Publications (Selected Articles)

  

Blackford, JU, Buckholtz, JW, Avery SN, and Zald, DH (in press). A unique role for the human amygdala in novelty detection. Neuroimage.
 
 Blackford, JU, Avery, SN, Shelton, RC and Zald, DH (2009). Amygdala temporal dynamics: Temperamental differences in the timing of amygdala response to familiar and novel faces. BMC Neuroscience:10(1): 145. [BMC Neuroscience]
 
 Blackford, JU.  (2009). Propensity Scores: A method for matching on multiple confounding variables in Down syndrome research. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 47(5), 348-357. [PubMed]
 
Blackford, JU, Salomon RM, Waller, NG (2009). Detecting change in biological rhythms: A multivariate permutation test approach to Fourier-transformed data. Chronobiology International, 26(2), 258-281.     MPT Fourier(zip file, 4kb)
 
 Hahn, MK, Blackford, JU, Haman, K, Mazei-Robison, M, English, B, Prasad, H, Steele, A, Hazelwood, L, Fentress, H, Myers, R, Blakely, RD, Sanders-Bush, E., Shelton, R. (2008).  Multivariate permutation analysis associates multiple polymorphisms with subphenotypes of major depression.. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 7(4), 487-495.   [PubMedCentral] 
 
Blackford, JU (2007) Statistical Issues in Development Epidemiology and Developmental Disabilities research: Confounding Variables, Small sample size, and Numerous Outcome variables. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 33, 93-120.
 
 Dimitropoulos, A, Blackford, J, Walden, T, & Thompson, T (2006).  Compulsive behavior in Prader-Willi Syndrome: Examining severity in early childhood.  Research in Developmental Disabilities, 27(2), 190-202.
 
 Yoder, P, Blackford, JU, Waller, N, & Young, G (2004).  Enhancing power while controlling family-wise error: an illustration of the issues using electrocortical studies.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 26(3), 320-331.
 
Blackford, JU & Walden, TA (1998).   Individual differences in social referencing:  Effects of temperamental fear on referencing, regulation, and parent messages.   Infant Behavior and Development, 21(1), 89-102.
 
 
Statistical Programs

 
Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for independent t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.) 
 
Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for paired t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.) 
 
 Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for bivariate correlations [computer program and manual]. Version 1.2. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.
 
 Blackford, JU. Fourier transform and multivariate permutation testing for paired t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN. Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2008. (Requires R Project statistical software).
 MPT Fourier(zip file, 4kb)

 

 

 

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