Center for Health Care Research & Policy

August 2011 Update: My CV is here, for now. This website will be completely revamped soon. For now, enjoy a blast from the past in the form of my 2006 web presence.

2006 Classes and Teaching Materials

CRSP 401: Introduction To Clinical Research (to be given in Summer 2006) [Coming in late June]

Summer 2006 Medical School Block One Materials [Coming in mid-July]

CRSP 403: Biostatistics for Clinical Research (Fall 2006) [Coming in August]

CRSP 500: Observational Studies (Spring 2006) [Coming by January]

Core Information: Some Things I Am Involved With

American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section (I am the Section’s Secretary, effective January 2006)

American Statistical Association Cleveland Chapter (I am the Chapter’s Vice President, and have been since 2005)

Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business (I am MSMESB’s Web Editor, and have been for 11+years)

My Page of Links on Statistics and Health Care Research (many of which are woefully out of date)

Propensity Score Methods for Dealing With Selection Bias in Observational Studies (more to come, when I get the chance: see presentations below)

Strategies for Using Propensity Scores Well: A Workshop Given at the International Conference for Health Policy Research, October 28-30, 2005

A Few of My Recent Presentations

Love TE “A Statistician’s Adventures in Public Health Research: Balance and Design” Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, March 8, 2006.

Love TE “Must We Be Misled By Observational Studies?” MetroHealth Medical Center Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, May 19, 2005.

Love TE “Economic and Statistical Concerns in the Design of Multivariate Control Charts” American Society for Quality Elyria/Lorain Chapter, May 18, 2005. This is joint work with Kevin Linderman.

Love TE “What People Thinking About Quality Improvement Should Know About Propensity Methods” American Society for Quality Elyria/Lorain Chapter, May 18, 2005.

Love TE “Item Response Theory, Adaptive Assessment, and Health Services Research” Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center Invited Presentation, November 30, 2004.

Love TE “Using Propensity Scores Effectively” [WARNING: 97 PAGES] Cleveland Chapter of the American Statistical Association Fall Workshop, Cleveland, October 11, 2004.

Cebul RD, Dawson NV and Love TE, Short Course on “Reducing Bias in Decision Models: Propensity Methods” Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meetings, October 2001-2004. (2003 Outstanding Short Course)

Love TE, Dawson NV, Thomas CL, Cebul RD “A Cautionary Tale: Instrumental Variable Validation and Covariate Balance” American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section Topic Contributed Session

on “Causal Inference in Health Services Research: Taking Account of Hidden Bias”, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, August 2004.

Love TE “Propensity Scores: Helping Non-Statisticians Get The Message” Chair and Presenter, Luncheon Roundtable, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, August 2004.

Love TE “Why Statistical Thinking Matters” Invited Address for the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Awards Banquet, May 18, 2004.

Love TE “Propensity Scores: What Do They Do, How Should I Use Them, and Why Should I Care?” American Statistical Association, Cleveland Chapter, December 2003.

Love TE “Statistical Thinking and Data Awareness” Keynote Address for the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics “Back to the University” Mathematics Workshop

on “Data Analysis and Probability: Aligning Instruction with the Ohio Model Curriculum.” October 10, 2003.

Love TE “Adaptive Assessment of Stroke Impact” American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 2003.

Love TE “Discussing and Displaying the Effectiveness of Causal Models for Observational Studies,” Chair and Presenter, Luncheon Roundtable, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, August 4, 2003.

Love TE “Explaining Post-Propensity Score Covariate Balance” International Biometric Society – Eastern North American Region Meeting, Tampa, April 1, 2003.

Love TE “Displaying Covariate Balance after Adjustment for Selection Bias” Section on Health Policy Statistics, Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, August 11, 2002 [abstract]

Love TE and David Litaker “Hierarchical Models” Center for Health Care Research and Policy Methods Seminar Series, August, 2002. [abstract]

Love TE “Item Response Models and Health Services Research” Center for Health Care Research and Policy Methods Seminar Series, July, 2002. [announcement]

Love TE, Hinrichs, C and Konrath, T, leaders, “We’ve Preached to the Choir, Now What?” Making Statistics More Effective in Schools and Business Workshop Session

in the “Getting Real With Our Customers” track, University of Georgia, Athens, June, 2002. [2002 MSMESB conference] [pdf

of presentation

]

Love, TE “Statistics and the Design of Experiments and Surveys” Guest Lecture for EPOM 409 Capstone Course, CWRU School of Engineering, April, 2002

Love, TE “Propensity Scores for Selection Bias Adjustment in Observational Studies” Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, March, 2002. [pdf of references]

Love, TE “Smoking, Stephen Jay Gould and Convertibles: Statistical Graphics for Data Presentation and Analysis” Center for Health Care Research & Policy Methods Seminar, January 2002. [handout]

Love, TE “Educating Business Students and Quality: Lessons from the MSMESB Conferences” American Society for Quality, Elyria/Lorain Chapter, November, 2001.

Love, TE “Quality Improvement and Propensity Models” Institute for Operations Research & the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Meeting, Miami, November, 2001. [pdf of references]

Love, TE “Improving Logistic Regression Analysis: Diagnostics and Model Selection” Center for Health Care Research & Policy Methods Seminar Series, August, 2001. [pdf of references]