publications.knit

Refereed Publications

Skeleton Clustering: Dimension-Free Density-based Clustering
Zeyu Wei*, Yen-Chi Chen.
To appear in the Journal of American Statistical Association

SCONCE: A cosmic web finder for spherical and conic geometries
Yikun Zhang*, Rafael S. de Souza, Yen-Chi Chen.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 517, no. 1 (2022): 1197-1217.

The emptiness inside: Finding gaps, valleys, and lacunae with geometric data analysis
Gabriella Contardo, David W. Hogg, Jason A.S. Hunt, Joshua E.G. Peek, Yen-Chi Chen.
The Astronomical Journal 164, no. 5 (2022): 226.

Linear Convergence of the Subspace Constrained Mean Shift Algorithm: From Euclidean to Directional Data
Yikun Zhang*, Yen-Chi Chen.
To appear in Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA.

Statistical Inference with Local Optima
Yen-Chi Chen.
To appear in the Journal of American Statistical Association.

Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): medical and pathological factors associated with comorbid hippocampal sclerosis.
Kathryn M. Gauthreaux, Merilee A. Teylan, Yuriko Katsumata, et al.
Neurology 98, no. 14 (2022): e1422-e1433.

Pattern Graphs: a Graphical Approach to Nonmonotone Missing Data
Yen-Chi Chen.
Annals of Statistics 50, no. 1 (2022): 129-146. R-code: PG

Solution Manifold and Its Statistical Applications
Yen-Chi Chen.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 16, no. 1 (2022): 408-450.

Differences in Symptomatic Presentation and Cognitive Performance Among Participants With LATE-NC Compared to FTLD-TDP
Merilee A Teylan, Charles Mock, Kathryn Gauthreaux, et al.
Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 80, no. 11 (2021): 1024-1032.

Kernel Smoothing, Mean Shift, and Their Learning Theory with Directional Data
Yikun Zhang*, Yen-Chi Chen.
Journal of Machine Learning Research 22, no. 154 (2021): 1-92. Python code: DirMS

Refined Mode-Clustering via the Gradient of Slope
Kunhui Zhang*, Yen-Chi Chen.
Stat 4, no. 2 (2021): 486-508.

A statistical framework for measuring the temporal stability of human mobility patterns
Zhihang Dong*, Yen-Chi Chen, Adrian Dobra.
Journal of Applied Statistics 48, no. 1 (2021): 105-123.

Concordance of Clinical Alzheimer Diagnosis and Neuropathological Features at Autopsy
Kathryn Gauthreaux, Tyler A. Bonnett, Lilah M. Besser et al.
Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 79, no. 5 (2020): 465-473.

Factor Consistency of Neuropsychological Test Battery Versions in the NACC Uniform Data Set
Jessica E. Culhane*, Kwun C. G. Chan, Merilee A. Teylan et al.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 34, no. 2 (2020): 175..

Measuring Human Activity Spaces from GPS Data with Density Ranking and Summary Curves
Yen-Chi Chen, Adrian Dobra.
Annals of Applied Statistics 14, no. 1 (2020): 409-432. R-code: DR

Functional Summaries of Persistence Diagrams
Eric Berry, Yen-Chi Chen, Jessi Cisewski, Brittany Terese Fasy.
Journal of Applied and Computational Topology 4, no. 2 (2020): 211-262.

Estimating associations between antidepressant use and incident mild cognitive impairment in older adults with depression
Fang Han, Tyler Bonnett, Willa Brenowitz et al.
PLOS ONE 15, no. 1: e0227924.

Cognitive trajectory in mild cognitive impairment due to primary age-related tauopathy
Merilee Teylan, Charles Mock, Kathryn Gauthreaux et al.
Brain 143, no. 2 (2020): 611-621.

Oracle Importance Sampling for Stochastic Simulation Models
Yen-Chi Chen, Youngjun Choe.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 13, no. 2 (2019): 3386-3423.

Nonparametric Inference via Bootstrapping the Debiased Estimator
Gang Cheng*, Yen-Chi Chen.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 13, no. 1 (2019): 2194-2256.

