Welcome to the Working Papers site for the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. The papers available on this site represent a selection of the current research being conducted by members of our department, which includes 23 faculty, 31 staff and 120 students. The Department of Biostatistics plays an instrumental role in bringing biostatistical expertise to a wide spectrum of health-related problems. We seek to advance knowledge in biostatistics and health through educational programs for students and applied researchers. The Department also plays a major service role, both within the University of Michigan and on the national and international stage. Read more...
Papers from 2020
A modular framework for early-phase seamless oncology trials, Philip S. Boonstra, Thomas M. Braun, and Elizabeth C. Chase
Shrinkage Priors for Isotonic Probability Vectors and Binary Data Modeling, Philip S. Boonstra, Daniel R. Owen, and Jian Kang
Papers from 2019
Inferring a consensus problem list using penalized multistage models for ordered data, Philip S. Boonstra and John C. Krauss
A simulation study of diagnostics for bias in non-probability samples, Philip S. Boonstra, Roderick JA Little, Brady T. West, Rebecca R. Andridge, and Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton
Residual-based Tree for Clustered Binary Data, Rong Xia and Mousumi Banerjee
Papers from 2018
Incorporating Historical Models with Adaptive Bayesian Updates, Philip S. Boonstra and Ryan P. Barbaro
Default Priors for the Intercept Parameter in Logistic Regressions, Philip S. Boonstra, Ryan P. Barbaro, and Ananda Sen
Papers from 2016
Conditional Screening for Ultra-high Dimensional Covariates with Survival Outcomes, Hyokyoung Grace Hong, Jian Kang, and Yi Li
A Weighted Instrumental Variable Estimator to Control for Instrument-Outcome Confounders, Douglas Lehmann, Yun Li, Rajiv Saran, and Yi Li
Strengthening Instrumental Variables through Weighting, Douglas Lehmann, Yun Li, Rajiv Saran, and Yi Li
Classification with Ultrahigh-Dimensional Features, Yanming Li, Hyokyoung Hong, Jian Kang, Kevin He, Ji Zhu, and Yi Li
Variable Selection for Estimating the Optimal Treatment Regimes in the Presence of a Large Number of Covariate, Baqun Zhang and Min Zhang
Papers from 2015
Tests for Gene-Environment Interactions and Joint Effects with Exposure Misclassification, Philip S. Boonstra, Bhramar Mukherjee, Stephen B. Gruber, Jaeil Ahn, Stephanie L. Schmit, and Nilanjan Chatterjee
Variable Selection with False Discovery Control, Kevin He, Yanming Li, Ji Zhu, Hongliang Liu, Jeffrey E. Lee, Christopher I. Amos, Terry Hyslop, Jiashun Jin, Qinyi Wei, and Yi Li
A Pairwise Likelihood Augmented Estimator for the Cox Model Under Left-Truncation, Fan Wu, Sehee Kim, Jing Qin, Rajiv Saran, and Yi Li
C-learning: a New Classification Framework to Estimate Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes, Baqun Zhang and Min Zhang
Papers from 2014
Set-based Tests for Genetic Association in Longitudinal Studies, Zihuai He, Min Zhang, Seunggeun Lee, Jennifer A. Smith, Xiuqing Guo, Walter Palmas, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Ana V. Diez Roux, and Bhramar Mukherjee
A global partial likelihood estimator of the time-varying effects for time-dependent treatment, Huazhen Lin, Zhe Fei, and Yi Li
Clustering Survival Outcomes using Dirichlet Process Mixture, Lili Zhao, Jingchunzi Shi, Tempie H. Shearon, and Yi Li
PGS: a tool for association study of high-dimensional microRNA expression data with repeated measures, Yinan Zheng, Zhe Fei, Wei Zhang, Justin Starren, Lei Liu, Andrea Baccarelli, Yi Li, and Lifang Hou
Papers from 2013
Surrogacy Assessment Using Principal Stratification When Surrogate and Outcome Measures are Multivariate Normal, Anna Conlon, Jeremy M.G. Taylor, and Michael R. Elliott
Penalized Smoothed Partial Rank Estimator for the Nonparametric Transformation Survival Model with High-dimensional Covariates, Wei Dai and Yi Li
A Frailty Approach for Survival Analysis with Error-prone Covariate, Sehee Kim, Yi Li, and Donna Spiegelman
Semiparametric Latent Variable Transformation Models for Multiple Mixed Outcomes, Huazhen Lin, Ling Zhou, Robert Elashoff, and Yi Li
Semiparametric Transformation Models for Semicompeting Survival Data, Huazhen Lin, Ling Zhou, Chunhong Li, and Yi Li
In Praise of Simplicity not Mathematistry! Ten Simple Powerful Ideas for the Statistical Scientist, Roderick J. Little
MISSING AT RANDOM AND IGNORABILITY FOR INFERENCES ABOUT SUBSETS OF PARAMETERS WITH MISSING DATA, Roderick J. Little and Sahar Zanganeh
