James M. Lepkowski
Affiliated Programs:
U-M Program in Survey Methodology
Funded Research:
African American Mental Health Research Program (NIMH)
Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities (NIDCR)
Diabetes Associations with Caries and Tooth Loss in NHanes III (NIDCR)
HANDLS (Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan) Sample Design and Selection (NIA)
HANDLS Sample Design and Selection 2008-2009 (NIA)
National Survey of Family Growth (Cycles 6-8) (NCHS)
Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (ACL) (NIA)
Director, Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Adjunct Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Lekowki is broadly interested in new survey sampling methods and applications across a range of disciplines. Methodological research activities include telephone sampling, compensating for missing survey data, and analyzing survey data while accounting for the complexity of the survey sample design. Program research interests include survey and sample design, interviewer behavior, respondent and coding errors, and estimation procedures.
Recent Publications
Books
Lepkowski, James M. 2008. Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Abstract.
Groves, Robert M., F.J. Fowler, Mick P. Couper, James M. Lepkowski, Eleanor Singer, and R. Tourangeau. 2004. Survey Methodology. New York: Wiley. Abstract.
Cohen, Steven B., and James M. Lepkowski. 2004. Eighth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.
Journal Articles
Franzblau, A., Zwica, L., K. Knutson, Q.X. Chen, S.Y. Lee, B.L. Hong, P. Adriaems, A. Demond, D. Garabrant, B. Gillespie, James M. Lepkowski, W. Luksemburg, M. Maier, and T. Towey. 2009. "An Investigation of Homes with High Concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs, and/or Dioxin-Like PCBs in House Dust." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 6(3). DOI:10.1080/15459620802694975. Licensed Access.
Nechuta, Sarah, Lanay M. Mudd, Lynette Biery, Michael R. Elliott, James M. Lepkowski, and Nigel Paneth. 2009. "Attitudes of pregnant women towards participation in perinatal epidemiological research." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 23(5): 424-430. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3016.2009.01058.x. Licensed Access.
Franzblau, A., Hedgeman, E., Q. Chen, S.Y. Lee, P. Adriaens, A. Demond, D. Garabrant, B. Gillespie, B. Hong, O. Jolliet, James M. Lepkowski, W. Luksemburg, M. Maier, and Y. Wenger. 2008. "Case report: Human exposure to dioxins from clay." Environmental Health Perspectives, 116(2): 238-242. DOI:10.1289/ehp.10594. Licensed Access.
Ismail, A.I., Sohn, W., M. Tellez, J.M. Willem, J. Betz, and James M. Lepkowski. 2008. "Risk indicators for dental caries using the international caries detection and assessment system (ICDAS)." Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 36(1): 55-68. DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.2006.00369.x. Licensed Access.
Mudd, L.M., Pham, X., S. Nechuta, Michael R. Elliott, James M. Lepkowski, N. Paneth, and C. Michigan Alliance Natl. 2008. "Prenatal care and delivery room staff attitudes toward research and the National Children's Study." Maternal and Child Health Journal, 12(6): 684-691. DOI:10.1007/s10995-008-0393-6. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Sohn, W., A. Ismail, A. Amaya, and James M. Lepkowski. 2007. "Determinants of dental care visits among low-income African-American children." Journal of the American Dental Association, 138:309-318.
Xie, D.W., Trivellore Raghunathan, and James M. Lepkowski. 2007. "Estimation of the proportion of overweight individuals in small areas - a robust extension of the Fay-Herriot model." Statistics in Medicine, 26(13): 2699-2715. DOI:10.1002/sjm.2709. Licensed Access.
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