Advanced Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Rheumatic Diseases - Table of Contents Foreword: The Brave New World of Rheumatic Disease Research Today Preface: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases Minimal Clinically Important Difference: A Review of Outcome Measure Score Interpretation Alternative Design and Analytical Techniques for Longitudinal Rheumatology Studies: Improved Understanding of Outcomes Propensity Score Methods for Bias Reduction in Observational Studies of Treatment Effect US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Arthritis Initiatives, Methodologies and Data Qualitative Methods to Advance Care, Diagnosis, and Therapy in Rheumatic Diseases Similarity Network Fusion: A Novel Application to Making Clinical Diagnoses Randomized Trials, Meta-Analyses, and Systematic Reviews: Using Examples from Rheumatology "Big Data" in Rheumatology: Intelligent Data Modeling Improves the Quality of Imaging Data Strategies for Dealing with Missing Accelerometer Data Use of Administrative Databases to Assess Reproductive Health Issues in Rheumatic Diseases Measuring Patient Preferences: An Overview of Methods with a Focus on Discrete Choice Experiments Cluster and Multiple Correspondence Analyses in Rheumatology: Paths to Uncovering Relationships in a Sea of Data Applied Bayesian Methods in the Rheumatic Diseases