Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Biography
Trivellore Raghunathan (Raghu) is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. He is a Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health. He is also a Research Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He served as Director of the Survey Research Center September 2015 – August 2019 and as the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics from January 2010 – August 2014. He is an Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health (CRECH). He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University in 1987. Before joining the University of Michigan in 1994, he was on the faculty in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. His research interests are in the analysis of incomplete data, multiple imputation, Bayesian methods, design and analysis of sample surveys, small area estimation, confidentiality and disclosure limitation, longitudinal data analysis and statistical methods for epidemiology. He has developed a SAS based software for imputing the missing values for a complex data set and can be downloaded from www.src.isr.umich.edu/software/.
Projects
Funded Research
- A Census-Enhanced Health and Retirement Study: A Proposal to Create and Analyze an HRS Dataset Enhanced with Characteristics of Employers
- Adding Key Health Measures to the Housing and Children’s Health Development Study
- Health, Wealth, and Time Use Over the Life Course and Across Generations
- Housing Trade-Offs as They are Perceived and as They Affect Children’s Well-Being – NICHD
- How Housing Affects Families with Children
- How Randomly Distributed Vouchers Affect Biology and Health
- HUD Housing and Children’s Healthy Development Supplemental Funding
- Novel Methods for Incorporating Sample Design in Bayesian Inference
- Using Satellite National Health Accounts to Understand Health and Cost Changes
Publications
- Sakshaug, Joseph W.; Cernat, Alexandru; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2019). Do Sequential Mixed-Mode Surveys Decrease Nonresponse Bias, Measurement Error Bias, and Total Bias? An Experimental Study. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
- Cutler, David M.; Ghosh, Kaushik; Messer, Kassandra L.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Stewart, Susan T.; Rosen, Allison B. (2019). Explaining The Slowdown In Medical Spending Growth Among The Elderly, 1999–2012. Health Affairs, 38(2), 222-229.
- Diokno, Ananias C.; Newman, Diane K.; Low, Lisa K.; Griebling, Tomas L.; Maddens, Michael E.; Goode, Patricia S.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Subak, Leslee L.; Sampselle, Carolyn M.; Boura, Judith A.; Robinson, Ann E.; McIntyre, Donna; Burgio, Kathryn L. (2018). Effect of group-administered behavioral treatment on urinary incontinence in older women: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 178(10), 1333-1341.
- Bingham, C. R.; Barretto, Andrea Ippel; Walton, Maureen A.; Bryant, Christopher M.; Shope, Jean T.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2018). Efficacy of a Web-Based, Tailored, Alcohol Prevention/Intervention Program for College Students: 3-Month Follow-up. J Drug Educ, 41(4), 405-430.
- Yucel, Recai M.; Zhao, Enxu; Schenker, Nathaniel; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2018). Sequential Hierarchical Regression Imputation. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 6(1), 1-22.
- Mistry, Ritesh; Pednekar, Mangesh S.; Gupta, Prakash C.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Appikatla, Surekha; Puntambekar, Namrata; Adhikari, Keyuri; Siddiqi, Maqsood; McCarthy, William J. (2018). Longitudinal study of adolescent tobacco use and tobacco control policies in India. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 815.
- Wu, Meihua; Diez-Roux, Ana; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Sanchez, Brisa N. (2018). FPCA-based method to select optimal sampling schedules that capture between-subject variability in longitudinal studies. Biometrics, 74(1), 229-238.
- Lohr, Sharon L.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2017). Combining Survey Data with Other Data Sources. Statistical Science, 32(2), 293-312.
- Sampselle, Carolyn M.; Newman, Diane K.; M, Janis Miller; Kirk, Keri; DiCamillo, Mary Ann; H, Todd Wagner; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Diokno, Ananias C. (2017). A Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare 2 Scalable Interventions for Lower Urinary Tract Symptom Prevention: Main Outcomes of the TULIP Study. The Journal of urology, 197(6), 1480-1486.
- Bondarenko, Irina; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2017). Graphical and numerical diagnostic tools to assess suitability of multiple imputations and imputation models. Statistics in medicine, 35(17), 3007-3020.
- Wagner, Todd H.; Scott, Jennifer Yang; Newman, Diane K.; Miller, Janis M.; Kirk, Keri; DiCamillo, Mary Ann; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Diokno, Ananias C.; Sampselle, Carolyn M. (2017). Costs and Sustainability of a Behavioral Intervention for Urinary Incontinence Prevention. Urology Practice, 5(4), 266-271.
- Newman, Diane; Sampselle, Carolyn; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Miller, Janis; Kirk, Keri; Kimmel, Rebecca; DiCamillo, Maryann (2016). Translating Unique Learning for Incontinence Prevention, the Tulip Project: Comparative Effectiveness Study of a Diverse Population of Adult Women Receiving Bladder Health Education.. The Journal of Urology, 195(4, Supplement), e871-872.
- Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2016). Missing Data Analysis in Practice. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press.
