Le Bao
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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Most Recent Publications
Dynamic Models Augmented by Hierarchical Data: An Application of Estimating HIV Epidemics At Sub-National And Sub-Population Level
Le Bao, X Niu, Tim Brown, Jeff Eaton, arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05665
A likelihood approach to incorporating self-report data in HIV recency classification
Wenlong Yang, Danping Liu, Le Bao, Runze Li, 2024, Biometrics
Dynamic models augmented by hierarchical data: an application of estimating HIV epidemics at sub-national level
Bao Le, Xiaoyue Niu, Tim Brown, Jeffrey W. Imai-Eaton, 2024, Biostatistics on p. 1049-1061
Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data Science to Address Health Inequities and Focus the HIV Response
Katherine Rucinski, Jesse Knight, Kalai Willis, Linwei Wang, Amrita Rao, Mary Anne Roach, Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya, Le Bao, Safiatou Thiam, Peter Arimi, Sharmistha Mishra, Stefan Baral, 2024, Current HIV/AIDS Reports on p. 208-219
Multivariate spatial modelling for predicting missing HIV prevalence rates among key populations
Zhou Lan, Le Bao, 2024, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society on p. 321-337
Multivariate spatial modelling for predicting missing HIV prevalence rates among key populations
Zhou Lan, Le Bao, 2024, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
Approximate Cross-Validated Mean Estimates for Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Models
Amy Zhang, Michael J. Daniels, Changcheng Li, Le Bao, 2024, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Air pollution estimation under air stagnation—A case study of Beijing
Ying Zhang, Song Xi Chen, Le Bao, 2023, Environmetrics
ESTIMATING HIV EPIDEMICS FOR SUBNATIONAL AREAS
Le Bao, Xiaoyue Niu, Mary Mahy, Peter D. Ghys, 2023, Annals of Applied Statistics on p. 2515-2532
PROBABILISTIC HIV RECENCY CLASSIFICATION—A LOGISTIC REGRESSION WITHOUT LABELED INDIVIDUAL LEVEL TRAINING DATA
Ben Sheng, Changcheng Li, Le Bao, Runze Li, 2023, Annals of Applied Statistics on p. 108-129
Most-Cited Papers
The Estimation and Projection Package Age-Sex Model and the r-hybrid model: New tools for estimating HIV incidence trends in sub-Saharan Africa
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
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
The risk of ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke in Chinese adults with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations < 70 mg/dL
Zhijun Wu, Zhe Huang, Alice Lichtenstein, Yesong Liu, Shuohua Chen, Yao Jin, Muzi Na, Le Bao, Shouling Wu, Xiang Gao, 2021, BMC Medicine
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 Eaton, Le Bao, 2017, AIDS on p. S87-S94
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
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
Alcohol consumption and risk of rheumatoid arthritis among Chinese adults: A prospective study
Hannah Vanevery, Wenhao Yang, Nancy Olsen, Le Bao, Bing Lu, Shouling Wu, Liufu Cui, Xiang Gao, 2021, Nutrients
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
Accounting for nonsampling error in estimates of HIV epidemic trends from antenatal clinic sentinel surveillance
Jeffrey W. Eaton, Le Bao, 2017, AIDS on p. S61-S68
Conditional Inference Tree for Multiple Gene-Environment Interactions on Myocardial Infarction
Zhijun Wu, Xiuxiu Su, Haihui Sheng, Yanjia Chen, Xiang Gao, Le Bao, Wei Jin, 2017, Archives of Medical Research on p. 546-552