Xihong Lin

TL;DR: In this article, a new class of semiparametric normal transformation models for right-censored spatially correlated survival data is proposed, which assumes that survival outcomes marginally follow a Cox proportional hazard model with unspecified baseline hazard, and their joint distribution is obtained by transforming survival outcomes to normal random variables.

TL;DR: This study suggests that short-term air pollution exposure, temperature, and relative humidity are associated with leukocyte distribution, and provides a successful attempt to use epigenetic patterns to assess the influences of environmental exposures on human immune profiles.

TL;DR: It is argued that the commonly assumed DP prior implies a nonzero mean of the random effect distribution, even when a base measure with mean zero is specified, and can therefore lead to biased estimators and poor inference for the regression coefficients and the spline estimator of the nonparametric function.

TL;DR: This work compares and contrasts the performance of the traditional and tobit VC methods for linkage analysis of censored trait data, and presents a modified VC method that directly models the censoring event, which is called the "tobit VC method."

TL;DR: This paper proposes a generalized estimating equations (GEEs) based kernel association test, a variance component based testing method, to test for the association between a phenotype and multiple variants in an SNP set jointly using family samples, for both continuous and discrete traits.