Li, Jia Liang

Research Interests:

Dr Li conducts methodology development research in various fields in biostatistics, including diagnostic medicine,survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis. Dr. Li is also interested in collaborative research and has been workin on genetics, nutritional sciences, ophthalmology, heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, psychiatry, etc.  He is the PI of an NMRC/NIG grant and has been PI or Co-I on various grants.  Dr. Li has authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers and is currently on the editorial board of Biometrics. He received 2011 Young Scientist Award from NUS.

Selected Publications:

Yu, T., Li, J., and Ma, S. (2012). Adjusting Confounders in Ranking Biomarkers: A model-based ROC approach. Briefings in Bioinformatics. To appear.

Baskaran, M., Ong, E.L., Li, J.L., Cheung, C.Y., Chen, D., Perera, S.A., Ho, C.L., Zheng, Y.F., Aung, T. (2012). Classification Algorithms Enhance the Discrimination of Glaucoma from Normal eyes in High Definition Optical Coherence Tomography. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. To appear.

Boon Wee Teo, Hui Xu, Danhua Wang [former BS student], Jialiang Li, Arvind Kumar Sinha, Borys Shuter, Sunil Sethi, Evan J. C. Lee (2012). Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rates by Use of Both Cystatin C and Standardized Serum Creatinine Avoids Ethnicity Coefficients in Asian Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Clinical Chemistry. To appear.

Li, J., Kuk, Y. C. A., and Rush, A. J. (2012). A Practical Approach to the Early Identification of Antidepressant Medication Non-responders. Psychological Medicine. To appear.

Li, J. and Fine, J. P. (2011). Assessing the dependence of sensitivity and specificity on prevalence in meta-analysis. Biostatistics.12(4): 710-722.

Li, J. and Ma, S. (2011). Time-dependent ROC analysis under diverse censoring patterns. Statistics in Medicine. 30 (11): 1266-1277. 

Li, J. and Zhang, W. (2011). A semiparametric threshold model for censored longitudinal data analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 106(494): 685-696. 

Li, J. and Wong, W. K. (2010). Two-dimensional toxic dose and multivariate logistic regression, with application to decompression sickness. Biostatistics. 12(1): 143—155.

Cheung, C. Y., Wong, T. Y., Lamoureux, E. L., Sabanayagam C., Li, J., Lee, J., Tai, E. S. (2010). C-reactive protein and retinal microvascular caliber in a multi-ethnic Asian population.  American Journal of Epidemiology. 171(2): 206—213.

Li, J. and Ma, S. (2010). Interval-censored data with repeated measurements and a cured subgroup. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 59 (4): 693—705.

Li, J. and Fine, J. P. (2010). Weighted area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and its application to gene selection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 59 (4): 673—692.

David J. Nott and Li Jialiang (2010). A sign based loss approach to model selection in nonparametric regression. Statistics and Computing. 20 (4): 485—498.

Lei Feng, Jialiang Li, Keng-Bee Yap, Ee-Heok Kua, Tze-Pin Ng (2009). Vitamin B-12, Apolipoprotein E genotype and cognitive performance in community-living older adults: evidence of gene-micronutrient interaction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 89(4): 1263—1268.

Li, J. and Fine, J. P. (2008): ROC analysis with multiple tests and multiple classes: methodology and applications in microarray studies. Biostatistics. 9 (3): 566—576.