Le Bao
Associate Professor of Statistics

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514C Wartik Lab
University Park, PA 16802 - lub14@psu.edu
- 814-863-1348
Research Summary
Bayesian methods, data mining, computational methods, applications in health, environmental and social sciences.
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Hiv Epidemics Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Rheumatoid Arthritis Prospective Studies Incidence Calibration Sex Workers Estimate Alcohol Drinking Testing Modeling Malawi Drugs Estimator Information Storage And Retrieval Population Infection Anonymous Testing Statistical Models Confidence Intervals Pregnant Women Infections Hdl Cholesterol ObesityMost Recent Papers
Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hannah Vanevery, Xiang Gao, Wenhao Yang, Jinmei Su, Nancy Olsen, Le Bao, Bing Lu, Shouling Wu, Liufu Cui, 2022, Nutrients
Modeling the Marked Presence-Only Data
Ian Laga, Xiaoyue Niu, Le Bao, 2022, Journal of the American Statistical Association on p. 27-37
A Unified Approach for Outliers and Influential Data Detection--The Value of Information in Retrospect
Jacob Parsons, Le Bao, 2021, Stat on p. e442
Alcohol consumption and risk of rheumatoid arthritis among Chinese adults
Hannah Vanevery, Wenhao Yang, Nancy Olsen, Le Bao, Bing Lu, Shouling Wu, Liufu Cui, Xiang Gao, 2021, Nutrients
Using factor analyses to estimate the number of female sex workers across Malawi from multiple regional sources
Xiaoyue Maggie Niu, Amrita Rao, David Chen, Ben Sheng, Sharon Weir, Eric Umar, Gift Trapence, Vincent Jumbe, Dunker Kamba, Katherine Rucinski, Nikita Viswasam, Stefan Baral, Le Bao, 2021, Annals of Epidemiology on p. 34-40
Thirty Years of The Network Scale-up Method
Ian Laga, Le Bao, Xiaoyue Niu, 2021, Journal of the American Statistical Association on p. 1548-1559
Comparison of HIV Prevalence Among Antenatal Clinic Attendees Estimated from Routine Testing and Unlinked Anonymous Testing
Ben Sheng, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Mary Mahy, Le Bao, 2020, Statistics in Biosciences on p. 279-294
Thirty Years of The Network Scale up Method
Ian Laga, Le Bao, X Niu, 2020, Journal of the American Statistical Association on p. 1548-1559
What Can We Learn from the Travelers Data in Detecting Disease Outbreaks--A Case Study of the COVID-19 Epidemic
Le Bao, Ying Zhang, X Niu, 2020, arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11874
A Joint Spatial Conditional Auto-Regressive Model for Estimating HIV Prevalence Rates Among Key Populations
Zhou Lan, Le Bao, 2020, arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01099
Most-Cited Papers
Improvements in prevalence trend fitting and incidence estimation in EPP 2013
Tim Brown, Le Bao, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Daniel R. Hogan, Mary Mahy, Kimberly Marsh, Bradley M. Mathers, Robert Puckett, 2014, AIDS on p. S415-S425
Modelling national HIV/AIDS epidemics: revised approach in the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package 2011.
L. Bao, Joshua A. Salomon, Tim Brown, Adrian E. Raftery, Daniel R. Hogan, 2012, Sexually Transmitted Infections
The Estimation and Projection Package Age-Sex Model and the r-hybrid model
Jeffrey W. Eaton, Tim Brown, Robert Puckett, Robert Glaubius, Kennedy Mutai, Le Bao, Joshua A. Salomon, John Stover, Mary Mahy, Timothy B. Hallett, 2019, AIDS on p. S235-S244
A new infectious disease model for estimating and projecting HIV/AIDS epidemics.
L. Bao, 2012, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Statistical models for incorporating data from routine HIV testing of pregnant women at antenatal clinics into HIV/AIDS epidemic estimates
Ben Sheng, Kimberly Marsh, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Simon Gregson, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Le Bao, 2017, AIDS on p. S87-S94
The population history of endogenous retroviruses in mule deer (odocoileus hemionus)
Pauline L. Kamath, Daniel Elleder, Le Bao, Paul C. Cross, John H. Powell, Mary Poss, 2014, Journal of Heredity on p. 173-187
Incorporating incidence information within the UNAIDS estimation and projection package framework: A study based on simulated incidence assay data
Le Bao, Jingyi Ye, Timothy B. Hallett, 2014, AIDS on p. S515-S522
Estimating the sizes of populations at risk of HIV infection from multiple data sources using a Bayesian hierarchical model
Le Bao, Adrian E. Raftery, Amala Reddy, 2015, Statistics and its Interface on p. 125-136
Tea consumption and longitudinal change in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration in Chinese adults
Shue Huang, Junjuan Li, Yuntao Wu, Sareh Ranjbar, Aijun Xing, Haiyan Zhao, Yanxiu Wang, Gregory C. Shearer, Le Bao, Alice H. Lichtenstein, Shouling Wu, Xiang Gao, 2018, Journal of the American Heart Association on p. e008814
Obesity as a risk factor for developing functional limitation among older adults: a conditional inference tree analysis
Feon W. Cheng, Xiang Gao, Le Bao, Diane C. Mitchell, Craig Wood, Martin J. Sliwinski, Helen Smiciklas-Wright, Christopher D. Still, David D.K. Rolston, Gordon L. Jensen, 2017, Obesity on p. 1263-1269