Publications

Zhe Chen, Min Haeng Cho, Bo Zhang (2025). Manipulating an Instrumental Variable in an Observational Study of Premature Babies: Design, Bounds, and Inference. Journal of the American Statistical Association (just accepted).

Bo Zhang, Youyi Fong, et al (2025). Neutralizing antibody immune correlates in COVAIL trial recipients of an mRNA second COVID-19 vaccine boost. Nature Communications 16, 759..

Bo Zhang, Youyi Fong, et al (2024). Omicron COVID-19 immune correlates analysis of a third dose of mRNA-1273 in the COVE trial. Nature Communications 15, 7954..

Qijia He, Fei Gao, Oliver Dukes, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Bo Zhang (2024). Generalizing the intention-to-treat effect of an active control from historical placebo-controlled trials: A case study of the efficacy of daily oral TDF/FTC in the HPTN 084 study. Journal of the American Statistical Association 119(548), 2478-2492..

Daniel B. Reeves, Bryan T. Mayer, Allan C. deCamp, Yunda Huang, Bo Zhang, et al (2023). High monoclonal neutralization titers reduced breakthrough HIV-1 viral loads in the Antibody Mediated Prevention trials. Nature Communications 14, 8299..

Bo Zhang (2023). Efficient Algorithms for Building Representative Matched Pairs with Enhanced Generalizability. Biometrics 79(4), 3981-3997.

Siyu Heng, Bo Zhang, Xu Han, Scott A. Lorch, Dylan S. Small (2023). Instrumental variables: To strengthen or not to strengthen?. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society 186(4), 852–873.

Bo Zhang, Dylan S. Small, Karen B. Lasater, Matthew D. McHugh, Jeffrey H. Silber, Paul R. Rosenbaum (2023). Matching One Sample According to Two Criteria in Observational Studies. Journal of the American Statistical Association 118(542), 1140-1151..

Bo Zhang, Emily J. MacKay, Mike Baiocchi (2023). Statistical matching and subclassification with a continuous dose: characterization, algorithm, and application to a health outcomes study. Annals of Applied Statistics 17(1), 454-475.

Shuxiao Chen, Bo Zhang (2023). Estimating and improving dynamic treatment regimes with a time-varying instrumental variable. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 85(2), 427-453.

Bo Zhang, Siyu Heng, Ting Ye, Dylan S. Small (2023). Social distancing and COVID-19: Randomization inference for a structured dose-response relationship. Annals of Applied Statistics 17(1), 23-46.

Kan Chen, Siyu Heng, Qi Long, Bo Zhang (2023). Testing Biased Randomization Assumptions and Quantifying Imperfect Matching and Residual Confounding in Matched Observational Studies. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 32(2), 528-538.

Emily J. MacKay, Bo Zhang, John G. Augoustides, Peter W. Groeneveld, Nimesh D. Desai (2022). Association of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography and Clinical Outcomes After Open Cardiac Valve or Aortic Surgery. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(2):e2147820.

Yuzhou Lin, Andrew Tebulo, Dylan S. Small, Karl B. Seydel, Terrie E. Taylor, Bo Zhang (2022). Using malarial retinopathy to improve the diagnosis of pediatric cerebral malaria. *American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 108(1), 69.

Bo Zhang, Yuzhou Lin, Dylan S. Small, Terrie E. Taylor, Nicole F. O'Brien (2022). Towards automation of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound data in pediatric cerebral malaria. Intelligence-Based Medicine (2022).

Bo Zhang, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen (2022). A semiparametric approach to model-based sensitivity analysis in observational studies. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) (just accepted).

Emily J. MacKay, Bo Zhang, Mark D. Neuman, John G. Augoustides, Nimesh D. Desai, Peter W. Groeneveld (2022). Impact of Hospital Practice and Staffing Differences on Transesophageal Echocardiography Use in Cardiac Valve or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 36 (11), 4012-4021.

Arabella Borgstein, Bo Zhang, Colin Lam, Montfort Bernard Gushu, Alice Wangui Liomba, Albert Malenga, Paul Pensulo, Andrew Tebulo, Dylan S. Small, Terrie Taylor, Karl Seydel (2022). Delayed presentation to hospital care is associated with sequelae but not mortality in children with cerebral malaria in Malawi. Malar J 21, 60 (2022).

Bo Zhang, Jiayao Zhang (2022). Some Reflections on Drawing Causal Inference using Textual Data: Parallels Between Human Subjects and Organized Texts. First Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR).

Emily J. MacKay, Bo Zhang, Siyu Heng, Ting Ye, Mark D. Neuman, John G. Augoustides, Jared W. Feinman, Nimesh D. Desai, Peter W. Groeneveld (2021). Association between Transesophageal Echocardiography and Clinical Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 34(6), 571-581.

Bo Zhang, Siyu Heng, Ting Ye, Emily J. MacKay (2021). Bridging preference-based instrumental variable studies and cluster-randomized encouragement experiments: Study design, noncompliance, and average cluster effect ratio. Biometrics (2021); 1-12.

Hongming Pu, Bo Zhang (2021). Estimating optimal treatment rules with an instrumental variable: A partial identification learning approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 83.2 (2021): 318-345..

Bo Zhang, Hongming Pu (2021). Discussion of Cui and Tchetgen Tchetgen (2020) and Qiu et al.(2020). Journal of the American Statistical Association 116.533 (2021): 196-199..

Jeffrey Zhang, Bo Zhang, Dylan S. Small (2020). A method to aid statistical judgment on outliers: Comment on Hill's The Statistician in Medicine. Statistics in Medicine 40.1 (2021): 58-63..

Bo Zhang, Dylan S. Small (2020). Number of Healthcare Workers Who Have Died of COVID-19. Epidemiology 31.6 (2020): e46..

Bo Zhang, Dylan S. Small (2020). A calibrated sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with application to the effect of second‐hand smoke exposure on blood lead levels in children. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 69(5)..

Bo Zhang, Jordan Weiss, Dylan S. Small, Qingyuan Zhao (2020). Selecting and ranking individualized treatment rules with unmeasured confounding. Journal of the American Statistical Association 116.533 (2021): 295-308..

Samuel Kampondeni, Karl B. Seydel, Bo Zhang, Dylan S. Small, Gretchen L. Birbeck, Collen A. Hammond, Cowles Chilingulo, Terrie E. Taylor, Michael J. Potchen (2020). Amount of brain edema correlates with neurologic recovery in pediatric cerebral malaria. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 39.4 (2020): 277-282..