Textbooks
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2015). Statistics for
Lawyers, 3rd Edition.
New York: Springer-Verlag (693 pp. with 58 illustrations).
Levy, G. and Levin, B. (2014).
The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness.
New York: John Wiley & Sons (258 pp. with 36 illustrations).
Fleiss, J.L., Levin, B., and Paik, M.C. (2003).
Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, 3rd Edition.
New York: John Wiley & Sons (760 pp. with 16 illustrations).
Jump to the end to see Chance at the Bar columns co-edited with
Michael O. Finkelstein and published in Chance magazine.
Journal articles, book chapters, reviews, and
letters
Levin, B. and Learned-Miller, E. (2024). Log-Concavity of Multinomial Likelihood Functions Under Interval Censoring Constraints on Frequencies or Their Partial Sums. Statistics and Probability Letters (in press; preprint available at arXiv.2311.02763).
Irvine, M.K., Abdelqader, F., Levin, B., Thomas, J., Avoundjian, T., Peterson, M., Zinba, R., Braunstein, S.L., Robertson, M.M., and Nash, D. (2023).
Study protocol for data to suppression (D2S): a cluster-randomised, stepped-wedge effectiveness trial of a reporting and capacity-building intervention to improve HIV viral suppression in housing and
behavioural health programmes in New York City.
BMJ Open 13(7): (in press; doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076716).
Irvine, M.K., Levin, B., Abdelqader, F., Carmona, J., Avoundjian, T., Thomas, J., Braunstein, S.L., Robertson, M., and Nash, D. (2023).
Evaluation of the Revised Versus Original Ryan White Part A HIV Care Coordination Program in a Cluster-Randomized, Stepped-Wedge Trial.
JAIDS 92(4):325-333.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2022).
Proof of a Key Inequality for Lattice Event Probabilities with Equal Odds.
Sequential Analysis 41(4):451-491. doi: 10.1080/07474946.2022.2129689.
Levy, G., Levin, B., and Engelhardt, E. (2022).
Advancing the Genetics of Lewy Body Disorders with Disease-Modifying Treatments in Mind.
Advanced Genetics 3:2200011.
doi: 10.1002/ggn2.202200011.
Levy, G. and Levin, B. (2022).
An Evolution-Based Model Of Causation For Aging-Related Diseases and Intrinsic Mortality:
Explanatory Properties and Implications for Healthy Aging.
Frontiers in Public Health 10:774668. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.774668
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2021).
A Key Inequality for Lower Bound Formulas for Lattice Event Probabilities.
Sequential Analysis 40(4):554-574.
Irvine, M.K., Robertson, M.M., Nash,
D., Kulkarni, S.G., Braunstein, S.L., and Levin, B. (2021).
HIV Care Coordination Promotes Care Re-engagement and Viral Suppression
Among People Who Have Been Out of HIV Medical Care: An Observational
Effectiveness Study Using a Surveillance-Based Contemporaneous Comparison
Group.
AIDS Research and Therapy 18:70-76.
Kline, J., Vardarajan, B., Abhyankar, A., Kytaa, S., Levin, B.,
Sobreira, N., Tang, A., Thomas-Wilson, A., Zhang, R., and Jobanputra, V.
(2021).
Embryonic Lethal Genetic Variants and Chromosomally Normal Pregnancy Loss.
Fertility and Sterility 116(5):1351-1358.
Bray, R., Palma, A.M., Philip, N.M., Brown, K., Levin, B.,
Thompson, J.L.P., Ginindza, C., and Mulenga, L.B. (2021).
Is Interview Length Associated With Blood Test Participation? Evidence
From Three Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment Surveys Conducted From
2016 to 2017.
J. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 87:S57-S66.
Lee, S.M., Levin, B., and Leu, C.-S. (2021).
Randomized Selection Designs. In: S. Piantadosi and C.L. Meinert (eds.),
Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials (chapter
5.10). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52677-5_82-1.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2020).
Positivity of Cumulative Sums for Multi-Index Function Components Explains
the Lower Bound Formula in the Levin-Robbins-Leu Family of Sequential
Subset Selection Procedures.
Sequential Analysis 39(4):520-542.
Levy, G., Levin, B., and Engelhardt, E. (2020). The Nosology of
Lewy Body Disorders from an Analytic Epidemiologic and Statistical Vantage
Point.
Movement Disorders 35(12):2156-2161.
Chiriboga, C., Marra, J., LaMarca, N.M., Young, S.D., Weimer, L.H.,
Levin, B., and McCabe, B. (2020). Lack of an Effect on Ambulation
of Dalfampridine-ER (4-AP) Treatment in Adult SMA Patients.
Neuromuscular Disorders 30:693-700.
Irvine, M.K., Levin, B., Robertson, M.M., Penrose, K., Carmona,
J., Harriman, G., Braunstein, S.L., and Nash, D. (2020).
PROMISE (Program Refinements to Optimize Model Impact and Scalability
based on Evidence): A Cluster-randomised, Stepped-wedge Trial Assessing
Effectiveness of the Revised Versus Original Ryan- White Part A HIV Care
Coordination Programme for Patients with Barriers to Treatment in the USA.
BMJ Open 10:e034624. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034624.
Dalerbo, P., Levin, B., and Thompson, J. (2020).
We should not yet abandon lopinavir/ritonavir for the treatment of COVID-19
(Letter to the Editor). The New England Journal of Medicine
382:e68, May 21 (DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2008043).
Levin, B., Kuhn, L., Leu, C.-S., and Tsai, W.-Y. (2019).
Sequential Tests of Promise with Discrete Time-to-Event Data.
Contemporary Clinical Trials 85 (in press for October, 2019
issue; see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2019.105818).
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2020).
Why Plea Bargains Are a Bad Deal for Some.
Significance 17(1):20-25.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2019).
Revisiting the Implicit Rate of Non-Conviction for Marginal Guilty Plea
Defendants. Jurimetrics 59(4):439-456.
Robertson, M.M., Penrose, K., Nash, D., Harriman, G., Braunstein,
S.L., Levin, B., and Irvine, M.K. (2019).
Impact of an HIV Care Coordination Program on the Timeliness of Viral
Suppression and Immune Recovery Among Clients Newly Diagnosed with HIV.
AIDS and Behavior (in press; see
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02732-0).
Spivack, J., Cheng, B., and Levin, B. (2019).
Adding Dose Modifications into Phase II and Phase II/III Seamless Trials.
Statistical Methods in Medical Research (in press; see
https://doi.org/10.1177/0962280219859387).
Domguez-Gonzez, C., Madruga, M., Mavillard, F., Garone, C.,
Aguirre-Rodriguez, J., Donati, M.A., Kleinsteuber, K., Marti, I.,
Martin-Hernandez, E., Morealejo-Aycinena, J., Munnell, F., Nascimento, A.,
Kalko, S.; Sardina, M., lvarez del Vayo, C., Serrano, O., Long, Y., Tu,
Y., Levin, B., Thompson, J., Engelstad, K., Uddin, J.,
Torres-Torronteras, J., Jimenez Mallebrera, C., Mart R., Paradas, C., and
Hirano, M. (2019).
Deoxynucleoside therapy for thymidine kinase 2 (TK2) deficient myopathy.
Annals of Neurology (in press).
Nagy-Szakal, D., Barupal, D.K., Lee, B., Che, X., Williams, B.L., Kahn,
E.J.R., Ukaigwe, J.E., Bateman, L., Klimas, N.G., Komaroff, A.L., Levine,
S., Montoya, J.G., Peterson, D.L., Levin, B., Hornig, M., Fiehn,
O., and Lipkin, W.I. (2018).
Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics. Scientific
Reports 8:10056-10066. (DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-28477-9).
Lee, T.C., Qian, M., Mu, L., Di Tullio, M.R., Graham, S., Mann, D.L.,
Nakanishi, K., Teerlink, J.R., Lip, G.Y.H., Freudenberger, R.S., Sacco,
R.L., Mohr, J.P., Labovitz, A.J., Ponikowski, P., Lok, D.J., Estol, C.,
Anker, S.D., Pullicino, P.M., Buchsbaum, R., Levin, B., Thompson,
J.L.P., Homma, S., and Ye, S., for the WARCEF Investigators. (2019).
Association Between Mortality and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
by Aetiology of Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Analysis of the WARCEF
Trial. ESC Heart Failure (in press).
