Publications in medical statistics and meta-analysis

-- * denotes students under my supervision.
-- The research in this area has been supported by the Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) with Grant No. 04150476, and the Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas (IG-FNRA) at Hong Kong Baptist University with Grant No. RC-IG-FNRA/17-18/13.

  1. Jiandong Shi*, Dehui Luo*, Hong Weng, Xian-Tao Zeng, Lu Lin, Haitao Chu and Tiejun Tong (2020)
    Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five-number summary
    Research Synthesis Methods, 11: 641-654.
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  2. Hong Zhang, Tiejun Tong, John Landers and Zheyang Wu (2020)
    TFisher: A powerful truncation and weighting procedure for combining p-values
    Annals of Applied Statistics, 14: 178-201.

  3. Jiandong Shi*, Tiejun Tong, Yuedong Wang and Marc G. Genton (2020)
    Estimating the mean and variance from the five-number summary of a log-normal distribution
    Statistics and Its Interface (Special Issue on Meta-Analysis), 13: 519-531.

  4. Ke Yang*, Hiu-Yee Kwan, Zhiling Yu and Tiejun Tong (2020)
    Model selection between the fixed-effects model and the random-effects model in meta-analysis
    Statistics and Its Interface (Special Issue on Meta-Analysis), 13: 501-510.

  5. Yuejin Zhou, Sze-Yui Ho*, Jiahua Liu* and Tiejun Tong (2020)
    Hypothesis testing for normal distributions: a unified framework and new developments
    Statistics and Its Interface, 13: 167-179.

  6. Dehui Luo*, Xiang Wan, Jiming Liu and Tiejun Tong (2018)
    Optimally estimating the sample mean from the sample size, median, mid-range and/or mid-quartile range
    Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 27: 1785-1805.
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    -- This paper establishes a new "rule of thumb" between the sample mean, median and mid-range. The paper has been recognized as a Highly Cited Paper and a Hot Paper in ISI Web of Science, with a total of 150 citations (and 234 citations in Google Scholar) as of 28 August 2020.


  7. Dehui Luo*, Xiang Wan, Jiming Liu and Tiejun Tong (2017)
    How to estimate the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, extremes or quartiles (in Chinese)?
    Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 17: 1350-1356.

  8. Jiacheng Yuan, Herbert Pang, Tiejun Tong, Dong Xia, Wenzhao Guo and Peter Mesenbrink (2016)
    Seamless phase IIa/IIb and enhanced dose finding adaptive design
    Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 26: 912-923.

  9. Aimin Wu, Tiejun Tong and Xiangyang Wang (2016)
    A rethink of fusion surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis
    Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 9: 166-169.

  10. Hiu-Yee Kwan, Xuyan Niu, Wenlin Dai*, Tiejun Tong, Xiaojuan Chao, Tao Su, Chi-Leung Chan, Kim-Chung Lee, Xiuqiong Fu, Hua Yi, Hua Yu, Ting Li, Kai-Wing Tse, Wang-Fun Fong, Si-Yuan Pan, Aiping Lu, Zhi-Ling Yu (2015)
    Lipidomic-based investigation into the regulatory effect of Schisandrin B on palmitic acid level in non-alcoholic steatotic livers
    Scientific Reports, 5: 9114.

  11. Xiang Wan, Wenqian Wang*, Jiming Liu and Tiejun Tong (2014)
    Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range
    BMC Medical Research Methodology, 14: 135.
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    -- This paper establishes an improved "rule of thumb" between the sample range and the sample standard deviation. The paper has been recognized as a Highly Cited Paper (and a Hot Paper in 2016) in ISI Web of Science, with a total of 1200 citations (and 1604 citations in Google Scholar) as of 08 October 2020. Among the studies that apply our method for meta-analysis, the largest 3 categories include Surgery (178 papers), Medical General Internal (137 papers), and Cardiac Cardiovascular Systems (92 papers).


  12. Xiang Wan, Jiming Liu, William Cheung and Tiejun Tong (2014)
    Inferring epidemic network topology from surveillance data
    PLOS ONE, 9: e100661.

  13. Xiang Wan, Jiming Liu, William Cheung and Tiejun Tong (2014)
    Learning to improve medical decision making for imbalanced data without using a priori cost
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 14: 111.

  14. Jiacheng Yuan, Tiejun Tong and Man-Lai Tang (2013)
    Sample size calculation for bioequivalence studies assessing drug effect and food effect at the same time with a three-treatment Williams design
    Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science, 47: 242-247.

  15. Jiacheng Yuan, Tiejun Tong and Tie-Hua Ng (2011)
    Conditional type I error rate for superiority test conditioned on establishment of noninferiority in clinical trials
    Drug Information Journal, 45: 331-336.

  16. Nairanjana Dasgupta, Eleanne Solorzano and Tiejun Tong (2010)
    Comparing multiple treatments to both positive and negative controls
    Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140: 180-188.