Department of Statistics Seminar
North Carolina State University

presents

Dr. Nathaniel Schenker

From: National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Improving on analyses of self-reported data in a large-scale health survey
 by using information from an examination-based survey.

Abstract

Common data sources for assessing the health of a population of interest include large-scale surveys based on interviews that often pose questions requiring a self-report, such as, ‘Has a doctor or other health professional ever told you that you have _________( health condition of interest)?’ or ‘What is your height/weight?’ Answers to such questions might not always reflect the true prevalences of health conditions (for example, if a respondent misreports height/weight or does not have access to a doctor or other health professional). Such ‘measurement error’ in health data could affect inferences about measures of health and health disparities. Drawing on two surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, this paper describes an imputation-based strategy for using clinical information from an examination-based health survey to improve on analyses of self-reported data in a larger interview-based health survey. Models predicting clinical values from self-reported values and covariates are fitted to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which asks self-report questions during an interview component and also obtains clinical measurements during a physical examination component. The fitted models are used to multiply impute clinical values for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a larger survey that obtains data solely via interviews. Illustrations involving hypertension, diabetes, and obesity suggest that estimates of health measures based on the multiply imputed clinical values are different from those based on the NHIS self-reported data alone and have smaller estimated standard errors than those based solely on the NHANES clinical data. The paper discusses the relationship of the methods used in the study to two-phase/two-stage/validation sampling and estimation, along with limitations, practical considerations, and areas for future research.

Friday, September 3
3:00pm - 4:00pm
2203 SAS Hall

Refreshments will be served in the 2nd floor Hallway at 2:30pm.
NOTE: No food or drink is allowed in any of the classrooms in SAS Hall.