A selection of my publications is below. A complete list can be found at my Google Scholar profile.

Bicycle infrastructure, bicycling volumes, and safety using high-resolution data

Bicycle infrastructure and the incidence rate of crashes with cars: A case-control study with Strava data in Atlanta
Michael Garber, Kari Watkins, Dana Flanders, Michael Kramer, Felipe Lobelo, Steve Mooney, David Ederer, Lauren McCullough
Journal of Transport & Health. 2023. (full text in UC eScholarship)

Have paved trails and protected bike lanes led to more bicycling in Atlanta? A generalized synthetic-control analysis
Michael Garber, Dana Flanders, Kari Watkins, Felipe Lobelo, Michael Kramer, Lauren McCullough
Epidemiology. 2022. (full text) (video abstract)

Causal inference and policy evaluation

Precision and Weighting of Effects Estimated by the Generalized Synthetic Control and Related Methods: The Case of Medicaid Expansion
Michael Garber
Epidemiology. 2024. (code and online appendix)

A definition of the causal effect of a political party’s nominee on the U.S. general presidential election using counterfactual response types
Michael Garber, Lindsay Collin, Dana Flanders
Annals of Epidemiology. 2020. (full text)

Is the Smog Lifting? Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology
Dana Flanders, Michael Garber
Epidemiology. 2019. (full text)

The Authors Respond
Dana Flanders, Michael Garber
Epidemiology. 2019. (full text)

Methods and principles for using aggregated mobile-device-generated data in epidemiologic studies

On selection bias in comparison measures of smartphone-generated population mobility: an illustration of no-bias conditions with a commercial data source
Michael Garber, Katie Labgold, Michael Kramer
Annals of Epidemiology. 2022. (full text)

At-risk-measure sampling in case-control studies with aggregated data
Michael Garber, Lauren McCullough, Steve Mooney, Michael Kramer, Kari Watkins, Felipe Lobelo, Dana Flanders
Epidemiology. 2021. (full text above and in PubMed Central) (GitHub repo) (Winner of 2022 Rothman Prize)

Comparing bicyclists who use smartphone apps to record rides with those who do not: Implications for representativeness and selection bias
Michael Garber, Kari Watkins, Michael Kramer
Journal of Transport & Health. 2019. (full text)

Sampling and Sampling Frames in Big Data Epidemiology
Steve Mooney, Michael Garber
Current Epidemiology Reports. 2019. (full text)




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