PUBLICATIONS

(Note: * corresponding author, 1 equal contribution)

Journal and Conference Publications

• I. Laga, J. Kunke, T. McCormick, X. Niu, “Estimating and Correcting Degree Ratio Bias in the Network Scale-up Method”, Sociological Methods and Research, accepted, 2025

• H. Wu, C. Gong, R. Wang, X. Niu, Y. Cao, C. Cao, C. Hu, “Moderating Effects of Park Accessibility and External Environment on Park Satisfaction in a Mountainous City”, Land, accepted, 2025

• J. Hehir, X. Niu*, A. Slakovic, “Perfect Spectral Clustering with Discrete Covariates”, Statistica Sinica, accepted, 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, 25(4), 2024

• 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, 119(546), 2024

• 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”, Sleep Health: Journal of the National Sleep Foundation, 10(4), 2024

• Y. Tao, D. Li, X. Niu*, “Grouped Network Poisson Autoregressive Model”, Statistica Sinica, 34(3), 2024

• 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

• J. Kunke, I. Laga, X. Niu, T. McCormick, “Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) Estimators”, Sociological Methodology, 54(2), 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

• 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), 2023

• X. Niu, “Discussion of ‘Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference’ by Rohe and Zeng”, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 85(4), 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

• 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

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