Selected Publications/Reports/Presentations
Publications
1. Hlaing, W.M., Prineas, R.J., & Zhu, Y. (2005) Growth Trajectory of Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP)
in Children and Adolescents. Annals of Epidemiology 16(1): 11-18.
2. Zhu, Y., Wessel, M.R., Liu, T., & Moser, V.C. (2005) Analyses of Neurobehavioral Screening Data I:
Dose-Time-Response Modeling of Continuous Outcomes.
Regulatory and Applied Toxicology. 41(3): 240-255.
3. Zhu, Y., Jia, Z., Wang, W., Gift, J., Moser, V.C., & Pierre-Louis, B.J. (2005) Data Analysis
of Neurobehavioral Screening Data II: Benchmark Dose Estimation.
Regulatory and Applied Toxicology. 42: 190-201.
4. Zhu, Y. (2005) Dose-time-response Modeling of Longitudinal Measurements for
Neurotoxicity Risk Assessment. Environmetrics. 16: 603-617.
5. Zhu, Y., Wang, W., Atrubin, D., & Wu, Y. (2005) Syndromic Tracking and Reporting
System: An Initial Evaluation of the Early Aberration Reporting System. MMWR.
54/Supplement: 123-130.
6. T Havranek Z Thompson JD Carver. (2006). Factors that influence mesenteric artery
blood flow velocity in newborn preterm infants. Journal of Perinatology. 26, 493-497.
7. John D. Carter, Abdul B. Lodhi, Sonia R. Nagda, Erica Traina, Louis Ricca, Colleen
Ward, Zachary J. Thompson, Yangxin Huang, Joanne Valeriano, Frank B. Vasey
(2007). Determining Rheumatologists' Accuracy at Assessing Functional Disability in
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients by using the Health Assessment Questionnaire –
Disability Index (HAQ-DI). Journal of Rheumatology. (in press)
8. Zhu, Y., Wang, T., & Jelsolvski, J. (2006) Bootstrap estimation of benchmark doses
and confidence limits with clustered quantal data. Risk Analysis (Under revision)
Reports
1. Wu, Y., Lu, B., & Zhu, Y. (2005) Sampling weights to adjust non-response in the
Youth Substance Use Survey.
2. Wang, W., and Zhu, Y. (2004) Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County FL:
A Technical Evaluation of Syndrome Tracking and Reporting System. Hillsborough
County Health Department and Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
3. Zhu, Y. (2003) Technical Guidance Document for Dose-response Modeling and
Benchmark Dose Estimation of Neurobehavioral Toxicity Screening Data. National
Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency.
Presentations
1. Wang, W., Zhu, Y., & Wu, Y. "Syndromic surveillance systems for anti-bioterrorism:
statistical issues and challenges in trend analysis and outbreak detection." International
Biometric Society Eastern North American Region Annual Meeting, March 2004,
Pittsburgh, PA.
2. Zhu, Y., Wang, W., Atribun, D., & Wu, Y. "Syndrome Tracking and Reporting System:
An Initial Evaluation. 2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference,
Boston, MA, Nov 3-4th, 2004. (Teaching Faculty)