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Christopher S McMahan

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St Ville M, McMahan C, Bible J, Tebbs J, Bilder C
Stat Med . 2025 Mar; 44(6):e70052. PMID: 40084581
When screening for low-prevalence diseases, pooling specimens (e.g., blood, urine, swabs, etc.) through group testing has the potential to substantially reduce costs when compared to testing specimens individually. A common...
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Lebonville C, Rinker J, OHara K, McMahan C, Hoffman M, Becker H, et al.
bioRxiv . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39975247
Highlights: Central amygdala dynorphin cells (CeA ) are firmly implicated in alcohol misuse. CeA neuron activity was higher when mice drank alcohol versus other solutions. Neither how mice drank alcohol...
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Li S, Hu T, Wang L, McMahan C, Tebbs J
Biometrika . 2024 Dec; 111(3):1047-1061. PMID: 39691693
Group testing is an effective way to reduce the time and cost associated with conducting large-scale screening for infectious diseases. Benefits are realized through testing pools formed by combining specimens,...
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Bilder C, Hitt B, Biggerstaff B, Tebbs J, McMahan C
R J . 2024 May; 15(4):21-36. PMID: 38818016
Group testing is the process of testing items as an amalgamation, rather than separately, to determine the binary status for each item. Its use was especially important during the COVID-19...
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Witkiewitz K, Kirouac M, Baurley J, McMahan C
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) . 2024 Jan; 47(11):2138-2148. PMID: 38226755
Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has been described as a chronic disease given the high rates that affected individuals have in returning to drinking after a change attempt. Many studies...
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Yang Y, McMahan C, Wang Y, Ouyang Y
Comput Stat Data Anal . 2024 Jan; 192. PMID: 38222104
Fitting penalized models for the purpose of merging the estimation and model selection problem has become commonplace in statistical practice. Of the various regularization strategies that can be leveraged to...
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Gettings J, McMahan C, Cleveland C, Varela-Stokes A, Hubbard K, Hamer S, et al.
Parasit Vectors . 2023 Nov; 16(1):405. PMID: 37936243
Domestic dogs are susceptible to numerous vector-borne pathogens that are of significant importance for their health. In addition to being of veterinary importance, many of these pathogens are zoonotic and...
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Yang Y, McMahan C, Wang Y, Baurley J, Park S
Stat Methods Med Res . 2023 Oct; 32(11):2270-2282. PMID: 37823384
In this work, we develop a novel Bayesian regression framework that can be used to complete variable selection in high dimensional settings. Unlike existing techniques, the proposed approach can leverage...
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McMahan C, Lewis D, Deaver J, Dean D, Rennert L, Kalbaugh C, et al.
ACS ES T Water . 2023 Jul; 2(11):2225-2232. PMID: 37406033
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA has become an important tool for tracking the presence of the virus and serving as an early indicator for the onset of rapid transmission. Nevertheless,...
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Warasi M, Tebbs J, McMahan C, Bilder C
Biom J . 2023 May; 65(7):e2200270. PMID: 37192524
When screening a population for infectious diseases, pooling individual specimens (e.g., blood, swabs, urine, etc.) can provide enormous cost savings when compared to testing specimens individually. In the biostatistics literature,...