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most citedThirty Years of The Network Scale up Method

29 citations · 36 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

stat.ME2022

Causal Structural Learning on MPHIA Individual Dataset

Le Bao, Changcheng Li, Runze Li +1

The Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) is an ongoing project that conducts nationally representative HIV-focused surveys for measuring national and regional progress tow…

stat.AP2021

A Correlated Network Scale-up Model: Finding the Connection Between Subpopulations

Ian Laga, Le Bao, Xiaoyue Niu

Aggregated relational data (ARD), formed from "How many X's do you know?" questions, is a powerful tool for learning important network characteristics with incomplete network data.…

stat.ME2021

Probabilistic HIV Recency Classification -- A Logistic Regression without Labeled Individual Level Training Data

Ben Sheng, Changcheng Li, Le Bao +1

Accurate HIV incidence estimation based on individual recent infection status (recent vs long-term infection) is important for monitoring the epidemic, targeting interventions to t…

stat.AP2020★ 3 cited

A Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to combining multiple data sources: A case study in size estimation

Jacob Parsons, Xiaoyue Niu, Le Bao

To combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic effectively, targeted interventions among certain key populations play a critical role. Examples of such key populations include sex workers, people…

stat.ML2020★ 1 cited

Approximate Cross-validated Mean Estimates for Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Models

Amy X. Zhang, Le Bao, Changcheng Li +1

We introduce a novel procedure for obtaining cross-validated predictive estimates for Bayesian hierarchical regression models (BHRMs). Bayesian hierarchical models are popular for…

stat.ME2020★ 29 cited

Thirty Years of The Network Scale up Method

Ian Laga, Le Bao, Xiaoyue Niu

Estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations is an important problem for many fields. The Network Scale-up Method (NSUM) is a relatively new approach to estimate the size of th…