PUBLICATIONS
(Note: * corresponding author, 1 equal contribution, students in italic)
Journal and Conference Publications
J. R. Wilkes, A. E. Walter, S. Shetty, X. Niu, A. Chang, S. J. Miller, W. J. Sebastianelli, P. H. Seidenberg, and S. M. Slobounov, “The Intersection of Sleep and Head Impacts in Division I Collegiate Football Players”, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 56, 2024
L. Bao, X. Niu, T. Brown, J. Eaton, “Dynamic Models Augmented by Hierarchical Data: An Application of Estimating HIV Epidemics at Sub-National and Sub-Population Level”, Biostatistics, accepted, 2024+
J. Kunke, I. Laga, X. Niu, T. McCormick, “Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) Estimators”, Sociological Methodology, accepted, 2024+
B. Kim, X. Niu*, D. Hunter, and X. Cao, “A Dynamic Additive and Multiplicative Effects Network Model for United Nations Voting”, Annals of Applied Statistics, 17(4), 2023
J. Wang1, X. Cai1, X. Niu1, R. Li1, “Variable Selection for High-dimensional Nodal Attributes in Social Networks with Degree Heterogeneity”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, accepted, https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2023.2187815, 2023
I. Laga, L. Bao, X. Niu*, “A Correlated Network Scale-up Model: Finding the Connection Between Subpopulations”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 18(543), https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2023.2165929, 2023
X. Niu, “Discussion of ‘Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference’ by Rohe and Zeng”, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, accepted, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkad043, 2023
X. Niu, “Learning about an Academic Statistical Consulting Center through Data”, Stat, 12(1), 2023
L. Bao1, X. Niu1, M. Mahy, P. D. Ghys, “Estimating HIV Epidemics for Sub-national Areas”, Annals of Applied Statistics, 17(3), 2023
Y. Tao, D. Li, X. Niu*, “Grouped Network Poisson Autoregressive Model”, Statistica Sinica, accepted, 2022+
I. Laga1, X. Niu1, K. Rucinski, S. Baral, D. Chen, N. Viswasam, K. Sabin, J. Zhao, J. W. Eaton, L. Bao, “Mapping the population size of female sex worker in countries across sub-Saharan Africa”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(2), 2022
I. Laga, X. Niu, L. Bao, “Modeling the Marked Presence-only Data: A Case Study of Estimating the Female Sex Worker Size in Malawi”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(537), 2022
L. Bao1, X. Niu1, Y. Zhang1, “What We Can Learn from the Exported Cases in Detecting Disease Outbreaks – A Case Study of the COVID-19 Epidemic”, Annals of Epidemiology, 75, 67-72, 2022
J. Hehir, A. Slakovic, X. Niu, “Consistent Spectral Clustering of Network Block Models under Local Differential Privacy”, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 12(2), 2022
J. Parsons, X. Niu*, and L. Bao, “A Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to combining multiple data sources: A case study in population size estimation”, Annals of Applied Statistics,16(3), 2022
X. Cui, F. Zhou, P. Ciais, E. A. Davidson, F. N. Tubiello, X. Niu, X. Ju, J. G. Canadell, A. F. Bouwman, R. B. Jackson, N. D. Mueller, X. Zheng, D. Kanter, H. Tian, W. Adalibieke, Y. Bo, Q. Wang, X. Zhan, D. Zhu, “Global mapping of crop-specific emission factors highlights hotspots of nitrous oxide mitigation”, Nature Food, 2, 886–893, 2021
F. Zhang, C. Jiang, Y. Li, X. Niu, T. Long, C. He, J. Ding, L. Li, L. Li, “Investigation of Artifacts and Optimization in Proton Resonance Frequency Thermometry towards Heating Risk Monitoring of Implantable Medical Devices in Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 68(12), 3638-3646, 2021
R. Carline, M. F. Jackson, M. A. Nale, D. Wijeyakulasuriya, X. Niu, “Hooking and Handling Mortality of Trout Captured in the Bald Eagle Creek Trout Tournament, Pennsylvania”, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 41(5), 1465-1472, 2021
I. Laga, L. Bao, X. Niu*, “Thirty Years of the Network Scale-up Method”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(535), 1548-1559, 2021
S. J. Perles, X. Niu, A. D. Ruth, L. D. Gibbons, “Initial conditions influence effects of prescribed burns and deer exclosure fences on tree regeneration and understory diversity in Appalachian oak-dominated forests”, Forest Ecology and Management, 495, 2021
X. Niu, A. Rao, D. Chen, B. Sheng, S. Weir, E. Umar, G. Trapence, V. Jumbe, D. Kamba, K. Rucinski, N. Viswasam, S. Baral, L. Bao, “Using factor analyses to estimate the number of female sex workers across Malawi from multiple regional sources”, Annals of Epidemiology, 55, 34-40, 2021
I. Laga and X. Niu*, “Book review: Model-Based Geostatistics for Global Public Health: Methods and Applications by Peter J. Diggle and Emanuele Giorgi”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 115(530), 1030-1032, 2020