- Zhou, Hanzhi; Elliott, Michael R.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2016). A two-step semiparametric method to accommodate sampling weights in multiple imputation. Biometrics, 72(1), 242-252.
- Zhou, Hanzhi; Elliott, Michael R.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2016). Multiple Imputation in Two-stage Cluster Samples Using the Weighted Finite Population Bayesian Bootstrap. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 4(2), 139-170.
- Zhou, H.; Elliott, Michael R.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2016). Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples. Journal of Official Statistics, 32(1), 231-256.
- Clemente, Maria G.; Patton, John T.; Yolken, Robert; Whitington, Peter F.; Parashar, Umesh D.; Jiang, Baoming; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Schwarz, Kathleen B. (2015). Prevalence of Groups A and C Rotavirus Antibodies in Infants with Biliary Atresia and Cholestatic Controls. The Journal of Pediatrics, 166(1), 79-84.e1.
- Adar, Sara D.; Kaufman, Joel D.; Diez-Roux, Ana; Hoffman, Eric A.; Souza, Jennifer; Stukovsky, Karen H.; Rich, Stephen S.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Guo, Xiuqing; Raffel, Leslie J.; Sampson, Paul D.; Oron, Assaf P.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Barr, R. G. (2015). Air Pollution and Percent Emphysema Identified by Computed Tomography in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 123(2), 144-151.
- Zhu, Jian and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2015). Convergence Properties of a Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation Algorithm. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110(511), 1112-1124.
- Sakshaung, Joseph W. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2014). Nonparametric Generation of Synthetic Data for Small Geographic Areas. Privacy in Statistical Databases, 8744, 213-231. In Domingo-Ferrer,Josep (Ed.)
- Dong, Qi; Elliott, Michael R. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2014). A Nonparametric Method to Generate Synthetic Populations to Adjust for Complex Sampling Design Features. Techniques d'Enquete, 40(1), 33-52.
- Lemaitre, Rozenn N.; King, Irena B.; Rice, Kenneth; McKnight, Barbara; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Rea, Thomas D.; Johnson, Catherine O.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Cobb, Leonard A.; Mozaffarian, Dariush and Siscovick, David S. (2014). Erythrocyte very Long-Chain Saturated Fatty Acids Associated with Lower Risk of Incident Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids (PLEFA), 91(4), 149-153.
- Venkat, Veena L.; Shneider, Benjamin L.; Magee, John C.; Turmelle, Yumirle; Arnon, Ronen; Bezerra, Jorge A.; Hertel, Paula M.; Karpen, Saul J.; Kerkar, Nanda; Loomes, Kathleen M.; Molleston, Jean; Murray, Karen F.; Ng, Vicky L.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Rosenthal, Philip; Schwartz, Kathleen; Sherker, Averell H.; Sokol, Ronald J.; Teckman, Jeffrey; Wang, Kasper; Whitington, Peter F. and Heubi, James E. (2014). Total Serum Bilirubin Predicts Fat-Soluble Vitamin Deficiency Better than Serum Bile Acids in Infants with Biliary Atresia.. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, 59(6), 702-707.
- Sakshaug, Joseph W. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2014). Generating Synthetic Data to Produce Public-use Microdata for Small Geographic Areas Based on Complex Sample Survey Data with Application to the National Health Interview Survey. Journal of Applied Statistics, 41(10), 2103-2122.
- Kaciroti, Niko A. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2014). Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis of Incomplete Data: Bridging Pattern-Mixture and Selection Models. Statistics in Medicine, 33(27), 4841-4857.
- Bondarenko, Irina; Cutler, David; Ghosh, Kaushik; Messer, Kassandra; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Rosen, Allison; Shaffer, James and Stewart, Susan (2014). Attributing Medical Spending to Conditions. In Aizcorbe,Ana; Baker,Colin; Berndt,Ernst R. and Cutler,David (Ed.), Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs. University of Chicago Press:Chicago.
- Chen, W.; Ghosh, D.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Norkin, M.; Sargent, D. J. and Bepler, G. (2012). On Bayesian Methods of Exploring Qualitative Interactions for Targeted Treatment.. Statistics in Medicine, 31(28), 3693-3707.
- Kaciroti, N. A.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Taylor, J. M. and Julius, S. (2012). A Bayesian Model for Time-to-Event Data with Informative Censoring.. Biostatistics, 13(2), 341-354.
- Sanchez, B. N.; Wu, M.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Diez-Roux, A. V. (2012). Modeling the Salivary Cortisol Profile in Population Research: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.. American Journal of Epidemiology, 176(10), 918-928.
- Shneider, BL; Magee, JC; Bezerra, JA; Haber, B.; Karpen, SJ; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Rosenthal, P. and Schwarz, K., (2012). Efficacy of Fat-Soluble Vitamin Supplementation in Infants with Biliary Atresia. Pediatrics, 130(3), e607-e614.
- He, Y. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2012). Multiple Imputation using Multivariate Gh Transformations. Journal of Applied Statistics, 39(10), 2177-2198.
