Cheung, Yin Bun

Research Interests:

Yin Bun Cheung, PhD, CStat, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician. He has been the principal investigator of four NMRC-funded projects to improve statistical methods in vaccine research and quality of life assessment in clinical trials. He has also been researching the impact of several lipid-based nutrient supplements and pneumococcal vaccines on child health in developing countries. He has authored about 150 scientific publications, and is an associate editor of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.

Selected Publications:

Cheung YB, Khoo KS, Karlberg J, et al. Association between psychological symptoms in adults and growth in early life: longitudinal follow up study. British Medical Journal 2002; 325; 749-751.

Cheung YB. Zero-inflated models for regression analysis of count data: a study of growth and development. Statistics in Medicine 2002; 21: 1461-1469.

Cheung YB, Goh C, Thumboo J, et al. Variability and sample size requirements of quality of life measures: A randomised study of three major questionnaires. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005; 23: 4936-44.

Cheung YB, Daniel R, Ng GY. Response and non-response to a quality-of-life question on sexual life. Quality of Life Research 2006; 15:1493-1501.

*Grantham-McGregor S, *Cheung YB, Cueto S, et al. Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet 2007; 369: 60-70. ( * named lead authors)

Cheung YB. A modified least squares approach to the estimation of risk difference. American Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 1337-1344.

Cheung YB, Zaman SMA, Nsekpong ED, et al. Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Gambian children who participated in a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial and in their younger siblings. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2009; 28: 990-995.

Cheung YB, Xu Y, Tan SH, et al. Estimation of intervention effects using first or multiple episodes in clinical trials: The Andersen-Gill model re-examined. Statistics in Medicine 2010; 29: 328-336.

Xu Y, Cheung YB, Lam KF, et al. A simple approach to the estimation of incidence rate difference. American Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 172(3): 334-343.