Peer-Reviewed/Under Review

* Co-first author

Statistical/Biostatistical Methods

Benz, L., Levis, A., and Haneuse, S. “Comparing Causal Inference Methods for Point Exposures with Missing Confounders: A Simulation Study.” Under Review, 2024. (Pre-Print, Code)
Benz, L., Mukherjee, R., Wang, R., Arterburn, D., Fischer, H., Lee, C., Shortreed, S., and Haneuse, S. “Adjusting for Selection Bias Due to Missing Eligibility Criteria in Emulated Target Trials.” Under Review, 2024. (Pre-print, Code)
Li, R*., Benz, L*., Duan, R*., Denny, J., Hakonarson, H., Mosley, J., Smoller, J., Wei, WQ., Ritchie, M., Moore, J., Chen, Y. “mixWAS: An efficient distributed algorithm for mixed-outcomes genome-wide association studies.” Under Review, 2024. (Pre-print, Code)

Harrington, L., Benz, L., Haneuse, S., Johnson, E., Coleman, K., Courcolas, A., Li, R., Theis, MK., Liu, L., Cooper, J., Chin, P., Grinberg, G., Daigle, C., Chang, J., Um, S., Yenumula, P., Zelada, J., Smith, N., Arterburn, D. “Bariatric Surgery and the Long-Term Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in a Population-Based Cohort of Severely Obese Adults.” Obesity Surgery, 2024 (Link, Code)
Heffernan, A., Wu, Y., Benz, L., Verhaak, R., Kwan, B., and Claus, E. “Quality of life after surgery for lower grade gliomas.” Cancer, 2023. (Link)
Claus, E., Feliciano, J., Benz, L., Calvocoressi, L. “Social media partnerships with patient organizations for neuro-oncology patient recruitment.” Neuro-Oncology Practice, 2019. 7(2):143-151. (Link)
Benz, L.S., Wrensch, M.R., Schildkraut, J.M., Bondy, M.L., Warren, J.L., Wiemels, J.L. and Claus, E.B. “Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma.” Cancer, 2017. 124(1): 161-166. (Link)

Benz, L.*, Bliss, T.*, and Lopez, M. “A comprehensive survey of the home advantage in American football.” Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2024. (Link, Pre-print, Code)
Benz, L. and Lopez, M. “Estimating the change in soccer’s home advantage during the Covid-19 pandemic using bivariate Poisson regression.” AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 2021. 107:205–232 (Link, Pre-print, Code)

Liu, J., Allen, P., Benz, L., Blickstein, D., Okidi, E., and Shi, X. “A Machine Learning Approach for Recruitment Prediction in Clinical Trial Design.” Extended Abstract, Machine Learning for Health (ML4H): a workshop at NeurlIPS 2021. (Paper, Poster)

Allen, P., Abba, I., Ahlberg, C., Benz, L., Lau, H., Liu, J., Melham, F, Fisseha, N., and Floria, H. “Identifying Predictive Factors of Patient Dropout in Alzheimer’s Disease Clincal Trials”, Presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 26–30, 2021, Denver, Colorado, United States and Online. (Poster)
Benz, L., Senders, J., Wefel, J. and Claus, E. “The International Low Grade Glioma Registry-Patient Reported Quality of Life.” Presented at Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018. (Poster)

Bliss, T., Benz, L., and Lopez, M. “A Comprehensive Survey of the Home Advantage in American Football.” Presented at New England Symposium of Statistics in Sports, Boston, MA, 2023. (Poster)
Benz, L. “An Examination of Timeout Value, Strategy, and Momentum in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball.” Poster presented at New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, Boston, MA, 2019. (Undergraduate Senior Thesis, Poster)