Dejian Lai

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Serial Magnetic Resonance in Multiple Sclerosis (PI, Ponnada A. Narayana), National Institutes of Health (NIH), $1,812,404 (Co-investigator, 10% FTE), 4/01/97-3/31/02

• Shackelford LC, LeBlanc AD, Driscoll TB, Evans HJ, Rianon NJ, Smith SM, Spector E, Feeback DL, Lai D, Resistive Exercise as a Countermeasure to Disuse Induced Bone Loss, Journal of Applied Physiology, 97, 119-129, 2004
• Lai D, Estimating the Hurst Effect and Its Applications in Monitoring Clinical Trials, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 45, 549-562, 2004
• Lai D, Poffenbarger T, Franco K, Portman R, Sorof JM, Relationship between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements in the Diagnosis of Hypertension in Children, Journal of Data Science, 2, 383-397, 2004
• Sorof JM, Lai D, Turner J, Poffenbarger T, Portman RJ, Overweight, Ethnicity, and the Prevalence of Hypertension in School-Aged Children, Pediatrics, 113, 475-482, 2004
• Lai D, Hardy RJ, An Update of Impact of HIV/AIDS on Life Expectancy in the United States, AIDS, 18, 1732-1734, 2004
• Lai D, Sex Ratio at Birth and Infant Mortality in China: An Empirical Study, Social Indicators Research, 2004
• Ondo W, Romanyshyn J, Vuong KD Lai D, Long Term Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome with Dopamine Agonists, Arch Neurology, 2004
• Lai D, Chen G, Chaotification of Disceret-Time Dynamical Systems: An Extension of Chen-Lai Algorithm, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2004
• Ondo W, Lai D, Olfaction Testing in Patients with Tremor Dominant Parkinson's Disease: Is this a Distinct Condition, Movement Disorders, 2004
• Lai D, Monitoring the SARS Epidemic in China: A Time Series Analysis, Journal of Data Science, 2004
• Lai D, King T, Moye LA, Wei Q, Sample Size for Biomarker Studies: More Subjects or More Measurements per Subject?, Annals of Epidemiology, 13, 204-208, 2003
• Lai D, Hardy RJ, Measuring the Impact of Hepatitis A Virus in Chinese Cities: A Life Table Approach, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 15, 94-98, 2003
• Sorof JM, Alexandrov AV, Garami Z, Turner JL, Grafe RE, Lai D, Portman RJ:, Carotid Ultrasound for Detection of Vascular Abnormalities in Hypertensive Children, Pediatric Nephrology, 18, 1020-1024, 2003
• Lai D, Principal Component Analysis on Human Development Indicators of China, Social Indicators Research, 61, 319-330, 2003
• Lai D, Chen G, Distribution of the Estimated Lyapunov Exponents from Noisy Chaotic Time Series, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 24, 705-720, 2003
• Ondo WG, Sutton L, Lai D, Jankovic J, Hearing Impairment in Essential Tremor, Neurology, 61, 1093-1097, 2003
• Lai D, Sharma R, Wolinsky JS, Narayana PA, Comparative Studies of Correlation Coefficients in Spatially MRSI-observed Neurochemicals from Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Journal of Applied Statistics, 30, 1221-1229, 2003
• Lai D, Geostatistical Analysis of Chinese Cancer Mortality: Variogram, Kriging and Beyond, Journal of Data Science, 2, 177-193, 2003
• Lai D, Chen G, Testing Chaos Based on Empirical Distribution Function: A Simulation Study, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 72, 77-85, 2002
• Lai D, Chen G, On Statistical Properties of the Lyapunov Exponent of the Generalized Skew Tent Map, Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 20, 375-388, 2002
• Lai D, Wang X, Wiorkowski JJ, Local Asymptotic Normality for Multivariate Nonlinear AR Processes, Stochastics and Stochastics Reports, 72, 277-287, 2002
• Xu PY, Liang R, Jankovic J, Hunter C, Zeng YX, Ashizawa T, Lai D, Le WD, Association of Homozygous 7048G7049 Variant in Intron 6 of Nurr1 Gene with Parkinson's Disease, Neurology, 58, 881-884, 2002
• Grimes RM, Otiniano MA, Rodriguez M, Lai D, Clinical Experience of HIV Infected Elderly Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 34, 1530-1533, 2002
• Hsu CW, Lai D, Begley C, Franzini L, The Association Between Income and Mortality in Texas and Taiwan-A Comparative Study of Spatial Statistics, Advances and Applications in Statistics, 2, 149-176, 2002
• LeBlanc AD, Driscol TB, Schackelford LC, Evans HJ, Rianon NJ, Smith SM, Lai D, Alendronate as an Effective Countermeasure to Disuse Induced Bone Loss, Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions, 2, 335-343, 2002
• Silver SR, Rinsky RA, Cooper SP, Hornung RW, Lai D, Effect of Follow-uptime on Risk Estimates: A Longitudinal Examination of Relative Risk for Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma in a Rubber Hydrochloride Cohort, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 42, 481-489, 2002
• Lai D, Testing Randomness of Time Series: Portmanteau Statistics under an Order Transformation, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 11, 1761-1769, 2001
• Lai D, Moye LA, Davis BR, Brown LE, Sacks FM, Brownian Motion and Long-Term Clinical Trial Recruitment, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 93, 2239-246, 2001
• Bickel DR, Lai D, Asymptotic Distribution of Time Series Intermittency Estimates: Applications to Economic and Clinical Data, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 37, 419-431, 2001
• Lai D, Guo F, Hardy RJ, Standardized mortality ratio and life expectancy: a comparative study of Chinese mortality, International Journal of Epidemiology, 29(5), 852-5, October 2000
