Selected Publications

Biostatistical and Methodological Research

(*) indicates the corresponding author, (†) indicates trainees under my supervision or mentorship.

• Alnajjar, A.†, Bian, H.†, Lu, Z.*, 2025. A Fast Integrative Clustering and Feature Selection for Multiview and High Dimensional Data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 35(2), pp.313-329. 

• Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Boury, H.†, Subbarao, P., Lou, W., Lu, Z.*, 2024. Bayesian additive regression trees for predicting childhood asthma in the CHILD cohort study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24(1), p.262.

• Tan, Z.†, Shen, C.†, Lu, Z.* (2024). BCClong: An R Package for Bayesian Consensus Clustering for Multiple Longitudinal Features. The R Journal, 16(2), 41–60. 

• Lu, Z.* (2024). Clustering Longitudinal Data: A Review of Methods and Software Packages. International Statistical Review, 93(3), pp.425-458. 

• Lu, Z.*, Chandra, N. (2024). A Sparse Factor Model for Clustering High-Dimensional Longitudinal Data. Statistics in Medicine, 43(19), 3633–3648. 

• Lu, Z.*, Subbarao, P., Lou, W. (2023). A Bayesian Latent Class Model for Integrating Multi-source Longitudinal Data: Application to the CHILD Cohort Study. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 73(2), 398–419. 

• Lu, Z.*, Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Tan, Z.† (2023). Joint Clustering of Multiple Longitudinal Features: A Comparison of Methods and Software Packages with Practical Guidance. Statistics in Medicine, 42(29), 5513–5540. 

• Lu, Z.*, Lou, W. (2022). Bayesian Consensus Clustering for Multivariate Longitudinal Data. Statistics in Medicine, 41(1), 108–127. 

• Lu, Z.*, Lou, W. (2021). Bayesian Approaches to Variable Selection in Mixture Models: With Application to Disease Clustering. Journal of Applied Statistics, 50(2), 387–407. 

• Lu, Z.*, Lou, W. (2021). Bayesian Approaches to Variable Selection: A Comparative Study from Practical Perspectives. International Journal of Biostatistics, 18(1), 83–108. 

• Lu, Z.*, Lou, W. (2019). Shape Invariant Mixture Model for Clustering Non-linear Longitudinal Data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28(12), 3769–3784. 

Software Packages

• Alnajjar, A., Lu, Z. (2024). iClusterVB: an R package for fast integrative clustering and feature selection for high-dimensional data. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/iClusterVB/index.html

• Tan, Z., Lu, Z., Shen, C. (2022). BCClong: an R package for performing the Bayesian Consensus Clustering model for clustering continuous, discrete and categorical longitudinal data. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BCClong/index.html

Public Health and Medical Research

• Lu, Z., Petersen, C., Dai, R., Vargas, M., Ahmadiankalati, M., Sifuentes, E., Miliku, K., Moraes, T., Mandhane, P., Becker, A., Azad, M., Simons, E., Lou, W., Ambalavanan, A., Duan, Q., Turvey, S., and Subbarao, P. (2025). Early preschool wheeze trajectories are predominantly non-allergic with distinct biologic and microbiome traits. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 156 (6): 1556-1572 

• Rossi, A., Chen, Z., Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Campisi, S., Myrtha, R., Dempsey, K., Jenkins, D., O'Connor, D., El-Sohemy, A., Mandhane, P., Simons, E., Turvey, S., Moraes, T., Lu, Z., Subbarao, P., Miliku, K. (2025). Determining the Interplay of Prenatal Parental BMI in Shaping Child BMI Trajectories: The CHILD Cohort Study. International Journal of Obesity, 1–8. 

• Soussi, S., Tarvasmäki, T., Kimmoun, A., Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Azibani, F., Santos, C., Duarte, K., Gayat, E., Jentzer, J., Harjola, V., Hibbert, B., Jung, C., Johan, L., Levy, B., Lu, Z., Lawler, P., Marshall, J., Pöss, J., Sadoune, M., Nguyen, A., Raynor, A., Peoc’h, K., Thiele, H., Mathew, R., Mebazaa, A. (2025). Identifying biomarker-driven subphenotypes of cardiogenic shock: Analysis of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trials. The Lancet Discovery Science eClinicalMedicine. Available online.

• Christopher, L., Anna, H., Rowley, V.†, Madonna, F., Lu, Z., Kimball, Z., Terebessy, E., Andrew, S., Shannon, S., Cathy, F., Tim, C., Teresa, T. (2024). Quantifying sustained health-system benefits of primary care based integrated disease management for COPD: A 6-year, interrupted time series study. Thorax, 79, 725–734. 

• Taccardi, D.†, Gowdy, H., Singer, L., Daly-Cyr, J., Zacharias, A., Lu, Z., Choinière, M., Pagé, G., Ghasemlou, N. (2024). The CircaHealth CircaPain study protocol: An epidemiological study of the chronobiological control of chronic pain. BMJ Open, 14(6), e086801. 

• Wai, G.†, Lu, Z., Gill, S., Henderson, I., Auais, M. (2024). Impact of the End PJ Paralysis interventions on patient health outcomes at the participating hospital units in Alberta. Disability and Rehabilitation, 46(26), 6391–6401. 

• Wang, C.†, Lu, Z., Simpson, C., Tranmer, J. (2024). Predicting long-term survival after de novo cardioverter-defibrillator implantation for primary prevention: a population-based study. Heliyon, 10(1), e23355. 

• Soussi, S., Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Jentzer, J., Marshall, J., Lawler, P., Herridge, M., Mebazaa, A., Gayat, E., Lu, Z., Santos, C. (2023). Identifying clinical phenotypes in cardiogenic shock survivors with distinct late host response and long-term outcomes. ESC Heart Failure, 11(2), 1242–1248. 

• Gatt, D., Ahmadiankalati, M.†, Voutsas, G., Katz, S., Lu, Z., Narang, I. (2023). Identification of obstructive sleep apnea in children with obesity: a cluster analysis approach. Pediatric Pulmonology, 1–8.

• Safavi, S., Dai, R., Breton, V., Emmerson, M., Kowalik, K., Lu, Z., Lou, W., Dubeau, A., DeLorenzo, S., Azad, M., Becker, A. (2022). Lung Clearance Index predicts persistence of preschool wheeze. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, 33(1), e13713. 

• Lu, Z., Dai, R., Kowalik, K., Azad, M., Dubeau, A., Lefebvre, D., Balkovec, S., Becker, A., Mandhane, P., Turvey, S., Lou, W., Ratjen, F., Moraes, T., Sears, R., Guastafsson, M., Subbarao, P. (2020). Newly developed Multiple Breath Washout reference equations from the CHILD Cohort Study: Implications of poorly fitting equations. ERJ Open Research, 7(1).

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