Biostatistics and Risk Assessment Center (BRAC)

Mei-Ling Ting Lee's Research

Mei-Ling Ting Lee

Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Director, Biostatistics and Risk Assessment Center (BRAC)

and Editor-in-Chief, Lifetime Data Analysis

Research Interests

Analysis of time-to-event data; analysis of genomic data; rank tests for clustered data; statistical applications in environmental and occupational health studies, epidemiology studies, microbiology and pharmaco epidemiology; applied probability models; multivariate distributions and applications. Dr. Lee's publications in Google Scholar.

Honors and Awards

• 2014 Service Award: Cellular Tissue & Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, US Food & Drug Administration
• 2005 Mosteller Statistician of the Year 2005, American Statistical Association, Boston Chapter
• 2005 Elected Fellow, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA
• 1999 Elected Fellow, the American Statistical Association, USA
• 1998 Elected Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom
• 1995 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, the Netherlands
• 1979 Outstanding Student, American Statistical Association, Pittsburgh Chapter
• 1979 Teplitz-Culver Award: Outstanding Student in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Contact Information

Mei-Ling Ting Lee, PhD

Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Director, Biostatistics and Risk Assessment Center (BRAC)

SPH Building 255, EPIB Room 2234R

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405-4581

Fax: (301) 314-6532

Email: mltlee@umd.edu

SPH Bio Page

Visit Computer Programs for more information.

• ClUSTER-SIGN-RANK TEST PACKAGE
• SAMPLE SIZE AND POWER CALCULATIONS FOR MICROARRAY STUDIES
• RANK ANALYSIS OF MICROARRAYS (RAM)
• THRESHOLD REGRESSION
• GENERALIZED RANK BASED TESTS FOR CLUSTERED DATA

Publications

Books

1. LEE M-LT, Gail M, Pfeiffer R, Satten G, Cai T, Gandy A, editors, Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Predictions, (2013). Springer.
2. LEE M-LT. Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Data, (2004), Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers)
3. Mesbah M, Cole BF, LEE M-LT, editors, Statistical Methods for Quality of Life Studies Design, Measurements and Analysis, (2002). Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers)
4. Jewell NP, Kimber AC, LEE M-LT, Whitmore GA , editors, Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, (1996). Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Peer Reviewed Articles in the Following Areas

(Last updated on 12/8/2014)

1. Analysis of Genomic Data
2. Statistical Models and Applied Probability
• Statistical Models
• Applied Probability
3. Applications in Epidemiology, Environmental Studies & Microbiology
• Epidemiology
• Environmental Research
• Pharmaco Epidemiology
• Microbiology

Articles in Analysis of Genomic Data

Chiu CY, Jung J, Chen W, Weeks DE, Ren H, Boehnke M, Amos CI, Liu A, Mills JL, Ting Lee ML, Xiong M, Fan R. Meta-analysis of quantitative pleiotropic traits for next-generation sequencing with multivariate functional linear models. European Journal of Human Genetics 2016 Dec 21 doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.170 PMID: 28000696

Cruz-Cano R, Lee M-LT. Fast Canonical Correlation Analysis, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2014, Vol. 70: 88-100, doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.09.020

Guth LM, Ludlow AT, Witkowski S, Marshall MR, Lima LCJ, Venezia AC, Xiao T, Lee M-LT, Spangenburg EE, Roth SM. Sex-specific Effects of Exercise Ancestry on Metabolic, Morphological, and Gene Expression Phenotypes in Multiple Generations of Mouse Offspring, Experimental Physiology, 2013, Vol. 98(10):1469-1484. doi: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.070300. PMID: 23771910. PMCID: PMC3783594

Cruz-Cano R, Lee M-LT, Leung MY. Logic Minimization and Rule Extraction for Identification of Functional Sites in Molecular Sequences, BioData Mining, 2012, Vol. 5:10. PMID: 22897894. PMCID: PMC3492099

Beyer SJ, Zhang X, Jimenez RE, Lee M-LT, Richardson AL, Huang, Jhiang SM. Microarray analysis of genes associated with cell surface NIS protein levels in breast cancer. BMC Research Notes, 2011, Vol. 4:397-410. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-397, PMID: 21989294. PMCID: PMC3205061

Lee M-LT. Molecular gene-signatures and cancer clinical trials, In: Designs for Clinical Trials: Perspectives on Current Issues. David Harrington, Editor, 2011, 139-155.

