ANDREW NOYMER
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC–Irvine
Associate Professor, Public Health, UC–Irvine

noymer@uci.edu
phone: (949) 824–6620

PhD, Sociology, UC–Berkeley, 2006
MSc, Medical Demography, LSH&TM, London, 1996
AB, Biology, Harvard College, 1995

Former NICHD and NIA trainee in demography

Research Interests: Health and Mortality, especially selective mortality and multi-cause interaction; the 1918 Influenza Pandemic; Demography; Methods; Mathematical Sociology.

• Ann M. Nguyen and Andrew Noymer (2013) “Influenza mortality in the United States, 2009 pandemic: Burden, timing and age distribution” PLoS One

• Andrew Noymer and Ann M. Nguyen (2013) “Influenza as a proportion of pneumonia mortality: United States, 1959–2009” Biodemography and Social Biology accepted (Sept 2012). PDF preprint

• Andrew Noymer and Rennie Lee (2012) “Immigrant health around the world: Evidence from the World Values Survey” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health accepted. PDF preprint

• Daisy Carreon and Andrew Noymer (2011) “Health-related quality of life in older adults: Testing the double jeopardy hypothesis.” Journal of Aging Studies 25(4):371–379. PDF preprint

• Andrew Noymer (2011) “The 1918 influenza pandemic hastened the decline of tuberculosis in the United States: An age, period, cohort analysis.” Vaccine 29(Suppl. 2):B38–B41. PDF preprint
  Entire supplement: “Historical Influenza Pandemics: Lessons Learned” (4.6MB PDF)

• Andrew Noymer (2011) “Population decline in post-conquest America: The role of disease.” Population and Development Review 37(1):178–183. PDF (link)

• Andrew Noymer, Andrew Penner, and Aliya Saperstein (2011) “Cause of death affects racial classification on death certificates.” PLoS One 6(1):e15812 PDF.

• Andrew Noymer (2010) “The 1918 influenza pandemic affected sex differentials in mortality: Comment on Sawchuk.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(4):499–500 PDF (link)

• Andrew Noymer (2009) “Testing the influenza-tuberculosis selective mortality hypothesis with Union Army data.” Social Science & Medicine 68(9):1599–1608 PDF (via PubMed Central)

• Andrew Noymer (2008) “The 1918–19 influenza pandemic affected tuberculosis in the United States: Reconsidering Bradshaw, Smith, and Blanchard.” Biodemography and Social Biology 54(2):125–133. PDF

• Andrew Noymer and Beth Jarosz (2008) “Causes of death in nineteenth-century New England: The dominance of infectious disease.” Social History of Medicine 21(3):573–578. PDF (link)

• Andrew Noymer (2008) “Influenza analysis should include pneumonia.” American Journal of Public Health 98(11):1927–1928. PDF (link)

• Michel Garenne and Andrew Noymer (2008) “Les effets à long terme de la grippe espagnole de 1918: Une sélection différentielle selon le sexe.” Cahiers de Sociologie et de Démographie Médicales 48(3):341–354. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2007) “Contesting the cause and severity of the black death: A review essay.” Population and Development Review 33(3):616–627. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2001) “The transmission and persistence of 'urban legends': Sociological application of age-structured epidemic models.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology 25(3):299–323. (Best paper prize, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociology Association, 2002) PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2001) “Mortality selection and sample selection: a comment on Beckett.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(3):326–327. PDF

• Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne (2000) “The 1918 Influenza epidemic's effects on sex differentials in mortality in the United States.” Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne. Population and Development Review 26(3):565–581. PDF

• Juliane Baron and Andrew Noymer (2005) Plans to fight pandemic flu must focus on senior citizens. Chicago Sun-Times, 5 November. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2003) You might be infected — with an urban legend. Los Angeles Times, 28 December, p. M5. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2010) Epidemics and time: Influenza and tuberculosis during and after the 1918–1919 pandemic (ch. 8, pp. 137–152). Plagues and epidemics: Infected spaces past and present. (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series) Berg.

• Andrew Noymer (2004) Algorithm (pp. 9–10). The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods.

• Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne (2003) Long-term effects of the 1918 ‘Spanish’ influenza epidemic on sex differentials of mortality in the USA: exploratory findings from historical data (Chapter 13, pp. 202–217). The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: New Perspectives. (Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 12) Routledge.
  

• Andrew Noymer (2003) Influenza (pp. 540–542) and Tuberculosis (pp. 946–948). Encyclopedia of Population. Macmillan Reference.

• Multiple regression vs. simple regression
  

• Logarithms and exponentials
  

• Standardized coefficients
  

• Logged dependent variables
  

• Odds ratios considered harmful
  

• Odds ratio vs. coefficients
  

• Comparing probabilities in logistic regression
  

• What you wanted to know about maximum likelihood (but was afraid to ask)
  

In memoriam, Professor David A. Freedman

• Mean age of death (PDF)
• Shortening Long UIDs (PDF)
• 1918 Influenza Pandemic
• Useful Links