@ARTICLE{JTMensembletree,
	AUTHOR = {Min Lu, Ruijie Yin and X. Steven Chen},
	TITLE = {Ensemble Methods of Rank-Based Trees for Single Sample Classification with Gene Expression Profiles},
	JOURNAL = {Journal of Translational Medicine},
	VOLUME = {22},
	YEAR = {2024},
	NUMBER = {140},
	URL = {https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-024-04940-2},
	DOI = {10.1186/s12967-024-04940-2}
}
@article{Rosa2023NRES,
	author = {Gonzalez-Guarda, Rosa M. and McCabe, Brian E. and Nagy, Gabriela A. and Stafford, Allison M. and Matos, Lisvel and Lu, Min and Felsman, Irene and Rocha-Goldberg, Pillar and Cervantes, Richard C..},
	title = {Acculturative Stress, Resilience, and a Syndemic Factor Among Latinx Immigrants},
	journal = {Nursing Research},
	volume = {72},
	number = {4},
	pages = {249-258},
	year  = {2023},
	ISSN = {0029-6562},
	doi = {10.1097/NNR.0000000000000655},
	URL = { 
	https://journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/Fulltext/2023/07000/Acculturative_Stress,_Resilience,_and_a_Syndemic.2.aspx    
	}
}
@misc{Rhih,
	title = {{HIH}: An R Package for High Order Interaction Variable Importance Through Random Forest},
	author = {Yifan Sha and Min Lu},
	publisher = {manual},
	year = {2022},
	howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/luminwin/HIH}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}
@misc{ShinyPrecision,
	title = {R Shinny for Precision Surgical Therapy for Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and Esophagogastric Junction},
	author = {Min Lu},
	publisher = {manual},
	year = {2022},
	howpublished = "\url{https://minlu.shinyapps.io/ICM_minlu/} and \url{https://minlu.shinyapps.io/newpatient/}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@misc{VarPro,
	author = "Min Lu and Aster Shear and Udaya B. Kogalur and Hemant Ishwaran",
	title = {{VarPro}: model-independent variable selection via the rule-based variable priority},
	year = {2023},
	howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/kogalur/varPro}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]",
	url = {https://github.com/kogalur/varPro}
}


@misc{ShinyCovid,
	title = {R Shinny for predicting COVID-19 cases and deaths for your own region},
	author = {Min Lu},
	publisher = {manual},
	year = {2022},
	howpublished = "\url{https://minlu.shinyapps.io/killCOVID19/}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}
@misc{Rrerefact,
	title = {{REREFACT}: An R Package for REordering and/or REflecting FACTors for EFA simulations},
	author = {Soyeon Ahn and Cengiz Zopluoglu and Seniz Celimli and Min Lu and Nicholas D. Myers},
	publisher = {manual},
	year = {2016},
	howpublished = "\url{https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/REREFACT}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}


@misc{HemantGettingStarted,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: getting started with {randomForestSRC} vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/getstarted.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/getstarted.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantInstall,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: installing {randomForestSRC} vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/installation.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/installation.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantParallel,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: parallel processing vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/parallel.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/parallel.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantHybrid,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: hybrid parallel processing vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/hybrid.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/hybrid.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantAlgorithm,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: {randomForestSRC} algorithm vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/algorithm.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/algorithm.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantSpeed,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: speedup random forest analyses vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/speedup.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/speedup.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantWeight,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: forest weights, in-bag (IB) and out-of-bag (OOB) ensembles vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/forestWgt.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/forestWgt.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantRandomS,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Michael S. Lauer and Eugene H. Blackstone and Min Lu 
	and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: random survival forests vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/survival.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/survival.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantCompeting,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Thomas A. Gerds and Bryan M. Lau and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: competing risks vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/competing.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/competing.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantRFQv,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Robert O'Brien and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: random forests quantile classifier {(RFQ)} vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/imbalance.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/imbalance.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantMultiv,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Fei Tang and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: multivariate splitting rule vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/mvsplit.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/mvsplit.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantAUCsplit,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: {AUC} splitting for multiclass problems vignette},
	year = {2022},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/aucsplit.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/aucsplit.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"
}

