McLain AC

ORCID: 0000-0002-5475-0670 · 4 papers in corpus
2021
Length-biased semi-competing risks models for cross-sectional data: an application to current duration of pregnancy attempt data.
The annals of applied statistics ·doi:10.1214/20-aoas1428

Cross-sectional length-biased data arise from questions on the at-risk time for an event of interest from those who are at-risk but have yet to experience the event. For example, in the National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG), women who wer…

2021
Trends in time-to-pregnancy in the USA: 2002 to 2017.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deab107

Study questionHas there been there a temporal change in time-to-pregnancy (TTP) in the USA.Summary answerOverall, TTP was stable over time, but a longer TTP for women over 30 and parous women was identified.What is known alreadyFertility ra…

2013
Prevalence of infertility in the United States as estimated by the current duration approach and a traditional constructed approach.
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.11.037

ObjectiveTo estimate the prevalence of infertility using a current duration approach for comparison with a traditional constructed measure.DesignCross-sectional survey.SettingNot applicable.Patient(s)A nationally representative sample of fe…

2011
Persistent organochlorine pollutants and menstrual cycle characteristics.
Chemosphere ·doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.09.027

An evolving body of evidence suggests an adverse relation between persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs) and menstruation, though prospective longitudinal measurement of menses is limited and served as the impetus for study. We prospec…