Publications (by year):

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2012

• Songfeng Wang, Jiajia Zhang and Wenbin Lu (2012), Sample Size Calculation for the Proportional Hazards Cure Model. Statistics in Medicine, accepted.
• Wenbin Lu, Yair Goldberg and Jason Fine (2012), On the Robustness of the Adaptive lasso to Model Misspecification. Biometrika, accepted.
• Song Yan, Daowen Zhang, Wenbin Lu, James Grifo and Mengling Liu (2011), A Seminonparametric Approach to Joint Modeling of A Primary Binary Outcome and Longitudinal Data Measured at Discrete Informative Times. Statistics in Biosciences, accepted.
• Mihye Ahn, Hao Helen Zhang and Wenbin Lu (2011), Moment-based Method for Random Effects Selection in Linear Mixed Models. Statistica Sinica, accepted.
• Wenbin Lu, Hao Helen Zhang and Donglin Zeng (2011), Variable Selection for Optimal Treatment Decision. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, accepted.
• Wenbin Lu and Mengling Liu (2012), On Estimation of Linear Transformation Models with Nested Case-Control Sampling. Lifetime Data Analysis, 18, 80-93.
• Mengling Liu and Wenbin Lu (2012), A Semiparametric Marginalized Model for Longitudinal Data with Informative Dropout. Journal of Probability and Statistics, accepted.
• Lei Pang, Wenbin Lu and Huixia Judy Wang (2012), Variance Estimation in Censored Quantile Regression via Induced Smoothing. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 785-796.

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2011

• Wenbin Lu and Lexin Li (2011), Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Censored Regressions. Biometrics, 67, 513-523.

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2010

• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu, Roy E. Shore and Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte (2010), Cox Regression Model with Time-Varying Coefficients in Nested Case-Control Studies. Biostatistics, 11, 693-704.
• Hao Helen Zhang, Wenbin Lu and Hansheng Wang (2010), On Sparse Estimation for Semiparametric Linear Transformation Models, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 1594-1606.
• Justin H. Shows, Wenbin Lu and Hao Helen Zhang (2010), Sparse Estimation and Inference for Censored Median Regression. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 1903-1917.
• Wenbin Lu and Hao Helen Zhang (2010), On Estimation of Partially Linear Transformation Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 683-691.
• Jung-Ying Tzeng, Wenbin Lu, Mark W. Farmen, Youfang Liu and Patrick F. Sullivan (2010), Haplotype-based Pharmacogenetic Analysis for Longitudinal Quantitative Traits in the Presence of Dropout. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, special issue on "Statistical Genomics in Clinical Trials", 20(2), 334-350.
• Wenbin Lu (2010), Efficient Estimation for Accelerated Failure Time Model with a Cure Fraction. Statistica Sinica, 20, 661-674.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Chi-hong Tseng (2010), Cox Regression in Nested Case-Control Studies with Auxiliary Covariates. Biometrics, 66, 374-381.

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2009

• Wenbin Lu (2009), Efficiency Comparison between Mean and Log-Rank Tests with Recurrent Event Time Data. Science in China Series A: Mathematics, 52, 1169-1180.
• Yu Liang, Wenbin Lu and Zhiliang Ying (2009), Joint Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Informative Observation Times. Biometrics, 65, 377-384.

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2008

• Wenbin Lu and Lexin Li (2008), Boosting Method for Nonlinear Transformation Models with Censored Survival Data. Biostatistics, 9, 658-667.
• Lexin Li and Wenbin Lu (2008), Sufficient Dimension Reduction with Missing Predictors. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 822-831.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2008), A Monte Carlo Approach for Change-point Detection in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model. Statistics in Medicine, 27, 3894-3909.
• Wenbin Lu and Limin Peng (2008), Semiparametric Analysis of Mixture Regression Models with Competing Risks Data. (supplementary material for technical proof). Lifetime Data Analysis, 14, 231-252. 
• Wenbin Lu (2008), Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Proportional Hazards Cure Model. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 60, 545-574.
• Wenbin Lu and Yu Liang (2008), Analysis of Competing Risks Data with Missing Cause of Failure under Additive Hazards Model. Statistica Sinica, 19, 219-234.

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2007

• Wenbin Lu and Hao (Helen) Zhang (2007), Variable Selection for Proportional Odds Model. Statistics in Medicine, 26, 3771-3781.
• Wenbin Lu (2007), Tests of Independence for Censored Bivariate Failure Time Data. Lifetime Data Analysis, 13, 75-90.
• Hao Helen Zhang and Wenbin Lu (2007), Adaptive-LASSO for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model. Biometrika, 94, 1-13.

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2006

• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2006), Mixture Cure Model with an Application to Interval Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci. Lifetime Data Analysis, 12, 421-440.  
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2006), Interval Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Time-to-Event Data with the Proportional Hazards Mixture Cure Model. Biometrics, 62, 1053-1061.
• Wenbin Lu and Anastasios Tsiatis (2006), Semiparametric Transformation Models for Case-Cohort Study. Biometrika, 93, 207-214. 
• Wenbin Lu and Yu Liang (2006), Empirical Likelihood Inference for Linear Transformation Models. J. Multivariate Analysis, 97, 1586-1599.

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2005

• Wenbin Lu (2005), Marginal Regression of Multivariate Event Times Based on Linear Transformation Models. Lifetime Data Analysis, 11, 389-404.

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2004

• Wenbin Lu and Zhiliang Ying (2004), On Semiparametric Transformation Cure Models. Biometrika, 91, 331-343.

Collaborative works:

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• Yixin Cai, Mo-Yuen Chow, Wenbin Lu and Lexin Li (2010), Evaluation of Distribution Fault Diagnosis Algorithms using ROC Curves. The Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Power Systems Engineering General Meeting, 25-29 July, Minneapolis, MN.
• Yixin Cai, Mo-Yuen Chow, Wenbin Lu and Lexin Li (2010), Statistical Feature Selection from Massive Data in Distribution Fault Diagnosis. The IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 25, 642-648.

Technical Report:

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• Wenbin Lu and Hao (Helen) Zhang (2006), Variable Selection via Penalized Likelihood with Adaptive Penalty.