Shah, A., Holter, M.M., Rimawi, F., Mark, V., Dutia, R.,McGinty, J.,
Levin, B., Laferre, B. (2019).
Effect of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 on Insulin Clearance After Gastric
Bypass Surgery. Diabetes Care (in press).
Nash, D., Robertson, M.M., Penrose, K., Chamberlin, S., Robbins, R.S.,
Braunstein, S.L., Myers, J.E., Abraham, B., Kulkarni, S., Waldron, L.,
Levin, B., and Irvine, M.K. (2018).
Short-term Effectiveness of HIV Care Coordination Among Persons with
Recent HIV Diagnosis or History of Poor HIV Outcomes.
PLOS ONE 13(9): e0204017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204017
Robertson, M.M., Waldron, L., Robbins, R.S., Chamberlin, S., Penrose,
K.,Levin, B., Kulkarni, S., Braunstein, S.L., Irvine, M.K., and
Nash, D. (2018).
Using Registry Data to Construct a Comparison Group for Programmatic
Effectiveness Evaluation--the New York City HIV Care Coordination
Program. Am. J. Epidemiol. 187(9):1980-1989.
Ravindranath, T.M., Gomez, A., Harwayne-Gidansky, I., Connors, T.J.,
Neill, N., Levin, B., Howell, J.D., Saiman, L., and Baird, J.S.
(2018).
Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Associated with Human
Metapneumovirus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Pediatric
Pulmonology 53(7):929-935.
Di Tullio, M.R., Qian, M., Thompson, J.L.P., Labovitz, A.J., Mann, D.L.,
Sacco, R.L., Pullicino, P.M.|, Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R.,
Graham, S., Lip, G.Y.H., Levin, B., Mohr, J.P., Buchsbaum, R.,
Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker, S.D., and Homma, S., for
the WARCEF Investigators (2018).
Left atrial volume and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Systolic Heart Failure:
Effect of Antithrombotic Treatment. ESC Heart Failure 5:800-808.
Lee, T.C., Qian, M., Lip, G.Y.H., DiTullio, M.R., Graham, S., Mann,
D.L., Nakanishi, K., Teerlink, J.R., Freudenberger, R.S., Sacco, R.L.,
Mohr, J.P., Labovitz, A.J., Ponikowski, P., Lok, D.J., Estol, C., Anker,
S.D., Pullicino, P.M., Buchsbaum, R., Levin, B., Thompson, J.L.P.,
Homma, S., and Ye, S. for the WARCEF Investigators (2018).
Heart Failure Severity and Quality of Warfarin Anticoagulation Control
(from the WARCEF Trial). Amer. J. Cardiol. 122(5):821-827.
Garone, C., Taylor, R.W., Nascimento, A., Poulton, J., Fratter, C.,
Domguez-Gonzez, C., Evans, J.C., Loos, M., Isohanni, P., Suomalainen, A.,
Ram, D., Hughes, M.I., McFarland, R., Barca, E., Gomez, C.L., Jayawant,
S., Thomas, N.D., Manzur, A.Y., Kleinsteuber, K., Mart, M.A., Kerr, T.,
Gorman, G.S., Sommerville, E.W., Chinnery, P.F., Hofer, M., Karch, C.,
Ralph, J., Cara, Y., Madruga-Garrido, M., Domguez-Carral, J., Ortez, C.,
Emperador, S., Montoya, J., Chakrapani, A., Kriger, J.F., Schoenaker, R.,
Levin, B., Thompson, J.L.P., Long Y., Rahman, S., Donati, M.A.,
DiMauro, S., and Hirano, M. (2018).
Retrospective Natural History of Thymidine Kinase 2 Deficiency.
J. Med. Genetics 55(8):515-521.
Wilshire, C.E., Kindlon, T., Courtney, R., Matthees, A., Tuller, D.,
Geraghty, K., and Levin, B. (2018).
Rethinking the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome--A Reanalysis and
Evaluation of Findings from a Recent Major Trial of Graded Exercise and CBT.
BMC Psychology 6:6-17.
Spivack, J., Cheng, B., and Levin, B. (2018).
Limb-Leaf Designs for Adaptive Exploration of the Dose-Response Curve.
Contemporary Clinical Trials 64:210-218.
Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (2017).
Adaptive Sequential Selection Procedures with Random Subset Sizes.
Sequential Analysis 36(3):384-396.
Mahic, M., Che, X., Susser, E., Levin, B., Reichborn-Kjennerud,
T., Magnus, P., Stoltenberg, C., Schjberg, S., Chauhan, L., Briese, T.,
Bresnahan, M., Sur, P., Hornig, M., Mjaaland, S., and Lipkin, W.I.
(2017).
Epidemiological and Serological Investigation into the Role of Gestational
Maternal Influenza Virus Infection and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
mSphere 2(3):e00159-17.
Teerlink, J.R., Qian, M., Bello, N.A., Freudenberger, R.S., Levin,
B., Di Tullio, M.R., Graham, S., Mann, D.L., Sacco, R.L., Mohr, J.P.,
Lip, G.Y.H., Labovitz, A.J., Lee, S.C., Ponikowski, P., Lok, D.J., Anker,
S.D., Thompson, J.L.P., Homma, S., for the WARCEF Investigators
(2017).
Aspirin Does Not Increase Heart Failure Events in Heart Failure Patients.
J. Amer. Coll. Cardiol. Heart Failure 5(8):603-610.
See, S.B., Clerkin, K.J., Kennel, P.J., Zhang, F., Weber, M.P., Rogers,
K., Chatterjee, D., Vasilescu, E.R., Vlad, G., Naka, Y., Restaino, S.,
Farr, M.J., Topkara, V.K., Colombo, P.C., Mancini, D.M., Schulze, P.C.,
Levin, B., and Zorn, E. (2017).
Ventricular Assist Device Elicits Serum Natural IgG that Correlate with
the Development of Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Heart
Transplantation. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
36(8):862-870.
Mahic, M., Mjaaland, S., Belstad, H., Gunnes, N., Susser, E., Bresnahan,
M., en, A., Levin, B., Che, X., Hirtz, D., Reichborn-Kjennerud, T.,
Schjberg, S., Roth, C., Magnus, P., Stoltenberg, C., Sur, P., Hornig, M.,
and Lipkin, W.I. (2017).
Maternal Immunoreactivity to Herpes Simplex Virus-2 and Risk of Autism
Spectrum Disorder in Male Offspring. mSphere 2(1):e00016-17.
Hoffman, S., Exner, T.M., Lince-Deroche, N., Leu, C.-S., Phillip,
J.L., Kelvin, E.A., Gandhi, A.D., Levin, B., Singh, D., Mantell,
J.E., Blanchard, K., and Ramjee, G. (2017).
Immediate Blood Draw for CD4+ Cell Count is Associated with Linkage to
Care in Durban, South Africa: Findings from Pathways to Engagement in HIV
Care.
PLOS ONE 11(10):e0162085.
Patel, A.N., Lee, S., Andrews, H.F., Pelton, G.H., Schultz, S.K.,
Sultzer, D.L., Mintzer, J., de la Pena, D., Gupta, S., Colon, S.,
Schimming, C., Levin, B., and Devanand, D.P. (2017).
Prediction of Relapse Following Discontinuation of Antipsychotic Treatment
in Alzheimer.s disease: The Role of Hallucinations. Amer. J. of
Psychiatry 174(4):362-369.
Tsze, D.S., Ieni, M., Fenster, D.B., Babineau, J., Kriger, J.,
Levin, B., and Dayan, P.S. (2017).
Optimal Volume of Administration of Intranasal Midazolam in Children: A
Randomized Clinical Trial. Annals of Emergency Medicine
(published online Nov 4, 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.08.450).
Ye, S., Qian, M., Zhao, B., Lip, G.Y.H., Buchsbaum, R., Sacco,
R.L., Levin, B., Di Tullio, M.R., Mann, D.L., Pullicino, P.M.,
Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R., Mohr, J.P., Graham, S., Labovitz,
A.J., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker, S.D., Thompson,
J.L.P., and Homma, S. for the WARCEF Investigators (2016).
CHA2DS2-Vasc Score and Adverse Events in Patients with Heart Failure and
Sinus Rhythm (poster). European Journal of Heart Failure
67(13S):1335.
McKeague, I.W. and Levin, B. (2016).
Convergence of Empirical Distributions in an Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics.
Annals of Applied Probability 26(4):2540.2555.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2016).
On Lattice Event Probabilities for Levin-Robbins-Leu Subset Selection
Procedures. Sequential Analysis 35(3):370-386.
