Publications

B. Vakulenko-Lagun, C. Magdamo, M.-L. Charpignon, B. Zheng, M. W. Albers, and S. Das, causalCmprsk: An R package for nonparametric and Cox-based estimation of average treatment effects in competing risks data,  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2023, R package, vignette.

M. S. Weinberg, A. Zafar, C. Magdamo, S. Y. Chung, W. H. Chou, M. Nayan, M. Deodhar, D. M. Frendl, A. S. Feldman, S. E. Arnold, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, S. Das, Association of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment for bladder cancer with death and dementia in patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, JAMA Network Open; 6(5):e2314336, 2023.

T. Landau, B. Vakulenko-Lagun and M. Brandwein, The Protective Effect of Moderate Maternal Peanut Consumption on Peanut Sensitization and Allergy, Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2023.

M.-L. Charpignon*, B. Vakulenko-Lagun*, B. Zheng*, C. Magdamo, K. Evans, S. Rodriguez, D. Kim, A. Sokolov, S. Boswell, B. Su, Y.-H. Sheu, P.K. Sorger, R. Tanzi, L. Middleton, B.T. Hyman, R.A. Betensky, S. Finkelstein, R. Welsch, I. Tzoulaki, D. Blacker, S. Das, M.W. Albers, Drug repurposing of metformin for Alzheimer’s disease: Combining causal inference in medical record data and systems pharmacology for biomarker identification, Nature Communications 13, Article number: 7652 , 2022,  *-the first three authors have equal contribution and are listed in an alphabetical order.

H.K.W. Kim, M.B. Millis, R. Almakias, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, How are adults who had Perthes’ disease functioning? Results of over 900 participants from an international Web-based survey, The Bone & Joint Journal, 2022.

M.F. McGuire, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, M.B. Millis, R. Almakias, E.P. Cole, H.K.W. Kim, What is the adult experience of Perthes disease? Initial findings from an international Web-based survey, Bone & Joint Open, 2022.

B. Vakulenko-Lagun, J. Qian, S.-H. Chiou, N. Wang, R.A. Betensky, Nonparametric estimation of the survival distribution under covariate-induced dependent truncation, Biometrics, 2022., R package, slides.

R. Nirel, I. Levy, S. D. Adar, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, A. Peretz, M. Golovner, U. Dayan, Concentration-response relationships between hourly particulate matter and ischemic events: A case-crossover analysis of effect modification by season and air-mass origin, Science of the Total Environment, 2021.

B. Vakulenko-Lagun, M. Mandel, R.A. Betensky, Inverse probability weighting methods for Cox regression with right‐truncated data, Biometrics, 2020, R package, vignette, slides.

E. R. Gerstner, K. E. Emblem, K. Chang, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, Y.-F. Yen, A. L. Beers, J. Dietrich, S. R. Plotkin, C. Catana, J. M. Hooker, D. G. Duda, B. Rosen, J. Kalpathy-Cramer, R. K. Jain, T. Batchelor, Bevacizumab reduces permeability and concurrent temozolomide delivery in a subset of patients with recurrent glioblastoma, Clinical Cancer Research, 2020.

B. Vakulenko-Lagun, J. Qian, S. Chiou, and R.A. Betensky, Nonidentifiability in the Presence of Factorization for Truncated Data, Biometrika, 2019, slides. 

R. Nirel, S.D. Adar, U. Dayan, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, M. Golovner, I. Levy, Z. Alon, and A. Peretz, Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter Exposures and Associations with Acute Cardiac Events among Participants in a Telemedicine Service: A Case-Crossover Study, Environmental Health Perspectives, 2018.

K.I. Ly, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, K.E.Emblem, Y. Ou, X. Da, R.A. Betensky, and J. Kalpathy-Cramer et al, Probing tumor biology in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma during chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide with physiologic magnetic resonance imaging, Scientific Reports, 2018.

B. Vakulenko-Lagun, M. Mandel, and Y. Goldberg, Nonparametric Estimation in the Illness-death Model Using Prevalent Data, Lifetime Data Analysis, 2017.

B. Vakulenko-Lagun and M. Mandel, Comparing Estimation Approaches for the Illness-death Model under Left Truncation and Right Censoring, Statistics in Medicine, 2015.

S.D. Oman, B. Vakulenko-Lagun, and M. Zilberbrand, Methods for Descriptive Factor Analysis of Multivariate Geostatistical Data: a Case-study Comparison, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2015.

S.D. Oman and B. Vakulenko-Lagun, Remark on the Use of a Weight Matrix in the Linear Model of Coregionalization, Mathematical Geosciences, 2012.

S.D. Oman and B. Vakulenko-Lagun, Estimation of Sill Matrices in the Linear Model of Coregionalization, Mathematical Geosciences, 2009.