Spiegelman and Zhou Respond

Affiliations

¹ Donna Spiegelman is with the Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, and professor emerita in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Nutrition and Global Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Xin Zhou is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Comment

Donna Spiegelman et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;109(3):e13-e14.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304917.

¹ Donna Spiegelman is with the Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, and professor emerita in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Nutrition and Global Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Xin Zhou is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

No abstract available

Comment on

Evaluating Public Health Interventions: 8. Causal Inference for Time-Invariant Interventions.
Spiegelman D, Zhou X. Spiegelman D, et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Sep;108(9):1187-1190. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304530. Epub 2018 Jul 19. Am J Public Health. 2018. PMID: 30024804 Free PMC article.
Effect Modification and Collapsibility in Evaluations of Public Health Interventions.
Luque-Fernandez MA, Redondo-Sanchez D, Schomaker M. Luque-Fernandez MA, et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Mar;109(3):e12-e13. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304916. Am J Public Health. 2019. PMID: 30726131 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

1. Spiegelman D, Khudyakov P, Wang M, VanderWeele TJ. Evaluating public health interventions: 7. Let the subject matter choose the effect measure: ratio, difference, or something else entirely. Am J Public Health. 2018;108(1):73–76. - PMC - PubMed
1. Spiegelman D, VanderWeele TJ. evaluating public health interventions: 6. Modeling ratios or differences? Let the data tell us. Am J Public Health. 2017;107(7):1087–1091. - PMC - PubMed
1. Loux TM, Drake C, Smith-Gagen J. A comparison of marginal odds ratio estimators. Stat Methods Med Res. 2017;26(1):155–175. - PubMed
1. Nevo D, Liao X, Spiegelman D. Estimation and inference for the mediation proportion. Int J Biostat. 2017;13(2):20170006. - PMC - PubMed
1. Greenland S. Interpretation and choice of effect measures in epidemiologic analyses. Am J Epidemiol. 1987;125(5):761–768. - PubMed