Interactive Web Apps

• Multi-level mediation analysis (MLMA) on Shiny: https://qingzhaoyu.shinyapps.io/mlma/

Example: Try the dataset sampledata with the following set up.

              * Predictor: pm25_satnowood_2
              * Response: gest_weeks
              * Mediators: anyht; smoke_status_flag
              * Level of X: Season
              

• Multivariate mediation analysis (MMA) on Shiny: https://qingzhaoyu.shinyapps.io/mediation-analysis/

Example: Try the dataset wt with the following set up.

              * Predictor: sex
              * Potential mediators: tvhours, cmpthours, cellhours, exercises, sweat, ...
              * Response: overweigh
              * Choose the mediator for plotting: cellhours

Publication List

2024

• Yu Q, Hagan J, Wu X, Richmond-Bryant J, Urbanek N, and Li B, High-Dimensional Bayesian Mediation Analysis with Adaptive Laplace Priors, 2024. Accepted in Statistics and Its Interface.

• Cao W, Hagan J, Yu Q, Bayesian Mediation Analysis Methods With an Application to Explore Racial Disparities in the Diagnostic Age of Breast Cancer, 2024. Stats 7(2), 361-372, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/stats7020022.

• Yu Q, Cao W, Mercante D, and Li B, Bayesian Mediation Analysis for Time-to-Event Outcome – Investigating Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Survival, 2024. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2024.2307461.

2023

• Yu Q, Cao W, Hamer D, Urbanek N, Straif-Bourgeois S, Cormier SA, Ferguson T, Richmond-Bryant J. Associations of COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and mortality with Black and White race by air pollution and other risk factors in the Louisiana Industrial Corridor, March, 2020 – August, 2021. IJERPH, 2023. 20, 4611. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054611.

• Yu Q, Cao W, Mercante D, Wu X, Li B. Bayesian mediation analysis methods to explore racial/ethnic disparities in anxiety among cancer survivors. Behaviormetrika. 2023;50(1):361-83. doi: 10.1007/s41237-022-00185-9.2022

2022

• Yu Q, Li B, R package: BayesianMediationA, on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=BayesianMediationA.

2021

• Yu Q, Yu M, Zou J, Wu X, Gomez SL, Li B. 2021. Multilevel mediation analysis on time-to-event outcomes: Exploring racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer survival in California. Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences. 2(4):157-167. doi:10.1177/26320843211061292