Bruce Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 111503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0933-2437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Statistics for Lawyers: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Science
Statistics for Lawyers: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Science
An Evolution-Based Model of Causation for Aging-Related Diseases and Intrinsic Mortality: Explanatory Properties and Implications for Healthy Aging
Aging-related diseases are the most prevalent diseases in advanced countries nowadays, accounting for a substantial proportion of mortality. We describe the explanatory properties of an evolution-based model of causation (EBMC) applicable to aging-related diseases and intrinsic mortality. The EBMC takes the sufficient and component causes model of causation as a starting point and develops it using evolutionary and statistical theories. Genetic c…
Impact of an HIV Care Coordination Program on the Timeliness of Viral Suppression and Immune Recovery Among Clients Newly Diagnosed with HIV
Cultural Perspectives in Public Health
In order to deliver effective health care and public health services, an awareness of and appreciation for culture’s influence on the social determinants of health is fundamental. In addition, culturally competent delivery of care is a primary contributor to reducing the more expansive concern of health disparities. This chapter defines culture, including its role and influence as a social determinant of health, and discusses the concepts of cult…
Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
These findings raise serious concerns about the robustness of the claims made about the efficacy of CBT and GET. The modest treatment effects obtained on self-report measures in the PACE trial do not exceed what could be reasonably accounted for by participant reporting biases
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy
Government policies are needed when people's behaviors fail to deliver the public good. Those policies will be most effective if they can stimulate long-term changes in beliefs and norms, creating and reinforcing the behaviors needed to solidify and extend the public good.It is often the short-term acceptability of potential policies, rather than their longer-term efficacy, that determines their scope and deployment. The policy process should con…
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: An Evaluation of its Possible Use and Relative Risk
Fundamental Causes' of Social Inequalities in Mortality: A Test of the Theory
Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally irrelevant 'confounding variable' or as a less critical variable marking only the beginning of a causal chain in which intervening risk factors are given prominence. Yet the association between socioeconomic status and mortality has persisted despite radical changes in …
Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions
Preface.Preface to the Second Edition.Preface to the First Edition.1. An Introduction to Applied Probability.2. Statistical Inference for a Single Proportion.3. Assessing Significance in a Fourfold Table.4. Determining Sample Sizes Needed to Detect a Difference Between Two Proportions.5. How to Randomize.6. Comparative Studies: Cross-Sectional, Naturalistic, or Multinomial Sampling.7. Comparative Studies: Prospective and Retrospective Sampling.8.…
No, Not Another IRB
A gender-specific HIV/STD risk reduction intervention for women in a health care setting: Short- and long-term results of a randomized clinical trial
This study assessed the short- and long-term effect of a gender-specific group intervention for women on unsafe sexual encounters and strategies for protection against HIV/STD infection. Family planning clients (N = 360) from a high HIV seroprevalence area in New York City were randomized to an eight-session, a four-session or a control condition and followed at one, six and 12 months post-intervention. Using an intention-to-treat analysis, women…
Maternal leisure-time exercise and timely delivery
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated whether, in a general obstetric population, exercise in pregnancy affects the timeliness of delivery. The hypothesis was that maternal exercise would not raise the risk of preterm birth. METHODS: A community cohort of 557 prenatal patients was followed up until the time of delivery. Data were collected on exercise in each trimester: none, low-moderate ( or = 1000 kcal/wk). Timely delivery was adopted as an outc…
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that. M E Northridge, B Levin, M Feinleib, and M W SusserCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.7.1092 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Cocaine use during pregnancy: Sensitive detection by hair assay
OBJECTIVES: This paper compares the sensitivity of two tests of cocaine use, interview and urine test, with that of a radioimmunoassay of hair. METHODS: Interviews and hair samples were provided by 397 obstetric patients in one New York City hospital; urine samples were obtained in 377. Of these patients, 241 were receiving prenatal care (were registered) and 156 delivered without prenatal care (were unregistered). The 241 registered patients wer…
Factors associated with emergency department visits by children with asthma: Implications for health education
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the relationship between psychosocial and behavioral factors and the frequency of emergency department visits for childhood asthma. METHODS: Data obtained from a survey of parents of 445 children who were being treated for asthma in the emergency room of a large urban hospital were examined. RESULTS: Factors associated with high emergency department use included the child's being of younger age, a greater numbe…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: I. A design proposal