Hunter MP, Ismail N, Zhang X, Aguda BD, Lee EJ, Yu L, Xiao T, Schafer J, Lee M-LT, Schmittgen TD, Nana-Sinkam SP, Jarjoura D, Marsh C. Detection of microRNA Expression in Human Peripheral Blood Microvesicles, PLoS ONE, 2008, Vol. 3: 11, e3694. PMID: 19002258. PMCID: PMC2577891

Zhang Y, Bertolino A, Fazio L, Blasi G, Rampino A, Romano R, Lee M-LT, Xiao T, Papp A, Wang D, and Sadée W. Novel polymorphisms in the human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2007, 104: 20552-20557. PMID: 18077373. PMCID: PMC2154469

Qiu W, Lee M-LT. SPCalc: A web-based calculator for sample size and power calculations in micro-array studies, Bioinformation, 2006, 1: 251-252. PMID: 17597901. PMCID: PMC1891702

Qin S, Qiu W, Ehrlich JR, Ferdinand AS, Richie JP, O?eary MP, Lee M-LT, Liu BC-S. Development of a reverse capture autoantibody microarray for studies of antigen-autoantibody profiling. Proteomics, 2006, 6: 3199-3209. PMID: 16596707

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Bjorkbacka H, Freeman M. Nonparametric Methods for Microarray Data Based on Exchangeability and Borrowed Power. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2005, 15: 783-797. PMID: 16078385

Tsai PW, LEE M-LT. Split-plot microarray experiments: issues of design, power and sample size. Applied Bioinformatics, 2005, 4: 187-194. PMID: 16231960

Lee M-LT, Gray RJ, Bjorkbacka H, Freeman MW. Generalized Rank Tests for Replicated Microarray Data. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2005, Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 3. PMID: 16646848

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Intensity-dependent normalization in microarray analysis: a note of concern. Bernoulli, 2004, 10: 943-949

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Yukhananov RY. Analysis of unbalanced microarray data, Journal of Data Science, 2003; 1: 103-121

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Power and sample size for microarray studies, Statistics in Medicine, 2002; 21: 3543-3570. PMID: 12436455

Lee M-LT, Bulyk ML, Whitmore GA, Church GM. A statistical model for investigating binding probability of DNA nucleotide sequences using microarrays, Biometrics, 2002; 58: 981-988. PMID: 12495153

Lee M-LT, Lu W, Whitmore GA, Beier D. Models for microarray gene expression data, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2002; 12: 1-19. PMID: 12146717

Lee M-LT, Kuo FC, Whitmore GA, Sklar J. Importance of replication in microarray gene expression studies: statistical methods and evidence from repetitive cDNA hybridization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000; 97: 9834-9839. PMID: 10963655. PMCID: PMC27599

Statistical Models and Applied Probability

Statistical Models

Li J, Yu T, Lv J, Lee M-LT (2021). Semiparametric Model Averaging Prediction for Lifetime Data via Hazards Regression. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series C, (accepted, in press)

Takumi S, Ma T, Li G, Chen YQ, Lee M-LT (2020). Variable selection in threshold regression model with applications to HIV drug adherence data. Statistics in Biosciences, https: DOI 10.1007/s12561-020-09284-1 PMID: 33796162

Aram J, Johnson NJ, Lee M-LT, Slopen N (2020). Drug overdose mortality is associated with employment status and occupation in the national longitudinal mortality study. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (accepted for publication) PMID: 32990475

Jiang Y, He X, Lee M-LT, Rosner B, Yan Jun (2020). Wilcoxon Rank-Based Tests for Clustered Data with R Package clusrank. Journal of Statistical Software, Nov 2020, V 96, Issue 6. doi: 10.18637/jss.v096.i06

Zhang W, Tang LL, Li Q, Liu A, Lee M-LT. (2020). Order-restricted inference for clustered ROC data with application to fingerprint matching accuracy. Biometrics, 76: 863-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13177

