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Alai
Tan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community
Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Senior Biostatistician, Office of Biostatistics |
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Education:
Ph.D.
Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB, Galveston, TX
M.S.
Biostatistics, UTMB, Galveston, TX
M.D.
School of Medicine, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China
Research Support
(active)
Research Topic:
Evaluating mammography claims data,
PI: Jean L. Freeman, Ph.D., funded by National Institute of
Health/National Cancer Institute.
Brief description:
This research uses SEER data and Medicare
claims to examine screening performance among SEER area over the period
1998 – 1999.
Major responsibilities:
(1)
data extraction and manipulation
(2)
statistical analysis
(3) assisting in
preparing manuscripts for publishing
Publications
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Abstracts |
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Tan, A; Freeman, D.H.; Freeman
J.L. Factors related to routine screening with both mammogram
and Pap test among older Mexican-American women: A multinomial
logistic regression analysis. Annual Meeting of the American
Public Health Association, Washington DC, 2004 |
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Manuscripts |
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Tan, A; Freeman, D.H.; Freeman
J.L. Variation in accuracy of mammography readings among
radiologists: a population-based assessment. Will be submitted
to Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Tan, A; Freeman J.L.;
Freeman, D.H. Evaluating health care performance: strengths and
limitations of multilevel analysis. Will be submitted to
Statistics in Medicine. |
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PMCH