- Bai, Yun; Song, Peter and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2012). Joint Composite Estimating Functions in Spatiotemporal Models.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 74(5), 799-824.
- He, Y.; Yucel, R. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2011). A Functional Multiple Imputation Approach to Incomplete Longitudinal Data. Statistics in Medicine, 30(10), 1137-1156.
- Bingham, C. R.; Barretto, Andrea I.; Walton, Maureen A.; Bryant, Christopher M.; Shope, Jean T. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2011). Efficacy of a Web-Based, Tailored, Alcohol Prevention/Intervention Program for College Students: 3-Month Follow-Up. J Drug Educ, 41(4), 405-430.
- Stein, K. F.; Wing, J.; Lewis, A. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2011). An Eating Disorder Randomized Clinical Trial and Attrition: Profiles and Determinants of Dropout. The International Journal of Eating Disorders, 44(4), 356-368.
- Russo, Pierre; Magee, John C.; Boitnott, John; Bove, Kevin E.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Finegold, Milton; Haas, Joel; Jaffe, Ronald; Kim, Grace E.; Magid, Margret; Melin–Aldana, Hector; White, Frances; Whitington, Peter F. and Sokol, Ronald J. (2011). Design and Validation of the Biliary Atresia Research Consortium Histologic Assessment System for Cholestasis in Infancy. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology : The Official Clinical Practice Journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 9(4), 357-362.
- Dowd, J. B.; Albright, J.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Schoeni, Robert F.; LeClere, F. and Kaplan, George A. (2011). Deeper and Wider: Income and Mortality in the USA Over Three Decades. International Journal of Epidemiology, 40(1), 183-188.
- Davis, W. W.; Parsons, V. L.; Xie, D.; Schenker, N.; Town, M.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Feuer, E. J. (2010). State-Based Estimates of Mammography Screening Rates Based on Information from Two Health Surveys. Public Health Reports, 125(4), 567-578.
- Bingham, C. R.; Barretto, A. I.; Walton, M. A.; Bryant, C. M.; Shope, J. T. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2010). Efficacy of a Web-Based, Tailored, Alcohol prevention/intervention Program for College Students: Initial Findings. Journal of American College Health, 58(4), 349-356.
- Singer, Eleanor L.; Couper, Mick P.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Antonucci, Toni C.; Burmeister, M. and Van Hoewyk, John (2010). The Effect of Question Framing and Response Options on the Relationship between Racial Attitudes and Beliefs about Genes as Causes of Behavior. Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(3), 460-476.
- Siscovick, David S.; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Rea, Thomas D.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Jouven, Xavier and Lemaitre, Rozenn N. (2010). Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the Community. Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 11(1), 53-59.
- Kreuter, Frauke; Olson, K.; Wagner, James; Yan, Ting; Ezzati-Rice, T. M.; Casas-Cordero, C.; Lemay, M.; Peytchev, Andrey; Groves, Robert M. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2010). Using Proxy Measures and Other Correlates of Survey Outcomes to Adjust for Non-Response: Examples from Multiple Surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 173(2), 389-407.
- Wagner, James and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2010). A New Stopping Rule for Surveys. Statistics in Medicine, 29(9), 1014-1024.
- Elliott, Michael R.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Li, Y. (2010). Bayesian Inference for Causal Mediation Effects using Principal Stratification with Dichotomous Mediators and Outcomes. Biostatistics, 11(2), 353-372.
- Schenker, N.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E. and Bondarenko, I. (2010). Improving on Analyses of Self-Reported Data in a Large-Scale Health Survey by using Information from an Examination-Based Survey. Statistics in Medicine, 29(5), 533-545.
- Mujahid, Mahasin S.; Diez Roux, Ana V.; Morenoff, Jeffrey D.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Cooper, Richard S.; Ni, Hanyu and Shea, Steven (2008). Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension. Epidemiology, 19(4), 590-598.
- Singer, Eleanor L.; Couper, Mick P.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Van Hoewyk, John and Antonucci, Toni C. (2008). Trends in U.S. Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing, 1990-2004. Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(3), 446-448.
- Sánchez, B.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Diez Roux, Ana V.; Zhu, Y. and Lee, O. (2008). Combining Data from Primary and Ancillary Surveys to Assess the Association between Neighborhood-Level Characteristics and Health Outcomes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Artherosclerosis. Statistics in Medicine, 27(27), 5745-5763.
- Yang, S.; Lynch, John W.; Schulenberg, John E.; Diez Roux, Ana V. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2008). Emergence of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking and Overweight and Obesity in Early Adulthood: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. American Journal of Public Health, 98(3), 468-477.
- Diez Roux, Ana V.; Auchincloss, Amy H.; Franklin, Tracy G.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.; Barr, R. G.; Kaufman, Joel; Astor, Brad and Keeler, Jerry (2008). Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter and Prevalence of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 167(6), 667-675.