@misc{HemantsidClustering,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Alejandro Mantero and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: {sidClustering} vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/sidClustering.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/sidClustering.html}",
     note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@misc{HemantVIMP,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: variable importance {(VIMP)} with subsampling inference vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/rfsrc-subsample.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/rfsrc-subsample.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@misc{HemantMinimal,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Xi Chen and Andy J. Minn and Min Lu and Michael S. Lauer 
	and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: minimal depth vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/minidep.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/minidep.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@misc{HemantPartial,
	author = "Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Udaya B. Kogalur",
	title = {{randomForestSRC}: partial plots vignette},
	year = {2021},
	url = {http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/partial.html},
	howpublished = "\url{http://randomforestsrc.org/articles/partial.html}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@misc{metavcovR,
	title = {Variance-Covariance Matrix for Multivariate
	Meta-Analysis with R Package {metavcov}},
	author = {Min Lu},
	publisher = {manual},
	year = {2017},
	url = {https://cran.r-project.org/package=metavcov},
	doi ={https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5240826},
	pdf =
	{https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metavcov/metavcov.pdf},
	howpublished = "\url{https://cran.r-project.org/package=metavcov}",
	note = "[accessed 1-May-2023]"	
}

@ARTICLE{Frontiermetavcov,
	AUTHOR = {Lu, Min},
	TITLE = {Computing Within-Study Covariances, Data Visualization and Missing Data Solutions for Multivariate Meta-Analysis with {metavcov}},
	JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Psychology},
	VOLUME = {14},
	YEAR = {2023},
	NUMBER = {1185012},
	URL = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1185012},
	DOI = {10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1185012}
}

@incollection{Lu2020tree,
	title = {Tree Variable Selection for Paired Case-Control Studies with Application to Microbiome Data}, 
	author = {Lu, Min and Ishwaran, Hemant},
	booktitle = {Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data},
	editor = {Datta,Somnath and Guha,Subharup},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {295--310},
	publisher = {Springer, Switzerland},
	chapter     = 12,
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-73351-3_12},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73351-3_12}
}

@ARTICLE{LuBMC2023,
AUTHOR={Lu, Min and Liao, Xinyi},   
TITLE={Telehealth utilization in U.S. Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older during the COVID-19 pandemic},      
JOURNAL={BMC Public Health },      
VOLUME={23}, 
PAGES={368-382},          
YEAR={2023},      
URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.946944},       
DOI={10.1186/s12889-023-15263-0},      
ISSN={2296-2565},
}
@ARTICLE{ijerphLu,
AUTHOR = {Yürekli, Hülya and Yiğit, Öyküm Esra and Bulut, Okan and Lu, Min and Öz, Ersoy},
TITLE = {Exploring Factors That Affected Student Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Data-Mining Approaches},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
VOLUME = {19},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {18},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {11267},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/18/11267},
ISSN = {1660-4601},
DOI = {10.3390/ijerph191811267}
}
@ARTICLE{Lufph2022,
AUTHOR={Lu, Min and Liao, Xinyi},   
TITLE={Access to care through telehealth among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic},      
JOURNAL={Frontiers in Public Health},      
VOLUME={10},           
YEAR={2022},      
URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.946944},       
DOI={10.3389/fpubh.2022.946944},      
ISSN={2296-2565},
}
@ARTICLE{Lufgene2021,
	AUTHOR={Lu, Min and Sha, Yifan and Silva, Tiago and Colaprico, Antonio and Sun, Xiaodian and Ban, Yuguang and Wang, Lily and Lehmann, Brian and Chen, Xi},   
	TITLE={LR hunting: A Random Forest Based Cell-cell Interaction Discovery Method for Single-cell Gene Expression Data},      
	JOURNAL={Frontiers in Genetics},      
		VOLUME={12},      	
	PAGES={1431},     	
	YEAR={2021},      	
	URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2021.708835},       	
	DOI={10.3389/fgene.2021.708835},      	
	ISSN={1664-8021}
}
	
