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3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal Inference with Observational Data: Common Designs and Statistical Methods (2023). Course description. Observational studies are non-interventional empirical investigations of causal effects and are playing an increasingly vital role

3 Jun 2024: Search. Fabiola Del Greco M. Latest. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Comment on FDA draft guidance for industry FDA-2019-D-0934: Adjusting for covariates in randomized clinical trials for drugs and biological products. Jun Shao, Ting Ye, Qingyuan Zhao. July 2021Abstract. This is a unsolicited commentary on

3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal mediation analysis for time-varying heritable risk factors with Mendelian Randomization. Zixuan Wu, Ethan Lewis, Qingyuan Zhao, Jingshu Wang. February 2024Abstract. Understanding the causal pathogenic mechanisms of diseases is crucial

3 Jun 2024: Search. Exploratory Data Analysis. PathGPS: Discover shared genetic architecture using biobank data. The increasing availability and scale of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) bring new horizons for understanding biological mechanisms. PathGPS

3 Jun 2024: Search. Selective inference for effect modification via the lasso. Qingyuan Zhao, Dylan Small, Ashkan Ertefaie. May 2017Abstract. We approach the heterogeneous treatment effect problem in a novel way. Instead of trying to obtain the optimal

3 Jun 2024: Search. Performance evaluation with latent factors. Yang Song, Qingyuan Zhao. August 2018Abstract. We use the Confounder Adjusted Testing and Estimating (CATE) proposed in our previous paper to estimate the abnormal return (aka ‘alpha’) of U.S.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Randomization Inference. Almost exact Mendelian randomization. By combining causal graphs and randomization inference, a formal justification for Mendelian randomization is given in the context of with-family studies. The randomization

3 Jun 2024: Search. Seeking a summer research intern (EXPIRED). 2021-01-29 2 min read. I am posting a summer research project that may be suitable for Cambridge Part II students (or senior undergraduate students from other universities). Cambridge students can

3 Jun 2024: Search. Profile-likelihood Bayesian model averaging for two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization in the presence of horizontal pleiotropy. Chin Yang Shapland, Qingyuan Zhao, Jack Bowden. February 2020Type. Publication. Statistics in Medicine.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19. April 2021Abstract. This article reviews some early investigations and research studies in the first weeks of the coron- avirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from a

3 Jun 2024: Search. Publications. Type. Uncategorized. Conference paper. Journal article. Preprint. Date. 2024. 2023. 2022. 2021. 2020. 2019. 2018. 2017. 2016. 2015. Tobias Freidling, Qingyuan Zhao, Zijun Gao (2024). Zixuan Wu, Ethan Lewis, Qingyuan Zhao,

3 Jun 2024: Search. Confounder selection: Objectives and approaches. F Richard Guo, Anton Rask Lundborg, Qingyuan Zhao. August 2022Abstract. Confounder selection is perhaps the most important step in the design of observational studies. A number of criteria,

3 Jun 2024: Search. Powerful three-sample genome-wide design and robust statistical inference in summary-data Mendelian randomization. Qingyuan Zhao, Yang Chen, Jingshu Wang, Dylan Small. April 2018Abstract. We extend the MR-RAPS method in our previous paper

3 Jun 2024: Search. A fun model to explain the surging popularity of Mendelian randomization. 2021-03-23 2 min read. I was preparing for my talk in EPFL’s statistics seminar today and discovered an interesting model. As many people know, the popularity of

3 Jun 2024: Search. A crash course on causal inference. Date. 2022-09-07 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM. CCAIM Summer School (AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare). Location. CCAIM Summer School. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Mendelian-Randomization. Causal mediation analysis for time-varying heritable risk factors with Mendelian Randomization. A new Bayesian full-information method for life-course Mendelian randomization. By combining causal graphs and

3 Jun 2024: Search. Multiple testing when many $p$-values are uniformly conservative. with application to testing qualitative interaction in educational interventions. Qingyuan Zhao, Dylan Small, Weijie Su. March 2017Abstract. Qualitative interaction is an

3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal interpretations of black-box models. Qingyuan Zhao, Trevor Hastie. August 2016Abstract. We link Friedman’s partial dependence plot with Pearl’s backdoor adjustment formula. We discuss situations when possible causal

