Selected Publications
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Methods papers
Adjustment for biased sampling using NHANES derived propensity weights | OM Bernstein, BG Vegetabile, CR Salazar, JD Grill, DL Gillen | Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 1-24 | 2022
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation | MY Huang, BG Vegetabile, LF Burgette, C Setodji, BA Griffin | Epidemiology | 2022
On the Distinction Between Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE) and Individual Treatment Effects(ITE) Under Ignorability Assumptions | BG Vegetabile | ICML Workshop Paper - “The Neglected Assumptions In Causal Inference” | 2021
Nonparametric estimation of population average dose-response curves using entropy balancing weights for continuous exposures | BG Vegetabile, BA Griffin, DL Coffman, M Cefalu, MW Robbins, DF McCaffrey | Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology | 2021
Reducing bias in difference-in-differences models using entropy balancing | M Cefalu, BG Vegetabile, M Dworsky, C Eibner, F Girosi | arXiv Preprint | 2020
Optimally balanced Gaussian process propensity scores for estimating treatment effects | BG Vegetabile, DL Gillen, HS Stern | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A,(Statistics in Society) | 2020
Estimating the entropy rate of finite Markov chains with application to behavior studies | BG Vegetabile, SA Stout-Oswald, EP Davis, TZ Baram, HS Stern | Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics | 2019
Methods for Optimal Covariate Balance in Observational Studies for Causal Inference | BG Vegetabile | PhD Dissertation - University of California, Irvine | 2018
Perspectives & Commentaries
Machine Learning in Public Policy | ED Peet, BG Vegetabile, M Cefalu, JD Pane, CL Damberg | RAND Corporation | 2022
How Different Sampling Methods Paint Vastly Different Pictures of Recidivism, and Why It Matters for Policy | N Kalra, BG Vegetabile, SD Bushway, G Baumann | RAND Corporation | 2022
Big Data Needs and Challenges to Advance Research on Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Maternal and Child Health | LG Perez, ED Peet, BG Vegetabile, RA Shih | Women’s Health Issues | 2022
Applied papers
Providing Another Chance - Resetting Recidivism Risk in Criminal Background Checks | SD Bushway, BG Vegetabile, N Kalra, L Remi, G Baumann | RAND Corporation | 2022
Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test - First Two Years of Implementation 2020–2021 | D Khodyakov, C Eibner, EA Taylor, RA Price, C Buttorff, M Cefalu, BG Vegetabile, J Bandini, M Martineau, CC Cohen, et al. | RAND Corporation | 2022
Causal Inference in Unrepresentative Databases: An Analysis of Vitamin E Supplementation in the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Uniform Dataset | OMB Morgan, BG Vegetabile, DL Gillen, J Grill | Alzheimer’s & Dementia | 2022
Comparative effectiveness of individual versus family-based substance use treatment on adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors | L Ayer, JD Pane, MD Godley, DF McCaffrey, L Burgette, M Cefalu, BG Vegetabile Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 2022
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development - Testting Summary Reports - 1) Heard and Understood, 2) Receiving Desired Help for Pain | SC Ahluwalia, BG Vegetabile, MO Edelen, CM Setodji, A Rodriguez, A Scherling, J Phillips, CM Farmer, JM Harrison, J Bandini, W Huang, L Schulson, A Walling, S Dalton, M Martineau, O Hall, D Schlang, MA Bradley, K Ast | RAND Corporation | 2021
State-level estimates of household firearm ownership | TL Schell, S Peterson, BG Vegetabile, A Scherling, R Smart, AR Morral | RAND Corporation | 2020
Expanding outcomes when considering the relative effectiveness of two evidence-based outpatient treatment programs for adolescents | BA Griffin, L Ayer, J Pane, B Vegetabile, L Burgette, D McCaffrey, et. al. Journal of substance abuse treatment | 2020
Across continents and demographics, unpredictable maternal signals are associated with children’s cognitive function | EP Davis, R Korja, L Karlsson, LM Glynn, CA Sandman, BG Vegetabile, et al. | EBioMedicine 46 | 2019
Exposure to unpredictable maternal sensory signals influences cognitive development across species | EP Davis, SA Stout, J Molet, BG Vegetabile, LM Glynn, CA Sandman, et al. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2017