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5993
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98

Overview

Paul Gustafson is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has an extensive publication record focused primarily on the intersection of mathematics and medicine. Their research spans several subfields including statistics and probability, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as advanced causal inference techniques, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life assessments, statistical methods in clinical trials, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, and treatment of opioid use disorder.

Gustafson's most recent papers include:

  • "STRATOS guidance document on measurement error and misclassification of variables in observational epidemiology: Part 1-Basic theory and simple methods of adjustment," 2020, published in Statistics in Medicine
  • "STRATOS guidance document on measurement error and misclassification of variables in observational epidemiology: Part 2-More complex methods of adjustment and advanced topics," 2020, published in Statistics in Medicine
  • "Geospatial indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to assess neighbourhood variation in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards," 2021, published in Environmental Health
  • "Comparative effectiveness of buprenorphine-naloxone versus methadone for treatment of opioid use disorder: a population-based observational study protocol in British Columbia, Canada," 2020, published in BMJ Open
  • "Towards reduction in bias in epidemic curves due to outcome misclassification through Bayesian analysis of time-series of laboratory test results: case study of COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada and Philadelphia, USA," 2020, published in BMC Medical Research Methodology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Harlan Campbell (26 joint publications)
  • Mohsen Sadatsafavi (17 joint publications)
  • Thomas P. A. Debray (15 joint publications)
  • Valentijn M. T. de Jong (12 joint publications)
  • Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (11 joint publications)

Their publications appear most often in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), 25 publications
  • BMJ Open, 7 publications
  • Statistics in Medicine, 4 publications
  • Medical Decision Making, 4 publications
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology, 3 publications

Gustafson's contributions include significant work in developing statistical methodologies, particularly in measurement error adjustment and Bayesian approaches. Their research also covers public health topics related to climate change vulnerability, opioid use disorder treatment, and epidemiological analysis of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.

Best Publications

  • An overview of robust Bayesian analysis

    James O. Berger;Elías Moreno;Luis Raul Pericchi;M. Jesús Bayarri

  • Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and Epidemiology: Impacts and Bayesian Adjustments

    Paul Gustafson

  • Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and Epidemiology

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  • On Model Expansion, Model Contraction, Identifiability and Prior Information: Two Illustrative Scenarios Involving Mismeasured Variables

    Paul Gustafson

  • Bayesian sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding in observational studies

    Lawrence C. McCandless;Paul Gustafson;Adrian Levy

  • Bayesian propensity score analysis for observational data

    Lawrence C. McCandless;Paul Gustafson;Peter C. Austin

  • STRATOS guidance document on measurement error and misclassification of variables in observational epidemiology: Part 1-Basic theory and simple methods of adjustment

    Ruth H Keogh;Pamela A Shaw;Paul Gustafson;Raymond J Carroll;Raymond J Carroll

  • Case-control analysis with partial knowledge of exposure misclassification probabilities.

    Paul Gustafson;Nhu D. Le;Nhu D. Le;Refik Saskin;Refik Saskin

  • STRATOS guidance document on measurement error and misclassification of variables in observational epidemiology: Part 2—More complex methods of adjustment and advanced topics

    Pamela A Shaw;Paul Gustafson;Raymond J Carroll;Raymond J Carroll;Veronika Deffner

  • Global estimation of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from household air pollution.

    Matthew Shupler;William Godwin;Joseph Frostad;Paul Gustafson

  • Large hierarchical Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data.

    Paul Gustafson

  • Comparison of Statistical Approaches for Dealing With Immortal Time Bias in Drug Effectiveness Studies.

    Mohammad Ehsanul Karim;Paul Gustafson;John Petkau;Helen Tremlett

  • Use of instrumental variables in the analysis of generalized linear models in the presence of unmeasured confounding with applications to epidemiological research

    K. M. Johnston;P. Gustafson;A. R. Levy;A. R. Levy;P. Grootendorst;P. Grootendorst

  • Local sensitivity diagnostics for Bayesian inference

    Paul Gustafson;Larry Wasserman

  • Is probabilistic bias analysis approximately bayesian

    Richard F. MacLehose;Paul Gustafson

  • Bayesian Inference for Partially Identified Models

    Paul Gustafson

  • Accounting for Independent Nondifferential Misclassification Does Not Increase Certainty that an Observed Association Is in the Correct Direction

    Sander Greenland;Paul Gustafson

  • Marginal Structural Cox Models for Estimating the Association Between β-Interferon Exposure and Disease Progression in a Multiple Sclerosis Cohort

    Mohammad Ehsanul Karim;Paul Gustafson;John Petkau;Yinshan Zhao

  • The consolidation/transition model in moral reasoning development.

    Lawrence J. Walker;Paul Gustafson;Karl H. Hennig

  • Bayesian Inference for Partially Identified Models: Exploring the Limits of Limited Data

    Paul Gustafson

  • Regression B-spline smoothing in Bayesian disease mapping: with an application to patient safety surveillance.

    Ying C. MacNab;Paul Gustafson

  • Conservative prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models

    Paul Gustafson;Shahadut Hossain;Ying C. Macnab

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia
Mark W. Tyndall
Mark W. Tyndall University of British Columbia
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia
Mel Krajden
Mel Krajden University of British Columbia
Sander Greenland
Sander Greenland University of California, Los Angeles
Mohammad Ali Mansournia
Mohammad Ali Mansournia Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Raymond J. Carroll
Raymond J. Carroll Texas A&M University
Robert W. Platt
Robert W. Platt McGill University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Lawrence J. Walker
Lawrence J. Walker University of British Columbia

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