3 Jun 2024: Search. Fisher. Discussion on (quasi-)randomization inference. The following is an email exchange with Hyunseung Kang on the nature of randomization inference. This was sparked by a couple of papers by David Freedman and David Lane: A Nonstochastic

3 Jun 2024: Search. Mechanism. Using Mendelian randomization to discover biological mechanisms. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Workflow. Migrating my website to Hugo Academic ox-hugo. Update <2021-05-30 Sun>: A template of this website is now available on GitHub. Being stuck at home during the pandemic, as miserable as it is, actually helps me to redesign my working

3 Jun 2024: Search. Multiple conditional randomization tests. Date. 2021-09-29 9:30 PM — 10:30 PM. Event. UC Berkeley Causal Inference Group. Location. UC Berkeley Causal Inference Group. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. COVID-19. To be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society's 2021 annual conference held in Manchester on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021, the President, Professor Sylvia Richardson, in the Chair. Letter to the editor:

3 Jun 2024: Search. Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing Using Internal Negative Controls with An Application to Proteomics. Zijun Gao, Qingyuan Zhao. March 2023Abstract. Negative control is a common technique in scientific investigations and broadly refers to the

3 Jun 2024: Search. PathGPS: Discover shared genetic architecture using biobank data. Zijun Gao, Trevor Hastie, Qingyuan Zhao. May 2022Abstract. The increasing availability and scale of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) bring new horizons for understanding

3 Jun 2024: Search. SEISMIC: A self-exciting point process model for predicting tweet popularity. Qingyuan Zhao, Murat A Erdogdu, Hera Y He, Anand Rajaraman, Jure Leskovec. August 2015Abstract. We study a simple but extremely noisy form of information

3 Jun 2024: Search. Matt Tudball. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Kate Tilling. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Daniel Rader. Latest. A Mendelian randomization study of the role of lipoprotein subfractions in coronary artery disease. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Jordan Weiss. Latest. Selecting and ranking individualized treatment rules with unmeasured confounding. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Discovering mechanistic heterogeneity using Mendelian randomization. Abstract. Mendelian Randomization (MR) is a popular method in epidemiology and genetics that uses genetic variation as instrumental variables for causal inference. Existing

3 Jun 2024: Search. Hera Y He. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Study Design. Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences. We reviewed the prevalence of different study designs in environmental and social sciences and introduced a novel

3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal Graphs. We propose a systematic way to select confounders. Almost exact Mendelian randomization. By combining causal graphs and randomization inference, a formal justification for Mendelian randomization is given in the context of with

3 Jun 2024: Search. Chris Wallace. Latest. Mendelian randomization. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Jean Morrison. Latest. Mendelian randomization. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Marcus Munafo. Latest. Mendelian randomization with coarsened exposures. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Charles Zheng. Latest. Comment on 'Causal inference using invariant prediction'. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Jack Bowden. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Sean Hennessy. Latest. A Mendelian randomization study of the role of lipoprotein subfractions in coronary artery disease. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Debbie Lawlor. Latest. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. John Thompson. Latest. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Nuala Sheehan. Latest. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Art B Owen. Latest. Permutation $p$-value approximation via generalized Stolarsky invariance. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Jure Leskovec. Latest. SEISMIC: A self-exciting point process model for predicting tweet popularity. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Using sparsity to overcome unmeasured confounding. Abstract. Sparsity is often used to improve the interpretability of a statistical analysis and/or reduce the variance of a statistical estimator. This talk will explore another aspect—the

3 Jun 2024: Search. Randomization. Selective Randomization Inference for Adaptive Experiments. We apply ideas from post-selection inference to randomization tests for adaptive experiments. Discussion on (quasi-)randomization inference. The following is an email

3 Jun 2024: Search. Permutation $p$-value approximation via generalized Stolarsky invariance. Hera Y He, Kinjal Basu, Qingyuan Zhao, Art B Owen. March 2016Abstract. This paper uses a generalized Stolarsky’s invariance principle to approximate the permutation

3 Jun 2024: Search. Alec Christie. Latest. Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.