On Time Series Analysis of Public Health and Biomedical Data

A time series is a sequence of observations made over time. Examples in public health include daily ozone concentrations, weekly admissions to an emergency department or annual expenditures on health care in the United States. Time series models are used to describe the dependence of the response at each time on predictor variables including covariates and possibly previous values in the series. Time series methods are necessary to account for the correlation among repeated responses over time. This paper gives an overview of time series ideas and methods used in public health research.

Earthquake prediction: the interaction of public policy and science.

Earthquake prediction research has searched for both informational phenomena, those that provide information about earthquake hazards useful to the public, and causal phenomena, causally related to the physical processes governing failure on a fault, to improve our understanding of those processes. Neither informational nor causal phenomena are a subset of the other. I propose a classification of potential earthquake predictors of informational, causal, and predictive phenomena, where predictors are causal phenomena that provide more accurate assessments of the earthquake hazard than can be gotten from assuming a random distribution. Achieving higher, more accurate probabilities than a random distribution requires much more information about the precursor than just that it is causally related to the earthquake.

Influence of Religious Institutions in the Creation and Implementation of Public Policy: The Case of Roman Catholic Argentina and Secular Uruguay

The strong presence of religious institutions in Latin America, especially the Roman Catholic Church, and their participation in the creation and implementation of public policy within a sovereign state can be counter-productive for the social development and progress of that specific country. Argentina and Uruguay and the social controversy of social issues of abortion and same-sex marriage are used as examples to establish the accuracy of the above statement. Historical, statistical, and legislative information about both topics in both countries show that the political power that the Roman Catholic Church has in the region is more an outdated influence than a reality, and the principle of secularization appears to be the most stabilizing philosophy for modern nations.

Speeches on questions of public policy,

Includes index.

An analysis of public information and education countermeasures: 1975, final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Speeches on questions of public policy,

Mode of access: Internet.

San Antonio Alcohol Safety Action Project - analytic study no. 7: analysis of public information and education. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Speeches on questions of public policy,

Mode of access: Internet.

Meeting the health needs of migrants and American Indians : a statement of public policy /

Includes bibliographic references.

Speeches on questions of public policy,

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A Cost-effectiveness analysis of public education and incentive programs for controlling radon in the home : final report /

Principal investigators: Thomas J. Bierma, Daniel Swartzman.

Economic impact of proposed airport noise regulations, R77-4. Volume II : economic analysis of public airports outside Chicago /

Project no. : 30.017.

Speeches on questions of public policy /

Includes index.

Speeches on questions of public policy,

Mode of access: Internet.