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Selected Publications

1. Extreme discordant sib pairs for mapping quantitative trait loci in humans. Science, 268, 1584--1589, 1995 (with N. Risch).
2. Multivariate adaptive splines for longitudinal data (MASAL). Journal of Computational and Graphic Statistics, 6, 74-91, 1997.
3. Classification trees for multiple binary responses. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 180-193, 1998.
4. Recursive Partitioning in the Health Sciences. Springer, New York, 1999 (with B. Singer).
5. Use of classification trees for association studies. Genetic Epidemiology, 19, 323-332, 2000 (with G. Bonney).
6. Recursive Partitioning for Tumor Classification with Gene Expression Microarray Data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 98, 6730-6735, 2001 (with Chang-Yung Yu, Burton Singer, and Momiao Xiong).
7. Tree-based linkage and association analyses of asthma. Genetic Epidemiology, 21: S317-S322, 2001 (with G. Bonney, C.-P. Tsai, and C.-Y. Yu).
8. Cell and Tumor Classification using Gene Expression Data: Construction of Forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 100, 4168-4172, 2003 (with C.Y. Yu and B. Singer).
9. Identification of linear directions in multivariate adaptive spline models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98: 369-376, 2003 (with C.-Y. Yu, H.T. Zhu and J. Shi).
10. A latent variable model of segregation analysis for ordinal trait. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98: 1023-1034, 2003 (with R. Feng and H.T. Zhu).
11. Hypothesis testing in mixture regression models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B, 66: 3-16, 2004 (with H.T. Zhu).
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12. A diagnostic procedure based on local influence. Biometrika, 91: 579-589, 2004 (with H.T. Zhu).
13. Linkage analysis of ordinal traits for pedigree data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 101: 16739-16744, 2004 (with R. Feng and J. Leckman).
14. Detection of genes for ordinal traits in nuclear families and a unified approach for association studies. Genetics,172, 693-699, 2006 (with X. Wang and Y. Ye).
15. Generalized score test of homogeneity for mixed effects models. Annals of Statistics, 34, 1545–1569, 2006 (with H.T. Zhu).
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16. Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensors in Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Image Data (with discussions). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 1085–1102, 2007 (with H.T. Zhu, J.G. Ibrahim, J.G., and B. Peterson).
17. A forest-based approach to identifying gene and gene–gene interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104: 19199–19203, 2007 (with X. Chen, C.-T. Liu, and M. Zhang).
18. Perturbation selection and influence measures in local influence analysis. Annuals of Statistics, 35: 2565–2588, 2007 (with H.T. Zhu, J.G. Ibrahim, S.Y. Lee).