CHRISTIANA DRAKE

Associate Professor

Division of Statistics

University of California, Davis

Degrees:

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Causal inference in observational studies, curve estimation, inference with non-randomly missing data.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Wintemute G.J., C. Drake, and M. Wright (1991) Immersion Events in Residential Swimming Pools: Evidence for an Experience Effect. American Journal of Diseases in Children 145: 1200-1203.

2. Drake, C., and A. McQuarrie (1993) The Power of the Mantel-Haenszel Test when Adjustment is by the True or Estimated Propensity Score. Biometrical Journal 35: 445-449.

3. Drake, C. (1993) Effects of Misspecification of the Propensity Score on Estimators of Treatment Effect. Biometrics Vol. 49, 4: 1231-1236.

4. Drake, C., and L. Fisher (1995) Prognostic Models and the Propensity Score. International Journal of Epidemiology 24: 183-187.

5. Drake, C., and A. McQuarrie (1995) A note on the bias due to omitted confounders. Biometrika 82: 633-838.

6. Estberg, L., S. Stover, I. Gardner, C. Drake, B. Johnson, and A. Ardans (1996) High-speed exercise history and catastrophic racing fracture in Thoroughbreds. American Journal of Veterinary Research 57(11): 1549-1555.

CONSULTING - RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Department of Family Practice, University of California, Davis
• Department of Radiology, University of California, Davis
• Department of Community Health, University of California, Davis, (observational study on criminal behavior of legal hand gun purchasers funded by the Centers for Disease Control)
• California Department of Forestry
• Association of California Water Agencies

AWARDS:

• NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, 1988-1989
• School of Public Health Fellowship, University of Washington, 1985-1988
• Award for outstanding academic achievement at graduation from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, 1980

e-mail: cmdrake@ucdavis.edu

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