VARYING INDEX COEFFICIENT MODELS, Shujie Ma and Peter Xuekun Song
A Latent Variable Transformation Model Approach for Exploring Dysphagia, Anna Snavely, David P. Harrington, and Yi Li
Covariance-Enhanced Discriminant Analysis, Peirong Xu, Ji Zhu, Lixing Zhu, and Yi Li
Ultrahigh Dimensional Time Course Feature Selection, Peirong Xu, Lixing Zhu, and Yi Li
Score Test Variable Screening, Sihai Dave Zhao and Yi Li
Selection of Latent Variables for Multiple Mixed-Outcome Models, Ling Zhou, Huazhen Lin, Xin-Yuan Song, and Yi Li
Papers from 2012
The Bayesian Continual Reassessment Method Using a Mixture-of-Uniforms Prior, Thomas M. Braun
A Phase I Bayesian Adaptive Design to Simultaneously Optimize Dose and Schedule Assignments Both Among and Within Patients, Thomas M. Braun and Jin Zhang
Analysis of Periodontal Data using Circular Statistics, Samopriyo Maitra and Thomas M. Braun
Papers from 2011
Proxy Pattern-Mixture Analysis for a Binary Variable Subject to Nonresponse., Rebecca H. Andridge and Roderick J. Little
Optimization and Simulation of an Evolving Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Program, Yijiang Li, Jack Kalbfleisch, Peter Xuekun Song, Yan Zhou, Alan Leichtman, and Michael Rees
Subsample ignorable likelihood for accelerated failure time models with missing predictors, Nanhua Zhang and Roderick J. Little
Papers from 2010
AN ANALYSIS OF NONIGNORABLE NONRESPONSE IN A SURVEY WITH A ROTATING PANEL DESIGN, Caterina Giusti and Roderick J. Little
Modeling Menstrual Cycle Length and Variability at the Approach of Menopause Using Bayesian Changepoint Models, Xiaobi Huang, Michael R. Elliott, and Sioban D. Harlow
Doubly Regularized REML for Estimation and Selection of Fixed and Random Effects in Linear Mixed-Effects Models, Sijian Wang, Peter Xuewin Song, and Ji Zhu
Predicting Treatment Efficacy via Quantitative MRI: A Bayesian Joint Model, Jincao Wu and Tim Johnson
Papers from 2009
Composite likelihood Bayesian information criteria for model selection in high dimensional data, X Gao and Peter Xuekun Song
WEIGHTING AND PREDICTION IN SAMPLE SURVEYS, Rod Little
Longitudinal Image Analysis of Tumor/Brain Change in Contrast Uptake Induced by Radiation, Xiaoxi Zhang, Tim Johnson, Rod Little, and Yue Cao
Papers from 2008
Parametric Non-Mixture Cure Models for Schedule-Finding of Therapeutic Agents, Thomas M. Braun and Changying A. Liu
A Bayesian Approach to Modeling Associations Between Pulsatile Hormones, Nichole E. Carlson, Timothy D. Johnson, and Morton B. Brown
Cluster Mass Inference Method via Random Field Theory, Hui Zhang, Thomas E. Nichols, and Timothy D. Johnson
Papers from 2007
Bayesian Bivariate Image Analysis with Application to Dual Autoradiography, Timothy D. Johnson and Morand Piert
Weighted Likelihood Method for Grouped Survival Data in Case-Cohort Studies with Application to HIV Vaccine Trials, Zhiguo Li, Peter B. Gilbert, and Bin Nan
Bayesian Spatial Modeling of fMRI data: A Multiple-Subject Analysis, Lei Xu, Timothy Johnson, and Thomas Nichols
A Bayesian Image Analysis of the Change in Tumor/Brain Contrast Uptake Induced by Radiation via Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Xiaoxi Zhang, Tim Johnson, and Roderick J.A. Little
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis via the EM Algorithm with Stochastic Variation, Xiaoxi Zhang, Timothy D. Johnson, and Roderick J.A. Little
Papers from 2006
Simultaneously Optimizing Dose and Schedule of a New Cytotoxic Agent, Thomas M. Braun, Peter F. Thall, Hoang Nguyen, and Marcos de Lima
Multiple Imputation in the Presence of Outliers, Michael Elliott
Permutation Methods in Relative Risk Regression Models, Wenyu Jiang and Jack Kalbfleisch
Detecting Pulsatile Hormone Secretion Events: A Bayesian Approach, Tim Johnson
Semiparametric Regression of Multi-Dimensional Genetic Pathway Data: Least Squares Kernel Machines and Linear Mixed Models, Dawei Liu, Xihong Lin, and Debashis Ghosh
Exploiting Gene-Environment Independence for Analysis of Case-Control Studies: An Empirical Bayes Approach to Trade Off between Bias and Efficiency , Bhramar Mukherjee
Exploiting Gene-Environment Independence for Analysis of Case-Control Studies: An Empirical Bayes Approach to Trade Off between Bias and Efficiency, Bhramar Mukherjee and Nilanjan Chatterjee
A note on bias due to fitting prospective multivariate generalized linear models to categorical outcomes ignoring retrospective sampling schemes, Bhramar Mukherjee and Ivy Liu
Analysis of Case-Control Age-at-Onset Data Using a Modified Case-Cohort Method, Bin Nan and Xihong Lin
