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Yuliang Xu, Yun Wei, and Li Ma. Distributional Evaluation of Generative Models via Relative Density Ratio. (Under revision) Python workflow
Yuliang Xu, Kaixuan Luo, and Li Ma. A tree-based kernel for densities and its applications in clustering DNase-seq profiles. (Under revision) R package [Poster] Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP 14) - June 2025; [Invited talk] ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium - June 2025; [Invited talk] Michigan Biostats Brown Bag Seminar 2025.
Naoki Awaya, Yuliang Xu, and Li Ma. Two-sample comparison through additive tree models for density ratios. (Under review) R package
Florian Gunsilius, Yuliang Xu. Matching for causal effects via multimarginal unbalanced optimal transport. (Under review). Python/R workflow

Yuliang Xu, Shu Yang, and Jian Kang. Bayesian Structured Mediation Analysis With Unobserved Confounders, Biometrics, just-accepted (2026)R package [Invited talk] Statistical Methods in Imaging (SMI 2025) - May 2025; [Poster] Duke StatsSci Research Alumni Symposium 2024 - Nov 2024.
Yuliang Xu, Timothy D. Johnson, Thomas E. Nichols, and Jian Kang. Scalable Bayesian Image-on-Scalar Regression for Population-Scale Neuroimaging Data Analysis Journal of the American Statistical Association (A&CS) just-accepted (2026): 1-21. [R package] [arXiv][Topic-contributed talk] ENAR 2023
Yuliang Xu, Timothy D Johnson, Mary Heitzeg, and Jian Kang. Bayesian Image Mediation Analysis Journal of the American Statistical Association (T&M) just-accepted (2026): 1-25. [R package][arXiv][Topic-contributed talk] JSM 2022 (SBSS student paper award), 2023
Yuliang Xu, Jian Kang (2025). Bayesian Image Regression with Soft-thresholded Conditional Autoregressive Prior, ICLR (2025). R package [Invited online talk] Statistics in Imaging Virtual Working Group (SI VWG) - Dec 2025; [Poster] ICLR 2025 - Apr 2025; [Invited talk] SMI 2026.

Stulberg, Eric L., Erica Twardzik, Sehee Kim, Chia-Wei Hsu, Yuliang Xu, Philippa Clarke, Lewis B. Morgenstern, and Lynda D. Lisabeth. Association of neighborhood socioeconomic status with outcomes in patients surviving stroke. Neurology 96, no. 21 (2021): e2599-e2610.
Brown, Devin L., Azadeh Yadollahi, Kevin He, Yuliang Xu, Bryan Piper, Erin Case, Ronald D. Chervin, and Lynda D. Lisabeth. Overnight rostral fluid shifts exacerbate obstructive sleep apnea after stroke. Stroke 52, no. 10 (2021): 3176-3183.
Xu, Yuliang, Shuo Shuo Liu, and Y. Yi Grace. mgee2: An R package for marginal analysis of longitudinal ordinal data with misclassified responses and covariates. R Journal. 13, no. 2 (2021): 419.
Phan, Hoang T., Mathew J. Reeves, Seana Gall, Lewis B. Morgenstern, Yuliang Xu, and Lynda D. Lisabeth. Factors Contributing to Sex Differences in Health‐Related Quality of Life After Ischemic Stroke: BASIC (Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi) Project. Journal of the American Heart Association 11, no. 17 (2022): e026123.
Shir Atzil, Ajay B. Satpute, Jiahe Zhang, Michael H. Parrish, Holly Shablack, Jennifer K. MacCormack, Joseph Leshin, Srishti Goel, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Jian Kang, Yuliang Xu, Matan Cohen, Kristen A. Lindquist., 2023. The impact of sociality and affective valence on brain activation: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 268, p.119879.

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