Publications

publications in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2026

  1. Quantifying Sensitivity to Selection on Unobserved Covariates: Recasting the Coefficient of Proportionality within a Correlation Framework
    Kenneth A. Frank, Qinyun Lin, Spiro J. Maroulis, J. Choi, S. Dai, N. Jess, H. Lin, Y. Liu, S. Maestrales, E. Searle, and J. Tait
    Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2026
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  2. Can the CALGB 140503 Trial Support Choice of Segmental versus Wedge Resection for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?
    B. A. Cher, Qinyun Lin, Kenneth A. Frank, J. D. Maloney, C. J. Balentine, and A. L. Axtell
    JTCVS Open, 2026
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  3. A Bayesian Bivariate Spatial Modeling Framework for Stage-Specific Cancer Incidence and Targeting of Screening Efforts
    Qinyun Lin, Carl Bonander, and Ulf Strömberg
    American Journal of Epidemiology, 2026
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  4. Application of Sensitivity Analysis for Teacher Effectiveness Evaluation in the Context of Accountability
    Qinyun Lin, Kenneth A. Frank, and Spiro J. Maroulis
    Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2026
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  5. Using Sensitivity Analysis to Evaluate the Fracture Benefit of Parathyroidectomy
    B. A. Cher, Qinyun Lin, E. M. Marten, M. Thornton, A. Chiu, D. Elfenbein, S. Holoubek, K. Long, D. F. Schneider, R. S. Sippel, K. Soe, Kenneth A. Frank, and C. J. Balentine
    Surgery, 2026
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  6. Teachers’ Pedagogical Reasoning and Students’ Three-Dimensional Learning
    Christie Morrison Thomas, Beth A. Covitt, Qinyun Lin, Stefanie Marshall, James Brian Hancock, and Charles W. Anderson
    Science Education, 2026
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  7. Assessing the Evidence for Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Using the Robustness of Inference to Replacement
    B. A. Cher, Qinyun Lin, Kenneth A. Frank, S. M. Weber, R. M. Minter, C. J. Balentine, and S. N. Zafar
    Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2026
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  8. Geo-Mapping of Caries and Obesity in Preschool Children: A Swedish Register-Based Study
    L. Zhou, D. Åberg, Qinyun Lin, Carl Bonander, and Ulf Strömberg
    BMC Oral Health, 2026
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2025

  1. Physical Activity Partially Mediating the Social Gradient in Adolescent Mental Health
    J. Dahlstrand, Qinyun Lin, P. Friberg, J. Fridolfsson, and Y. Chen
    Frontiers in Public Health, 2025
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  2. Physical, Mental and Behavioral Health Indicators in Relation to Academic Performance in European Boys and Girls: The I.Family Study
    Qinyun Lin, Monica Hunsberger, Sofia Klingberg, Stefaan De Henauw, Antje Hebestreit, Fabio Lauria, Artur Mazur, Luis Moreno, Noémi Kovács, Iris Pigeot, Melpo Tornaritis, Toomas Veidebaum, and Lauren Lissner
    BMC Public Health, 2025
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  3. Revisiting the Modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI): Examining Food Access Inequities over a Decade in the United States
    W. Lyu, X. Chen, C. Miao, Qinyun Lin, X. Xiang, G. Zhang, and Ran Xu
    Discover Public Health, 2025
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  4. Association of Activity-Based Food Environment Index with Obesity-Related Cancer Mortality in the US
    Qinyun Lin, X. Chen, X. Xiang, W. Lyu, C. Miao, G. Zhang, and Ran Xu
    BMC Medicine, 2025
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2024

  1. konfound: An R Sensitivity Analysis Package to Quantify the Robustness of Causal Inferences
    Sarah Narvaiz, Qinyun Lin, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Kenneth A. Frank, Spiro J. Maroulis, Wei Wang, and Ran Xu
    Journal of Open Source Software, Mar 2024
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  2. Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios
    Eric Tatara, Qinyun Lin, Jonathan Ozik, Marynia Kolak, Nicholson Collier, Dylan Halpern, Luc Anselin, Harel Dahari, Basmattee Boodram, and John Schneider
    PLoS computational biology, Jul 2024
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  3. Supply and Geographic Distribution of Geriatric Physicians and Geriatric Nurse Practitioners
    Ying Xue, Lusine Poghosyan, and Qinyun Lin
    JAMA Network Open, Nov 2024
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  4. Early Milk Cereal Drink Consumption Correlated with Rapid Weight Gain but Not with Subsequent Adiposity
    A. Lindholm, Qinyun Lin, Antje Hebestreit, Lauren Lissner, Sofia Papoutsou, and Monica Hunsberger
    Acta Paediatrica, Nov 2024
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2023

