Prof. Lili Yu

Georgia Southern University, USA

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2007 Ph.D., Biostatistics, The Ohio-State University, USA

2004 M.Sc., Statistics, The Ohio-State University, USA

Publications (Selected)

1. Kizza, T., Adebile, T., Azu, E., Samawi, H. and Yu, L. (2025). Association Between Sleep Duration and Depressive Symptoms with All-cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Longitudinal Study in the United States. Discover medicine. Minor revision.
2. Sevilimedu, V., Yu, L. (2025). An improved MC-SIMEX method. Statistics in Medicine. Accepted.
3. Alliu, I., Yu, L., Samawi, H. and Kersey J. (2025). Optimizing Sample Size for Accelerated Failure Time Model in Progressive Type-II Censoring through Rank Set Sampling. International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 14, 86-99. DOI:https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2025.14.09.
4. Tu, W., Yu, L., and Tu, J (2025). An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis Using a Bayesian Multilevel Model Case Study. Annals of GIS. 31(1). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475683.2025.2451230.
5. Xu, J., Hu, H., Ellison, G., Yu, L., Whalen, C. and Liu, L. (2025). Bayesian estimation of transmission networks for infectious diseases. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 90(3):29.
6. Adebile, T., Nwaonumah, E., Asifat, O., Dey, S. and Yu, L. (2025). Effect of smoking on mortality in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the United States: Evidence from the NHIS-NDI Record Linkage Study. Respiratory Care. https://doi.org/10.1089/respcare.12264
7. 56. Yu, L. and Liu, L. (2024). Generalized estimating equations for survival data with dependent censoring. Statistics in Medicine. 43(30):5983-5995. http://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10296
8. Kersey, J., Samawi, H., Keko, M., Alsharman, M., Rochani, H., Yu, L., Yin, J., Sullivan, K., Mustafa, S. (2024). Different View of the Diagnostics Test Accuracy Measures and Optimal Cut-Off Point Selection Procedure Under Tree or Umbrella Ordering. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. DOI: 10.1080/10543406.2024.2420659
9. Biswas, P., Adebile, T., Sejoro, S., Liu, M., Zhang, X., Tu, W. and Yu, L. (2024). Association of sleep duration and all-cause cancer mortality: Results of 2004 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Sleep and Biological Rhythms. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41105-024-00551-y
10. Odion, B., Cowan, L., Yu, L. and Zhang, J (2024). A time-dependent bidirectional association between serum folate and lung cancer deaths among a national cohort. European Journal of Cancer Prevention. DOI: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000927
11. Gay, S., Ellison, G., Xu, J., Yang, J., Wei, Y., Wu, S., Yu, L., Whalen, C., Arnold, J. and Liu, L. (2024). Phylogenetic inference of inter-population transmission rates for infectious diseases. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25: 4. https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/25/4/bbae312/7699354#468568166
12. Adebile, T., Whitworth, R., Biswas, P., Sejoro, S., Liu, M., Zhang, X., and Yu, L. (2024). Influence of race and age in sleep duration and mortality relationship among adults in the United States: Results from the 2004 NHIS-NDI Record Linkage Study. Sleep and Biological Rhythms. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41105-024-00536-x.
13. Twum, F., Cowan, L., Yu, L. and Zhang, J. (2024) High red blood cell folate is associated with an increased risk of diabetes death among a hypertensive cohort. Nutrition Research. 126:204-214.
14. Yu, L. Liu, L and Chen, D (2024). Extending Buckley-James Method for Heteroscedastic Survival Data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 94, 1776-1792.
15. Yu, L. and Jin, Z. (2024). Heteroscedastic survival data analysis with Accelerated Failure time model. Statistica Sinica. doi:10.5705/ss.202023.0229.
16. Yu, L. and Zhao, Y (2024). Laplace Approximated Quasi-likelihood Method for Heteroscedastic Survival Data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 190. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2023.107859.
17. Liu, L., Yu, L., Wu, S., Arnold, J., Whalen, C., Davis, C. and Edwards, S (2023). Short branch attraction in phylogenomic inference under the multispecies coalescent. Sec. Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics. 11. Doi:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1134764/full
18. Sevilimedu, V., Yu, L. and Samawi, H. (2023). MC-SIMEX method for a Weibull Accelerated Failure Time model. Statistical methods in medical research. 32(8):1478–1493 https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802231168248.

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