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Publications (21)

stat.ME2018

Quantile Regression of Latent Longitudinal Trajectory Features

Huijuan Ma, Limin Peng, Haoda Fu

Quantile regression has demonstrated promising utility in longitudinal data analysis. Existing work is primarily focused on modeling cross-sectional outcomes, while outcome traject…

stat.ME2024

Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimens Subject to Stagewise Risk Controls

Mochuan Liu, Yuanjia Wang, Haoda Fu +1

Dynamic treatment regimens (DTRs) aim at tailoring individualized sequential treatment rules that maximize cumulative beneficial outcomes by accommodating patients' heterogeneity i…

stat.ME2018

Robust Estimation of the Weighted Average Treatment Effect for A Target Population

Yebin Tao, Haoda Fu

The weighted average treatment effect (WATE) is a causal measure for the comparison of interventions in a specific target population, which may be different from the population whe…

stat.ME2017

Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules for Ordinal Treatments

Jingxiang Chen, Haoda Fu, Xuanyao He +2

Precision medicine is an emerging scientific topic for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual patient characteristics. It is an important direction for…

stat.ME2026

Longitudinal Random Forests for Sparse and Irregular Response Trajectories

Yangsheng Wang, Xiaotian Dai, Haoda Fu +1

Longitudinal studies often collect data at sparse, irregular, and unequally spaced time points. Such heterogeneity is often driven by subject-specific covariates, yet existing meth…

stat.ME2023

Deep Neural Networks Guided Ensemble Learning for Point Estimation

Tianyu Zhan, Haoda Fu, Jian Kang

In modern statistics, interests shift from pursuing the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator to reducing mean squared error (MSE) or residual squared error. Shrinkage base…

stat.AP2018

Estimating Individualized Optimal Combination Therapies through Outcome Weighted Deep Learning Algorithms

Muxuan Liang, Ye Ting, Haoda Fu

With the advancement in drug development, multiple treatments are available for a single disease. Patients can often benefit from taking multiple treatments simultaneously. For exa…

stat.ME2023

Optimal Individualized Treatment Rule for Combination Treatments Under Budget Constraints

Qi Xu, Haoda Fu, Annie Qu

The individualized treatment rule (ITR), which recommends an optimal treatment based on individual characteristics, has drawn considerable interest from many areas such as precisio…

stat.ME2024

Recurrent Events Modeling Based on a Reflected Brownian Motion with Application to Hypoglycemia

Yingfa Xie, Haoda Fu, Yuan Huang +2

Patients with type 2 diabetes need to closely monitor blood sugar levels as their routine diabetes self-management. Although many treatment agents aim to tightly control blood suga…

stat.ML2021

Query-augmented Active Metric Learning

Yujia Deng, Yubai Yuan, Haoda Fu +1

In this paper we propose an active metric learning method for clustering with pairwise constraints. The proposed method actively queries the label of informative instance pairs, wh…

stat.ML2020

Boosting Algorithms for Estimating Optimal Individualized Treatment Rules

Duzhe Wang, Haoda Fu, Po-Ling Loh

We present nonparametric algorithms for estimating optimal individualized treatment rules. The proposed algorithms are based on the XGBoost algorithm, which is known as one of the…

stat.ME2026

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Threshold Regression Based on the Hitting Times of a Reflected Brownian Motion for Recurrent Hypoglycemia

Yingfa Xie, Haoda Fu, Yuan Huang +1

Analyses of recurrent hypoglycemia are critical for effective treatment management in diabetic patients. Typically, within-subject dependency in such analyses is captured through s…

stat.ME2020

Multicategory Angle-based Learning for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Censored Data

Fei Xue, Yanqing Zhang, Wenzhuo Zhou +2

An optimal dynamic treatment regime (DTR) consists of a sequence of decision rules in maximizing long-term benefits, which is applicable for chronic diseases such as HIV infection…

stat.ME2021

Stabilized Direct Learning for Efficient Estimation of Individualized Treatment Rules

Kushal S. Shah, Haoda Fu, Michael R. Kosorok

In recent years, the field of precision medicine has seen many advancements. Significant focus has been placed on creating algorithms to estimate individualized treatment rules (IT…

stat.ME2018

Quantile Regression Modeling of Recurrent Event Risk

Huijuan Ma, Limin Peng, Chiung-Yu Huang +1

Progression of chronic disease is often manifested by repeated occurrences of disease-related events over time. Delineating the heterogeneity in the risk of such recurrent events c…

stat.ME2024

Multi-Label Residual Weighted Learning for Individualized Combination Treatment Rule

Qi Xu, Xiaoke Cao, Geping Chen +3

Individualized treatment rules (ITRs) have been widely applied in many fields such as precision medicine and personalized marketing. Beyond the extensive studies on ITR for binary…

stat.ME2021

Model-Assisted Uniformly Honest Inference for Optimal Treatment Regimes in High Dimension

Yunan Wu, Lan Wang, Haoda Fu

This paper develops new tools to quantify uncertainty in optimal decision making and to gain insight into which variables one should collect information about given the potential c…

stat.ME2025

Integrating RCTs, RWD, AI/ML and Statistics: Next-Generation Evidence Synthesis

Shu Yang, Margaret Gamalo, Haoda Fu

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been the cornerstone of clinical evidence; however, their cost, duration, and restrictive eligibility criteria limit power and external val…

stat.ML2026

Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Active Learning: A Novel Framework for Data Labeling in AI Systems

Yiran Huang, Jian-Feng Yang, Haoda Fu

Modern AI algorithms require labeled data. In real world, majority of data are unlabeled. Labeling the data are costly. this is particularly true for some areas requiring special s…

stat.ML2020

Near-optimal Individualized Treatment Recommendations

Haomiao Meng, Ying-Qi Zhao, Haoda Fu +1

Individualized treatment recommendation (ITR) is an important analytic framework for precision medicine. The goal is to assign proper treatments to patients based on their individu…

stat.ML2023

Fast Approximation of the Shapley Values Based on Order-of-Addition Experimental Designs

Liuqing Yang, Yongdao Zhou, Haoda Fu +2

Shapley value is originally a concept in econometrics to fairly distribute both gains and costs to players in a coalition game. In the recent decades, its application has been exte…