Kline, J., Tang, A., and Levin, B. (2016).
Smoking, Alcohol and Caffeine in Relation to Two Hormonal Indicators of
Ovarian Age During the Reproductive Years. Maturitas 92:115-122.
Di Tullio, M., Qian, M., Thompson, J., Labovitz, A., Mann, D.,
Sacco, R., Pullicino, P., Freudenberger, R., Teerlink, J., Graham, S.,
Lip, G., Levin, B., Mohr, J.P., Buchsbaum, R., Estol, C., Lok, D.,
Ponikowski, P., Anker, S., and Homma, S. (2016).
Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Risk of Stroke and Cardiac Events in
Heart Failure: Data from the WARCEF Trial. Stroke
47(8):2031-2037.
Huang, X., MacIsaac, R., Thompson, J., Levin, B., Buchsbaum, R.,
Haley Jr., E.C., Levi, C., Campbell, B., Bladin, C., Parsons, M., and
Muir, K. (2016).
Tenecteplase vs Alteplase in Stroke Thrombolysis: An Individual
Patient Data Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.
Int. J. Stroke 11(5):534-543.
Kato, T.S., Di Tullio, M.R., Qian, M., Wu, M., Thompson, J.L.P.,
Mann, D.L., Sacco, R.L., Pullicino, P.M., Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink,
J.R., Graham, S. Lip, G.Y.H., Levin, B., Mohr, J.P., Labovitz,
A.J., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker, S.D., and Homma, S.,
for the WARCEF Investigators (2016).
Clinical and Echocardiographic Factors Associated with New-onset Atrial
Fibrillation in Heart Failure: A Sub-analysis of the WARCEF Trial.
Circulation Journal 80(3):619-625.
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance and Banbury Conference
Writing Group (2016).
What Women and Their Physicians Need to Know About the UKCTOCS Study and
Ovarian Cancer Screening. Am. Fam. Physician 93(11):903-904.
Freudenberger, R.S., Cheng, B., Mann, D.L., Thompson, J.L., Sacco,
R.L., Buchsbaum, R., Sanford, A., Pullicino, P.M., Levin, B.,
Teerlink, J.R., Graham, S., Mohr, J.P., Labovitz, A.J., Di Tullio, M.R.,
Lip, G.Y., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker, S.D., Homma, S.;
WARCEF Investigators. (2016)
The First Prognostic Model for Stroke and Death in Patients with Systolic
Heart Failure. J. Cardiology 68(2):100-103.
Connors, T.J., Ravindranath, T.M., Bickham, K.L., Gordon, C.L.,
Zhang, F., Zhang, Levin, B., Baird, J.S., and Farber, D.L. (2016).
Airway CD8+ T-cells are Associated with Lung Injury During Infant Viral
Respiratory Tract Infection.
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
54(6):822-830.
Levin, B. (2015).
The Futility Study--Progress Over the Last Decade.
Contemporary Clinical Trials 45(Pt A):69-75.
Ye, S., Cheng, B., Lip, G.Y.H., Buchsbaum, R., Sacco, R.L.,Levin,
B., Di Tullio, M.R., Qian, M., Mann, D.L., Pullicino, P.M.,
Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R., Mohr, J.P., Graham, S., Labovitz,
A.J., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker, S.D., Thompson,
J.L.P., Homma, S. (2015).
Bleeding Risk and Antithrombotic Strategy in Patients with Sinus Rhythm
and Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction Treated with Warfarin or
Aspirin.
American Journal of Cardiology 116(6):904-912.
Homma, S., Thompson, J.L.P., Qian, M., Ye, S., Di Tullio, M.R., Lip,
G.Y.H., Mann, D.L., Sacco, R.L., Levin, B., Pullicino, P.M.,
Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R., Graham, S. Mohr, J.P., Labovitz,
A.J., Buchsbaum, R., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., and Anker,
S.D., for the WARCEF Investigators. (2015).
Quality of Anticoagulation Control in Preventing Adverse Events in Heart
Failure Patients in Sinus Rhythm: A Warfarin Aspirin Reduced Cardiac Ejection
Fraction Trial (Warcef) Substudy. Circulation: Heart Failure
8(3):504-509.
Zuber, J., Rosen, S., Shonts B., Sprangers, B. Savage, T.M., Richman, S.,
Yang, S., Lau, S.P., DeWolf, S., Farber, D., Vlad, G., Zorn,
E., Wong, W., Emond, J., Levin, B., Martinez, M., Kato, T., Sykes, M.
(2015).
Macrochimerism in Intestinal Transplantation: Association with
Lower Rejection Rates and Multivisceral Transplants, Without GVHD.
American Journal of Transplantation 15(10):2691-703.
Caplan, A., Plunkett, C., and Levin, B. (2015).
The Perfect Must Not Overwhelm the Good: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on
"Selecting the Right Tool For the Job".
American Journal of Bioethics15(4):W8-W10.
Caplan, A., Plunkett, C., and Levin, B. (2015).
Selecting the Right Tool for the Job (invited paper).
American Journal of Bioethics 15(4):4-10
(with open peer commentaries, pp. 33-50).
McFarlane, W.R., Levin, B., Travis, L., Lucas, F.L., Lynch, S.,
Verdi, M., Williams, D., Adelsheim, S., Calkins, R., Carter, C.S.,
Cornblatt, B., Taylor, S.F., Auther, A.M., McFarland, B., Melton, R.,
Migliorati, M., Niendam, T., Ragland, J.D., Sale, T., Salvador, M., and
Spring, E. (2015).
Clinical and functional outcomes after 2 years in the early detection and
intervention for the prevention of psychosis multisite effectiveness
trial.
Schizophrenia Bulletin 41(1):30-43. Erratum in:
Schizophrenia Bulletin 41(2):532.
Levin, B. (2014).
"Punctured Poisson" and the Strong Birthday Problem.
Significance 11(4):50-51 (Letter).
Graham S., Ye S., Qian M., Sanford A.R., Di Tullio M.R., Sacco
R.L., Mann D.L., Levin B., Pullicino P., Freudenberger R.S.,
Teerlink J.R., Mohr J.P., Labovitz A.J., Lip G.Y.H., Estol C.J., Lok D.J.,
Ponikowski P., Anker S.D., Thompson J.L.P., and Homma S. for the WARCEF
Investigators. (2014).
Cognitive Function in Ambulatory Patients with Systolic Heart Failure:
Insights from the Warfarin versus Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction
(WARCEF) Trial.
PLOS One 9(11):e113447.
Voors, A.A., Davison, B.A., Teerlink, J.R., Felker, G.M., Cotter, G.,
Filippatos, G., Greenberg, B.H., Pang, P.S., Levin, B., Hua, T.A.,
Severin, T., Ponikowski, P., Metra, M, for the RELAX-AHF Investigators.
(2014).
Diuretic Response in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.
European Journal of Heart Failure 16(11):1230-1240.
Gao, B., Moore, C., Porcheray, F., Rong, C., Abidoglu, C., DeVito, J.,
Paine, R., Girouard, T.C., Saidman, S.L., Schoenfeld, D., Levin,
B., Wong, W., Elias, N., Schuetz, C., Rosales, I., Fu, Y., and Zorn,
E. (2014).
Pretransplant IgG Reactivity to Apoptotic Cells Correlates With
Late kidney Allograft Loss.
American Journal of Transplantation 14:1581-1591.
Kline, J.K., Kinney, A.M., Levin, B., Brown, S.A., Hadd, A.G.,
and Warburton, D. (2014).
Intermediate CGG Repeat Length at the FMR1 Locus is Not
Associated with Hormonal Indicators of Ovarian Age.
Menopause 21(7):740-748.
Homma, S., Thompson, J.L., Sanford, A.R., Mann, D.L., Sacco, R.L.,
Levin, B., Pullicino, P.M., Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R.,
Graham, S., Mohr, J.P., Massie, B.M., Labovitz, A.J., Di Tullio, M.R.,
Gabriel, A.P., Lip, G.Y., Estol, C.J., Lok, D.J., Ponikowski, P., Anker,
S.D., for the WARCEF Investigators. (2013).
Benefit of Warfarin Compared with Aspirin in Patients with Heart Failure
in Sinus Rhythm: A Subgroup Analysis of WARCEF, a Randomized Controlled
Trial.
Circulation: Heart Failure 6(5):988-997.