@article{LuVIMPbiometrics,
	author = {Lu, Min and Ishwaran, Hemant},
	title = {Discussion on “Nonparametric variable importance assessment using machine learning techniques” by Brian D. Williamson, Peter B. Gilbert, Marco Carone, and Noah Simon},
	journal = {Biometrics},
	volume = {77},
	number = {1},
	pages = {23-27},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13391},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/biom.13391},
	eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/biom.13391},
	year = {2021}
}

@article{LuponeCovid2021,
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0254397},
	author = {Lu, Min AND Ishwaran, Hemant},
	journal = {PLOS ONE},
	publisher = {Public Library of Science},
	title = {Cure and death play a role in understanding dynamics for COVID-19: Data-driven competing risk compartmental models, with and without vaccination},
	year = {2021},
	month = {07},
	volume = {16},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254397},
	pages = {1-17},
	number = {7},
}

@article{LuMillerPlos2021,
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0254519},
	author = {Lu, Min AND Parel, Jean-Marie AND Miller, Darlene},
	journal = {PLOS ONE},
	publisher = {Public Library of Science},
	title = {Interactions between staphylococcal enterotoxins A and D and superantigen-like proteins 1 and 5 for predicting methicillin and multidrug resistance profiles among Staphylococcus aureus ocular isolates},
	year = {2021},
	month = {07},
	volume = {16},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254519},
	pages = {1-18},
	number = {7},
}

@incollection{Ahn2015metavcov,
	title = {Application of Meta-Analysis in Sport and Exercise Science}, 
	author = "Soyeon Ahn and Min Lu and G Tyler Lefevor and Alicia L. Fedewa and Seniz Celimli",
	booktitle = {An introduction to intermediate and advanced statistical analyses for sport and exercise scientists},
	editor = {Nikos Ntoumanis and Nicholas D. Myers},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {233--253},
	publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons},
	url =
	{https://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&bcsId=9985&itemId=1118962052},
	chapter     = 11
}

@ARTICLE{ZaiFrontier,
AUTHOR={Zhai, Xiaoming and Lu, Min},   
TITLE={Editorial: Machine Learning Applications in Educational Studies},      
JOURNAL={Frontiers in Education},      
VOLUME={8},           
YEAR={2023},      
URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1225802},       
DOI = {10.3389/feduc.2023.1225802}
}

@article{Lu2020Covid,
	title={Dynamic Modeling COVID-19 for Comparing Containment Strategies in a Pandemic Scenario},
	author={Lu, Min},
	journal={Annals of Biostatistics \& Biometric Application},
	volume={4},
	number={1},
	pages={1--4},
	year={2020},
	url ={https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13997v2},
	doi ={10.33552/ABBA.2020.04.000579},
	publisher={Iris Publishers}
}

@misc{lu2020dynamic,
	title={Dynamic Modeling COVID-19 for Comparing Containment Strategies in a Pandemic Scenario},
	author={Min Lu},
	year={2020},
	eprint={2003.13997v2},
	archivePrefix={arXiv},
	primaryClass={q-bio.PE},
	url ={https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13997v2}
}

@article{MyersOrder2017,
	author = {Nicholas D. Myers and Soyeon Ahn and Min Lu and Seniz Celimli and Cengiz Zopluoglu},
	title = {Reordering and Reflecting Factors for Simulation Studies With Exploratory Factor Analysis},
	journal = {Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal},
	volume = {24},
	number = {1},
	pages = {112-128},
	year  = {2017},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	doi = {10.1080/10705511.2016.1230721},
	URL = { 
	https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2016.1230721
	},
	eprint = { 
	https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2016.1230721	
	}	
}