J. Parsons, X. Niu, L. Bao, “Evaluating the relative contribution of data sources in a Bayesian analysis with the application of estimating the size of hard to reach populations”, Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases, 12(s1), 2020
P Zhou, D. Lin, X. Niu, Z. He, “Performance evaluation method for network monitoring based on separable temporal exponential random graph models with application to the study of autocorrelation effects”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 145, 2020
P. Zhou, D. Lin, X. Niu, and Z. He, “Monitoring binary networks for anomalous communication patterns based on the structural statistics”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 144, 2020
S. Sukhdeo, J. Parsons, X. Niu, and T. Ryan, “Trabecular Bone Structure in the Distal Femur of Humans, Apes, and Baboons”, The Anatomical Record, 303(1):129-149, 2020
X. Niu*, and P.D. Hoff. “Joint Mean and Covariance Modeling of Multiple Health Outcomes”, Annals of Applied Statistics, 13 (1), 321-339, 2019
H. Chang, Y. Chiu, A. Johnston, M. Nascimento, X. Niu, and J. Herbert “Impact of Disability Services on Academic Achievement Among College Students with Disabilities”, Journal of Postsecondary Disability and Education, 32(3), 227-245, 2019
X. Niu* and J.L. Rosenberger. “Near-Balanced Incomplete Block Designs, with An Application to Poster Competitions”, The American Statistician, 73(2), 159-164, 2019
B. Kim, K. Lee, L. Xue, and X. Niu*, “A Review of Dynamic Network Models with Latent Variables”, Statistics Surveys, 12(0), 105-135, 2018
S. Srinivasan, L. Easterling, B. Rimal, X. Niu, A. Conlan, P. Dudas, and V. Kapur, “Prevalence of Bovine Tuberculosis in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, Transboundary and emerging diseases, 65 (6), 1627-1640, 2018
P. Zhou, D. Lin, X. Niu, Z. He, “Monitoring network data by considering the correlation of network feature statistics”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE, 2018
X. Niu, A. Zhang, T. Brown, R. Puckett, M. Mahy, and L. Bao. “Incorporation of Hierarchical Structure into EPP Fitting with Examples of Estimating Sub-National HIV/AIDS Dynamics”, AIDS,31: S51-S59, 2017
C. Hodge, M. Duerden, E. Layland, A. Lacanienta, M. Goates, and X. Niu. “The Association Between Family Leisure and Family Quality of Life: A Meta‐Analysis of Data from Parents and Adolescents”, Journal of Family Theory and Review, 9, 328-346, 2017
D. Wilson., M.J. Dondlinger, J. Parsons, and X. Niu. “Exploratory Analysis of a Blended-learning Course Redesign for Developmental Writers”, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2016.1264898
P.D. Hoff, X. Niu, and J.A. Wellner. "Information bounds for Gaussian copulas", Bernoulli, 20(2):604–622, 2014
J. Miksis-Olds, D. Bradley, and X. Niu. “Decadal trends in Indian Ocean ambient sound”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5): 3464-3475, 2013.
P.D. Hoff and X. Niu. “A Covariance Regression Model”, Statistica Sinica, 22(2): 729-753, 2012
A.E. Raftery, X. Niu, P.D. Hoff, and K.Y. Young. “Fast Inference for Latent Space Network Models using Case-control Likelihoods”, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 21:901–919, 2012
D. Calsyn, H. Baldwin, X. Niu, P. Crits-Christoph, and M. Hatch-Maillette. “Sexual Risk Behavior and Sex under the Influence: An Event Analysis of Men in Substance Abuse Treatment Who Have Sex with Women”, The American Journal on Addictions, 20(3): 250-256, 2011
Under Review/Revision
J. Hehir, X. Niu*, A. Slakovic, “Perfect Spectral Clustering with Discrete Covariates”, in revision
M. Na, S. S. Shetty, X. Niu, S.N. Hinkle, C. Zhang, X. Gao, “Sleep duration, napping behaviors and restless legs syndrome during pregnancy and the trajectories of ultrasonographic measures of fetal growth: findings from the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies–Singletons”, submitted
J. R. Wilkes, A. E. Walter, S. Shetty, X. Niu, A. Chang, S. J. Miller, W. J. Sebastianelli, P. H. Seidenberg, and S. M. Slobounov, “The Intersection of Sleep and Head Impacts in Division I Collegiate Football Players”, submitted
I. Laga, J. Kunke, T. McCormick, X. Niu, “The Role of Scaling and Estimating the Degree Ratio in Network Scale-up Method”, in revision
Other Publications
H. A. Elliott, R. C. Brandt, M. Taylor, M. Hile, L. Zurek, J. L. Parsons, and X. Niu, “High Quality Biosolids from Wastewater”, Water Environment and Reuse Foundation Report, 2017
X. Niu, M. Batcher, J.L. Rosenberger, and N. Schenker, “My life as a statistical consultant”, AMSTAT News, October, 2016.
Tracking Universal Health Coverage, Frist Global Monitoring Report. WHO and the World Bank, 2015. URL: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/174536/1/9789241564977_eng.pdf?ua=1