Gorroochurn, P. and Levin, B. (2013).
On Two Historical Aspects of Buffon's Needle Problem.
Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics
9:1-20.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2013).
On an Inequality That Implies the Lower Bound Formula for the Probability
of Correct Selection
in the Levin-Robbins-Leu Family of Sequential
Binomial Subset Selection Procedures.
Sequential Analysis 32(4):404-427.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2013).
Note on an Identity Between Two Unbiased Variance Estimators for the Grand
Mean in a Simple Random Effects Model.
The American Statistician 67(1):42-43.
Coffey, C.S., Levin, B., Clark, C., Timmerman, C., Wittes, J.,
Gilbert, P., and Harris, S. (2012).
Overview, Hurdles, and Future Work in Adaptive Designs: Perspectives from
an NIH-funded Workshop. Clinical Trials 9(6):671-680.
Alter, H.J., Mikovits, J.A., Switzer, W.M., Ruscetti, F.W., Lo, S.-C.,
Klimas, N., Komaroff, A.L., Montoya, J., Bateman, L., Levine, S.,
Peterson, D., Levin, B., Hanson, M.R., Genfi, A., Bhat, M., Zheng,
H.-Q., Lee, L.L., Sameroff, S., Heneine, W., Hornig, M., Lipkin, W.I.
(2012).
Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association Between Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Either XMRV or pMLV.
mBio 3(5):e00266-12.
Devanand, D.P., Mintzer, J., Schultz, S.K., Andrews, H.F., Sultzer,
D.L., de la Pena, D., Gupta, S., Colon, S., Schimming, C., Pelton, G.H.,
Levin, B. (2012).
Relapse Risk after Discontinuation of Risperidone in Alzheimer's
Disease.
New England Journal of Medicine 367:1497-1507.
Homma, S., Thompson, J.L.P., Pullicino, P.M., Levin, B.,
Freudenberger, R.S., Teerlink, J.R., Ammon, S.E., Graham, S., Sacco, R.L.,
Mann, D.L., Mohr, J.P., Massie, B.M., Labovitz, A.J., Anker, S.D., Lok,
D.J., Ponikowski, P., Estol, C.J., Lip, G.Y.H., Di Tullio, M.R., Mejia,
V., Gabriel, A.P., del Valle, M.L., Buchsbaum, R., Sanford, A.R., and Moy,
C.S., for the WARCEF Investigators (2012).
Warfarin and Aspirin in Heart Failure Patients in Sinus Rhythm.
New England Journal of Medicine 366:1859-1869.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Brown, S., Levin, B., Oppenheimer, K.,
and Warburton, D. (2012).
Trisomic pregnancy and intermediate CGG repeat length at the FMR1
locus.
Human Reproduction 27(7):2224-2232.
Levin, B. (2012).
Selection and Futility Designs. In: B. Ravina, J. Cummings,
M.P. McDermott, and M. Poole. (eds.), Clinical Trials in
Neurology (chapter 8). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2012)
Meta-Analysis of "Sparse" Data: Perspectives from the Avandia Cases.
Jurimetrics 52(2):123-153.
Devanand, D.P., Mintzer, J., Schultz, S., Sultzer, D., de la Pena,
D., Gupta, S., Colon, S., Schimming, C., Pelton, G.H., Andrews, H., and
Levin, B. (2012)
The Antipsychotic Discontinuation in Alzheimer Disease Trial: Clinical
Rationale and Study Design.
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 20(4):362-373.
Levin, B., Thompson, J.L.P., Chakraborty, B., Levy, G.,
MacArthur, R.B., Haley, E.C. (2011).
Statistical Aspects of the TNK-S2B Trial of Tenecteplase versus Alteplase
in Acute Ischemic Stroke: An Efficient, Dose-Adaptive, Seamless Phase
II/III Design.
Clinical Trials 8:398-407.
Leu, C.-S., Cheung, Y.-K., and Levin, B. (2011). Subset
selection in comparative selection trials.
In: Bhattacharjee, M., Dhar, S.K., and Subramanian, S. (eds.) Recent
Advances in Biostatistics: False Discovery, Survival Analysis, and Other
Topics. Series in Biostatistics, 4:271-288. World Scientific.
Leu, C.-S., Ventuneac, A., Levin, B., and Carballo-Diguez, A.
(2011).
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: A
Commentary on Ventuneac, Carballo-Diguez, Leu, et al., 2009.
AIDS and Behavior 16:1-4.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Levin, B., Kelly, A., Ferin, M., and
Warburton, D. (2011).
Trisomic Pregnancy and Elevated FSH: Implications for the Oocyte Pool
Hypothesis.
Human Reproduction 26(6):1537-1550.
Haley, E.C., Thompson, J.L.P., Grotta, J.C., Lyden, P.D., Hemmen, T.G.,
Brown, D.L., Fanale, C., Libman, R., Kwiatkowski, T.G., Llinas, R.H.,
Levine, S.R., Johnston, K.C., Buchsbaum, R., Levy, G., and Levin,
B., for the Tenecteplase in Stroke Investigators (2010).
Phase IIB/III Trial of Tenecteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results of a
Prematurely Terminated Randomized Clinical Trial.
Stroke 41:707-711.
Cudkowicz , M., Katz J., Moore, D.H., O.Neill, G., Glass J.D.,
Mitsumoto, H., Appel, S., Ravina, B., Kieburtz, K., Shoulson, I.,
Kaufmann, P., Khan, J., Simpson, E., Shefner, J., Levin, B., Cwik,
V., Schoenfeld, D., McDermott, M.P., Aggarwal, S, Miller, R. (2010).
Toward More Efficient Clinical Trials for Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 11:259-265.
Kaufmann, P., Thompson, J.L.P., Levy, G., Buchsbaum, R., Shefner, J.,
Krivickas, L.S., Katz, J., Rollins, Y., Barohn, R.J., Jackson, C.E.,
Tiryaki, E., Lomen-Hoerth, C., Armon, C., Tandan, R., Rudnicki, S.A.,
Rezania, K., Sufit, R., Pestronk, A., Novella, S.P., Heiman-Patterson, T.,
Kasarskis, E.J., Pioro, E.P., Montes, J., Arbing, R., Vecchio, D.,
Barsdorf, A., Mitsumoto, H., and Levin, B.; for the QALS Study
Group (2009).
Phase II Trial of CoQ10 for ALS Finds Insufficient Evidence to Justify
Phase III.
Annals of Neurology 66:235-244.
Zafonte, R., Friedewald, W.T., Lee, S.M., Levin, B.,
Diaz-Arrastia, R., Ansel, B., Eisenberg, H., Timmons, S.D., Temkin, N.,
Novack, T., Ricker, J., Merchant, R., and Jallo, J. (2009).
The Citicoline Brain Injury Treatment (COBRIT) Trial: Design and Methods.
Journal of Neurotrauma 26:2207-2216.
Warburton, D., Kline, J., Kinney, A., Yu, C.-Y., Levin, B., and
Brown, S. (2009).
Skewed X Chromosome Inactivation and Trisomic Spontaneous Abortion: No
Association.
The American Journal of Human Genetics 85(2):179-193.
Ventuneac, A., Carballo-Diguez, A., Leu, C.-S., Levin, B.,
Bauermeister, J., Woodman-Maynard, E., Giguere, R. (2009).
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: An Evaluation of
its Possible Use and Relative Risk.
AIDS and Behavior 13(4):731-737.
Gordon, P.H., Cheung, Y.-K., Levin, B., Andrews, H., and
Mitsumoto, H. (2009).
Response to 'Commentary on a novel, efficient, randomized selection
trial comparing combinations of drug therapy for ALS' (letter).
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 10(1):61.
Buchsbaum, R., Kaufmann, P., Barsdorf, A.I., Arbing, R.,
Montes, J., and Thompson, J.L.P. for the QALS Study Group (2008).
Web-based data management for a phase II clinical trial in ALS.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 10(5&6):374-377 (plus an online
appendix).
Pullicino P., Thompson, J.L.P., Mohr, J.P., Sacco, R.L., Freudenberger,
R., Levin, B., and Homma, S. (2008).
Oral Anticoagulation in Patients with Cardiomyopathy or Heart Failure in
Sinus Rhythm.
Cerebrovascular Diseases 26:322-327.
