Sujuan Gao's Publications

  1. Gao S and Smith TMF. On the nonexistence of a global nonnegative minimum bias invariant quadratic estimator of variance components. Stat & Probability Letters 1995; 25:117-20.


  2. Class CA, Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Hall KS, Baiyewu O and Hendrie HC. Psychiatric disorders in African-American nursing home residents. Am J Psychiatry 1996; 153(5):677-81.


  3. Hendrie HC, Gao S, Hall KS, Hui SL and Unverzagt FW. The relationship between alcohol consumption, cognitive performance and daily functioning in an urban sample of elderly African Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc 1996; 44:1158-65.


  4. Hui SL, Gao S, Hall KS, Sahota A and Hendrie HC. Association of Apo E-Î4 genotype with performance on a dementia screen in African Americans. Ethn Dis 1996; 6:266-71.


  5. Zhou XH and Gao S. Confidence intervals for the lognormal mean. Stat Med 1997; 16:783-90.Full text


  6. Gao S and Hui SL. Logistic regression models with missing covariate values for complex survey data. Stat Med 1997; 16:2419-28.Full text


  7. Zhou XH, Gao S and Hui SL. Methods for comparing means of two independent log-normal samples. Biometrics 1997; 53:1129-35.


  8. Gao S and Zhou XH. An empirical comparison of two semi-parametric approaches for modelling multivariate failure time data. Stat Med 1997; 16:2049-62.Full text


  9. Hui SL, Gao S, Zhou XH, Johnston Jr CC, Lu Y, Gluer CC, Grampp S and Genant H. Optimal universal standardization of multiple measurements: Application to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. J Bone Miner Res 1997; 12:1463-70.


  10. Class CA, Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Sahota A, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. Association between Apoe E genotype and depressive symptoms in elderly African-Americans. Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 1997; 5:339-43.


  11. Sahota A, Yang M, Gao S, Hui SL, Baiyewu O, Gureje O, Oluwole S, Ogunniyi A, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. Apolipoprotein E-associated risk for Alzheimer disease in the African-American population is genotype-dependent. Ann Neurol 1997; 42:659-61.


  12. Morgan OS, Eldemire DA, Thesiger CH, Luseko J, Sahota A, Gao S, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. Apoe allele frequencies in demented and non-demented elderly Jamaicans. Ann Neurol 1998; 43:545.


  13. Gao S, Hendrie HC, Hall KS and Hui SL. The relationship between age, gender and the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1998; 55:809-15.


  14. Gao S and Smith TMF. A constrained MINQU estimator of correlated response variance from unbalanced data in complex surveys. Statistica Sinica 1998; 8(4): 1175-88.


  15. Hall KS, Gureje O, Gao S, Ogunniyi A, Hui SL, Baiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Oluwole S and Hendrie HC. Risk factors and Alzheimer’s disease: A comparative study of two communities. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1998; 32:698-706.


  16. Perkins AJ, Hendrie HC, Callahan CM, Gao S, Unverzagt FW, Xu Y, Hall KS and Hui SL. Association of antioxidants with memory in a multiethnic elderly sampling using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. American Journal of Epidemiology 1999; 150: 37-44.


  17. Katz, BP, Freund DA, Heck DA, Gao S, Zhou XH. Comparison of revision rates following staged and simultaneous bilateral knee replacement in the United States. Journal of Clinical Outcome Management. 1999; 6:30-36.


  18. Zhou XH and Gao S. One-sided confidence intervals for means of positively skewed distributions. American Statistician 2000; 54:100-104.


  19. Gao S and Hui SL. Estimating the incidence of dementia from longitudinal two-phase sampling with nonignorable missing data. Stat Med 2000; 19:1545-1554.Full text


  20. Emsley CL, Gao S, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. Estimating odds ratios adjusting for misclassification in Alzheimer’s disease risk factor assessment. Stat Med 2000; 19:1523-1530.Full text


  21. Hui SL and Gao S. Spacing of follow-up waves in incidence studies. Stat Med 2000; 19:1567-1576.Full text


  22. Emsley CL, Gao S, Li Y, Hall KS, Unverzagt FW, Liang C, Slemenda CW and Hendrie HC. Trace element levels and cognitive function in elderly Chinese. Am J Epidemio 2000; 54:240-242.Full text


  23. Hall KS, Gao S, Unverzagt FW and Hendrie HC. Low education and childhood rural residence: risk for Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans. Neurology 1999, 54(1):95-99.


  24. Hendire HC, Gao S and Baiyewu O. A comparison of symptoms of behavioral distrubances in Yoruba and African American demented individuals. Int Psychogeriatr 2000; 12:403-408.


  25. Gao S, Dolan N, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. The association of demographic factors and physical illness with personality change in a community sample of elderly non-demented African Americans. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2000; 8(3):209-214.


