Scientific Interest(s):
Dr. Catherine Crespi’s research focuses on statistical methods for the design and analysis of intervention trials and studies of cancer survivorship, with an emphasis on cluster-randomized trials and measurement of quality of life impacts. She collaborates widely on research involving cancer screening, health disparities, obesity, tobacco use, and effects of cancer as a chronic condition. Crespi also conducts research in Bayesian data analysis and hidden Markov models for longitudinal data.
Selected Cancer-Related Publications:
Maxwell AE, Crespi CM. Trends in prevalence of colorectal cancer screening among racial groups in California: are we closing the gap? Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. to appear March 2009.
Crespi CM, Ganz PA, Petersen L, Castillo A, Caan B. Refinement and psychometric evaluation of the impact of cancer scale. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Nov 5;100(21):1530-41. Epub 2008 Oct 28.
Maxwell AE, Danao LL, Crespi CM, Antonio C, Garcia GM, Bastani R. Disparities in the receipt of fecal occult blood test versus endoscopy among Filipino American immigrants. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug;17(8):1963-7.
Crespi CM, Wong WK, Mishra SI. Using second-order generalized estimating equations to model heterogeneous intraclass correlation in cluster randomized trials. Stat Med. 2008 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Mishra SI, Bastani R, Crespi CM, Chang LC, Luce PH, Baquet CR. Results of a randomized trial to increase mammogram usage among Samoan women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Dec;16(12):2594-604.