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Publications from XMETA Team

1. Hong, C, Salanti, G, Morton, S, Riley, R, Chu, H, Kimmel, S, and Chen, Y (2019) Testing small study effects in multivariate meta-analysis, Biometrics (in press; discussion paper).

2. Chiasakul, T, Jesus, E, Tong, J, Chen, Y, Crowther, M, Garcia, D, Chai- Adisaksopha, C, Messe, S and Cuker A. (2019) Inherited Thrombophilia and the Risk of Arterial Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Journal of the American Heart Association.

3. Hong, C, Duan, R, Zeng, L, Hubbard, R, Lumley, T, Riley, R, Chu, H, Kimmel, S and Chen, Y (2019) Galaxy plot: a new visualization tool of bivariate meta-analysis studies, American Journal of Epidemiology (in press).

4. Wang, L, Rouse, B, Marks-Anglin, A, Duan, R, Shi, Q, Quach, K, Chen, Y Schmid, CH, Li, T. (2019) Rapid network meta-analysis using data from Food and Drug Administration approval packages is feasible but with limitations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 114:84–94.

5. Lake, E, Jordan, J, Duan, R, and Chen, Y (2019) A Meta-Analysis of the Associations Between the Nurse Work Environment in Hospitals and 4 Sets of Outcomes, Medical Care 59(5) 353-360.

6. Zhang, J, Ko, CW, Nie, L, Chen, Y and Tiwari, R. (2018) Bayesian hierarchical methods for meta-analysis combining randomized-controlled and single-arm studies, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28 issue: 5, page(s): 1293- 1310.

7. Lin, L, Chu, H, Murad, M, Hong, C, Qu, Z, Cole, S, and Chen, Y. (2018) Empirical Comparison of publication bias tests in meta-analysis, Journal of General Internal Medicine 33(8):1260-1267.  

8. Hong, C, Riley, R and Chen, Y (2018) An improved method for bivariate meta-analysis when within-study correlations are unknown, Research Synthesis Methods, 9(1):73–88.

9. Piao, J, Liu, YL, Chen, Y and Ning, J. (2017) Copas-like selection model to correct publication bias in systematic review of diagnostic test studies, Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 18(3):495–504.

 

10. Agarwal, R, Bartsch, SM, Kelly, BJ, Prewitt, M, Liu, YL, Chen, Y, and Umscheid, CA. (2017) Newer glycopeptide antibiotics for treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections: a systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost analysis, Clinical Microbiology and Infection (in press).

 

11. Huang, J, Liu, YL, Vitale, S, Penning, T, Whitehead, A, Vachani, A, Clapper, M, Muscat, J, Lazarus, P, Scheet, P, Moore, JH and Chen, Y (2017), On meta- and mega-analyses for gene-environment interactions, Genetic Epidemiology 41: 876-886.

 

12. Ma, X, Lian, X, Chu, H, Ibrahim, J, and Chen, Y (Jan., 2018) A Bayesian hierarchical model for network meta-analysis of multiple diagnostic tests, Biostatistics, 19(1): 87–102

13. Ning, J, Chen, Y and Piao, J (2017) Maximum likelihood estimation and EM algorithm of Copas-like selection model for publication bias correction. Biostatistics 18 (3) 495-504.

 

14. Liu, Y, DeSantis, S and Chen, Y (2017) Bayesian mixed treatment comparisons meta-analysis for correlated outcomes subject to reporting bias, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 67(1): 127–144.

 

15. Liu, Y, Chen, Y and Scheet, P (2016), A meta-analytic framework for detection of genetic interactions, Genetic Epidemiology, 40 (7), 534 –543.

 

16. Chen, Y, Liu, Y, Chu, H, Lee, M and Schmid, C (2017) A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy, Statistics in Medicine, 36, 105-121.

 

17. Chen, Y, Hong, C, Ning, Y and Su, X. (2016) Meta-analysis of studies with bivariate binary outcomes: a marginal beta-binomial model approach, Statistics in Medicine, 35, 21-40.

 

18. Chahoud, J, Semaan, A, Chen, Y, Cao, M, Rieber, A, Rady, P and Tyring, S. (2016) The Association between Beta-genus Human Papillomavirus and Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Immunocompetent Individuals: a Meta-analysis, JAMA Dermatology, 152(12):1354–1364.

 

19. Chen, Y, Cai, Y, Hong, C, and Jackson, D. (2016) Inference for correlated effect sizes using multiple univariate meta-analyses, Statistics in Medicine, 35(9): 1405-1422.

 

20. Liu, Y, Chen, Y and Chu H. (2015) A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies without a gold standard, Biometrics, 71(2):538–47.

 

21. Chen, Y, Hong, C and Riley, R. (2015) An alternative pseudolikelihood method for multivariate random-effects meta-analysis, Statistics in Medicine 34 (3): 361-380.

 

22. Chen, Y, Liu, Y, Ning, J, Cormier J and Chu H. (2015) A model for combining case-control and cohort studies in systematic reviews of diagnostic tests, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 64(3): 469-489.

 

23. Chen, Y, Liu, Y, Ning, J, Nie, L, Zhu, H and Chu H. (2014) A composite likelihood method for bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity in diagnostic reviews, Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

 

24. Chen, Y, Chu, H, Luo, S, Nie L and Chen S. (2014) Bayesian analysis on meta-analysis of case-control studies accounting for within-study correlation, Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

 

25. Chen, Y, Luo, S, Chu, H, Su, X and Nie, L. (2014) An Empirical Bayes Method for Multivariate Metaanalysis with Application in Clinical Trials, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 43(16), 3536–3551.

 

26. Ma, X, Chen, Y, Cole, S and Chu, H. (2014) A hybrid Bayesian hierarchical model combining cohort and case-control studies for meta-analysis of diagnostic tests: accounting for partial verification bias, Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

 

27. Luo, S, Chen, Y, Su, X and Chu, H. (2014) mmeta: An R package for multivariate meta-analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 56 (11).

 

28. Chen, Y, Luo, S, Chu, H and Wei, P. (2013) Bayesian inference on risk differences: an application to multivariate meta-analysis of adverse events in clinical trials, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 5 (2): 142-155.

 

29. Chu, H, Nie, L, Chen, Y, Huang, Y and Sun, W. (2012) Bivariate random effects models for meta-analysis of comparative studies with binary outcomes: methods for the absolute risk difference and relative risk, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 21 (6): 621–633.

 

 

 

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