Research
Publications
Mathers, C., Black, C. K., Segal, B. D., Gurung, R. B., Zhang, Y., Easter, M. J., Williams, S., Motew, M., Campbell, E. E., Brummitt, C. D., Paustian, K., Kumar, A. A. (2023). Validating DayCent-CR for cropland soil carbon offset reporting at a national scale. Geoderma, 438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116647.
Tan, W. K., Segal, B. D., Curtis, M. D., Baxi, S. S., Capra, W. B., Garrett-Mayer, E., Hobbs, B. P., Hong, D. S., Hubbard, R. A., Zhu, J., Sarkar, S., Samant, M. (2022). Augmenting control arms with real-world data for cancer trials: Hybrid control arm methods and considerations. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2022.101000.
Sondhi, A., Segal, B., Snider, J., Humblet, O., and McCusker, M. (2021). Bayesian additional evidence for decision making under small sample uncertainty. BMC medical research methodology, 21(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01432-5.
Tan, K., Bryan, J., Segal, B., Bellomo, L., Nussbaum, N., Tucker, M., Torres, A. Z., Bennette, C., Capra, W., Curtis, M. and Miksad, R. A. (2021), Emulating Control Arms for Cancer Clinical Trials Using External Cohorts Created From Electronic Health Record-Derived Real-World Data. Clin Pharmacol Ther. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.2351.
Segal, B. D. (2019). Toward replicability with confidence intervals for the exceedance probability. The American Statistician. doi:10.1080/00031305.2019.1678521.
Segal, B. D., Braun, T., Gonzalez, R., and Elliott, M. R. (2019). Tests of matrix structure for construct validation. Psychometrika, 84(1), 65-83. doi:10.1007/s11336-018-9647-4 [open access version].
Segal, B. D., Elliott M., Braun T., and Jiang, H. (2018). P-splines with an l1 penalty for repeated measures. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 12(2), 3554-3600. doi:10.1214/18-EJS1487.
Burgard, S. A., Lin, K. Y., Segal, B. D., Elliott, M. R., and Seelye, S. S. (2018). Stability and change in health risk behavior profiles of U.S. adults. Journal of Gerontology: Series B. doi:10.1093/geronb/gby088.
Segal, B. D., Bennette, C. S. (2018). Re: “Transportability of trial results using inverse odds of sampling weights.” American Journal of Epidemiology. doi:10.1093/aje/kwy190.
Segal, B. D., Braun, T., Elliott, M. R. and Jiang, H. (2018). Fast approximation of small p-values in permutation tests by partitioning the permutations. Biometrics, 74(1), 196-206. doi:10.1111/biom.12731.
Patents
Segal, B. D., Brummitt, C. D. Addressing incomplete soil sample data in soil enrichment protocol projects. US Patent 11,592,431. Feb 28, 2023.
Talks, Posters, and Roundtables
Talk: “Carbon quantification deep dive.” Indigo Ag webinar, Mar 2023.
Talk: “Carbon quantification deep dive.” Indigo Ag science and policy forum, Oct 2022.
Talk: “Hybrid control arms with RWD for cancer trials: Why, what, when, and how.” JSM, Aug 2020.
Roundtable: “Case studies in the use of real world evidence to improve regulatory decision making.” ASA biopharmaceutical section regulatory-industry workshop, Sep 2019.
Poster: “Tests of matrix structure for construct validation.” American psychological association conference, Aug 2019.
Talk: “Complex data in, nuanced answers out: Lessons learned analyzing electronic health record data in oncology.” JSM, Jul 2019.
Speed session (talk and poster): “Quantifying the number of events borrowed from external data in hybrid control arms.” JSM, Jul 2019.
Talk: “Biostatistics and Flatiron Health: Harnessing the power of real world data through quantitative methods for cancer treatment, access, and care.” University of Michigan symposium on big data, human health and statistics, Jul 2019.
Talk: “Exceedance probability for parameter estimates.” JSM, Jul 2018.
Talk: “P-splines with an l1 penalty for repeated measures.” Statistical learning and data science/nonparametric statistics conference, Jun 2018.
Poster (winner of best poster from Biostatistics department): “Tests of matrix structure for construct validation.” Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS), Mar 2017.
Poster: “P-splines with an l1 penalty for repeated measures.” ENAR, Mar 2017.
Talk (winner of travel award): Fast approximation of small p-values in permutation tests by partitioning the permutation space.” JSM Biometrics section student paper awards session, Aug 2016.
Poster: “Fast approximation of small p-values in permutation tests by partitioning the permutation space.” ENAR, Mar 2016.
Technical reports
Segal, B. D., Tan, W. K. (2020). A note on the amount of information borrowed from external data in hybrid controlled trials with time-to-event outcomes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00433.
Amarakoon, S., Smith, J., Segal, B. D. (2012). Lithium-ion batteries and nanotechnology for electric vehicles: life cycle assessment study. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Design for the Environment Program. EPA 744-R-08-001.
Greco, S., Smith, J., Segal, B. D., Post, E., Lynch, M., Hattis, D. (2009). Evaluating methods for quantifying human noncancer health risks: case study application, draft report. US EPA.
Greco, S., Acquaye, A., Peak, K., Segal, B. D., Rast, M. (2008). Framework for estimating costs and benefits associated with changes in the reference dose at federal facility hazardous waste sites. US EPA.
Segal, B. D. (2007). Biofilm forming properties of the ammonia oxidizing bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea. Undergraduate research project. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech.