Min Yang

Contact

• workRoom B21 Sir Colin Campbell Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 823 2457
• fax0115 823 1289
• min.yang@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Prof. Min Yang studied at the West China School of Medicine, staying to undertake her MPH and majoring in medical statistics. She was the Chair for the Department of Health Statistics at West China University of Medical Sciences, also becoming Associate Professor. Then for one year she was Visiting Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focussing on Medical Statistics. She later joined the Multi-level Modelling project group at the Institute of Education, University of London in 1991, starting as a Research Officer. In 2003 she joined the Queen Mary Medical School at the University of London in the centre for Psychiatry as a lecturer, and then became a reader in Medical Statistics. In November 2009 she joined the University of Nottingham as Chair of Medical Statistics.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Statistical modelling, multi-level modelling, epidemiology, public health

Teaching Summary

Occasional teaching of Master's students Special Professor Sichuan University in China since 2003 Honorary Professor in Bin Chon Medical School since 2010 Also supervises PhD students,… read more

Research Summary

Prof. Yang's general area of research interest is statistical modelling, in particular multi-level models for large and complex data, and applied statistics in health and medical research. Her work… read more

Recent Publications

• YANG, M, COID, J. and TYRER, P., 2010. A national survey of personality pathology recorded by severity British Journal of Psychiatry. 197, 1-7
• YANG, M, WONG, S.C.P. and COID, J., 2010. The efficacy of violence prediction: a meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools. Psychological Bulletin. 136(5), 740-67
• COID, J, YANG, M, BEBBINGTON, P, MORAN, P, BRUGHA, T, JENKINS, R, FARRELL, M, SINGLETON, N and ULLRICH, S., 2009. Borderline personality disorder: health service use and social functioning among a national household population. Psychological medicine. 39(10), 1721-31
• COID, J, YANG, M, ULLRICH, S, ROBERTS, A. and HARE, R.D., 2009. Prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits in the household population of Great Britain. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 32(2), 65-73

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• Statistical advisor to: British Journal of Psychiatry and to Personality and Mental Health and to Chinese Journal for Hospital Statistics.
• Runs workshops in Multi-level Modelling in Medical and Public Health in China every year, and has run the same workshops in the UK.

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Co-applicant on the following funded collaborations:

• "An Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Secure Forensic Inpatient Services in England."- Funded by the Department of Health. Principal Investigator: Connor Duggan. Budget: £125,000
• "Scoping study on Personality Disorder Strategy"- Funded by the Ministry of Justice. Principal Investigator: Connor Duggan. Budget: £50,000
• "Improving quality of care and outcome following very preterm birth"- Funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). Principal Investigator: Lelia Duley. Budget: £1,877,409
• "Translating genomics into clinical practice"- Funded by the Pump Prime Theme at the University of Nottingham. Principal Investigator: Nadeem Qureshi. Budget: £25,000
• "The H.E.A.L.T.H. project: Help Enabling Active Lifestyles Toward Health in young people with depression"- Funded by NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB). Principal Investigator: Callaghan Patrick. Budget: £234,012

• Occasional teaching of Master's students
• Special Professor Sichuan University in China since 2003
• Honorary Professor in Bin Chon Medical School since 2010
• Also supervises PhD students, particularly in PH at Sichuan University, as well as in her research area

Current Research

Prof. Yang's general area of research interest is statistical modelling, in particular multi-level models for large and complex data, and applied statistics in health and medical research. Her work is mainly supporting the statistical needs of CLAHRC, but she also supports CTU trials of Medical Faculty.

• YANG, M, COID, J. and TYRER, P., 2010. A national survey of personality pathology recorded by severity British Journal of Psychiatry. 197, 1-7
• YANG, M, WONG, S.C.P. and COID, J., 2010. The efficacy of violence prediction: a meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools. Psychological Bulletin. 136(5), 740-67
• COID, J, YANG, M, BEBBINGTON, P, MORAN, P, BRUGHA, T, JENKINS, R, FARRELL, M, SINGLETON, N and ULLRICH, S., 2009. Borderline personality disorder: health service use and social functioning among a national household population. Psychological medicine. 39(10), 1721-31
• COID, J, YANG, M, ULLRICH, S, ROBERTS, A. and HARE, R.D., 2009. Prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits in the household population of Great Britain. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 32(2), 65-73
• COID, J, YANG, M, ULLRICH, S, ROBERTS, A, MORAN, P, BEBBINGTON, P, BRUGHA, T, JENKINS, R, FARRELL, M, LEWIS, G, SINGLETON, N. and HARE, R.D., 2009. Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.
• YANG, M, ELDRIDGE, S. and MERLO, J., 2009. Multilevel survival analysis of health inequalities in life expectancy. International Journal for Equity in Health. 8, 31
• COID, J. and YANG, M., 2009. Violence and delayed social independence among young adult British men. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
• COID, J, YANG, M, ULLRICH, S, ZHANG, T, SIZMUR, S, ROBERTS, C, FARRINGTON, D.P. and ROGERS, R.D., 2009. Gender differences in structured risk assessment: comparing the accuracy of five instruments. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 77(2), 337-48
• YANG, M, LIU, Y.Y. and COID, J., 2009. Applying Neural Networks and other statistical models to the classification of serious offenders and the prediction of recidivism: Research Summary Ministry of Justice, Great Britain.
• LUI, Q.L, SHEN, Z.Z, CHEN, F, LI, X.S. and YANG, M., 2009. Applying multilevel models in evaluation of bioequivalence (I) Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. 30(12), 1285-1290
• ULLRICH, S, YANG, M. and COID, J., 2009. Dangerous and severe personality disorder: An investigation of the construct. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.
• NEWTON-HOWES, G, TYRER, P, NORTH, B and YANG, M, 2008. The prevalence of personality disorder in schizophrenia and psychotic disorders: systematic review of rates and explanatory modelling. Psychological medicine. 38(8), 1075-82
• COID, J. and YANG, M., 2008. The distribution of psychopathy among a household population: categorical or dimensional? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 43(10), 773-781
• LUI, Q.L, SHEN, Z.Z, CHEN, F, LI, X.S. and YANG, M., Applying multilevel models in evaluation of bioequivalence (II) Chinese Journal of Epidemiology.