Cai Y, Huang J, Ning J, Lee M-LT, Rosner B, Chen Y (2019). Two-sample test for correlated data under outcome-dependent sampling with an application to self-reported weight loss data. Statistics In Medicine, (2019) 6:8. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8346 PMID: 31489699

Lin C, Liao SG, Liu P, Lee M-LT, Park YS, Tseng GC (2019). RNASeqDesign: a framework for ribonucleic acid sequencing genomewide power calculation and study design issues. JRSSC, Applied Statistics, 68: 683-704. PMID: 33692596

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA (2019). A new class of survival distribution for degradation processes subject to shocks. J. of Statistical Distributions and Applications, (2019) 6:8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40488-019-0095-1

Lee M-LT (2019). A survey of first-hitting-time based threshold regression. Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 23: 293-305.

Rezai-zadeh KP, Engstrom RN, Sharma A, Chen Y, Chu J, Cox RP, Lee MLT (2018). Generational trends and patterns in readmission within a statewide cohort of clients receiving heroin use disorder treatment in Maryland, 2007–201. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 96, 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2018.10.010

Li Y, Xiao T, Liao D, Lee MLT (2018). Using threshold regression to analyze survival data from complex surveys: With application to mortality linked NHANES III Phase II genetic data. Statistics in Medicine, 237:1162-77. PMCID: PMC6433129, DOI:10.1002/sim7575 PMID: 29250813

Chen Y, Liu Y, Chu H, Lee MLT, Schmid CH (2017). A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy. Statistics in Medicine, 2017 Jan 15;36 (1):105-121. doi: 10.1002/sim.7093 PMID: 27580758

Chiu CY, Jung J, Chen W, Weeks DE, Ren H, Boehnke M, Amos CI, Liu A, Mills JL, MLT Lee, Xiong M, Fan R. Meta-analysis of quantitative pleiotropic traits for next-generation sequencing with multivariate functional linear models, European Journal of Human Genetics,, 2016 Dec 21 .doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.170 PMID: 28000696

Chen Y, Liu Y, Chu H, Ting Lee ML, Schmid CH (2017). A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy. Statistics in Medicine, 2017 Jan 15;36(1):105-121. doi: 10.1002/sim.7093 PMID: 27580758

Hou W-H, Chuang H-Y, Lee M-LT (2016). A threshold regression model to predict return to work after traumatic limb injury. Injury, 2016; 47:483-489. Epub 2015 Dec 2. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.11.032. PMID: 26746983

Li J, Huang Z, Ma S, Lee MLT (2016). Collective versus Individual Effects in Survival Analysis of Multiple Failures, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics,, Vol. 43: 543 –557. doi: 10.1111/sjos.12190

Xiao T, Whitmore GA, He X, Lee M-LT (2015). The R Package threg to Implement Threshold Regression Model, Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 66, Issue 8.

He X, Chen L, Lei L, Xia HA, Lee MLT (2015) A Simple Method for Estimating Confidence Intervals for Exposure Adjusted Incidence Rate and Its Applications to Clinical Trials. Journal of Biometrics and Biostatistics, Vol. 6: 238. doi:10.4172/2155-6180.1000238

He X, Whitmore GA, Loo GY, Hochberg MC, Lee M-LT. (2015). A model for time to fracture with a shock stream superimposed on progressive degradation: the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. Statistics in Medicine, Vol.34 (4):652- 663 DOI: 10.1002/sim.6356. PMID: 25376757

Shao F, Li J, Ma S, Lee M-LT (2014). Semi-parametric Varying-coefficient Model for Interval Censored Data with a Cured Proportion. Statistics in Medicine, Vol.33 (10):1700-12. doi: 10.1002/sim.6054. PMID: 24302535

Whitmore GA, Zhang G, Lee M-LT. Constructing normalcy and discrepancy indexes for birth weight and gestational age using a threshold regression mixture model. Biometrics, 2012, 68: 297-306. PMID: 21838731

Xiao T, Whitmore GA, He X, Lee M-LT. Threg: a new command to implement threshold regression model in STATA. The STATA Journal, 2012, 12(2): 257-283.

Li L, Lee M-LT. Analysis of Failure Time Using Threshold Regression with Semi-parametric Varying Coefficients. Statistica Neerlandica, 2011, 65: 164-182.

