Overview
Karen Bandeen-Roche is a biostatistician (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), known for latent-variable and latent-class methods and their application in gerontology and aging research (notably the measurement of frailty and disability).
Key Contributions / Features
- Latent class regression for multiple discrete outcomes (Bandeen-Roche et al. 1997): practical theory, identifiability, and diagnostics for the concomitant latent class model, applied to physical-disability data.
- Foundational statistical work on the operational definition and measurement of the frailty phenotype in older adults.
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