Gordon, P.H., Cheung, Y.-K., Levin, B., Andrews, H., Doorish,
C., Macarthur, R.B., Montes, J., Bednarz, K., Florence, J., Rowin, J.,
Boylan, K., Mozaffar, T., Tandan, R., Mitsumoto, H., Kelvin, E.A., Chapin,
J., Bedlack, R., Rivner, M., McCluskey, L., Pestronk, A., Graves, M.,
Sorenson, E., Barohn, R.J., Belsh, J.M., Lou, J.-S., Levine, T.,
Saperstein, D., Miller, R.G., Scelsa, S.N., and the Combination Drug
Selection Trial Study Group (2008).
A Novel, Efficient, Randomized Selection Trial Comparing Combinations of
Drug Therapy for ALS.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 9(4):212-222.
Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (2008).
On a Conjecture of Bechhofer, Kiefer, and Sobel for the Levin-Robbins-Leu
Binomial Subset Selection Procedures.
Sequential Analysis 27:106-125.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2008).
Re "Barrett, Bruce E. (2007), Detecting Bias in Jury Selection, The
American Statistician, 61, 296-301." (Letter to the Editor).
The American Statistician 62(1):95.
Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (2008).
A Generalization of the Levin-Robbins Procedure for Binomial Subset
Selection and Recruitment Problems.
Statistica Sinica 18:203-218.
Levin, B. and Leu, C.-S. (2007).
A comparison of two procedures to select the best binomial population with
sequential elimination of inferior populations.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 137:245-263.
Morin, S.F., Chesney, M.A., Ehrhardt, A.A., Kelly, J.A., Pequegnat, W.,
Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Afifi, A.A., Benotsch, E.G., Brondino, M.J., Catz,
S.L., Charlebois, E.D., Cumberland, W.G., DesJarlais, D.C., Duan, N.,
Exner, T.M., Goldstein, R.B., Gore-Felton, C., Hirky, A.E., Johnson, M.O.,
Kertzner, R.M., Kirshenbaum, S.B., Kittel, L.E., Klitzman, R., Lee, M.,
Levin, B., Lightfoot, M., Pinkerton, S.D., Remien, R.H., Rhodes,
F., Song, J., Steward, W.T., Tross, S., Weinhardt, L.S., Weiss, R., Wolfe,
H., Wolfe, R., Wong, F.L., Batterham, P., Comulada, W.S., Rogers, T.,
Zhao, Y., Correale, J., Hackl, K., Hong, D., Huchting, K., Mickalian,
J.D., Peterson, M., Gordon, C.M., Rausch, D., and Stover, E. (2007).
Effects of a Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Risk of Transmission among
People Living with HIV: The Healthy Living Project Randomized Controlled
Study.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 44(2):213-221.
Mitsumoto, H., Ulu., A.M., Pullman, S.L., Gooch, C.L., Chan, S., Tang,
M.-X., Mao X., Hays, A.P., Floyd, B.A. Battista, V., Montes, J., Hayes,
S., Dashnaw, S., Kaufmann, P., Gordon, P.H., Hirsch, J., Levin, B.,
Rowland, L.P., and Shungu, D.C. (2007).
Quantitative Objective Markers for Upper and Lower Motor Neuron
Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Neurology 68:1402-1410.
Kinney, A., Kline, J., Kelly, A., Reuss, M.L., and Levin, B.
(2007).
Smoking, alcohol and caffeine in relation to ovarian age during the
reproductive years.
Human Reproduction 22:1175-1185.
Neugebauer, R., Kline, J., Bleiberg, K., Baxi, L., Markowitz,
J.C., Rosing, M., Levin, B., Keith, J. (2007).
Preliminary Open Trial of Interpersonal Counseling for Subsyndromal
Depression Following Miscarriage.
Depression and Anxiety 24(3):219-222.
Teitelbaum, S.L., Gammon, M.D., Britton, J.A., Neugut, A.I., Levin,
B., and Stellman, S.D. (2007).
Reported Residential Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer Risk on Long Island,
NY.
American Journal of Epidemiology 165:643-651.
Kaufmann, P., Levy, G., Montes, J., Buchsbaum, R., Barsdorf, M.A.,
Battista, V., Arbing, R., Gordon, P.H., Mitsumoto, H., Levin, B.,
and Thompson, J.L.P. (2006).
Excellent inter-rater, intra-rater, and telephone-administered reliability
of the ALSFRS-R in a multicenter clinical trial.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 8:41-46.
Cheung, Y.K., Gordon, P.H., and Levin, B. (2006).
Selecting Promising ALS Therapies in Clinical Trials.
Neurology 67:1748-1751.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2006).
A comment on Bullet Lead Identification and Screening Searches.
Jurimetrics 47:89-97.
Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B., McKeague, I.W., and Tsai, W.-Y.
(2006).
A Note on the Censoring Problem in Empirical Case-Outcome Studies.
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 3(2):375-395.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Levin, B., Kelly, A., Chih-Yu, J., Brown,
S., and Warburton, D. (2006)
X-chromosome inactivation and ovarian age during the reproductive
years.
Fertility and Sterility 85:1488-1495.
Neugebauer, R., Kline, J., Markowitz, J.C., Bleiberg, K.L., Baxi,
L., Rosing, M.A., Levin, B., Keith, J. (2006).
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Interpersonal Counseling for
Subsyndromal Depression Following Miscarriage.
J. Clin. Psychiatry 67(8):1299-1304.
Levin, B., Thompson, J.L.P., Levy, G., Mitsumoto, H., and Kaufmann,
P. (2006).
Pentoxifylline in ALS: A Double-blind, Randomized, Multicenter,
Placebo-controlled Rrial (letter).
Neurology 66:1786-1787.
Levy, G., Kaufmann, P., Buchsbaum, R., Montes, J., Barsdorf, A., Arbing,
R., Battista, V., Zhou, X., Mitsumoto, H., Levin, B., Thompson,
J.L.P. (2006).
A Two-stage Design for a Phase II Clinical Trial of Coenzyme Q10 in
ALS.
Neurology 66:660-663.
Sacco, R.L., Prabhakaran, S., Thompson, J.L.P., Murphy, A., Sciacca, R.R.,
Levin, B., Mohr, J.P., on behalf of the WARSS Investigators
(2006).
Comparison of Warfarin versus Aspirin for the Prevention of Recurrent
Stroke or Death: Subgroup Analyses from The Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent
Stroke Study.
Cerebrovascular Diseases 22:4-12.
Krosin, M.T., Klitzman, R., Levin, B., Cheng, J., Ranney, M.L.
(2006).
Problems in Comprehension of Informed Consent in Rural and
Peri-urban Mali, West Africa.
Clinical Trials 3(3):306-13.
Levin, B. (2005).
The Utility of Futility (editorial).
Stroke 36:2331-2332.
Kinney, A., Kline, J., Levin, B. (2005).
Alcohol, Caffeine and Smoking in Relation to Age at Menopause.
Maturitas 54:27-38.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Kelly, A., Reuss, M.L., and Levin, B. (2005).
Predictors of Antral Follical Count During the Reproductive Years.
Human Reproduction 20:2179-2189.
Shantakumar, S., Gammon, M.D., Eng, S., Sagiv, S.K., Gaudet, M.M.,
Teitelbaum, S.L., Britton, J.A., Terry, M.B., Paykin, A., Young, T.L.,
Wang, L.W., Wang, Q., Stellman, S.D., Beyea, J., Hatch, M., Camann, D.,
Prokopczyk, B., Kabat, G.C., Levin, B., Neugut, A.I., and Santella,
R.M. (2005).
Residential Environmental Exposures and Other Characteristics Associated
with Detectable PAH-DNA Adducts in Peripheral Mononuclear Cells in a
Population-based Sample of Adult Females.
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
15:482-490.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2005).
Compositional Analysis of Bullet Lead as Forensic Evidence.
Journal of Law and Policy 13(1):119-142.
Haley, E.C., Thompson, J.L.P., Levin, B., Davis, S., Lees, K.,
Pittman, J.G., DeRosa, J.T., Ordronneau, P., Brown, D.L., and Sacco, R.L.,
for the GAIN Americas and GAIN International Investigators (2005).
Gavestinel Does Not Improve Outcome Following Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage:
An Analysis From the GAIN International and GAIN Americas Studies.
Stroke 36:1006-1010.
Kaufmann, P., Levy, G., Thompson, J.L.P., DelBene, M., Battista, V.,
Gordon, P.H., Rowland, L.P., Levin, B., and Mitsumoto, H. (2005).
The ALSFRSr Predicts Survival Time in an ALS Clinic Population.