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Rosner B. Threshold Regression for Survival Data with Time-varying Covariates. Statistics in Medicine, 2010, 29, 7-8: 896 - 905. PMID: 20213704. PMCID: PMC3063107

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Proportional hazards and threshold regression: their theoretical and practical connections. Lifetime Data Analysis, 2010, 16, 2: 196-214. PMID: 19960249

Pennell M, Whitmore GA, Lee M-LT. Bayesian random effects threshold regression with application to survival data with nonproportional hazards. Biostatistics, 2010, 11, 1: 111-126. PMID: 19828558

Yu Z, Tu W, Lee M-LT. A Semiparametric Threshold Regression Analysis of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescent Women. Statistics in Medicine, 2009, 28:3029-3042. PMID: 19691037

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Chang M. A Threshold Regression Mixture Model for Assessing Treatment Efficacy in a Multiple Myeloma Clinical Trial. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2008, 18: 1136-1149. PMID: 18991113

Tong X, He X, Sun J, and Lee M-LT. Joint analysis of current status and marker data: an extension of a bivariate threshold model. The International Journal of Biostatistics, 2008, Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 21. PMID: 20231913. PMCID: PMC2835457

Lee M-LT. Lifetime models and risk assessment. Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessments, Published Online in 2008. DOI: 10.1002/9780470061596.risk0478

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Threshold regression for survival analysis: modeling event times by a stochastic process reaching a boundary. Statistical Sciences, 2006, 21: 501-513.

Rosner B, Glynn RJ, Lee M-LT. Extension of the Rank Sum Test for Clustered Data: Two-Group Comparisons with Group Membership Defined at the Subunit Level. Biometrics, 2006, 62: 1251-1259.PMID: 17156300

Rosner B, Glynn RJ, Lee M-LT. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for Paired Comparisons of Clustered Data. Biometrics, 2006, 62: 185-192. PMID: 16542245

Lee M-LT, Dehling HG. Generalized two-sample U-statistics for clustered data. Statistica Neerlandica, 2005, 59: 313-323.

Shubina M., Lee M-LT. On maximum attainable correlation for Sarmanov family of bivariate distributions with equal marginal distributions, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 2004, 33: 1031-1052.

Rosner B, Glynn RJ, Lee M-LT, Incorporation of clustering effects for the Wilcoxon rank sum test: a large sample approach. Biometrics, 2003; 59: 1089-1098. PMID: 14969489

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. First Hitting Time Models for Lifetime Data, Handbook of Statistics, Volume 23: Advances in Survival Analysis, edited by N. Balakrishnan and C.R. Rao. Elsevier, North Holland. 2003; 537-543.

Fang HB, Sun J, Lee M-LT, Nonparametric survival comparisons for interval censored continuous data. Statistica Sinica, 2002; 12: 1073-1083.

Lee M-LT, Rosner BA. The average area under correlated ROC curves: a nonparametric approach based on generalized two-sample Wilcoxon statistics. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, series C, Applied Statistics, 2001; 50: 337-344.

Lee M-LT, Schoenfeld D, Wang X, Penfornis A, Faustman D. Bayesian analysis of case control polygenic etiology studies with missing data. Biostatistics; 2001, 2(3): 309-322. PMID: 12933541

Lee M-LT, DeGruttola V, Schoenfeld D. A model for markers and latent health status. Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2000; 62: 747-762.

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Statistical inference for serial dilution assay data. Biometrics, 1999; 55: 1215-1220. PMID: 11315070

Hougaard P, Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Analysis of overdispersed count data by mixtures of Poisson variables and Poisson processes. Biometrics, 1997; 53: 1225-1238. PMID: 9423246

Williamson JM, Lee M-LT. A GEE regression model for the association between an ordinal and a nominal variable. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1996; 25:1887-1901.

Lee M-LT. Properties and applications of Sarmonov's family of bivariate distributions. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1996; 25:1207-1222.

Cole BF, Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Zaslavsky AM. An empirical Bayes model for Markov dependent binary sequences with randomly missing observations. Journal of American Statistical Association, 1995; 90:1364-72.

Lee M-LT. A two state Markov model. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1994; 23:615-23.

