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  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Donald Hedeker is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and psychology, with particular focus on physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, developmental and educational psychology, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their extensive body of work covers a variety of main topics, including obesity, physical activity, and diet; children's physical and motor development; behavioral health and interventions; mental health research topics; physical activity and health; smoking behavior and cessation; and statistical methods and Bayesian inference.

Recent publications by Donald Hedeker include:

  • Centering categorical predictors in multilevel models: Best practices and interpretation, 2021, Psychological Methods
  • Effect of early mobilisation on long-term cognitive impairment in critical illness in the USA: a randomised controlled trial, 2023, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Criterion validity and relationships between alternative hierarchical dimensional models of general and specific psychopathology, 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • A Factorial Experiment to Optimize Remotely Delivered Behavioral Treatment for Obesity: Results of the Opt-IN Study, 2020, Obesity
  • Impact of post-diagnosis weight change on survival outcomes in Black and White breast cancer patients, 2021, Breast Cancer Research

Donald Hedeker frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors, including José Maia, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Go Tani, Sara Pereira, and Rui Garganta. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse research portfolio.

Their works are often published in journals such as Revista Portuguesa de Ciências do Desporto, American Journal of Human Biology, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Statistics in Medicine, and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

Donald Hedeker was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in the year 2000.

Best Publications

  • Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Donald R. Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons

  • A Practical Guide to Calculating Cohen’s f2, a Measure of Local Effect Size, from PROC MIXED

    Arielle S. Selya;Jennifer S. Rose;Lisa C. Dierker;Donald Hedeker

  • Time-related predictors of suicide in major affective disorder

    Jan Fawcett;William A. Scheftner;Louis Fogg;David C. Clark

  • Mobile health technology evaluation: The mHealth evidence workshop

    Santosh Kumar;Wendy J. Nilsen;Amy Abernethy;Audie Atienza

  • Application of Random-Effects Pattern-Mixture Models for Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies

    Donald Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons

  • Some conceptual and statistical issues in analysis of longitudinal psychiatric data. Application to the NIMH treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program dataset.

    Robert D. Gibbons;Donald R. Hedeker;Irene Elkin;Christine Waternaux

  • The Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale

    Edward G. Altman;Donald Hedeker;James L. Peterson;John M. Davis

  • A random-effects ordinal regression model for multilevel analysis.

    Donald Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons

  • Full-information item bi-factor analysis

    Robert D. Gibbons;Donald R. Hedeker

  • Differential influence of parental smoking and friends' smoking on adolescent initiation and escalation of smoking.

    B R Flay;F B Hu;O Siddiqui;L E Day

  • MIXOR: a computer program for mixed-effects ordinal regression analysis

    Donald Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons

  • Advances in Analysis of Longitudinal Data

    Robert D. Gibbons;Donald Hedeker;Stephen DuToit

  • Clinical predictors of suicide in patients with major affective disorders: a controlled prospective study.

    Jan Fawcett;William Scheftner;David Clark;Don Hedeker

  • Sample Size Estimation for Longitudinal Designs with Attrition: Comparing Time-Related Contrasts Between Two Groups

    Donald Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons;Christine Waternaux

  • Comparison of Population-Averaged and Subject-Specific Approaches for Analyzing Repeated Binary Outcomes

    Frank B. Hu;Jack Goldberg;Donald Hedeker;Brian R. Flay

  • Effective medical treatment of opiate addiction

    L. L. Judd;M. G. Marston;C. Attkisson;W. Berrettini

  • Initial Severity and Differential Treatment Outcome in the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program

    Irene Elkin;Robert D. Gibbons;M. Tracie Shea;Stuart M. Sotsky

  • A mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression model.

    Donald Hedeker

  • Full-Information Item Bifactor Analysis of Graded Response Data:

    Robert D. Gibbons;R. Darrell Bock;Donald Hedeker;David J. Weiss

  • Random-effects regression models for clustered data with an example from smoking prevention research.

    Donald Hedeker;Robert D. Gibbons;Brian R. Flay

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin J. Mermelstein
Robin J. Mermelstein University of Illinois at Chicago
Bonnie Spring
Bonnie Spring Northwestern University
Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University
Lisa Dierker
Lisa Dierker Wesleyan University
Genevieve F. Dunton
Genevieve F. Dunton University of Southern California
Brian Hitsman
Brian Hitsman Northwestern University
Saul Shiffman
Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh
Robert B. Weiss
Robert B. Weiss University of Utah
Susan D. McMahon
Susan D. McMahon DePaul University
Steve Sussman
Steve Sussman University of Southern California

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