Publications
DOVE: Durability of Vaccine Efficacy. v1.2 ed., 2021.
A general framework for integrative analysis of incomplete multiomics data." Genet Epidemiol 44, no. 7 (2020): 646-664.
"Efficient methods for signal detection from correlated adverse events in clinical trials." Biometrics 75, no. 3 (2019): 1000-1008.
"Entropy Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes." Stat Sin 29, no. 4 (2019): 1633-1655.
"I-Boost: an integrative boosting approach for predicting survival time with multiple genomics platforms." Genome Biol 20, no. 1 (2019): 52.
"Proper Inference for Value Function in High-Dimensional Q-Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes." J Am Stat Assoc 114, no. 527 (2019): 1404-1417.
"Robust Score Tests With Missing Data in Genomics Studies." J Am Stat Assoc 114, no. 528 (2019): 1778-1786.
"Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Multiple Right- and Interval-Censored Events." J Am Stat Assoc 114, no. 527 (2019): 1232-1240.
"Analysis of multiple survival events in generalized case-cohort designs." Biometrics 74, no. 4 (2018): 1250-1260.
"Augmented outcome-weighted learning for estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimens." Stat Med 37, no. 26 (2018): 3776-3788.
"Biomarker threshold adaptive designs for survival endpoints." J Biopharm Stat 28, no. 6 (2018): 1038-1054.
" DTRlearn: Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Treatment Regimes (R). 1.3 ed., 2018.
Efficient Estimation for Semiparametric Structural Equation Models With Censored Data." J Am Stat Assoc 113, no. 522 (2018): 893-905.
"Estimating Treatment Effects for Recurrent Events in the Presence of Rescue Medications: An Application to the Immune Thrombocytopenia Study." Stat Biosci 10, no. 2 (2018): 473-489.
"Joint modeling of survival time and longitudinal outcomes with flexible random effects." Lifetime Data Anal 24, no. 1 (2018): 126-152.
"Semiparametric Additive Model for Estimating Risk Difference in Multicenter Studies." Biostat Epidemiol 2, no. 1 (2018): 84-98.
"Semiparametric regression analysis of interval-censored data with informative dropout." Biometrics 74, no. 4 (2018): 1213-1222.
"Efficient Semiparametric Inference Under Two-Phase Sampling, With Applications to Genetic Association Studies." J Am Stat Assoc 112, no. 520 (2017): 1468-1476.
"Estimating personalized diagnostic rules depending on individualized characteristics." Stat Med 36, no. 7 (2017): 1099-1117.
"Maximum likelihood estimation for semiparametric regression models with multivariate interval-censored data." Biometrika 104, no. 3 (2017): 505-525.
"Pattern mixture models for clinical validation of biomarkers in the presence of missing data." Stat Med 36, no. 19 (2017): 2994-3004.
"Penalized nonlinear mixed effects model to identify biomarkers that predict disease progression." Biometrics 73, no. 4 (2017): 1343-1354.
" Principal Components Adjusted Variable Screening." Comput Stat Data Anal 110 (2017): 134-144.
"Proportional hazards model with a change point for clustered event data." Biometrics 73, no. 3 (2017): 835-845.
"Semiparametric estimation of the accelerated failure time model with partly interval-censored data." Biometrics 73, no. 4 (2017): 1161-1168.
"Semiparametric regression analysis of interval-censored competing risks data." Biometrics 73, no. 3 (2017): 857-865.
"SEMIPARAMETRIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF REPEATED CURRENT STATUS DATA." Stat Sin 27, no. 3 (2017): 1079-1100.
"Semiparametric Single-Index Model for Estimating Optimal Individualized Treatment Strategy." Electron J Stat 11, no. 1 (2017): 364-384.
"Sequential multiple assignment randomization trials with enrichment design." Biometrics 73, no. 2 (2017): 378-390.
"Statistical design of noninferiority multiple region clinical trials to assess global and consistent treatment effects." J Biopharm Stat 27, no. 6 (2017): 933-944.
"Comment." J Am Stat Assoc 111, no. 515 (2016): 942-947.
" Learning Optimal Individualized Treatment Rules from Electronic Health Record Data." IEEE Int Conf Healthc Inform 2016 (2016): 65-71.
"Maximum likelihood estimation for semiparametric transformation models with interval-censored data." Biometrika 103, no. 2 (2016): 253-271.
"OTRselect: Variable selection for optimal treatment decision (R).. 1.0 ed. CRAN Repository, 2016.
Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome Weighted Learning." J Am Stat Assoc 111, no. 516 (2016): 1509-1521.
"Quantile Regression Models for Current Status Data." J Stat Plan Inference 178 (2016): 112-127.
"Support Vector Hazards Machine: A Counting Process Framework for Learning Risk Scores for Censored Outcomes." J Mach Learn Res 17 (2016).
"Using pilot data to size a two-arm randomized trial to find a nearly optimal personalized treatment strategy." Stat Med 35, no. 8 (2016): 1245-56.
"Analysis of Sequence Data Under Multivariate Trait-Dependent Sampling." J Am Stat Assoc 110, no. 510 (2015): 560-572.
"Analysis of the Proportional Hazards Model with Sparse Longitudinal Covariates." J Am Stat Assoc 110, no. 511 (2015): 1187-1196.