Neurology 64:38-43.
Gammon, M.D., Sagiv, S.K., Eng, S.M., Shantakumar, S., Gaudet, M.M.,
Teitelbaum, S.L., Britton, J.A., Terry, M.B., Wang, L.W., Wang, Q.,
Stellman, S.D., Beyea, J., Hatch, M., Kabat, G.C., Wolff, M.S.,
Levin, B., Neugut, A.I., and Santella, R.M. (2004).
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)-DNA Adducts and Breast Cancer: a
Pooled Analysis.
Archives of Environmental Health 59(12):640-649.
Markatou, M. and Levin, B. (2004).
Comment. Statistical Science, 19(3):409-410.
[Commenting on: Lindsay, B. G., Kettenring, J. and Siegmund, D. O.
(2004), A Report on the Future of Statistics (with discussion),
Statistical Science, 19(3):387-413.]
Levin, B. (2004).
ALS Issues in Clinical Trials: Statistical Issues.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other Motor Neuron Disorders 5
(Supp. 1):43-45.
Phelan, J.C., Link, B.G., Diez-Roux, A., Kawachi, I., and Levin, B.
(2004).
"Fundamental Causes" of Social Inequalities in Mortality: A Test of the
Theory.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45:265-285.
Warburton, D., Dallaire, L., Thangavelu, M., Ross, L., Levin, B.,
and Kline, J. (2004).
Trisomy Recurrence: A Reconsideration Based on North American Data.
Am. J. Human Genetics 75:376-385.
Neuwirth, R.S., Loffer, F.D., Trenhaile, T., Levin, B. (2004).
The Incidence of Endometrial Cancer After Endometrial Ablation in a
Low-risk Population.
J. Amer. Assoc. Gynecology and Laparoscopy 11(4):492-4.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Reuss, M.L., Kelly, A., Levin, B., Ferin,
M., and Warburton, D. (2004).
Trisomic Pregnancy and the Oocyte Pool.
Human Reproduction 19(7):1633-1643.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2004).
Bush v. Gore: Two Neglected Lessons from a Statistical Perspective.
Jurimetrics 44:181-199.
The APASS Investigators. (2004).
Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Subsequent Thrombo-occlusive Events in
Patients with Ischemic Stroke.
Journal of the American Medical Association 291:576-584.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (2003).
On the Probative Value of Evidence from a Screening Search.
Jurimetrics 43(3):265-290.
Levin, B. (2003).
No, Not Another IRB. Review of "Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical
Trials: A Practical Perspective" by Ellenberg, S.S., Fleming, T.R., and
DeMets, D.L.
IRB: Ethics and Human Research 25(1):17-18.
Levin, B., Robbins, H., and Zhang, C.-H. (2002).
Mathematical Aspects of Estimating Two Treatment Effects and a Common
Variance in an Assured Allocation Design.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
(Special Issue in Honor or C.R. Rao) 108(1-2):255-262.
Gammon, M.D., Wolff, M.S., Neugut, A.I., Eng, S.M., Teitelbaum, S.L.,
Britton, J.A., Terry, M.B., Levin, B., Stellman, S.D., Kabat, G.C.,
Hatch, M., Senie, R., Berkowitz, G., Bradlow, H.L., Garbowski, G., Maffeo, C.,
Montalvan, P., Kemeny, M., Citron, M., Schnabel, F., Schuss, A., Hajdu,
S., Vinceguerra, V., Niguidula, N., Ireland, K., and Santella, R.M.
(2002).
Environmental Toxins and Breast Cancer on Long Island. II. Organochlorine
Compound Levels in Blood.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 11:686-697.
Gammon, M.D., Santella, R.M., Neugut, A.I., Eng, S.M., Teitelbaum, S.L.,
Paykin, A., Levin, B., Terry, M.B., Young, T.L., Wang, L.W., Wang,
Q., Britton, J.A., Wolff, M.S., Stellman, S.D., Hatch, M., Kabat, G.C.,
Senie, R., Garbowski, G., Maffeo, C., Montalvan, P., Berkowitz, G.,
Kemeny, M., Citron, M., Schnabel, F., Schuss, A., Hajdu, S., and
Vinceguerra, V. (2002).
Environmental Toxins and Breast Cancer on Long Island. I. Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbon DNA Adducts.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 11:677-685.
Gammon, M.D., Neugut, A.I., Santella, R.M., Teitelbaum, S.L., Britton,
J.A., Terry, M.B., Eng, S.M., Wolff, M.S., Stellman, S.D., Kabat, G.C.,
Levin, B., Bradlow, H.L., Hatch, M., Beyea, J., Camann, D., Trent,
M., Senie, R., Garbowski, G., Maffeo, C., Montalvan, P., Berkowitz, G.,
Kemeny, M., Citron, M., Schnabel, F., Schuss, A., Hajdu, S., Vinceguerra,
V., Collman, G.W., and Obrams, G.I. (2002).
The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project: Description of a
Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Identify Environmental Risk Factors
for Breast Cancer.
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 74(3):235-254.
Silverman, R.A., Osborn, H., Runge, J., Gallagher, E.J., Chiang, W.,
Feldman, J., Gaeta,, T., Freeman, K., Levin, B., Mancherje, N., and
Scharf, S.,
for the Acute Asthma/Magnesium Study Group. (2002).
IV Magnesium Sulfate in the Treatment of Acute Severe Asthma.
Chest 122:489-497.
Homma, S., Sciacca, R.R., Di Tullio, M.R., Thompson, J.L., Levin,
B., Sacco, R.L., and Mohr, J.P. (2002).
Response to "Patent Foramen Ovale and Cryptogenic Stroke: The Controversy
Continues." (Letter)
Circulation 105(22):2625-31.
Mohr, J.P., Thompson, J.L.P., and Levin, B. (2002).
Re: Warfarin or Aspirin for Recurrent Ischemic Stroke (letter).
The New England Journal of Medicine 346(15):1170-1171.
Ehrhardt, A.A., Exner, T.M., Hoffman, S., Silberman, I., Leu, C.-S.,
Miller, S., and Levin, B. (2002).
A Gender-Specific HIV/STD Risk Reduction Intervention for Women in a
Health Care Setting: Short- and Long-term Results of a Randomized Clinical
Trial.
AIDS Care 14:147-161.
Mohr, J.P., Thompson, J.L.P., Lazar, R.M., Levin, B., Sacco, R.L.,
Furie, K.L., Kistler, J.P., Albers, G.W., Pettigrew, L.C., Adams, H.P.,
Jackson, C.M., and Pullicino, P., for the Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent
Stroke Study Group (2001).
A Comparison of Warfarin and Aspirin for the Prevention
of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke.
The New England Journal of Medicine 345(20):1444-1451.
Levin, B. and Paik, M.C. (2001).
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Biased Logistic Regression Procedure in the Analysis of
Pair-Matched Case-Control Studies.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 96:371-385.
Sacco, R.L., DeRosa, J.T., Haley, E.C., Levin, B., Ordronneau, P.,
Phillips, S.J., Rundek, T., Snipes, R.G., and Thompson, J.L.P., for the
GAIN Americas Investigators (2001).
Glycine Antagonist in Neuroprotection for Patients with Acute
Stroke. GAIN Americas: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of the American Medical Association 285:1719-1728.
Institute of Medicine Committee on Strategies for Small-Number-Participant
Clinical Research Trials (2001).
Small Clinical Trials: Issues and Challenges, Evans, C.H. and Ildstad,
S.T., eds.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Evans, D., Clark, N., Levison, M.J., Levin, B., and Mellins, R.B.
(2001).
Can Children Teach Their Parents About Asthma?
Health Education and Behavior 28(4):500-511.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Levin, B., and Warburton, D. (2000).
Trisomic Pregnancy and Earlier Age at Menopause.
American Journal of Human Genetics 67:395-404.
Kuhn, L., Kline, J., Ng, S., Levin, B., and Susser, M. (2000)
Cocaine Use during Pregnancy and Intrauterine Growth Retardation: New
Insights Based on Maternal Hair Tests.
American Journal of Epidemiology 152(2):112-119.
Kline, J., Kinney, A., Levin, B., Mayeux, R., Schupf, N., and Warburton, D. (2000).
Alzheimer's Disease in the Parents of Women with Trisomic Spontaneous Abortions.
NeuroReport 11(4):795-799.
Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (1999).
Proof of a Lower Bound Formula for the Expected Reward in
the Levin-Robbins Sequential Elimination Procedure.
