Research
Yin Bun’s current research areas include:
(a) Infection and nutrition in children in low-and-middle-income countries.
(b) Quality of life and health utility in patients with life-limiting illness.
(c) Study designs and analysis of individual and cluster randomized trials.
(d) Statistical methods for analysis of recurrent event times and count data.
Current / recent grants
Strategy for controlling confounding in real-world evidence research on palliative care for patients with advanced cancer, National Medical Research Council, Singapore, 2024
Study designs and analytic methods for improving the evaluation of vaccines and other preventive measures against infectious diseases by using within-unit comparison, National Medical Research Council, Singapore, 2021
Publications
Cheung YB in PubMed
Cheung YB. Statistical Analysis of Human Growth and Development. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014.
Machin D, Cheung YB, Parmar MKB. Survival Analysis: A Practical Approach, 2nd edn. Chichester: Wiley, 2006.
Questionnaires
Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale (Cheung et al., Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2019)
The questionnaires and Stata program are distributed free of charge by the study’s co-funder, Lien Center for Palliative Care, after submitting an online request form.
10- and 15-item short forms of the Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale (SCQOLS-10 and SCQOLS-15) (Cheung et al., J Clin Epidemiol, 2020)
The questionnaires and Stata program are distributed free of charge by the study’s co-funder, Lien Center for Palliative Care, after submitting an online request form.
– SCQOLS-10 and SCQOLS-15 Request Form
Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale – Dementia and its short form (SCQOLS-D and SCQOLS-D-15) (Lee et al. J Patient-Rep Outcomes)
– SCQOLS-D and SCQOLS-D-15 Request Form
Quick-FLIC: Abbreviated version of Functional Living Index – Cancer (Cheung et al.,Br J Cancer, 2004, 2005)
Software codes
Stata codes used in Statistical Analysis of Human Growth and Development (Cheung, CRC Press, 2014)
– Human_Growth_and_Development_Appendices
Stata codes for Chinese MMSE standards (Cheung et al., Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 2015)
– MMSE
Stata codes for analysis of fold-increase based on interval-censored data (Xu et al., J Biopharm Stat 2015)
SAS macro for analysis of zero-inflated bivariate interval-censored data (Xu et al.,Stat Med, 2015)
R codes for inverse-variance weighted estimation using multiple dilution data (Cheung et al., J Immunol Methods, 2015)
Stata codes for inverse-variance weighted estimation using multiple dilution data (Stata Journal 2016; 16(2):316-330)
– Installation in Stata: net describe st0434, from(http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj16-2)
Stata codes for sample size determination for fold-increase analysis (Xu et al., J Biopharm Stat 2016)
R codes for 4-parameter models for estimating time-varying treatment effect (Xu et al., Stat Med 2017; Ma et al. J Biopharm Stat 2023)
Stata codes for Mean Rank Method of mapping X to Y (Wee et al. Med Decis Making 2018; Cheung et al., Qual Life Res, 2019)
– MRM
Stata macro for analysis of recurrent events (Stata Journal 2018; 18(2): 477-484)
– Installation in Stata: net describe st0374, from(http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj15-1)
R codes for bias reduction in conditional logistic regression (Cheung et al., Int J epidemiol 2019)
– MDS2
Stata codes for analysis of fold-increase, with covariate adjustment (Cheung et al.,Stat Biopharm Res 2019)