang and Weiss, R. E. (1995).  Multivariate Longitudinal Data Analysis with a Family of Covariance Matrices.  Proceedings of the ASA Biopharmaceutical section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 215 – 220.

 

10.               Liu, H., Weiss, R. E., and Wenger, N. S. (1997).  A Goodness of Fit Measure for Repeated Measures Random Effects Models.  ASA Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA).   314 – 318. 

11.               Sanchez, J., Padilla, G., Weiss, R., and Brecht, M. L. (1998).  Finding Predictors of Health Related Quality of Life in head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Repeated Measures Model. 

 

12.               Suchard, M., Weiss, R., Dorman, K., Patel, M., McCabe, E. and Sinsheimer, J. (2000).  Evolutionary Similarity Among Genes When Data Are Sparse.  Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 92 – 97. 

 

13.               Suchard M, Weiss R, Sinsheimer J.  (2000).  Induced Priors on Branch Restrictions Under Equally Likely Evolutionary Trees.  Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science.  Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 98 – 103. 

 

14.               Basu, S., Weiss, R. and Marshall, C. (2000).  Bayesian Inference for Fossil Record Data.  ISBA Bulletin, 7, #4, pp. 14 – 15.