Prof. Lili Yu

Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Sciences

JPHCOPH

Georgia Southern University, USA

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

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

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

Publications (Selected)

1. Sevilimedu*, V., Yu, L. (2026). An improved MC-SIMEX method. Statistics in Medicine, 45(3-5), e70418.
2. Alliu I, Thapa S, Opoku S, Yu L. (2025). Biopsychosocial and economic consequences of long COVID: a four-year longitudinal analysis. J. Pub Health Issue Pract, 9(2): 248.
3. Alliu, I.*, Thapa, S.*, Yu, L., Blerta Shehaj, B. and Asifat, O (2025). Economic and Humanistic Burden of Multimorbidity in the United States: A Longitudinal Study of Expenditure and Quality of Life Trajectories, 2019–2022. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 22(12), 1870.
4. 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.
5. 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), 29-51.
6. 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.
7. 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, 70(5), 559-565.
8. Yu, L. and Liu, L. (2024). Generalized estimating equations for survival data with dependent censoring. Statistics in Medicine, 43(30):5983-5995.
9. 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, 1-31.
10. 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, 23(1), 55-65.
11. 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, 34(5), 467-474.
12. 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.
13. 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, 22(4), 489-497.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Yu, L. and Jin, Z. (2024). Heteroscedastic survival data analysis with Accelerated Failure time model. Statistica Sinica, 35(4), 2349-2371.
17. Yu, L. and Zhao, Y (2024). Laplace Approximated Quasi-likelihood Method for Heteroscedastic Survival Data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 190, 107859.

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