Benedetti J, Green S, Lee M-LT, Crowley J. Report of the ad hoc committee on design of experiments on double blind refereeing. Statistical Sciences, 1993; 8:318-30.

Lee M-LT, Gross AJ. Lifetime distributions under unknown environments. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inferences, 1991; 29:137-43.

Whitmore GA, Lee M-LT. A multivariate survival distribution generated by inverse Gaussian mixture of exponentials. Technometrics, 1991; 33:39-50.

D'Agostino RB, Lee M-LT, Belanger AJ, Cupples LA, Anderson K, Kannel WB. Relation of pooled logistic regression to time dependent Cox regression analysis: the Framingham Heart Study. Statistics in Medicine, 1990; 9:1501-15. PMID: 2281238

Lee M-LT. A moment test to identify uniformity. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 1989; 18 Part B:253-61.

Lee M-LT. Some cross product difference statistics and a test for trends in ordered contingency tables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 1988; 7:41-46.

Block HW, Ting ML. Some concepts of multivariate dependence. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1981; A10(8):749-62.

Applied Probability

Limnios N, Lee M-LT. Hoeffding's Inequality for Stopped Martingales and Semi-Markov Processes. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 2005, 34: 713-720.

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA. Stochastic processes directed by randomized time. Journal of Applied Probability, 1993; 30:302-14.

Lee M-LT, Rachev ST, Samorodnitsky G. Association of stable random variables. Annals of Probability, 1990; 18:1759-64.

Lee M-LT, Gross AJ. Properties of conditionally independent generalized gamma distributions. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 1989; 3:289-97.

Lee M-LT. Dependence by reverse regular rule. Annals of Probability, 1985; 13:583-91.

Lee M-LT. Dependence by total positivity. Annals of Probability, 1985; 13:572-82.

Wang HC, Ting ML. Homogeneous Banach spaces of locally integrable functions. Nanta Mathematica 1979; 12:62-70.

Articles in Epidemiology, Environmental Research, Pharmarco Epidemiology, Microbiology

Epidemiology

Ahn-Jarvis JH, Clinton SK, Grainger EM, Riedl KM, Schwartz SJ, Lee MLT, Cruz-Cano R, Young GS, Lesinski GB, Vodovotz Y (2015). Isoflavone Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism after Consumption of a Standardized Soy and Soy-Almond Bread in Men with Asymptomatic Prostate Cancer, Cancer Prev Res (Phila)., 2015; 8(11): 1045–1054 PMID: 26276749

Lin SC, Lee ML-T, Adirim TA, Transition outcomes for young adults with disabilities, Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2015, Vol. 8:23–30, PMID: 25737345

Mags E. Beksinska ME, Smit J, Greener R, Todd CS, Lee M-LT, Maphumulo V, Hoffmann V. (2015). Acceptability and Performance of the Menstrual Cup in South Africa: A Randomized Crossover Trial Comparing the Menstrual Cup to Tampons or Sanitary Pads. Journal of Women’s Health, V24, No.2, 151-158, 2014, Vol.3(3):224-230

Beksinska ME, Smit J, Greener R, Todd CS, Lee ML-T, Maphumulo V, Hoffmann V, Acceptability and Performance of the Menstrual Cup in South Africa:A Randomized Crossover Trial Comparing the Menstrual Cup to Tampons or Sanitary Pads, Journal of Women's Health, 2015, Vol.24(2):151-158. PMID: 25682816

He X, Lu X, Chen S, Hochberg MC, Lee M-LT, Association between Obesity, Race and Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study, International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 2014, Vol.3(3):224-230

Hoh JK, Cha KJ, Park MI, Lee M-LT, Park YS. Estimating Time to Full Uterine Cervical Dilation Using Genetic Algorithm, Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, August 2012; 28(8): 423-428. PMID: 22892163

Rosner B, Glynn RJ, Lee M-LT. A Nonparametric Test for Observational Non-Normally Distributed Ophthalmic Data with Eye-Specific Exposures and Outcomes, Ophthalmic Epidemiology, July 2007; 14(4): 243-250. PMID: 17896304

Finkelstein JS, Lee M-LT, Sowers MF, Ettinger B, Neer RM, Kelsey JL, Cauley JA, Huang MH, Greendale GA. Ethnic variation in bone density in premenopausal and early perimenopausal women: effects of anthropometric and lifestyle factors, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2002; 87: 3057-3067. PMID: 12107201

