supported by the General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12071416).
Assessing the influence of individual observations of the functional linear models is important and challenging,especially when the observations are subject to missingness.In this paper,we introduce three case-deletio...
Supported by Shenzhen Science and Technology Program,No.JCYJ20220530154013031;Guangdong Province Health and Health Appropriate Technology Promotion Project,No.2023385;Guangdong Province Grassroots Science Popularization Action Plan,No.20240205.
BACKGROUND Many patients with ulcerative colitis(UC)do not respond well to,or tolerate conventional and biological therapies.There is currently no consensus on the treatment of refractory UC.Studies have demonstrated ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 82001765];Supported by the program of Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases(2020B1111170004).
Background:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NCT)alone can achieve comparable treatment outcomes to chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer(LARC)patients.This study aimed to investigate the value of texture analysi...
Tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α)antagonists,the first biologics approved for treating patients with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD),are effective for the induction and maintenance of remission and significantly improv...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan(No.2016YFC0800100);the NSFC of China(No.11671374,71771203,71631006).
We mainly focus on regression estimation in a longitudinal study with nonignorable intermittent nonresponse and dropout.To handle the identifiability issue,we take a time-independent covariate as nonresponse instrumen...
Supported by the State Major Science&Technology Specific Projects,Prevention and Treatment of Serious Infectious Diseases such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Viral Hepatitis(2017ZX10205501,2013ZX10005-001);National Nature Science Foundation of China,Mechanism of PD-1 Receptor Mediated Immunosuppression based on the Improvement of Digestive Tract Mucosal Function in HIV/AIDS Patients by Removing Dampness and Detoxification(82174221)
OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether Mianyi granules(免疫Ⅱ颗粒)are effective and safe in reversing immune nonresponse following antiretroviral therapy(ART)in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)infection.ME...
Supported by National Science and Technology Major Project of China During the 13th Five-year Plan Period:New Adjuvant Strategies of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Immune Reconstruction for Long-term ART-treated People Living with HIV(No.2017ZX10205501);Study of AIDS-related Early Biomarkers for Disease Progression and Epidemic Predicting Model(No.2017ZX10201101);the Beijing Excellent Talent Plan(No.2018000021223ZK04)。
OBJECTIVE:To explore the efficacy of integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)and anti-retroviral therapy(ART),a customized combination of different classes of medications which was also called cock-tail treatment...
BACKGROUND Ustekinumab was approved in Europe for the treatment of adults with moderate to severe Crohn's disease(CD)in 2016,and there is an urgent need for data on its everyday use.AIM To obtain data on the daily use...
We consider multivariate small area estimation under nonignorable, not missing at random(NMAR) nonresponse. We assume a response model that accounts for the different patterns ofthe observed outcomes, (which values ar...
This work was supported by the Chinese 111 Project,the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the U.S.National Science Foundation(Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences)grant DMS-1612873.
Professors Tang and Ju deserve a warm congratulationfor their great work on a review of statistical inferencefor nonignorable missing data problems. Although theycalled their review ‘a selective review’, it actually...