Alignment between filaments and galaxy spins from the MaNGA integral-field survey
Alex Krolewski*, Shirley Ho, Yen-Chi Chen, P.F. Chan, Ananth Tenneti, Dmitry Bizyaev, Katarina Kraljic.
The Astrophysical Journal 876, no 1 (2019): 52

Detecting Galaxy-Filament Alignments in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Jonathan Blazek, Siyu He*, Rachel Mandelbaum, Peter Melchior, Sukhdeep Singh.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485, no 2 (2019): 2492-2504.

Clinical diagnoses among individuals with primary age-related tauopathy versus Alzheimers neuropathology
Merilee Teylan, Lilah M. Besser, John F. Crary et al.
Laboratory Investigation (2019): 1.

Generalized Cluster Trees and Singular Measures
Yen-Chi Chen.
The Annals of Statistics 47, no. 4 (2019): 2174-2203.

On the Use of Bootstrap with Variational Inference: Theory, Interpretation, and a Two-sample Test Example
Yen-Chi Chen, Y. Samuel Wang*, Elena Erosheva.
The Annals of Applied Statistics 12, no. 2 (2018): 846-876.

An Analysis Framework for Understanding the Origin of Nuclear Activity in Low-Power Radio Galaxies
Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Jin Huang*, Yen-Chi Chen.
The Astronomical Journal 155, no. 5 (2018): 188.

Modal Regression using Kernel Density Estimation: a Review
Yen-Chi Chen.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 10, no. 4 (2018): e1431.

Size uniformity of animal cells is actively maintained by a p38 MAPK-dependent regulation of G1-length
Shixuan Liu*, Miriam Bracha Ginzberg, Nish Patel et al.
eLife 7, (2018): p.e26947.

The detection of the imprint of filaments on cosmic microwave background lensingg
Siyu He*, Shadab Alam, Simone Ferraro, Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho.
Nature Astronomy 2, no. 5 (2018): 401.

Intrinsic Alignment in redMaPPer clusters – II. Radial alignment of satellites toward cluster centers
Hung-Jin Huang*, Rachel Mandelbaum, Peter E. Freeman, Yen-Chi Chen et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474, no. 4 (2017): 4772–4794.

A Tutorial on Kernel Density Estimation and Recent Advances
Yen-Chi Chen.
Biostatistics & Epidemiology 1, no. 1 (2017): 161-187.

Density Level Sets: Asymptotics, Inference, and Visualization
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 112, (2017): 1684-1696. R-code: HDLV

GraphCom: A Multi-dimensional Measure of Graphic Complexity Applied to 131 Written Languages
Li-Yun Chang, Yen-Chi Chen, Charles Perfetti.
Behavior Research Methods 50, no. 1 (2017): 427–449.

Statistical Inference Using the Morse-Smale Complex
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 11, no. 1 (2017): 1390-1433. R-code: MSHD

Detecting Effects of Filaments on Galaxy Properties in Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Rachel Mandelbaum et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 466, no. 2 (2017): 1880-1893.

Confidence Sets for Density Trees
Jisu Kim*, Yen-Chi Chen, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Alessandro Rinaldo, Larry Wasserman.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29 (NIPS 2016), 1831-1839.

Intrinsic Alignment in redMaPPer clusters I. Central Galaxy Alignment
Hung-Jin Huang*, Rachel Mandelbaum, Peter E. Freeman, Yen-Chi Chen et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 463, no. 1 (2016): 222–244.

Cosmic Web Reconstruction through Density Ridges: Catalogue
Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Jon Brinkmann et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 461, no. 4 (2016): 3896–3909.

A Comprehensive Approach to Mode Clustering
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman.
Electronic Journal of Statistics 10, no. 1 (2016): 210-241. R-code: EMC

Non-parametric Modal Regression
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Larry Wasserman.
The Annals of Statistics 44, no. 2 (2016): 489–514. R-code: ModalRegression

Optimal Ridge Detection using Coverage Risk
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Shirley Ho, Larry Wasserman.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015), 316-324.

Investigating Galaxy-Filament Alignment in Hydrodynamic Simulations using Density Ridges
Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Ananth Tenneti et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 454, no. 3 (2015): 3341–3350.

Cosmic Web Reconstruction through Density Ridges: Method and Algorithm
Yen-Chi Chen, Shirley Ho, Peter E. Freeman, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 454, no. 1 (2015): 1140–1156.

Asymptotic Theory for Density Ridges
Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman.
The Annals of Statistics 43, no. 5 (2015): 1896–1928.

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III
Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto et al.
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 219, no. 1 (2015): 12.

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