OBJECTIVES: The accepted sine qua non for estimating the difference in efficacy between a new and a standard treatment is a randomized controlled clinical trial. Yet in some situations it is either practically or ethically impossible to conduct such a trial. For example, patients who are desperately ill may decline to participate when they learn they may not receive the new treatment, especially when that treatment is readily available outside th…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: II. Examples
OBJECTIVES: The preceding article proposed an assured treatment design that would address certain difficulties in recruiting persons who are at greater risk into randomized clinical trials. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the statistical validity of the design in a practical setting. METHODS: Three actual randomized clinical trials were considered as case studies; in each, the data that would have been obtained under assured allocati…
Use of Psychological Testing in Symptom Detection in a Normal Population
This study investigated the predictive value of using two standardized psychological tests in assessing common everyday complaints in a community survey of 100 normal healthy volunteers. The results of this study, together with previous research, confirm that these psychophysiological symptoms reflected mental health status and could be predicted through selective testing
Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris
Fundamental Causes' of Social Inequalities in Mortality: A Test of the Theory
Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally irrelevant 'confounding variable' or as a less critical variable marking only the beginning of a causal chain in which intervening risk factors are given prominence. Yet the association between socioeconomic status and mortality has persisted despite radical changes in …
Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris
Maternal leisure-time exercise and timely delivery
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated whether, in a general obstetric population, exercise in pregnancy affects the timeliness of delivery. The hypothesis was that maternal exercise would not raise the risk of preterm birth. METHODS: A community cohort of 557 prenatal patients was followed up until the time of delivery. Data were collected on exercise in each trimester: none, low-moderate ( or = 1000 kcal/wk). Timely delivery was adopted as an outc…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: I. A design proposal
OBJECTIVES: The accepted sine qua non for estimating the difference in efficacy between a new and a standard treatment is a randomized controlled clinical trial. Yet in some situations it is either practically or ethically impossible to conduct such a trial. For example, patients who are desperately ill may decline to participate when they learn they may not receive the new treatment, especially when that treatment is readily available outside th…
Factors associated with emergency department visits by children with asthma: Implications for health education
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the relationship between psychosocial and behavioral factors and the frequency of emergency department visits for childhood asthma. METHODS: Data obtained from a survey of parents of 445 children who were being treated for asthma in the emergency room of a large urban hospital were examined. RESULTS: Factors associated with high emergency department use included the child's being of younger age, a greater numbe…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: II. Examples
OBJECTIVES: The preceding article proposed an assured treatment design that would address certain difficulties in recruiting persons who are at greater risk into randomized clinical trials. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the statistical validity of the design in a practical setting. METHODS: Three actual randomized clinical trials were considered as case studies; in each, the data that would have been obtained under assured allocati…
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that. M E Northridge, B Levin, M Feinleib, and M W SusserCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.7.1092 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris
Use of Psychological Testing in Symptom Detection in a Normal Population
This study investigated the predictive value of using two standardized psychological tests in assessing common everyday complaints in a community survey of 100 normal healthy volunteers. The results of this study, together with previous research, confirm that these psychophysiological symptoms reflected mental health status and could be predicted through selective testing
Factors associated with emergency department visits by children with asthma: Implications for health education
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the relationship between psychosocial and behavioral factors and the frequency of emergency department visits for childhood asthma. METHODS: Data obtained from a survey of parents of 445 children who were being treated for asthma in the emergency room of a large urban hospital were examined. RESULTS: Factors associated with high emergency department use included the child's being of younger age, a greater numbe…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: I. A design proposal
OBJECTIVES: The accepted sine qua non for estimating the difference in efficacy between a new and a standard treatment is a randomized controlled clinical trial. Yet in some situations it is either practically or ethically impossible to conduct such a trial. For example, patients who are desperately ill may decline to participate when they learn they may not receive the new treatment, especially when that treatment is readily available outside th…
Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk: II. Examples
OBJECTIVES: The preceding article proposed an assured treatment design that would address certain difficulties in recruiting persons who are at greater risk into randomized clinical trials. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the statistical validity of the design in a practical setting. METHODS: Three actual randomized clinical trials were considered as case studies; in each, the data that would have been obtained under assured allocati…
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that
Statistics in the journal--significance, confidence, and all that. M E Northridge, B Levin, M Feinleib, and M W SusserCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.7.1092 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Cocaine use during pregnancy: Sensitive detection by hair assay
OBJECTIVES: This paper compares the sensitivity of two tests of cocaine use, interview and urine test, with that of a radioimmunoassay of hair. METHODS: Interviews and hair samples were provided by 397 obstetric patients in one New York City hospital; urine samples were obtained in 377. Of these patients, 241 were receiving prenatal care (were registered) and 156 delivered without prenatal care (were unregistered). The 241 registered patients wer…
Maternal leisure-time exercise and timely delivery
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated whether, in a general obstetric population, exercise in pregnancy affects the timeliness of delivery. The hypothesis was that maternal exercise would not raise the risk of preterm birth. METHODS: A community cohort of 557 prenatal patients was followed up until the time of delivery. Data were collected on exercise in each trimester: none, low-moderate ( or = 1000 kcal/wk). Timely delivery was adopted as an outc…
A gender-specific HIV/STD risk reduction intervention for women in a health care setting: Short- and long-term results of a randomized clinical trial
This study assessed the short- and long-term effect of a gender-specific group intervention for women on unsafe sexual encounters and strategies for protection against HIV/STD infection. Family planning clients (N = 360) from a high HIV seroprevalence area in New York City were randomized to an eight-session, a four-session or a control condition and followed at one, six and 12 months post-intervention. Using an intention-to-treat analysis, women…
Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions
Preface.Preface to the Second Edition.Preface to the First Edition.1. An Introduction to Applied Probability.2. Statistical Inference for a Single Proportion.3. Assessing Significance in a Fourfold Table.4. Determining Sample Sizes Needed to Detect a Difference Between Two Proportions.5. How to Randomize.6. Comparative Studies: Cross-Sectional, Naturalistic, or Multinomial Sampling.7. Comparative Studies: Prospective and Retrospective Sampling.8.…
No, Not Another IRB
Fundamental Causes' of Social Inequalities in Mortality: A Test of the Theory
Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally irrelevant 'confounding variable' or as a less critical variable marking only the beginning of a causal chain in which intervening risk factors are given prominence. Yet the association between socioeconomic status and mortality has persisted despite radical changes in …
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: An Evaluation of its Possible Use and Relative Risk
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy
Government policies are needed when people's behaviors fail to deliver the public good. Those policies will be most effective if they can stimulate long-term changes in beliefs and norms, creating and reinforcing the behaviors needed to solidify and extend the public good.It is often the short-term acceptability of potential policies, rather than their longer-term efficacy, that determines their scope and deployment. The policy process should con…
Cultural Perspectives in Public Health
In order to deliver effective health care and public health services, an awareness of and appreciation for culture’s influence on the social determinants of health is fundamental. In addition, culturally competent delivery of care is a primary contributor to reducing the more expansive concern of health disparities. This chapter defines culture, including its role and influence as a social determinant of health, and discusses the concepts of cult…
Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
These findings raise serious concerns about the robustness of the claims made about the efficacy of CBT and GET. The modest treatment effects obtained on self-report measures in the PACE trial do not exceed what could be reasonably accounted for by participant reporting biases
Impact of an HIV Care Coordination Program on the Timeliness of Viral Suppression and Immune Recovery Among Clients Newly Diagnosed with HIV
An Evolution-Based Model of Causation for Aging-Related Diseases and Intrinsic Mortality: Explanatory Properties and Implications for Healthy Aging
Aging-related diseases are the most prevalent diseases in advanced countries nowadays, accounting for a substantial proportion of mortality. We describe the explanatory properties of an evolution-based model of causation (EBMC) applicable to aging-related diseases and intrinsic mortality. The EBMC takes the sufficient and component causes model of causation as a starting point and develops it using evolutionary and statistical theories. Genetic c…
Statistics for Lawyers: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Science
Statistics for Lawyers: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Science
Medicine (14 works) · Internal Medicine (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Confidence interval (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)