Publications

selected peer-reviewed publications in reversed chronological order.

Please see CV for more detailed information on publications and working papers.

2026

  1. Divergent Effects of Communication Skills on Aggression Among Justice-Involved Youth with and without ADHD: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
    Lin Liu, Dayu Sun, Jorge Luis Hernández, and Michael T. Baglivio
    Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2026
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  2. The Last Straw: Sudden Shifts in Substance Use During the First 6 Months After Prison Release
    Lin Liu, Christy A. Visher, and Dayu Sun
    Crime & Delinquency, 2026
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  3. Learning Health Systems and Substance Use Care Cascade Achievement Among Justice-Involved Youth: A Cluster-Randomized Stepped-Wedge Clinical Trial
    Matthew C. Aalsma, Katherine Schwartz, Dayu Sun, Lauren M. O’Reilly, Steven A. Brown, Patrick O. Monahan, Lisa Saldana, Sarah E. Wiehe, Tamika C. B. Zapolski, Leslie A. Hulvershorn, and 2 more authors
    JAMA Network Open, 2026
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2025

  1. modelSSE: An R Package for Characterizing Infectious Disease Superspreading from Contact Tracing Data
    Shi Zhao, Zihao Guo, Kai Wang, Shengzhi Sun, Dayu Sun, Weiming Wang, Daihai He, Marc KC Chong, Yuantao Hao, and Eng-Kiong Yeoh
    Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2025
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  2. JASA
    Kernel Meets Sieve: Transformed Hazards Models with Sparse Longitudinal Covariates
    Dayu Sun, Zhuowei Sun, Xingqiu Zhao, and Hongyuan Cao
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2025
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  3. Robust Principal Component Analysis with Truncated Weighted Nuclear Norm and Adaptive Histogram Equalization: A Novel Method for Low-Quality Retinal Image Enhancement
    Habte Tadesse Likassa, Ding-Geng Chen, Kewei Chen, Yalin Wang, Wenhui Zhu, Oana Dumitrascu, and Dayu Sun
    Statistics and Data Science in Imaging, 2025
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  4. Nat. Commun.
    The HM-TARGET personalised real-time haemodynamic targets in critical care
    Yanhua Sun, Jiangqiong Li, Xiang Liu, Genevieve A. Mortensen, Xiaoping Gu, David C. Adams, Haixu Tang, Jing Su, Ziyue Liu, Dayu Sun, and 1 more author
    Nature Communications, 2025
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  5. Functional Connectome Signatures of Patients with Asymptomatic and Typical Alzheimer’s
    Xiaoqing Huang, Rishit Puri, Dayu Sun, Yi Zhao, Jie Zhang, Kun Huang, and Yijie Wang
    Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 2025
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2024

  1. A robust approach for regression analysis of panel count data with time-varying covariates
    Dayu Sun, Yuanyuan Guo, Yang Li, Wanzhu Tu, and Jiangguo Sun
    Bernoulli, 2024
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  2. A flexible time-varying coefficient rate model for panel count data
    Dayu Sun, Yuanyuan Guo, Yang Li, Jianguo Sun, and Wanzhu Tu
    Lifetime Data Analysis, 2024
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  3. A Novel RPCA Method Using Log-Weighted Nuclear and L_(2,1) Norms Combined with Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) for High Dimensional Natural and Medical Image Data
    Habte Tadesse Likassa, Ding Geng Chen, and Dayu Sun
    International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 2024
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  4. JASA
    Partial quantile tensor regression
    Dayu Sun, Zhiping Qiu, Limin Peng, Ying Guo, and Amita Manatunga
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2024
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  5. Temporal Trends in Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Justice-Involved Youth from 2016 to 2021
    Lin Liu, Melissa Padron, Dayu Sun, and Jeremy W. Pettit
    Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2024
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2023

  1. Regression analysis of panel count data with both time-dependent covariates and time-varying effects
    Yuanyuan Guo, Dayu Sun, and Jianguo Sun
    Statistica Sinica, 2023
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  2. Regression analysis of general mixed recurrent event data
    Ryan Sun, Dayu Sun, Liang Zhu, and Jianguo Sun
    Lifetime Data Analysis, 2023
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2022

  1. Violent victimization during reentry: prevalence, triggers, and impact on mental health
    Lin Liu, Thomas J. Mowen, Christy A. Visher, and Dayu Sun
    Justice Quarterly, 2022
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  2. Inference of a time-varying coefficient regression model for multivariate panel count data
    Yuanyuan Guo, Dayu Sun, and Jianguo Sun
    Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2022
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2021

  1. Regression analysis of asynchronous longitudinal data with informative observation processes
    Dayu Sun, Hui Zhao, and Jianguo Sun
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2021
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  2. Do both petty and serious female offenders have shorter incarcerations than their male counterparts? Testing the universality of chivalrous treatment
    Lin Liu, Ronet Bachman, Jing Qiu, and Dayu Sun
    Women & Criminal Justice, 2021
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  3. When post-incarcerated individuals return to high-risk neighborhoods: staying out of trouble, social withdrawal, and mental health
    Lin Liu, Christy A. Visher, Daniel J. O’Connell, and Dayu Sun
    Crime & Delinquency, 2021
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  4. Examining the Association Between Angiopoietin-2 Levels and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Subtypes in Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis
    P. Yang, D. Sun, A. Manatunga, F. Harris, L. Wells, S. Bhavani, G.S. Martin, and A.M. Esper
    In American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2021
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2020

  1. An early adverse experience goes a long, criminogenic, gendered way: the nexus of early adversities, adult offending, and gender
    Lin Liu, Susan L. Miller, Jing Qiu, and Dayu Sun
    Women & Criminal Justice, 2020
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  2. Do released prisoners’ perceptions of neighborhood condition affect reentry outcomes?
    Lin Liu, Christy A. Visher, and Dayu Sun
    Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2020
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2019

  1. Simultaneous estimation and variable selection for incomplete event history studies
    Hui Zhao, Dayu Sun, Gang Li, and Jianguo Sun
    Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2019
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2018

  1. Variable selection for recurrent event data with broken adaptive ridge regression
    Hui Zhao, Dayu Sun, Gang Li, and Jianguo Sun
    Canadian Journal of Statistics, 2018
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2017

  1. Inference on an adaptive accelerated life test with application to smart-grid data-acquisition-devices
    Lijuan Shen, Dayu Sun, Zhisheng Ye, and Xingqiu Zhao
    Journal of Quality Technology, 2017
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