Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and manuscripts under review

BAMIFun: Bayesian Multiple Imputation for Functional Data

Ziren Jiang, Lei Xuan, Eric F. Lock, and Erjia Cui

Estimating causal effects of functional treatments with modified functional treatment policies

Ziren Jiang, Erjia Cui, and Jared D. Huling

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09145 (2026)

Heterogeneous readmission prediction with hierarchical effect decomposition and regularization

Ziren Jiang, Lingfeng Huo, Jue Hou, Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, Maureen A. Smith, and Jared D Huling

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19569 (2026)

Exploring the effects of mechanical ventilator settings with modified vector-valued treatment policies

Ziren Jiang, Philip S Crooke, John J Marini, and Jared D Huling

arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09809 (2025)

Using External Control Arms in Basket Trials: Strategies for Borrowing Across Baskets

Ziren Jiang, Haitao Chu, Georgie Weston, Lei Nie, Cindy Lu

The Hazards of Using Hazard Ratios in Indirect Treatment Comparisons

Ziren Jiang, Jialing Liu, Weili He, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Satrajit Roychoudhury, Yong Chen, Haitao Chu

Research Synthesis Methods (2025): 1–15

Tutorial on Bayesian Functional Regression Using Stan

Ziren Jiang, Ciprian Crainiceanu, Erjia Cui

Statistics in Medicine 44, no. 20–22 (2025): e70265

A critical assessment of matching-adjusted indirect comparisons in relation to target populations

Ziren Jiang, Jialing Liu, Demissie Alemayehu, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Devin Abrahami, Yong Chen, Haitao Chu

Research Synthesis Methods 16, no. 3 (2025): 569–574

BAMITA: Bayesian Multiple Imputation for Tensor Arrays

Ziren Jiang, Gen Li, Eric F Lock

Biostatistics 26.1 (2025): kxae047

Enhancing modified treatment policy effect estimation with weighted energy distances

Ziren Jiang, Jared Huling

Annals of Applied Statistics 19, no. 4 (2025): 2555–2577

Estimating reference intervals from an IPD meta-analysis using quantile regression

Ziren Jiang, Haitao Chu, Zhen Wang, M. Hassan Murad, and Lianne K. Siegel

BMC Medical Research Methodology 24 (2024): 251

A comprehensive review and shiny application on the matching-adjusted indirect comparison

Ziren Jiang, Yong Chen, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Margaret Gamalo, Haitao Chu

Research Synthesis Methods (2024): 1–16

Nonconcurrent Controls in Platform Trials: Can We Borrow their Concurrent Observation Data?

Ziren Jiang, Cindy Lu, Jialing Liu, Satrajit Roychoudhury, Bo Huang, and Haitao Chu

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (2023): 1–10

RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta-analysis

Ziren Jiang, Wenhao Cao, Haitao Chu, Fateh Bazerbachi, and Lianne Siegel

Research Synthesis Methods 14, no. 3 (2023): 468–478

Normal Reference Range of Shear Wave Liver Elastography in Apparently Healthy Adult Individuals: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis

Darrick K. Li, Samir Haffar, Ziren Jiang, Lianne Siegel, M. Hassan Murad, Haitao Chu, Fateh Bazerbachi

Gastroenterology 164.6 (2023): S-404

Borrowing Concurrent Information from Non-Concurrent Control to Enhance Statistical Efficiency in Platform Trials

Jialing Liu, Chengxing Lu, Ziren Jiang, Demissie Alemayehu, Lei Nie, and Haitao Chu

Current Oncology 30, no. 4 (2023): 3964–3973