Publications and manuscripts

1. Ji, Y., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2012), Model selection in binary and tobit quantile regression using the Gibbs sampler, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 827-839. (special issue on quantile regression and semiparametric methods)

2. Xi, R., Lin, N., Chen, Y. and Kim, Y. (2012), Compression and aggregation of Bayesian estimates for data intensive computing, Knowledge and Information Systems, in press.

3. Xu, L., Lin, N., Zhang, B. and Shi, N. (2012), A finite mixture model for working correlation matrices in generalized estimating equations, Statistica Sinica, 22(2), in press. Supplementary file

4. Liu, T., Yuan, X., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2012), Rank-based empirical likelihood inference on medians of k populations, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 142(4), 1009-1026.

5. Wang, G., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2012), Functional linear regression after spline transformation, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 587-601.

6. Whitlock, E., Villafranca, A., Lin, N., Palanca, B. J., Searleman, A. C., Jacobsohn, E., Finkel, K. J., Zhang, L., Burnside, B. A., Evers, A. S. and Avidan, M. S. (2011), The relationship between bispectral index values and volatile anesthetic concentrations during the maintenance phase of anesthesia in the B-Unaware trial, Anesthesiology, 115(6):1209-18.

7. Fu, Z., Tao, J., Shi, N., Zhang, M. and Lin, N. (2011), Analyzing longitudinal item response data via the pairwise fitting method, Multivariate Behavioral Research, 46(4), 669-690.

8. Avidan, M.S., Jacobsohn, E., Glick, D., Burnside, B., Zhang, L., Villafranca, A., Karl, L., Kamal, S., Torres, B., O’Conner, M., Evers, A. S., Gradwohl, S., Lin, N., Palanca, B. J. and Mashour, G. A. (2011), Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population, The New England Journal of Medicine, 365, 591-600. media report 1 | 2

9. Bottros,M. M., Palanca, B. J. A., Mashour, G. A., Patel, A., Butler,C., Taylor, A., Lin, N. and Avidan, M. S. (2011), Estimation of the bispectral index by anesthesiologists: An inverse Turing test, Anesthesiology, 114(5), 1093-1101.

10. Lin, N. and Xi, R. (2011), Aggregated estimating equation estimation, Statistics and Its Interface, 4, 73-84.

11. Li, Q., Xi, R. and Lin, N. (2010), Bayesian regularized quantile regression, Bayesian Analysis, 5,533-556.

12. Yan, X., Liu, T., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2010), Combining conditional and unconditional moment restrictions with missing responses using empirical likelihood, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 2420-2433.

13. Muenzer, J. T., Jaffe, D.M., Schwulst, S.J., Dixon, D. J., Schierding, W. S., Li, Q., Macmillan, S. K., Oppedal, D., Warner, B.W., Dillon, P. A., Lin, N., Checchia, P. A., Cobb, J. P. (2010), Evidence for a novel blood RNA diagnostic for pediatric appendicitis: the Riboleukogram, Pediatric Emergency Care, 26(5): 333-338.

14. Shen, H., Buchowski, J. M., Yeom, J. S., Liu, G., Lin, N. and Riew, K. D. (2010), Pseudarthrosis in multilevel anterior cervical fusion with rhBMP-2 and allograft: Analysis of one hundred twenty-seven cases with minimum two-year follow-up, Spine, 35(7):747-753.

15. Kertai, M. D., Pal, N., Palanca, B. J. A., Lin, N., Searleman, S. A., Zhang, L., Burnside, B.A., Finkel, K. J., Avidan, M. S. (2010), Association of perioperative risk factors and cumulative duration of low bispectral index with intermediate-term mortality following cardiac surgery, Anesthesiology, 112,1116-1127.

16. Li, Q. and Lin, N. (2010), The Bayesian elastic net, Bayesian Analysis, 5,151-170. computer codes

17. Lin, N. and Xi, R. (2010), Fast surrogates of U-statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54, 16-24.

18. Cobb,J. P., Moore, E. E., Hayden, D. L., Minei, J. P., Cuschieri, J., Yang, J., Li, Q., Lin, N., Brownstein, B. L., Hennessy, L., Mason, P. H., Schierding,W. S., Dixon, D. J., Tompkins, R. G., Warren, H.S., Schoenfeld, A. D. and Maier, R. V. (2009), Validation of the Riboleukogram to detect ventilator-associated Pneumonia after severe injury, Annals of Surgery, 250,531-539.

19. Liu, T., Lin, N., Shi, N. and Zhang, B. (2009), Information criterion-based clustering with order-restricted candidate profiles in short time-course microarray experiments, BMC Bioinformatics, 10: 146. Supplementary file | Correspondence

20. Liu, T., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2009), Empirical likelihood for balanced ranked-set sampled data, Science in China Series A: Mathematics, 52(6), 1351-1365. (special issue in honor of Prof. Zhidong Bai of his 65th birthday)

21. Xi, R., Lin, N. and Chen, Y. (2009), Compression and aggregation for logistic regression analysis in data cubes, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(4), 479-492.

22. Woods, C. and Lin, N. (2009), Item response theory with estimation of the latent density using Davidian curves, Applied Psychological Measurement, 33,102-117.

23. McDunn, J. E., Husain, K. D., Polpitiya, A. D., Burykin, A., Ruan, J., Li, Q., Schierding, W., Lin, N., Dixon, D., Zhang W., Coopersmith, C. M., Dunne, M. W., Colonna, M., Ghosh, B., Cobb, J. P. (2008), Plasticity of the systemic inflammatory response to acute infection during critical illness: Development of the Riboleukogram, PLoS ONE, 3, e1564. Media report 1 | 2

24. Lin, N. and He, X. (2006), Robust and efficient estimation under data grouping, Biometrika, 93 (1), 99-112.

25. Lin, N., Noe, D. and He, X.(2006), Tree-based methods and their applications, in H. Pham (eds), Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, 551-569, Springer.

26. Lin, N. and Zhao, H. (2005), Are scale-free networks robust to measurement errors?, BMC Bioinformatics, 6: 119.

27. Lin, N., Wu, B., Jansen, R., Gerstein, M. and Zhao, H. (2004), Information assessment on predicting protein-protein interactions, BMC Bioinformatics, 5: 154.

28. Lin, N., Bailey, B. A., He, X. and Buttlar, W. G. (2004), Adjustment of measuring devices with linear models, Technometrics, 46(2), 127-134.