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 Bayesian Networks Evolutionary Algorithms Testing Medicine Incidence Calibration Uncertainty Africa South Of The Sahara Hdl Cholesterol Bayesian Estimation Tea Genes Surveys And Questionnaires Statistical Models Medical Problems Sentinel Surveillance Estimate Information Storage And Retrieval Population Anonymous Testing Nucleotides PolymorphismMost Recent Papers
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
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
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
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
Thirty Years of The Network Scale up Method
Ian Laga, Le Bao, X Niu, 2020, arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12516
Automating Document Classification with Distant Supervision to Increase the Efficiency of Systematic Reviews
Xiaoxiao Li, Rabah Al-Zaidy, Amy Zhang, Stefan Baral, Le Bao, C Giles, 2020, arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.07565
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
Modeling the marked presence-only data: a case study of estimating the female sex worker size in Malawi
Ian Laga, Le Bao, X Niu, 2019, arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07099
Bayesian Estimation of MSM Population Size in Côte d’Ivoire
Abhirup Datta, Wenyi Lin, Amrita Rao, Daouda Diouf, Abo Kouame, Jessie K. Edwards, Le Bao, Thomas A. Louis, Stefan Baral, 2019, Statistics and Public Policy on p. 1-13
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
Most-Cited Papers
Modelling national HIV/AIDS epidemics: revised approach in the UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package 2011.
Le Bao, Joshua A. Salomon, Tim Brown, Adrian E. Raftery, Daniel R. Hogan, 2012, Sexually Transmitted Infections
A new infectious disease model for estimating and projecting HIV/AIDS epidemics.
Le 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
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
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
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 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
Incorporation of hierarchical structure into estimation and projection package fitting with examples of estimating subnational HIV/AIDS dynamics
Xiaoyue Niu, Amy Zhang, Tim Brown, Robert Puckett, Mary Mahy, Le Bao, 2017, AIDS on p. S51-S59
Identification of genetic interaction networks via an evolutionary algorithm evolved Bayesian network
Ruowang Li, Scott M. Dudek, Dokyoon Kim, Molly A. Hall, Yuki Bradford, Peggy L. Peissig, Murray H. Brilliant, James G. Linneman, Catherine A. McCarty, Le Bao, Marylyn D. Ritchie, 2016, BioData Mining on p. 18