Combining Information from Two Surveys to Estimate County-Level Prevalence Rates of Cancer Risk Factors and Screening, Trivellore E. Raghuanthan, Dawei Xie, Nathaniel Schenker, Van Parsons, William W. Davis, Kevin W. Dodd, and Eric J. Feuer
Generalized Monotonic Functional Mixed Models with Application to Modeling Normal Tissue Complications , Matthew Schipper, Jeremy Taylor, and Xihong Lin
Doubly Penalized Buckley-James Method for Survival Data with High-Dimensional Covariates, Sijian Wang, Bin Nan, Ji Zhu, and David G. Beer
Semiparametric Analysis for Correlated Recurrent and Terminal Events, Yining Ye, Jack Kalbfleisch, and Doug E. Schaubel
Papers from 2005
Semiparametric inferences for association with semi-competing risks data, Debashis Ghosh
Shrunken p-values for assessing differential expression, with applications to genomic data analysis, Debashis Ghosh
Simultaneous estimation procedures and multiple testing: a decision-theoretic framework, Debashis Ghosh
Papers from 2004
Asymptotic Results for Simultaneous Group Sequential Analysis of Rank-Based and Weighted Kaplan-Meier Tests with Paired Survival Data in the Presence of Censoring. Technical report, Adin-Cristian Andrei and Susan Murray
Semiparametric binary regression under monotonicity constraints, Moulinath Banerjee, Pinaki Biswas, and Debashis Ghosh
A Bayesian method for finding interactions in genomic studies, Wei Chen, Debashis Ghosh, Trivellore E. Raghuanthan, and Sharon Kardia
Finding cancer subtypes in microarray data using random projections, Debashis Ghosh
Mixture models for assessing differential expression in complex tissues using microarray data, Debashis Ghosh
Model checking techniques for regression models in cancer screening, Debashis Ghosh
Nonparametric and semiparametric inference for models of tumor size and metastasis, Debashis Ghosh
Nonparametric methods for analyzing replication origins in genomewide data, Debashis Ghosh
Semiparametic models and estimation procedures for binormal ROC curves with multiple biomarkers, Debashis Ghosh
Semiparametric methods for the binormal model with multiple biomarkers, Debashis Ghosh
Binary isotonic regression procedures, with application to cancer biomarkers, Debashis Ghosh, Moulinath Banerjee, and Pinaki Biswas
The false discovery rate: a variable selection perspective, Debashis Ghosh, Wei Chen, and Trivellore E. Raghuanthan
Classification and selection of biomarkers in genomic data using LASSO, Debashis Ghosh and Arul Chinnaiyan
Covariate adjustment in the analysis of microarray data from clinical studies, Debashis Ghosh and Arul Chinnaiyan
Semiparametric methods for identification of tumor progression genes from microarray data, Debashis Ghosh and Arul Chinnaiyan
Multiple Imputation For Interval Censored Data With Auxiliary Variables, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, Jeremy Taylor, and Susan Murray
Survival Analysis Using Auxiliary Variables Via Nonparametric Multiple Imputation, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, Jeremy Taylor, Susan Murray, and Daniel Commenges
Resampling methods for estimating functions with U-statistic structure, Wenyu Jiang and Jack Kalbfleisch
A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Multirater Correlated ROC Analysis, Tim Johnson and Valen Johnson
A Bayesian Mixture Model Relating Dose to Critical Organs and Functional Complication in 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy, Tim Johnson, Jeremy Taylor, Randall K. Ten Haken, and Avraham Eisbruch
A Bayesian Chi-Squared Test for Goodness of Fit, Valen Johnson
Bayes Factors Based on Test Statistics, Valen Johnson
Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means?, Rod Little and Sonya L. Vartivarian
Causal Inference in Hybrid Intervention Trials Involving Treatment Choice, Qi Long, Rod Little, and Xihong Lin
New estimating methods for surrogate outcome data, Bin Nan
Piecewise Constant Cross-Ratio Estimation for Association in Bivariate Survival Data with Application to Studying Markers of Menopausal Transition, Bin Nan, Xihong Lin, Lynda D. Lisabet, and Sioban Harlow
Censored Linear Regression for Case-Cohort Studies, Bin Nan, Menggang Yu, and Jack Kalbfleisch
Individualized predictions of disease progression following radiation therapy for prostate cancer., Jeremy Taylor, Menggang Yu, and Howard M. Sandler
Monotone Constrained Tensor-product B-spline with application to screening studies, Yue Wang and Jeremy Taylor
A Hybrid Newton-Type Method for the Linear Regression in Case-cohort Studies, Menggang Yu and Bin Nan