• Lai D, Life table analysis of ascariasis in a rural community in Jiangxi Province, China, Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 31(1), 141-3, March 2000
• Lai D, Asymptotic Distribution of the Estimated BDS Statistic and Residual Analysis of AR Models on the Canadian Lynx Data, Journal of Biological Systems, 8, 95-114, 2000
• Lai D, Temporal Analysis of the Human Development Indicators: Principal Component Approach, Social Indicators Research, 51, 331-366, 2000
• Lai D and Chen G, Statistical Simulation Study on the Distribution of the Controlled Lyapunov Exponents, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 33, 69-77, 2000
• Lai D, Davis BR, Hardy RJ, Fractional Brownian Motion and Clinical Trials, Journal of Applied Statistics, 27, 103-108, 2000
• Lai D, Asymptotic Distribution of the Estimated BDS Statistic from the Residuals of the Location-Scale Type Processes, Statistics, 34, 117-135, 2000
• Kagawa S, Gu J, Swisher SG, Ji L, Roth JA, Lai D, Stephens LC, Fang BL, Antitumor effect of adenovirus-mediated Bax gene transfer on p53-sensitive and p53-resistant cancer lines, Cancer Research, 57, 1157-1161, 2000
• Lai D and Chen G, Generating Different Statistical Distributions by the Chaotic Skew Tent Map, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 10, 1509-1512, 2000
• Lai D, Statistical and Fractal Analysis of Chinese Earthquake Time Series, Fractal, 8, 123-127, 2000
• Lai D, Lee L, Lee ES, Effects of Handicap on Life Expectancy: The Case of China, Public Health, 114, 330-335, 2000
• Lai D, A Statistical Analysis on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of the Chinese Elderly Population, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 28, 53-64, 1999
• Lai D, Asymptotic Distributions of the Correlation Integral Based Statistics, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 10, 127-135, 1999
• Lai D and Narayana PA, Confidence Intervals of Proton MRI-observed Neurochemicals in Human Brain, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 3, 159-169, 1999
• Lai D and Hardy RJ, Potential Gains in Life Expectancy or Years of Potential Life Lost: Impact of Competing Risks of Death, International Journal of Epidemiology, 28, 894-898, 1999
• Lai D and Chen G, Distribution of the Lyapunov Exponent of the Chaotic Skew Tent Map, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 9, 2059-2067, 1999
• Lai D, Wang SJ and Hsi BP, Saddlepoint Methods in Testing the Difference Between Two Binomial Proportions: A Comparative Study, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 3, 239-263, 1999
• Narayana PA, Doyle TJ, Lai D, Wolinsky JS, Serial Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging, Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Quantitative Lesion Volumetry in Multiple Sclerosis, Annals of Neurology, 43, 56-71, 1998
• Lai D and Chen G, On Statistical Analysis of Lyapunov Exponents from Time Series: A Jacobian Estimation Approach, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 27(7), 1-9, 1998
• Lai D, Local Asymptotic Normality for Location-Scale Type Processes, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 2, 171-186, 1998
• Chen G and Lai D, Feedback Anticontrol of Discrete Chaos, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 8, 1585-1590, 1998
• Lai D, Spatial statistical analysis of Chinese cancer mortality: a comparison study of the D statistic., Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 25(4), 258-65, December 1997
• Lai D, Tsai S P, Hardy R J, Impact of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in the United States., Aids, 11(2), 203-7, February 1997
• Chen G and Lai D, Making a Dynamical System Chaotic: Feedback Control of Lyapunov Exponents for Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 44, 250-253, 1997
• Lai D and Harrist RB, A Nonparametric Statistical Approach in Noisy Chaos Identification, Communications in Statistics, Ser. B, 26, 291-300, 1997
• Lai D, Bartholomew P H, Soil-transmitted helminthiases in China: a spatial statistical analysis., Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 27(4), 754-9, December 1996
• Lai D, Hardy R J, Tsai S P, Statistical analysis of the standardized mortality ratio and life expectancy., American Journal of Epidemiology, 143(8), 832-40, 15 Apr 1996
• Brandt ME, Ademoglu A, Lai D, Chen G:, Autoregressive Self-tuning Feedback Control of the Henon Map, Physical Review E, 54, 6201-6206, 1996
• A Note on Asymptotic Distribution of Randomly Weighted Permutation Statistics from Mixing Processes, Communications in Statistics, Ser. A, 25, 2395-2401, 1996
• Chen G and Lai D, Feedback Control of Lyapunov Exponents for Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 6, 1341-1349, 1996
• Lai, D., and Chen, G., Dynamical Systems Identification from Time Series Data: A Hankel Matrix Approach, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 24:1-10, 1996
• Lai, D., Comparison Study of AR Models on the Canadian Lynx Data: A Close Look at BDS Statistic, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 22:409-423; 1996
• Lai, D., and Chen G, Computing the Distribution of Lyapunov Exponents from Time Series: the One-Dimensional Case Study, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 5:1721-1726, 1995