  26. Evans RM, Emsley CL, Gao S, Sahota A, Hall KS, Farlow MR, Hendrie HC. Total serum cholesterol, APOE genotype and the risk of AD in a population-based study of African Americans. Neurology 2000; 54:240-242.


  27. Gao S, Hui SL, Hall KS and Hendrie HC. Estimating disease prevalence from two phase surveys with nonresponse at the second phase. Stat Med 2000; 19:2101-2114.Full text


  28. Hall KS, Gao S, Emsley CL, Ogunniyi AO, Morgan O and Hendrie HC. Community screening interview for dementia (CSI"D"): performance in five disparate study sites. Int Psychogeriatr 2000; 15:521-531.


  29. Sahota A, Gao S, Hayes J and Jindal RM. Microchimerism and rejection: a meta-analysis. Clinical Transplantation 2000; 14:345-350.


  30. Richards SS, Emsley CL, Roberts J, Murray MD, Hall KS, Gao S, Hendrie HC. The association between vascular risk factor mediating medications and cognition and dementia diagnosis in a community-based sample of African Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000; 48:1035-1041.


  31. Ogunniyi A, Baiyewu O, Hall KS, Unverzagt FW, Hui, SL, Gao S, Hendrie HC. Epidemiology of dementia: findings from the Indianapolis-Ibadan dementia study. European Journal of Neurology. 2000; 7:485-490.


  32. Zhou, X. H., Li, C., Gao, S., and Tierney, W. M. Methods for testing equality of means of health care costs in a paired design. Statistics in Medicine 2001; 20:1703-1720.


  33. Gao S. Estimation of interviewer effects on multivariate binary responses in a community based survey, Journal of Official Statistics 2001; 17:149-161.


  34. Hendrie HC, Ogunniyi A, Hall KS, Baiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Gureje O, Gao S, Evans RM, Ogunseyinde AO, Adeyinkda AO, Musick B, Hui SL. Incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease in 2 communities: Yoruba residing in Ibadan, Nigeria, and African Americans residing in Indianapolis, Indiana. JAMA 2001; 285-739-747.


  35. Li Y, Liang C, Ji R, Sun S, Cao J, Emsley CL, Ma F, Wu Y, Ying P, Zhang Y, Gao S, Katz BP, Niu S, Cao S, Johnston CC. Effect of long-term exposure to fluoride in drinking water on risks of bone fractures. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2001; 16:932-939.


  36. Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Baiyewu O, Ogunniyi AO, Gureje O, Perkins A, Emsley CL, Dickens J, Evans R, Musick B, Hall KS, Hendrie HC. Prevalence of cognitive impairment: Data from the Indianapolis study of health and aging. Neurology 2001; 57:655-662.


  37. Murray MD, Lane KA, Gao S, Evans RM, Unverzagt FW, Hall KS, Hendrie HC. Preservation of cognitive function with vascular protective medications: a longitudinal analysis of a community-based sample of African-Americans. Archives of Internal Medicine 2002; 162:2090-2096.


  38. Perkins AJ, Hui SL, Ogunniyi A, Gureje O, Beiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Hall KS, Musick BS, Hendrie HC. Risk of mortality for dementia in a developing country: the Yoruba in Nigeria. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2002; 17:566-573.


  39. Baiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Ogunniyi A, Hall KS, Gureje O, Gao S, Lane KA, Hendrie HC. Cognitive impairment in community dwelling older Nigerians: clinical correlates and stability of diagnosis. European Journal of Neurology 2002; 9(6):573-580.


  40. Stallings LM, Kirk KI, Chin SB, Gao S. Parent word familiarity and the language development of pediatric cochlear implant users. The Volta Review 2002; 102(4):237-258.


  41. Stallings LM, Gao S, Svirsky MA. Assessing the language abilities of pediatric cochlear implant users across a broad range of ages and performance abilities. The Volta Review 2002; 102(4):215-236.


  42. Harezlak J, Gao S, Hui SL. Illness-death stochastic model for longitudinal dementia data. Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22:1465-1475. Full text


  43. Jones DL, Svirsky MA, Gao S. The effect of short-term auditory deprivation on the control of intraoral pressure in pediatric cochlear implant users. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2003; 46:658-669.


  44. Gao S. Combining binomial data using logistic normal model. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 2004;74(4):293-306.


  45. Lane KA, Gao S, Hui SL, Murrell JR, Hall KS, Hendrie HC. Apolipoprotein E and mortality in African-Americans and Yoruba. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2003; 5:383-390.


  46. Shen J, Crane PK, Gao S. A latent variable model approach for assembling and scoring screening tests for dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2003; 5:399-407.


