Shengxin Tu is first author on clustered data paper
PhD candidate Shengxin Tu, who presented a seminar on between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations last week, is first author of a methods paper titled Rank intraclass correlation for clustered data that Statistics in Medicine published in 2023 (online in August and in print in October), with professor Bryan Shepherd as corresponding author. Statistics in Medicine has long been regarded as a top journal in the field of biostatistics. The paper is supported by an R package, {rankICC}, that allows readers to implement the new method, with three application examples and simulations. Tu also presented on this topic at ENAR 2023.