Finkelstein JS, Sowers MF, Greendale GA, Lee M-LT, Neer RM, Cauley JA, Ettinger B. Ethnic variation in bone turnover in pre- and early perimenopausal women: effects of anthropometric and lifestyle factors. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2002; 87: 3051-3056. PMID: 12107200

Leder BZ, Smith MR, Fallon M, Lee ML, Finkelstein JS. Effects of gonadal steroid suppression on skeletal sensitivity to parathyroid hormone in men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and metabolism, 2001; 86: 511-516. PMID: 11158001

Zaleznik DF, Rench MA, Hillier S, Krohn MA, Platt R, Lee M-LT, Flores AE, Ferriri P, Baker CJ. Invasive group B streptococcal disease in pregnant women and neonates from diverse population groups. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000; 30:276-281. PMID: 10671328

Lee M-LT, Rosner BA, Weiss ST. Relationship of blood pressure to cardiovascular death: the effects of pulse pressure in the elderly. Annals of Epidemiology, 1999; 9: 101-107. PMID: 10037553

Platt R, Adelson-Mitty J, Weissman L, Zaleznik D., Lee ML, Baker CJ. Resource utilization associated with initial hospital stays complicated by early-onset group B streptococcal disease. Pediatric Infectious Disease, 1999; 18: 529-533. PMID: 10391183

Lee M-LT, Rosner BA, Weiss ST, Vokonas PS, Gaziano JM. Predictors of cardiovascular deaths: The Normative Aging Study--1963-1998. Clinical Geriatrics, 1999: 7: 77-85.

Fielding JR, Griffiths DJ, Versi E, Mulkern RV, Lee M-LT, Jolesz FA. MR imaging of pelvic floor continence mechanisms in the supine and sitting positions. American Journal of Roentgenology, 1998; 171: 1607-1610. PMID: 9843296

Poteat HT, Ho GT, Lee M-LT, Welch WR, Loughlin KR, Sacks DB. The utility of patient age in evaluating prostate cancer, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1997; 107: 337-344. PMID: 9052385

Lee M-LT, Rosner BA, Vokonas PS, Weiss ST. Longitudinal analysis of adult male blood pressure: The Normative Aging Study, 1963-1992. Journal of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, 1996; 1:79-87.

Hirschorn LR, Trnka Y, Onderdonk A, Lee M-LT, Platt R. Epidemiology of community-acquired clostridium difficile associated diarrhea. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1994; 169:127-33. PMID: 8277174

Environmental Research

R.E. Rosenberg-Goldstein, R. Cruz-Cano, C. Jiang, A. Palmer, D. Blythe, P. Ryan, B. Hogan, B. White, J.R. Dunn, T. Libby, M. Tobin-D’Angelo, J. Huang, S. McGuire, K. Scherzinger, MLT Lee, A. R. Sapkota. Association between Community Socioeconomic Factors, Animal Feeding Operations, and Campylobacteriosis Incidence Rates: Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), BMC Infectious Diseases, V16:354, July 2016, DOI 10.1186/s12879-016-1686-9. PMID: 27450432

Pasturel BZ, Cruz-Cano R, Rosenberg Goldstein, Palmer A, , Blythe D, Ryan P, Hogan B, Jung C, Joseph SW, Wang MQ, Lee M-LT, Puett R, Sapkota AR. Impact of rurality, broiler operations, and community socioeconomic factors on the risk of campylobacteriosis in Maryland, American Journal of Public Health, 2013, 103(12):2267-75. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301338, PMID: 24134343

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Laden F, Hart JE, Garshick E. A Case-Control Study Relating Railroad Worker Mortality to Diesel Exhaust Exposure Using a Threshold Regression Model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inferences, 2009, 139:1633-1642. PMID: 19221608. PMCID: PMC2642623

Lee M-LT, Whitmore GA, Laden F, Hart JE, Garshick E. Assessing lung cancer risk in railroad workers using a first hitting time regression model. Environmetrics, 2004,15: 501-512. PMID: 16741563

Tsaih SW, Korrick S, Schwartz J, Lee MLT, Amarasiriwardena C, Aro A, Sparrow D, Hu H. Relation of bone lead and blood lead to renal function among middle-aged and elderly men: the Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2004; 112: 1178-82.

