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Lisa Dierker is affiliated with Wesleyan University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and mathematics, with significant focus on statistics and probability as well as clinical psychology and physiology.

The scientist's work addresses various subfields including:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Education
  • Pharmacology

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Statistics Education and Methodologies
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Educational Assessment and Pedagogy

Dierker's publications appear frequently in a range of scholarly venues, reflecting a combination of education, psychology, and public health interests. Notable publication venues include:

  • Statistics Education Research Journal
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Tobacco Control
  • Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
  • Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Some of the recent papers from this scientist are:

  • "Trends in U.S. Depression Prevalence From 2015 to 2020: The Widening Treatment Gap" (2022), American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • "Cigarette dependence is more prevalent and increasing among US adolescents and adults who use cannabis, 2002-2019" (2021), Tobacco Control
  • "COMPARISON OF FUTURE COURSE ENROLLMENT AMONG STUDENTS COMPLETING ONE OF FOUR DIFFERENT INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSES" (2020), Statistics Education Research Journal
  • "TAKING PROJECT-BASED STATISTICS ABROAD: LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES OF A PROJECT-BASED STATISTICS COURSE IN WEST AFRICA" (2020), Statistics Education Research Journal
  • "Behavioral symptoms of eating disorders among adopted adolescents and young adults in the United States: Findings from the Add Health survey" (2020), International Journal of Eating Disorders

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Jennifer Rose
  • Valerie Nazzaro
  • Arielle Selya
  • Renée D. Goodwin
  • Andrea H. Weinberger

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Characteristics and functions of non-suicidal self-injury in a community sample of adolescents

    Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson;Nicholas Perrine;L. Dierker;Michelle L. Kelley

  • Use and abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs in US adolescents: results of the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement.

    Joel Swendsen;Marcy Burstein;Brady Case;Kevin P. Conway

  • Trends in U.S. Depression Prevalence From 2015 to 2020: The Widening Treatment Gap

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  • Does number of lifetime traumas explain the relationship between PTSD and chronic medical conditions? Answers from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R)

    Eve M. Sledjeski;Brittany Speisman;Lisa C. Dierker

  • A Time-Varying Effect Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data

    Xianming Tan;Mariya P. Shiyko;Runze Li;Yuelin Li

  • Evaluating the drug use “gateway” theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Lisa Dierker;Lisa Dierker;Wai Tat Chiu;Maria Elena Medina-Mora

  • Psychopathology among offspring of parents with substance abuse and/or anxiety disorders: a high-risk study

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Lisa C. Dierker;Peter Szatmari

  • Vulnerability factors among children at risk for anxiety disorders

    Kathleen Ries Merikangas;Shelli Avenevoli;Lisa Dierker;Lisa Dierker;Christian Grillon

  • Smoking and Depression: An Examination of Mechanisms of Comorbidity

    Lisa C. Dierker;Shelli Avenevoli;Marilyn Stolar;K.R. Merikangas

  • Screening for Anxiety and Depression in Early Adolescence

    Lisa C. Dierker;Anne Marie Albano;Gregory N. Clarke;Richard G. Heimberg

  • The MacArthur Three-City Outcome Study: Evaluating Multi-Informant Measures of Young Children’s Symptomatology

    Jennifer C. Ablow;Jeffrey R. Measelle;Helena C. Kraemer;Richard Harrington

  • Influence of parental concordance for psychiatric disorders on psychopathology in offspring.

    Lisa C. Dierker;Kathleen R. Merikangas;Peter Szatmari

  • Fear-potentiated startle in adolescent offspring of parents with anxiety disordersf ☆

    Christian Grillon;Lisa Dierker;Kathleen R Merikangas

  • Comorbidity of depression in children and adolescents: models and evidence from a prospective high-risk family study.

    Shelli Avenevoli;Marilyn Stolar;Julia Li;Lisa Dierker

  • Disordered eating and substance use in high-school students: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

    Emily M. Pisetsky;Y. May Chao;Lisa C. Dierker;Alexis M. May

  • Startle modulation in children at risk for anxiety disorders and/or alcoholism.

    Christian Grillon;Lisa Dierker;Kathleen R. Merikangas

  • The interpretation of statistical power after the data have been gathered

    John Joseph Dziak;Lisa C. Dierker;Lisa C. Dierker;Beau Abar

  • Association Between Psychiatric Disorders and the Progression of Tobacco Use Behaviors

    Lisa C. Dierker;Shelli Avenevoli;Kathleen R. Merikangas;Brian P. Flaherty

  • Trends in Daily Cannabis Use Among Cigarette Smokers: United States, 2002–2014

    Renee D. Goodwin;Lauren R. Pacek;Jan Copeland;Scott J. Moeller

  • Mental disorders as risk factors for later substance dependence: estimates of optimal prevention and treatment benefits.

    Meyer D. Glantz;James C. Anthony;Patricia A. Berglund;Louisa Degenhardt

  • Does the 'gateway' matter? Associations between the order of drug use initiation and the development of drug dependence in the National Comorbidity Study Replication.

    L. Degenhardt;W. T. Chiu;K. Conway;L. Dierker

  • The proximal association between smoking and alcohol use among first year college students

    Lisa Dierker;Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson;Marilyn Stolar;Brian Flay

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen R. Merikangas
Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health
Robin J. Mermelstein
Robin J. Mermelstein University of Illinois at Chicago
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Kevin P. Conway
Kevin P. Conway National Institute on Drug Abuse
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore Wesleyan University
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Lauren S. Wakschlag Northwestern University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin Columbia University
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Wai Tat Chiu
Wai Tat Chiu Harvard Medical School

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