Jane E. Miller (Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989) is a Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Research Professor at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IHHCPAR). Dr. Miller's research interests include relationships between poverty, child health, health insurance, and access to health care. Collaborating with colleagues at the Center for State Health Policy and New Jersey's Department of Human Services, she has conducted several studies of New Jersey's State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on issues related to program retention, chronic childhood illness, and other issues. She received a Faculty Scholar's Award from the William T. Grant Foundation for her work on poverty dynamics and child well-being. Dr. Miller is a faculty associate at both the Center for Research on Child Well-Being at Princeton University, and the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. A specialist in quantitative communication and statistical literacy, she has written two books: The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, and The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis, and a series of related articles in teaching and research journals. Dr. Miller is the Faculty Director of Project L/Earn, an intensive social science health research training internship program for undergraduates, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s program on Building Human Capital. She received the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from Rutgers' Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates in 2007. With funding from an Academic Excellence Fund grant, she is collaborating with Dr. Joel Cantor and Deedee Davis on the Rutgers Research Data Center Initiative to develop a confidential research data center for the social, economic and health sciences at Rutgers.
E. Valiyeva, L.B. Russell, J.E. Miller, and M. Safford, 2006. “Lifestyle-related Risk Factors and Risk of Nursing Home Admission.” Archives of Internal Medicine. 166:985-990.
J.E. Miller, D. Gaboda, J. Cantor, T. Videon, and Y. Diaz, 2004. “Demographics of Disenrollment from SCHIP: Evidence from NJ KidCare.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 15(1):113-126.
D.M. Harris, J.E. Miller, and D. Davis, 2003. “Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge and Compliance.” Journal of the National Medical Association. 95(8):689-697.
J.E. Miller, P. Guarnaccia, and A. Fasina, 2002. “AIDS Knowledge among Latinos: The Roles of Language, Culture, and Socioeconomic Status,” Journal of Immigrant Health. 4(2):63-72.
J.E. Miller, 2001. “Predictors of Asthma in Young Children: Does Reporting Source Affect Our Conclusions?” American Journal of Epidemiology. 154(3):245-50.
J.E. Miller, 2008. “Contributions of Expository Writing to Numeric Communication: Guidelines for Writing up Word Problems.” Working paper, Rutgers University.
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J.E. Miller and Y.V. Rodgers, 2008. “Economic Importance and Statistical Significance: Guidelines for Communicating Empirical Research.” Feminist Economics. 14(2): 117-149.
J.E. Miller, 2005. “Presenting Statistical Results to Non-statistical Audiences.” (See also Chapter 16 in The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis, University of Chicago Press.)
J.E. Miller, 2008. "The Goldilocks Principle: Avoiding Pitfalls in Interpretation of Regression Coefficients." Social Science Research Network (SSRN) eLibrary.
J.E. Miller, 2008. “Interpreting the Substantive Significance of Regression Coefficients.” 2008 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Education Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
J.E. Miller, 2008. “Writing about Hazards Models: Practical Guidelines for Effective Presentation.” Working paper, Rutgers University; version with examples from medicine and public health.
J.E. Miller, 2008. “Writing about Hazards Models: Practical Guidelines for Effective Presentation.” Working paper, Rutgers University;version with examples from economics.
J.E. Miller, 2007. “Presenting Quantitative Research Results,” Chapter 42 in: G.J. Miller and K. Yang, editors: Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, Inc. pp. 861-878.
