Browsing by Author "Staples, Patrick"
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Barriers, Benefits, and Beliefs of Brain Training Smartphone Apps: An Internet Survey of Younger US Consumers
Torous, John; Staples, Patrick Christian; Fenstermacher, Elizabeth Anne; Dean, Jason Aaron; Keshavan, Matcheri S (Frontiers Media SA, 2016)Background: While clinical evidence for the efficacy of brain training remains in question, numerous smartphone applications (apps) already offer brain training directly to consumers. Little is known about why consumers ... -
Incorporating Contact Network Structure in Cluster Randomized Trials
Staples, Patrick C.; Ogburn, Elizabeth L.; Onnela, Jukka-Pekka (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Whenever possible, the efficacy of a new treatment is investigated by randomly assigning some individuals to a treatment and others to control, and comparing the outcomes between the two groups. Often, when the treatment ... -
On the Statistical Properties of Epidemics on Networks
Staples, Patrick Christian (2016-05-09)One major aim of statistics is to systematically study outcomes of interest in a population by observing the properties of a sample of that population. Some outcomes, such as the total number of people infected in an ... -
Utilizing a Personal Smartphone Custom App to Assess the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder
Torous, John; Staples, Patrick; Shanahan, Meghan; Lin, Charlie; Peck, Pamela; Keshavan, Matcheri; Onnela, Jukka-Pekka (JMIR Publications Inc., 2015)Background: Accurate reporting of patient symptoms is critical for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring in psychiatry. Smartphones offer an accessible, low-cost means to collect patient symptoms in real time and aid in ...