Sequential Analysis 18(2):81-105.
Varasteh, N.N., Neuwirth, R.S., Levin, B., Keltz, M.D. (1999).
Pregnancy Rates After Hysteroscopic Polypectomy and Myomectomy in
Infertile Women.
Obstetics and Gynecology 94:168-171.
Rottman, J.N., Levin, B., Paik, M.C., Tsai, W.-Y., Bigger, J.T.,
and the CABG Patch Investigators (1999).
Using Missing Data Techniques to Explore the Lack of Survival Effect:
Illustration with The CABG Patch Trial.
Statistics in Medicine 18(15):1943-1959.
Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (1999).
On the Probability of Correct Selection in the Levin-Robbins Sequential Elimination
Procedure.
Statistica Sinica 9(3):879-891.
Levin, B. and Chen, X. (1999).
Is the One-Half Continuity Correction Used Once or Twice to Derive a Well Known
Approximate Sample Size Formula to Compare Two Independent Binomial
Distributions?
The American Statistician 53:62-66.
Susser, M.W. and Levin, B. (1999).
Ordeals for the Fetal Programming Hypothesis. (Editorial)
British Medical Journal 318:885-886.
Mohr, J.P. for The Arteriovenous Malformation Study Group (1999).
Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain in the Adult.
The New England Journal of Medicine 340(23):1812-1818.
Marshall, R.S., Lazar, R.M., Mohr, J.P., Pile-Spellman, J., Hacein-Bey,
L., Duong, D.H., Joshi, S., Chen, X., Levin, B., and Young, W.L.
(1999).
Higher Cerebral Function and Hemispheral Blood Flow During Awake Carotid
Artery Ballon Test Occlusions.
J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 66:734-738.
Hatch, M., Levin, B., Shu, X.-O., and Susser, M. (1998).
Maternal Exercise During Pregnanacy, Physical Fitness, and Timely Delivery.
American Journal of Public Health 88:1528-1533.
Bigger, J.T., Parides, M.K., Rolnitzky, L.M., Meier, P., Levin, B., and Egan, D.A.
(1998).
Changes in Sample Size and Length of Follow-up to Maintain Power in the Coronary
Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Patch Trial.
Controlled Clinical Trials 19:1-14.
Levin, B. (1997).
A Lower Bound for the Mantel-Haenszel One Degree of Freedom Chi-squared Statistic
in 1:m Matched Samples.
The American Statistician 51:318-320.
Northridge, M.E., Levin, B., Feinleib, M., and Susser, M.
(1997).
Editorial: Statistics in the Journal--Significance, Confidence, and All That.
American Journal of Public Health 87:1092-1095.
Aviv, J.E., Sacco, R.L., Mohr, J.P., Thompson, J.L.P., Levin, B., Sunshine, S.,
Thomson, J., and Close, L.G. (1997).
Laryngopharyngeal Sensory Testing with Modified Barium Swallow as Predictors of
Aspiration Pneumonia After Stroke.
Laryngoscope 107:1254-1260.
The WARSS, APASS,PICSS,HAS, and Genesis Study Groups (1997).
The Feasibility of a Collaborative Double-Blind Study Using an Anticoagulant: the
Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent Stroke Study (WARSS), the Antiphospholipid Antibodies
and Stroke Study (APASS), the Patent Foramen Ovale in Cryptogenic Stroke Study
(PICSS), the Hemostatic System Activation Study (HAS), and the Genes in Stroke
Study (GENESIS).
Cerebrovascular Diseases 7:100-112.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (1997).
Clear Choices and Guesswork in Peremptory Challenges in Federal Criminal Trials.
J. Royal Statistic. Soc. A 160 (Part 2):275-288.
Evans, D., Mellins, R., Lobach, K., Ramos-Bonoan, C., Pinkett-Heller, M., Wiesemann, S., Klein,
I., Donahue, C., Burke, D., Levison, M., Levin, B., Zimmerman, B., and Clark, N.
(1997).
Improving Care for Minority Children with Asthma: Professional Education in Public
Health Clinics
Pediatrics 99:157-164.
Gammon, M.D., Wolff, M.S., Neugut, A.I., Terry, M.B., Papadopoulos, K., Levin, B.,
Wang, Q., and Santella, R. (1997).
Temporal Variation in Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Healthy Women.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 6:327-332.
Gammon, M., Wolff, M., Neugut, A., Terry, M., Britton, J., Greenebaum, E., Hibshoosh,
H., Levin, B., Wang, Q., and Santella, R. (1996).
Treatment for Breast Cancer and Blood Levels of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention 5:467-471.
Mittelman, M.S., Ferris, S.H., Shulman, E., Steinberg, G., and
Levin, B. (1996).
A Family Intervention to Delay Nursing Home Placement of Patients
with Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 276:1725-1731.
Wasilewski, Y., Clark, N., Evans, D., Levison, M., Levin, B.,
and Mellins, R. (1996).
Factors Associated with Emergency Department Visits by Children
with Asthma: Implications for Health Education.
Amer. J. Public Health 86:1410-1415.
Wang, L.-Y., Hatch, M., Chen, C.-J., Levin, B., You, S.-L.,
Lu, S.-N., Wu, M.-H., Wu, W.-P., Wang, L.-W., Wang, Q., Huang,
G.-T., Yang, P.-M., Lee, H.-S., and Santella, R. (1996).
Aflatoxin Exposure and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in
Taiwan.
Int. J. Cancer 67:620-625.
Kong, F. and Levin, B. (1996).
Edgeworth Expansions for the Conditional Distributions in Logistic
Regression Models.
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 52:109-129.
Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B., and Robbins, H. (1996).
Clinical and Prophylactic Trials with Assured New Treatment for
Those at Greater Risk. Part II -- Examples.
Amer. J. Public Health 86:696-705.
Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B., and Robbins, H. (1996).
Clinical and Prophylactic Trials with Assured New Treatment for
Those at Greater Risk. Part I -- Introduction.
Amer. J. Public Health 86:691-695.
Levin, B. (1996).
On the Holms, Simes, and Hochberg Multiple Test Procedures. (Annotation)
Amer. J. Public Health 86:628-629.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (1996).
Reference Guide on Statistics: Non Lasciare Esperanza.
(Review of the Federal Judicial Center Reference Guide on Statistics).
Jurimetrics 36:201-212.
Reuss, M.L., Kline, J., Santos, R., Levin, B., and Timor-Tritsch,
I. (1996).
Age and the Ovarian Follicle Pool Assessed with Transvaginal Sonography.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 174:624-627.
Kline, J., Levin, B., Kinney, A., Stein, Z., Susser, M.,
and Warburton, D. (1995).
Cigarette Smoking and Spontaneous Abortion of Known Karyotype: Precise
Data but Uncertain Inferences.
American Journal of Epidemiology 141:417-427.
Levin, B. (1995).
Accounting for the Effects of Both Group- and Individual-Level
Variables in Community-Level Studies. (Annotation)
Amer. J. Public Health 85(2):163-164.
Kline, J., Levin, B., Silverman, J., Kinney, A., Stein,
Z., Susser, M., and Warburton, D. (1994).
Letter to the Editor: in re 270:2940 and 270:2973,
J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 272(1):27-28.
Olson, S., Kelsey, J.L., Pearson, T.A., and Levin, B. (1994).
Characteristics of a Hypothetical Group of Hospital Controls for
a Case-Control Study.
American Journal of Epidemiology 139(3):302-311.
Finkelstein, M.O. and Levin, B. (1994).
Proportional Hazard Models for Age Discrimination Cases.
Jurimetrics Journal 34:153-171.
Kairam, R., Kline, J., Levin, B., Brambilla, D., Coulter, D., Kuban, K., Lansky, L., Marshall, P., Velez-Borras, J., and Rodriguez, E. (1993). Reliability of Neurologic Assessment in a Collaborative Study of HIV Infection in Children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 693:123-140.
Hatch, M.C., Chen, C.-J., Levin, B., Ji, B.-T., Yang, G.-Y.,
Hsu, S.-W., Wang, L.-W., Hsieh, L.-L., and Santella, R. (1993).
Urinary Aflatoxin Levels, Hepatitis-B Virus Infection and Hepatocellular
Carcinoma in Taiwan.
Int. J. Cancer 54:931-934.
Hatch, M.C., Shu, X.-O., McLean, D.E., Levin, B., Begg,
M., Reuss, L., and Susser, M. (1993.)