"Assessing temporal agreement between central and local progression-free survival times." Stat Med 34, no. 5 (2015): 844-58.
"A counterfactual p-value approach for benefit-risk assessment in clinical trials." J Biopharm Stat 25, no. 3 (2015): 508-24.
"Efficient Estimation of Nonparametric Genetic Risk Function with Censored Data." Biometrika 102, no. 3 (2015): 515-532.
"Hypothesis testing for two-stage designs with over or under enrollment." Stat Med 34, no. 16 (2015): 2417-26.
"Joint Analysis of Survival Time and Longitudinal Categorical Outcomes." Stat Biosci 7, no. 1 (2015): 19-47.
"Multiple kernel learning with random effects for predicting longitudinal outcomes and data integration." Biometrics 71, no. 4 (2015): 918-28.
" New Statistical Learning Methods for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes." J Am Stat Assoc 110, no. 510 (2015): 583-598.
"Quantifying the average of the time-varying hazard ratio via a class of transformations." Lifetime Data Anal 21, no. 2 (2015): 259-79.
"Regression analysis of sparse asynchronous longitudinal data." J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol 77, no. 4 (2015): 755-776.
"Reinforcement Learning Trees." J Am Stat Assoc 110, no. 512 (2015): 1770-1784.
"On Sparse representation for Optimal Individualized Treatment Selection with Penalized Outcome Weighted Learning." Stat 4, no. 1 (2015): 59-68.
" Bayesian design of superiority clinical trials for recurrent events data with applications to bleeding and transfusion events in myelodyplastic syndrome." Biometrics 70, no. 4 (2014): 1003-13.
"Bayesian gamma frailty models for survival data with semi-competing risks and treatment switching." Lifetime Data Anal 20, no. 1 (2014): 76-105.
"Comment on "Dynamic treatment regimes: technical challenges and applications"." Electron J Stat 8, no. 1 (2014): 1290-1300.
"Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Transformation Models for Two-Phase Cohort Studies." J Am Stat Assoc 109, no. 505 (2014): 371-383.
"Genetic association analysis under complex survey sampling: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos." Am J Hum Genet 95, no. 6 (2014): 675-88.
"Multivariate recurrent events in the presence of multivariate informative censoring with applications to bleeding and transfusion events in myelodysplastic syndrome." J Biopharm Stat 24, no. 2 (2014): 429-42.
"Power calculations and confidence intervals in phase II design with over enrollment (SAS/R).., 2014.
Sample size/power calculation for stratified case-cohort design." Stat Med 33, no. 23 (2014): 3973-85.
"Semiparametric Inference for Data with a Continuous Outcome from a Two-Phase Probability Dependent Sampling Scheme." J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol 76, no. 1 (2014): 197-215.
" Targeted Local Support Vector Machine for Age-Dependent Classification." J Am Stat Assoc 109, no. 507 (2014): 1174-1187.
"Auxiliary marker-assisted classification in the absence of class identifiers." J Am Stat Assoc 108, no. 502 (2013): 553-565.
"Efficient semiparametric estimation of short-term and long-term hazard ratios with right-censored data." Biometrics 69, no. 4 (2013): 840-9.
"Estimating time-varying effects for overdispersed recurrent events data with treatment switching." Biometrika 100, no. 2 (2013): 339-354.
"Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Cure-survival Data." J Stat Theory Pract 7, no. 2 (2013): 324-344.
"Quantitative trait analysis in sequencing studies under trait-dependent sampling." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110, no. 30 (2013): 12247-52.
" Semiparametric inference on the penetrances of rare genetic mutations based on a case-family design." J Stat Plan Inference 143, no. 2 (2013): 368-377.
"SEMIPARAMETRIC ROC ANALYSIS USING ACCELERATED REGRESSION MODELS." Stat Sin 23 (2013): 829-851.
"Variable selection for optimal treatment decision." Stat Methods Med Res 22, no. 5 (2013): 493-504.
"The case-only independence assumption: associations between genetic polymorphisms and smoking among controls in two population-based studies." Int J Mol Epidemiol Genet 3, no. 4 (2012): 333-60.
"Checking semiparametric transformation models with censored data." Biostatistics 13, no. 1 (2012): 18-31.
" Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules Using Outcome Weighted Learning." J Am Stat Assoc 107, no. 449 (2012): 1106-1118.
"Estimating treatment effects with treatment switching via semicompeting risks models: an application to a colorectal cancer study." Biometrika 99, no. 1 (2012): 167-184.
"Joint Models of Longitudinal Data and Recurrent Events with Informative Terminal Event." Stat Biosci 4, no. 2 (2012): 262-281.
"Predictive accuracy of covariates for event times." Biometrika 99, no. 3 (2012): 615-630.
"Reinforcement learning trees In The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics Technical Report Series. UNC at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 2012.
Additive mixed effect model for clustered failure time data." Biometrics 67, no. 4 (2011): 1340-51.
" Proportional rate models for recurrent time event data under dependent censoring: A comparative study." In Recent Advances in Biostatistics, 123-141. Vol. 4., 2011.
"Reinforcement learning strategies for clinical trials in nonsmall cell lung cancer." Biometrics 67, no. 4 (2011): 1422-33.
"Semiparametric Transformation Rate Model for Recurrent Event Data." Stat Biosci 3, no. 2 (2011): 187-207.
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