TreeScan Bibliography

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Methodological Papers

Statistical Methodology

General Statistical Theory

Kulldorff M, Fang Z, Walsh S. A tree-based scan statistic for database disease surveillance. Biometrics, 2003,59:323-331. [view]

Statistical Power Evaluation

Power Evaluation

Maro JC, Nguyen MD, Dashevsky I, Baker MA, Kulldorff M. Statistical Power for Postlicensure Medical Product Safety Data Mining. eGEMs: The Journal for Electronic Health Data and Records, 5:6, 2017. [view]

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Selected Applications by Field of Study

Drug Safety Surveillance

Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Avery TR, Chan KA, Davis RL, Graham D, Platt R, Andrade SE, Boudreau D, Gunter MJ, Herrinton LJ, Pawloski P, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Brown JS. Drug safety data mining with a tree-based scan statistic. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2013, 22:517-523. [view]

Brown JS, Petronis KR, Bate A, Zhang F, Dashevsky I, Kulldorff M, Avery TR, Davis RL, Chan KA, Andrade SE, Boudreau D, Gunter MJ, Herrinton L, Pawllowski PA, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Smith D, Reynolds R. Drug adverse event detection in health plan data using the gamma Poisson shrinker and comparison to the tree-based scan statistic. Pharmaceutics, 2013,5:179-200. [view]

Schachterle SE, Hurley S, Liu Q, Petronis KR, Bate A. An Implementation and Visualization of the Tree-Based Scan Statistic for Safety Event Monitoring in Longitudinal Electronic Health Data. Drug Safety, 42:727-741, 2019. [view]

Huybrechts KF, Kulldorff M, Hernandez-Diaz S, et al. Active surveillance of the safety of medications used during pregnancy. Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(6):1159-1168. [view]

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Vaccine Safety Surveillance

Yih WK, Maro JC, Nguyen M, Baker MA, Balsbaugh C, Cole DV, Dashevsky I, Mba-Jonas A, Kulldorff M. Assessment of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine safety using the self-controlled tree-temporal scan statistic signal-detection method in the Sentinel system. American Journal of Epidemiology, 187:1269-1276, 2018. [view]

Li R, Weintraub E, McNeil MM, Kulldorff M, Lewis EM, Nelson J, Xu S, Qian L, Klein NP, Destefano F. Meningococcal conjugate vaccine safety surveillance in the Vaccine Safety Datalink using a tree‐temporal scan data mining method. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 27:391-397, 2018.[view]

Yih WK, Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Maro JC. Using the Self-Controlled Tree-Temporal Scan Statistic to Assess the Safety of Live Attenuated Herpes Zoster Vaccine. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188:1383-1388, 2019.[view]

Yih WK, Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Maro JC. A broad safety assessment of the 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine. Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(7):1253-1259. [view]

Yih WK, Kulldorff M, Dashevsky I, Maro JC. Sequential data-mining for adverse events after recombinant herpes zoster vaccination using the tree-based scan statistic. Am J Epidemiol. 2023;192(2):276-282. [view]

Yih WK, Daley MF, Duffy J, et al. A broad assessment of COVID-19 vaccine safety using tree-based data-mining in the Vaccine Safety Datalink. Vaccine. 2023;41(3):826-835. [view]

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Occupational Disease Surveillance

Kulldorff M, Fang Z, Walsh S. A tree-based scan statistic for database disease surveillance. Biometrics, 2003,59:323-331.[view]

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Manufacturing

Mahaux O, Bauchau V, Zeinoun Z, Van Holle L. Tree-based scan statistic–Application in manufacturing-related safety signal detection. Vaccine, 37:49-55, 2019.[view]

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History

Alfani G, Gráda CÓ. The timing and causes of famines in Europe. Nature Sustainability, 1:283-288, 2018.[view]

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