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Selected publications for Bruce Levin, Ph.D.

  • Lai, T.L., Levin, B., Robbins, H., and Siegmund, D. (1980).  Sequential medical trials. Proceedings of the National Academy of  Sciences - USA, 77(6):3135-3138.

  • Levin, B. (1981).  A representation for multinomial cumulative distribution functions.  Annals of Statistics, 9(5):1123-1126.

  • Levin, B. and Robbins, H. (1981).  Selecting the highest probability in binomial or multinomial trials.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA, 78(8):4663-4666.

  • Levin, B. (1983).  On calculations involving the maximum cell frequency. Communications in Statistics, special edition:  Analysis of Categorical Data, 12(11):1299-1327.

  • Levin, B. (1984).  On a sequential selection procedure of Bechhofer, Kiefer and Sobel. Statistics and Probability Letters, 2(2):91-94.

  • Levin, B. (1984).  Simple improvements to Cornfield's approximation to the mean of a non-central hypergeometric random variable.  Biometrika, 71(3):630-632.

  • Levin, B. and Kline, J. (1985).  The cusum test of homogeneity with an application in spontaneous abortion epidemiology.  Statistics in Medicine, 4:469-488.

  • Levin, B. (1987).  Conditional likelihood analysis in stratum-matched retrospective studies with polytomous disease states.  Communications in Statistics, B16(3):699-718.

  • Fleiss, J.L. and Levin, B. (1988).  Sample size determination in studies with matched pairs. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 41(8):727-730.

  • Weinstein, G.S. and Levin, B. (1989).  The effect of crossover on the statistical power of randomized studies.
    Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 48:490-495.

  • Levin, B. (1990).  The saddlepoint correction in conditional logistic likelihood analysis.  Biometrika, 77(2):275-2

  • Levin, B. (1992).  Tests of odds ratio homogeneity with improved power in sparse fourfold tables.
    Communications in Statistics, 21(6):  1469-1500.

  • Finkelstein, M.O., Levin, B., and Robbins, H. (1996).  Clinical and prophylactic trials with assured new treatment for those at greater risk:  Part I - Introduction.  American Journal of Public Health, 86:691-695; Part II - Examples, 86:696-705.

  • Levin, B. and Chen, X. (1999).  Is the one-half continuity correction used once or twice to derive a well-known approximate sample size formula to compare two independent binomial distributions?  The American Statistician, 53:62-66.

  • Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (1999).Proof of a Lower Bound Formula for the Expected Reward in the Levin-Robbins Sequential Elimination Procedure.  Sequential Analysis 18(2):81-105.

  • Levin, B. and Paik, M.C. (2001).  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Biased Logistic Regression Procedure in the Analysis of Pair–Matched Case–Control Studies.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 96:371-385.

  • Levin, B. and Paik, M.C. (2001).  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Biased Logistic Regression Procedure in the Analysis of Pair–Matched Case–Control Studies.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 96:371-385.

  • Mohr, J.P., Thompson, J.L.P., Lazar, R.M., Levin, B., Sacco, R.L., Furie, K.L., Kistler, J.P., Albers, G.W., Pettigrew, L.C., Adams, H.P., Jackson, C.M., and Pullicino, P., for the Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent Stroke Study Group (2001).  A comparison of Warfarin and Aspirin for the Prevention of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke.
    The New England Journal of Medicine, 345(20):1444-1451.

  • Levin, B. (2004).  Statistical Issues.  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other Motor Neuron Disorders 5 (Supp. 1):43-45.

  • Levin, B. (2005).  The Utility of Futility (Editorial).  Stroke, 36:2331-2332.

  • Levy, G., Kaufmann, P., Buchsbaum, R., Montes, J., Barsdorf, A., Arbing, R., Battista, V.,  Zhou, X., Mitsumoto, H., Levin, B., Thompson, J.L.P. (2006).  A Two-stage Design for a Phase II Clinical Trial of Coenzyme Q10 in ALS. Neurology 66:660-663.

  • Levin, B. and Leu, C-S. (2007).  A comparison of two procedures to select the best binomial population with sequential elimination of inferior populations.  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137(1):245-263. 

  • Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (2008).  A Generalization of the Levin-Robbins Procedure for Binomial Subset Selection and Recruitment Problems.  Statistica Sinica 18: 203-218.

  • Leu, C.-S. and Levin, B. (2008).  On a Conjecture of Bechhofer, Kiefer, and Sobel for the Levin-Robbins-Leu Binomial Subset Selection Procedures.  Sequential Analysis 27:106-125.