Trained as a statistician, my primary research interests are in the development and use of methodology to better design and analyze the effects of public health and educational interventions, either through the use of randomized experiments or well-designed non-experimental studies. In this way I hope to bridge statistical advances and research practice, working with mental health and educational researchers to identify and solve methodological challenges, particularly in the area of prevention research.

My particular methodological interests are in the areas of matching methods for observational studies (such as propensity scores), missing data methods, and Bayesian techniques. I have been involved in large-scale randomized experiments such as the national evaluation of Upward Bound, and have also worked on a variety of non-experimental studies, including the evaluation of school-wide prevention programs and an evaluation of the effects of implementing value-added assessment techniques in Pennsylvania schools.

Bayesian modeling, biostatistics, causal inference, multi-level modeling, observational study, prevention research, propensity scores

Warren Miller Prize for best paper published in Volume 15 of Political Analysis. Paper also selected as a “Fast Breaking Paper” by Thomson Reuters (2008)

JHSPH Edward R. Brewster Research Fund (Faculty Innovations Fund) Awardee (2007-2008)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1999-2002)

Student paper award, American Statistical Association (2001)

Gertrude Cox award, American Statistical Association (2000)

William Cochran award in Statistics, Harvard University (1999)

Pokora Prize for Mathematics, Smith College (1997)

Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College (1997)

Magna cum laude, Smith College (1997)

Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (1995-1997)

Robert C. Byrd Scholar (1993-1997)

Stuart, E.A., Azur, M., Frangakis, C.E., & Leaf, P. (in press). Multiple imputation with large datasets: A case study of the Children’s Mental Health Initiative. Forthcoming in American Journal of Epidemiology.

Wang, Y., Browne, D.C., Petras, H., Stuart, E.A., Wagner, F.A., Lambert, S.F., Kellam, S.G., & Ialongo, N.S. (in press). Depressed Mood and the Effect of Two Universal First Grade Preventive Interventions on Survival to the First Tobacco Cigarette Smoked Among Urban Youth. Forthcoming in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.08.020. Available online, 12/6/08, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.08.020.

Ho, D.E., Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (in press). MatchIt: Nonparametric preprocessing for parametric causal inference. Forthcoming in Journal of Statistical Software.

Marcus, S.M., Siddique, J., Ten Have, T.R., Gibbons, R.D., Stuart, E.A., and Normand, S-L.T. (2008). Balancing treatment comparisons in longitudinal studies. Psychiatric Annals 38(12): 805-811. Available at http://www.psychiatricannalsonline.com/view.asp?rID=35476.

Stuart, E.A. and Rubin, D.B. (2008). Matching with multiple control groups and adjusting for group differences. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 33(3): 279-306. doi:10.3102/1076998607306078. Available at http://jeb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/3/279?etoc.

Stuart, E.A., Perry, D.F., Le, H-N., & Ialongo, N.S. (2008). Estimating intervention effects of prevention programs: Accounting for noncompliance. Prevention Science 9(4): 288-298. 10.1007/s11121-008-0104-y. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/t26271h53205715r/fulltext.pdf.

Harder, V.S., Stuart, E.A., & Anthony, J. (2008). Adolescent cannabis problems and young adult depression: Male-female stratified propensity score analyses. American Journal of Epidemiology 168: 592-601. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwn184.

Miech, R., Azur, M., Patterson, T., Jowers, K., Goldstein, A.B., Stuart, E.A., Walrath, C., and Leaf, P.J. (2008). The potential to reduce mental health disparities through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 35(3): 253-264.

Crum, R.M., Green, K.M., Storr, C.L., Chan, Y-F., Ialongo, N., Stuart, E.A., and Anthony, J.C. (2008). Depressed mood in childhood and subsequent alcohol use through adolescence and young adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry 65(6): 702-712.

Salkever, D.S., Johnston, S., Karakus, M.C., Ialongo, N.S., Slade, E.P., and Stuart, E.A. (2008). Enhancing the Net Benefits of Disseminating Efficacious Prevention Programs: A Note on Target Efficiency with Illustrative Examples. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Online early access, March 16, 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10488-008-0168-9.

Slade, E.P., Stuart, E.A., Salkever, D.S., Karakus, M., Green, K.M., and Ialongo, N. (2008). Impacts of age of onset of substance use disorders on risk of adult incarceration among disadvantaged urban youth: A propensity score matching approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 95: 1-13.

Stuart, E.A. and Green, K.M. (2008). Using full matching to estimate causal effects in non-experimental studies: Examining the relationship between adolescent marijuana use and adult outcomes. Developmental Psychology 44(2): 395-406.

Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (2008). Misunderstandings between experimentalists and observationalists about causal inference. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 171: 481-502.

McConnell, S., Stuart, E.A., and Devaney, B. (2008). The truncation-by-death problem: What to do in an experimental evaluation when the outcome is not always defined. Evaluation Review 32(2): 157-186.

Stuart, E.A. (2007). Estimating causal effects using school-level datasets. Educational Researcher 36(4): 187:198.

Ho, D.E., Imai, K., King, G., and Stuart, E.A. (2006). Matching as nonparametric preprocessing for reducing model dependence in parametric causal inference. Political Analysis 15(3): 199-236. Winner of Warren Miller Prize for best paper published in Volume 15 of Political Analysis. Selected as a Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Social Sciences, general, by Thomson Reuters, due to its being one of the most-cited papers in its discipline published between 2006 and 2008 (see http://sciencewatch.com/dr/fbp/2008/08octfbp/08octfbpHoET/).

Rubin, D.B. and Stuart, E.A. (2006) "Affinely invariant matching methods with discriminant mixtures of proportional ellipsoidally symmetric distributions." The Annals of Statistics 34(4): 1814-1826.

Cook, S.R. and Stuart, E.A. (2007) "Discussion of Dominici et al. `Does the effect of micronutrient supplementation on neonatal survival vary with respect to the percentiles of the birth weight distribution?'" Bayesian Analysis 1(5): 33-38.

Torgesen, J., Myers, D., Schirm, A., Stuart, E., Vartivarian, S., Mansfield, W., Borhnstedt, G., Stancavage, F., Durno, D., Javorsky, R., and Haan, C. (2006). "Closing the reading gap: First-year findings from a randomized trial of four reading interventions for striving readers." Report submitted to Congress by the Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Rubin, D.B., Stuart, E.A., and Zanutto, E.L. (2004) "A potential outcomes view of value-added assessment in education." Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 29 (1): 103-116.

Stuart, E.A. (2003) "Propensity scores." In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Edited by Lewis-Beck, M., Bryman, A.E., and Liao, T.F. New York: Sage Publications.

Stuart, E.A. and Zaslavsky, A.M. (2002) "Using administrative records to predict census day

residency." In Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Volume VI, Edited by Gatsonis, C., Kass, R.E.,

Carriquiry, A., Gelman, A., Higdon, D., Pauler, D.K., Verdinelli, I. New York: Springer, 335-349.

Devaney, B. and Stuart, E.A. (1998) "Eating breakfast: Effects of the School Breakfast Program." Family Economics and Nutrition Review, 11: No. 4.