Aro A, Amarasiriwardena C, Lee M-LT, Kim R, Hu H. Validation of K x-ray fluorescence bone lead measurements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in cadaver legs. Medical Physics, 2000; 27: 119-123. PMID: 10659745

Chuang HY, Schwartz J, Hu H, Lee M-LT. Vibration perception thresholds in workers with long-term lead exposure. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2000; 57: 588-594. PMID: 10935939. PMCID: PMC1740022

Tsaih SWT, Schwartz J, Lee M-LT, Amarasiriwardena C, Aro A, Sparrow D, Hu H. The independent contribution of bone and erythrocyte lead to urinary lead among middle-aged and elderly man: The Normative Aging Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999; 107, 391-396. PMID: 10210695. PMCID: PMC1566410

Chuang HY, Lee M-LT, Chao KY, Wang JD, Hu H. The relationship of blood lead levels to personal hygiene habits in lead battery workers: Taiwan, 1991-1997. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999; 35: 595-603. PMID: 10332513

Pharmaco Epidemiology

Clinton SK, Ahn-Jarvis JH, Grainger EM, Riedl K, Schwartz SJ, Lee ML-T, Cruz-Cano R, Young GS, Lesinski GB, Vodovotz Y. Isoflavone pharmacokinetics and metabolism after consumption of a standardized soy and soy-almond bread in men with asymptomatic prostate cancer. Cancer Prevention Research, Volume 8(11), Pages 1045-1054. August 2015, doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-14-0465, PMCID: PMC4633369. PMID: 26276749

Choo PW, Rand CS, Inui TS, Lee M-LT, Canning C, Platt R. A cohort study of possible risk factors for over-reporting of antihypertensive adherence, BioMedical Central Cardiovascular Disorders, 2001; 1: 6. PMID: 11801191. PMCID: PMC64641

Choo PW, Rand CS, Inui TS, Lee M-LT, Canning C, Platt R. Derivation of adherence metrics from electronic dosing records. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2001; 54: 619-626. PMID: 11377123

Choo PW, Rand CS, Inui TS, Lee M-LT, Canning C, Platt R. A pharmacodynamic assessment of the impact of antihypertensive non-adherence on blood pressure control. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2000; 9: 557-563. PMID: 11338913

Choo PW, Rand CS, Inui TS, Lee M-LT, Cain E, Cordeiro-Breault M, Canning C, Platt R. Validation of patient reports, automated pharmacy records, and pill counts with electronic monitoring or adherence to antihypertensive therapy. Medical Care, 1999; 37: 846-857. PMID: 10493464

Lee M-LT, Lazarus R. Meta analysis for drug safety data with logistic regressions. Drug Information Journal, 1997; 31: 1189-1193.

Microbiology

Onderdonk AB, Lee M-LT, Liberman E, Delaney ML, Tuomala RE. Quantitative microbiologic models for pre-term delivery, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2003, 41: 1073-1079. PMID: 12624032. PMCID: PMC150298

Lee M-LT, DuBois A, Ross RA, Onderdonk AB. Nonlinear models for in vitro kill kinetics for antibiotics. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 1999; 9: 271-277. PMID: 10379693

Lee M-LT, Ross RA, Onderdonk AB. Statistical models for vaginal microflora: identifying women at risk for group B streptococcus colonization as a test of concept. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1997; 5: 336-340. PMID: 18476181

Lee M-LT, Onderdonk AB. Demonstration of subgroups among normal vaginal microflora data. Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease, 1995; 7:107-12.

Lee M-LT, Ross RA, Onderdonk AB. Cluster analysis of vaginal microflora data, Microecology and Therapy 1995; 25:324-328.

Lee M-LT, Ross RA, Delaney ML, Onderdonk AB. Mathematical modelling of the vaginal microflora. Microecology and Therapy 1995; 23:18-21.

Ross RA, Lee M-LT, Delaney ML, Onderdonk AB. Use of continuous culture growth systems for modelling vaginal microflora behaviour. Microecology and Therapy 1995; 23:16-17.

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