@Manual{REREFACT,
	author = {Soyeon Ahn and Cengiz Zopluoglu and Seniz Celimli and Min Lu and Nicholas D. Myers},
	title = {Reordering and/or Reflecting Factors for Simulation Studies With Exploratory Factor Analysis},
        publisher = {manual},
	year = {2016},
	note = {R package version 1.0},
	url = {https://cran.r-project.org/package=REREFACT},
	pdf =
	{https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/REREFACT/REREFACT.pdf}

}


@inbook{IshwaranLuRSF,
	author = {Ishwaran, Hemant and Lu, Min},
	publisher = {American Cancer Society},
	isbn = {9781118445112},
	title = {Random Survival Forests},
	booktitle = {Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online},
	chapter = {},
	pages = {1-13},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08188},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08188},
	eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08188},
	year = {2019},
	keywords = {ensembles,                Kaplan–Meier estimator, machine learning,                Nelson–Aalen CHF            , survival},
	abstract = {Abstract Random survival forests (RSF) is a flexible nonparametric tree-ensemble method for the analysis of right-censored survival data. In this article, we provide a short overview of RSF. We review survival splitting rules for growing random survival trees, in-bag and out-of-bag (OOB) ensemble estimators, prediction performance, variable importance, and partial plots. We also briefly describe the extension of RSF to competing risks.}
}

@article{ishwaran2019standard,
	title={Standard errors and confidence intervals for variable importance in random forest regression, classification, and survival},
	author={Ishwaran, Hemant and Lu, Min},
	journal={Statistics in Medicine},
	volume={38},
	number={4},
	pages={558--582},
	year={2019},
	publisher={Wiley Online Library},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.7803},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sim.7803}
}

@article{lu2018estimating,
	author = {Min Lu and Saad Sadiq and Daniel J. Feaster and Hemant Ishwaran},
	title = {Estimating Individual Treatment Effect in Observational Data Using Random Forest Methods},
	journal = {Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics},
	volume = {27},
	number = {1},
	pages = {209-219},
	year  = {2018},
	publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
	doi = {10.1080/10618600.2017.1356325},
	note ={PMID: 29706752},
	URL = { 
	https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2017.1356325    
	},
	eprint = { https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2017.1356325    }
}

@misc{Feaster2020prcri,
	author = "Daniel J. Feaster and Hemant Ishwaran and Min Lu and Saad Sadiq",
	title = {New Statistical Methods to Assess How Patients with Different Traits Respond to the Same Treatment},
	year = {2020},
	publisher ={Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute {(PCORI)}},
	url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.25302/06.2020.ME.140312907},
	doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.25302/06.2020.ME.140312907}
}

@article{RICE20192164,
	title = {Precision Surgical Therapy for Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and Esophagogastric Junction},
	author = {Thomas W. Rice and Min Lu and Hemant Ishwaran and Eugene H. Blackstone},
	journal = {Journal of Thoracic Oncology},
	volume = {14},
	number = {12},
	pages = {2164-2175},
	year = {2019},
	issn = {1556-0864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.004},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1556086419306677},
	publisher={NIH Public Access}
}

@article{lu2018prediction,
	title={A prediction-based alternative to P values in regression models},
	author={Lu, Min and Ishwaran, Hemant},
	journal={The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery},
	volume={155},
	number={3},
	pages={1130},
	year={2018},
	publisher={NIH Public Access}
	doi = {DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.08.056},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022522317318184}
}

@misc{lu2017machine,
	title={A Machine Learning Alternative to P-values}, 
	author={Min Lu and Hemant Ishwaran},
	year={2017},
	eprint={1701.04944},
	archivePrefix={arXiv},
	primaryClass={stat.ML},
	url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04944}
}

@phdthesis{Lu2018est,
	title    = {Estimating Individual Treatment Effect in Observational Data Using Random Forest Methods},
	school   = {University of Miami},
	author   = {Lu, Min},
	year     = {2018},
        doi = {https://doi.org/10.33596/etd-1},
	type     = {{PhD} dissertation},
}