  1. Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards-based success
    Beth A. Covitt, Elizabeth Xeng Santos, Qinyun Lin, Christie Morrison Thomas, and Charles W. Anderson
    Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Nov 2023
  2. How do unobserved confounding mediators and measurement error impact estimated mediation effects and corresponding statistical inferences? Introducing the R package ConMed for sensitivity analysis
    Qinyun Lin, Amy K. Nuttall, Qian Zhang, and Kenneth A. Frank
    Psychological Methods, Nov 2023
  3. Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science
    Kenneth A. Frank, Qinyun Lin, Ran Xu, Spiro Maroulis, and Anna Mueller
    Social Science Research, Feb 2023
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  4. Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area
    Qinyun Lin, Javier Andres Rojas Aguilera, Leslie D Williams, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Carl Latkin, Juliet Pineros, Marynia Kolak, and Basmattee Boodram
    International Journal of Drug Policy, Dec 2023
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  5. Methadone prescribing by addiction specialists likely to leave communities without available methadone treatment
    Paul J Joudrey, Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Christina Mair, and Marynia Kolak
    Health affairs scholar, Nov 2023
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2022

  1. Ambitious instruction and student achievement: Evidence from early career teachers and the TRU math observation instrument
    Jihyun Kim, Serena Salloum, Qinyun Lin, and Sihua Hu
    Teaching and Teacher Education, Sep 2022
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  2. Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma: Evidence from a nationally representative survey
    Qinyun Lin, Marynia Kolak, Beth Watts, Luc Anselin, Harold Pollack, John Schneider, and Bruce Taylor
    Social Science & Medicine, Jul 2022
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  3. Assessment of Community-Level Vulnerability and Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
    Paul J. Joudrey, Marynia Kolak, Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Vidal Anguiano, and Emily A. Wang
    JAMA Network Open, Apr 2022
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  4. Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality With Spatial Analysis
    Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Dylan Halpern, Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, and Marynia Kolak
    JAMA Network Open, Mar 2022
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  5. Response to “three comments on the RIR method”
    Kenneth A. Frank, Qinyun Lin, Spiro Maroulis, Anna S. Mueller, Ran Xu, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Christopher S. Hayter, Ramy A. Mahmoud, Marynia Kolak, Thomas Dietz, and Lixin Zhang
    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Jun 2022
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  6. Factors affecting students’ learning from a design-based implementation research project in diverse education systems
    Qinyun Lin, Kenneth A. Frank, Shruti Bathia, Karen Draney, Jay Thomas, and Charles W. Anderson
    Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Jun 2022
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  7. Contagion of offensive speech online: An interactional analysis of political swearing
    Yunya Song, Qinyun Lin, K. Hazel Kwon, Christine H. Y. Choy, and Ran Xu
    Computers in Human Behavior, Feb 2022
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2021

  1. National variability in Americans’ COVID-19 protective behaviors: Implications for vaccine roll-out
    John A. Schneider, Bruce G. Taylor, Anna L. Hotton, Phoebe A. Lamuda, Jonathan Ozik, Qinyun Lin, Elizabeth Flanagan, Mai Tuyet Pho, Marynia Kolak, Russell Brewer, Jade Pagkas-Bather, and Harold A. Pollack
    PLOS ONE, Nov 2021
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  2. Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks: A Chicago case study
    Marynia A. Kolak, Yen-Tyng Chen, Qinyun Lin, and John Schneider
    Social Science & Medicine, Dec 2021
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  3. Dimensions of uncertainty: a spatiotemporal review of five COVID-19 datasets
    Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Stephanie Yang, Steve Goldstein, and Marynia Kolak
    Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Oct 2021
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  4. The US COVID Atlas: A dynamic cyberinfrastructure surveillance system for interactive exploration of the pandemic
    Marynia Kolak, Xun Li, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Moksha Menghaney, Stephanie Yang, and Vidal Anguiano Jr.
    Transactions in GIS, Oct 2021
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  5. Understanding and responding to challenges students face when engaging in carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning
    Beth A. Covitt, Joyce M. Parker, Craig Kohn, May Lee, Qinyun Lin, and Charles W. Anderson
    The Journal of Environmental Education, Mar 2021
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  6. Hypothetical case replacement can be used to quantify the robustness of trial results
    Kenneth A. Frank, Qinyun Lin, Spiro Maroulis, Anna S. Mueller, Ran Xu, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Christopher S. Hayter, Ramy A. Mahmoud, Marynia Kolak, Thomas Dietz, and Lixin Zhang
    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Jun 2021
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2018

  1. Designing educational systems to support enactment of the Next Generation Science Standards
    Charles W. Anderson, Elizabeth X. Santos, Sarah Bodbyl, Beth A. Covitt, Kirsten D. Edwards, James Brian Hancock, Qinyun Lin, Christie Morrison Thomas, William R. Penuel, and Mary Margaret Welch
    Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Sep 2018
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  2. Building Networks to Support Effective Use of Science Curriculum Materials in the Carbon TIME Project
    William R. Penuel, Elizabeth de los Santos, Qinyun Lin, Stefanie Marshall, Charles W. Anderson, and Kenneth A. Frank
    In Networked By Design, Sep 2018
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