Maternal Exercise during Pregnancy, Physical Fitness, and Fetal
Growth.
American Journal of Epidemiology 137(10):1105-1114.
Kline, J., Levin, B., Stein, Z., Warburton, D., and Hindin,
R. (1993).
Cigarette Smoking and Trisomy 21 at Amniocentesis.
Genetic Epidemiology 10:35-42.
Westhoff, C., Levin, B., Ladd, G., and O'Connor, J. (1992).
Sources of Variability in Normal CA 125 Levels.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 1:357-359.
Kline, J. and Levin, B. (1992).
Trisomy and Age at Menopause: Predicted Associations Given a Link
with Rate of Oocyte Atresia.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 6(2):225-239.
Levin, B. (1992).
Tests of Odds Ratio Homogeneity with Improved Power in Sparse
Fourfold Tables.
Communications in Statistics 21(6):1469-1500.
Olson, S.H., Kelsey, J.L., Pearson, T.A., and Levin, B.
(1992).
Evaluation of Random Digit Dialing as a Method of Control Selection
in Case-Control Studies.
American Journal of Epidemiology 135:210-222.
Levin, B. (1992). In re: "Siobhan's problem: The coupon collector revisited." The American Statistician 46:76.
Levin, B. (1991). Re: "Interpretation and choice of effect measures in epidemiologic analyses." American Journal of Epidemiology 133:963-964.
Kline, J., Levin, B., Silverman, J., Kinney, A., Stein,
Z., Susser, M., and Warburton, D. (1991).
Caffeine and Spontaneous Abortion of Known Karyotype.
Epidemiology 2:409-417.
Kline, J., Hutzler, M., Levin, B., Stein, Z., Susser, M.,
and Warburton, D. (1991).
Marijuana and Spontaneous Abortion of Known Karyotype. Paediatric and
Perinatal Epidemiology 5:320-332.
Levin, B. (1990). The Saddlepoint Correction in Conditional Logistic Likelihood Analysis. Biometrika 77(2):275-285.
Levin, B. and Kong, F. (1990). Bartlett's Bias Correction to the Profile Score Function is a Saddlepoint Correction. Biometrika 77(1):219-221.
Hatch, M., Kline, J., Levin, B., Hutzler, M., and Warburton, D. (1990). Paternal Age and Trisomy Among Spontaneous Abortions. Human Genetics 85:335-361.
Weinstein, G.S. and Levin, B. (1990). Re: "Crossovers in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Trials." Annals of Thoracic Surgery 49:847-848.
Weinstein, G.S. and Levin, B. (1989). The Effect of Crossover on the Statistical Power of Randomized Studies. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 48:490-495.
Fleiss, J.L. and Levin, B. (1988). Sample Size Determination in Studies with Matched Pairs. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 41(8):727-730.
Levin, B. (1988). Re: "Polychotomous Logistic Regression Methods for Matched Case-Control Studies with Multiple Case or Control Groups." (Letter.) American Journal of Epidemiology 128:446.
Zybert, P. and Levin, B. (1987). Selecting the Highest of Three Binomial Probabilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 84:8180-8184.
Evans, D., Levison, M.J., Feldman, C.H., Clark, N.M., Wasilewski,
Y., Levin, B., and Mellins, R.B. (1987).
The Impact of Passive Smoking on Emergency Room Visits of Urban Children
with Asthma.
American Review of Respiratory Diseases 135:567-572.
Evans, D., Clark, N.M., Feldman, C.H., Rips, J., Kaplan, D., Levison,
M.J., Wasilewski, Y., Levin, B., and Mellins, R.B. (1987).
A School Health Education Program for Children with Asthma Aged
8-11 Years.
Health Education Quarterly 14(3):267-279.
Levin, B. (1987). Review of "Mathematical Methods in Medicine: Part 1 and Part 2," D. Ingram and R. Bloch (eds), Journal of the American Statistical Association 82(399):958.
Levin, B. (1987). Conditional Likelihood Analysis in Stratum-Matched Retrospective Studies with Polytomous Disease States. Communications in Statistics B16(3):699-718.
Levin, B. (1986). Empirical Bayes Estimation in Heterogeneous Matched Binary Samples with Systematic Aging Effects. In: J. Van Ryzin (ed), Adaptive Statistical Procedures and Related Topics, Institute of Math. Stat. Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Vol. 8, pp. 179-194.
Levin, B. (1985). Comment: A Question of Theft. In: M. DeGroot, S. Fienberg and J. Kadane (eds), Statistics in Law, pp. 240-246, New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Simberloff, D. and Levin, B. (1985). Predictable Sequences of Species Loss with Decreasing Island Area - Land Birds in Two Archipelagoes. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 8:11-20.
Weinstein, G.S. and Levin, B. (1985). The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS): A Critical Appraisal. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 90:541-548.
Levin, B. and Kline, J. (1985). The Cusum Test of Homogeneity with an Application in Spontaneous Abortion Epidemiology. Statistics in Medicine 4:469-488.
Levin, B. and Fleiss, J.L. (1985). Letter to the Editor Re: "Interpreting Multiple Logistic Regression Coefficients in Prospective Observational Studies." American Journal of Epidemiology 122(2):348.
Levin, B. and Kline, J. (1984). Letter to the Editor Re: "The Detection of Disease Clustering in Time." Biometrics 40:1179-1180.
Levin, B. (1984). Simple Improvements on Cornfield's Approximation to the Mean of a Non-central Hypergeometric Random Variable. Biometrika 71(3):630-632.
Levin, B. (1984). On a Sequential Selection Procedure of Bechhofer, Kiefer, and Sobel. Statistics and Probability Letters 2(2):91-94.
Levin, B. and Robbins, H. (1983). Urn Models for Regression Analysis with Applications to Employment Discrimination Studies. Law and Contemporary Problems 46(4):247-267.
Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B. and Robbins, H. (1983). Amicus Brief in Support of Appellees' Petition for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc. In EEOC, Cooper, Moore and Hannah vs. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, __F2nd__ (4th circ., 1983).
Kline, J., Levin, B., Shrout, P.E., Stein, Z.A., Susser,
M.N. and Warburton, D. (1983).
Maternal Smoking and Trisomy among Spontaneously Aborted Conceptions.
American Journal of Human Genetics 35(3):421-431.
Levin, B. (1983). On Calculations Involving the Maximum Cell Frequency. Communications in Statistics, special edition on the Analysis of Categorical Data 12(11):1299-1327.
Robbins, H. and Levin, B. (1983). A Note on the Underadjustment Phenomenon. Statistics and Probability Letters 1:137-139.
Levin, B. (1982). On the Accuracy of a Normal Approximation to the Power of the Mantel-Haenszel Procedure. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 14(3):210-218.
Levin, B. and Robbins, H. (1981). Selecting the Highest Probability in Binomial or Multinomial Trials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 78(8):4663-4666.
Levin, B. (1981). A Representation for Multinomial Cumulative Distribution Functions. Annals of Statistics 9(5):1123-1126.
Levin, B. and Shrout, P.E. (1981). On Extending Bock's Model of Logistic Regression in the Analysis of Categorical Data. Communications in Statistics A10(2):125-147.
Lai, T.L., Levin, B., Robbins, H. and Siegmund, D. (1980). Sequential Medical Trials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 77(6):3135-3138.
Kline, J., Levin, B., Stein, Z.A., Susser, M.N. and Warburton, D. (1980). Epidemiologic Detection of Low Dose Effects on the Developing Fetus. Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium on Environmental Epidemiology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hirschfeld, L., Howe, J. and Levin, B. (1978). Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris. American Anthropologist 89:110-115.
Levin, B. and Reeds, J. (1977). Compound Multinomial Likelihood Functions are Unimodal: Proof of a Conjecture of I.J. Good. Annals of Statistics 5:79-87.
Levin, B. (1974). Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Compound Multinomial and Compound Poisson Distributions (doctoral dissertation).
Glick, S.D., Levin, B. and Jarvik, M.E. (1970). Role of Monkeys' Spatial Preferences in Performance of a Non-spatial Task. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 73:56-61.
Glick, S.D., Jarvik, M.E., Levin, B. and Carley, J.L. (1970). An Automatic Multiple Choice Test of Short-Term Spatial Memory for Monkeys. Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior 13:317-318.
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Bullet Lead As Forensic Evidence.
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Statistical Proof of Discrimination in Peremptory Challenges.
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A Statistical Portrait of the Handgun Industry.
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