  47. Gao S. A shared random effect parameter approach for longitudinal dementia data with non-ignorable missing data. Statistics in Medicine 2004; 23(2):211-220.Full text


  48. Li L, Huang J, Sun S, Shen J, Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Hendrie HC, Hall KS, Hui SL. Selecting pre-screening items for early intervention trials of dementia - a case study. Statistics in Medicine 2004; 23(2):271-284.Full text


  49. Chin SB, Tsai PL, Gao S. Connected speech intelligibility of children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2003; 12:440-451.


  50. Hendrie HC, Hall KS, Ogunniyi A, Gao S. Alzheimer disease: genes and environment; The value of international studies. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 49(2):92-99.


  51. Anand A, Li Y, Wang Y, Wu J, Gao S, Bukhari L, Mathews VP, Kalnin A, Lowe MJ. Activity and Connectivity of Brain Mood Regulating Circuit in Depression: an fMRI Study. Biological Psychiatry 2005; 57:1079-1088.


  52. Anand A, Li Y, Wang Y, Wu J, Gao S, Bukhari L, Mathews VP, Kalnin A, Lowe MJ. ntidepressant Effect on Connectivity of Mood Regulating Circuit: an fMRI Study. Neuropsychopharmacology 2005; 30:1334-1344.


  53. Ogunniyi A, Hall KS, Baiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Gao S and Hendrie HC. aring for Individuals with Dementia in Africa: The Nigerian Experience. The West African J of Medicine 2005; 24(3):259-262.


  54. Baiyewu O, Unverzagt FW, Lane KA, Gureje O, Ogunniyi A, Gao S, Hall KS, Hendrie HC. tick design test – a visuo-construction test in older persons with less education. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. 2005; 11:598-605.


  55. Gureje O, Ogunniyi A, Baiyewu O, Price B, Unverzagt FW, Evans RM, Smith-Gamble V, Lane KA, Deeg M, Gao S, Hall KS, Hendrie HC, Murrell J. APOE4 is not Associated with Alzheimer's Disease in Elderly Nigerians. Annals of Neurology 2006; 59:182-5.


  56. Hall KS, Murrell J. Ogunniyi A, Deeg M, Baiyewu O, Gao S. Gureje O, Dickens J, Evans RM, Smith-Gamble V, Unverzagt FW, Shen J, Hendrie HC. Cholesterol, Apoe Genotype And Alzheimer’s Disease: An Epidemiological Study Of Nigerian Yoruba. Neurology, 2006; 66(2):223-7.


  57. Murrell J, Price B., Lane KA, Baiyewu O, Gureje O, Ogunniyi A, Unverzagt FW, Smith-Gamble V, Gao S, Hendrie HC, Hall KS. Apolipoprotein E Genotype Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans. Arch Neurol 2006; 63:431-434.


  58. Shen C, Gao S. A shared random-effects model for longitudinal outcomes with non-ignorable non-monotone missing patterns due to dropout and study design. Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26:409-425. Full text


  59. Shen J, Gao S. Unverzagt FW, Ogunniyi S, Gureje O, Baiyewu O, Hendrie HC, Hall, KS. Validation Analysis Of Informant’s Ratings Of Cognitive Function In African Americans And Nigerians. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 2006; 21: 618-625.


  60. Hendrie HC, Lane KA, Ogunniyi A, Baiyewu O, Gureje O, Evans R, Smith-Gamble V, Pettaway M, Unverzagt FW, Gao S, Hall KS. The Development of a Semi-structured Home Interview to Directly Assess Function in Cognitively Impaired Elderly in Two Cultures (CHIF). Int Psychogeritric 2006; April: 1-14.


  61. Ogunniyi A, Hall, KS, Gureje O, Baiyewu O, Gao S, Unverzagt FW, Musick BS, Hendrie HC. Risk factors for incident alzheimer’s disease in African Americans and Yoruba. Metabolic Brain Disease 2006; July.


  62. Hendrie HC, Albert MS, Butters MA, Gao S, Knopman DS, Launer LJ, Yaffe K, Cuthbert BN, Edwards E, Wagster MV. The NIH Cognitive and Emotional Health Project: Report of the Critical Evaluation Study Committee. Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 2006; 29-49.


  63. Hendrie HC, Murrell J, Gao S, Unverzagt FW, Ogunniyi A, Hall KS. International Studies in Dementia with particular emphasis on populations of African Origin. Alzeimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders, 2006; 20(S2): S42-S46.


  64. Gao S, Jin Y,Hall KS, Liang C, Unverzagt FW, Ji R, Murrell JR, Cao J, Shen J, Ma F, Matesan J, Ying B, Cheng Y, Bian J, Li P, Hendrie HC. Selenium Level and Cognitive Function in Rural Elderly Chinese. American Journal of Epidemiology. (in press). Full text


  65. Gao S, Shen J. Asymptotic properties of a double penalized maximum likelihood estimator in logistic regression. Letters of Probability and Statistics (in press). Full text


  66. Shen J and Gao S. A solution to separation and multicollinearity in multiple logistic regression. Journal of Data Science. (in press).