Min Yang

Contact

• workRoom C17 Institute of Mental Health 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

Selected Publications

• 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
• 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
• YANG, M, LIU, Y.Y. and COID, J., 2010. 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.

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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.

• CRAWFORD, M.J., RUSHWAYA, T., BAJAJ, P., TYRER, P. and YANG, M., 2012. The prevalence of personality disorder among ethnic minorities: findings from a national household survey Personality and Mental Health.
• COID, J.W., YANG, M., ULLRICH, S., ZHANG, T., SIZMUR, S., FARRINGTON, D. and ROGERS, R., 2011. Most items in structured risk assessment instruments do not predict violence The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 22(1), 3-21
• LIU YY, YANG M, RAMSEY M, LI XS and COID J, 2011. A comparison of logistic regression, classification and regression tree, and neural networks models in predicting violent re-offending Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 27(4), 547-573
• HU J, YANG M, HUANG X and COID J, 2011. Forensic Psychiatry In China. International Journal Of Law And Psychiatry. 34(1), 7-12
• COID, J and YANG, M, 2011. The Impact Of Psychopathy On Violence Among The Household Population Of Great Britain Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology. 46(6), 473-480
• GLAZEBROOK, C., BATTY, M., NIVETTE MULLAN, I.M.D., NATHAN, D., SAYAL, K., SMYTH, A., YANG, M., GUO, B. and HOLLIS, C., 2011. Evaluating the effectiveness of a schools-based programme to promote exercise self-efficacy in children and young people with risk factors for obesity: Steps to active kids (STAK) BMC Public Health. 11(1), 830
• 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
• YANG, M, LIU, Y.Y. and COID, J., 2010. 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.
• COID, J. and YANG, M., 2010. The impact of psychopathy on violence among the household population of Great Britain Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 46(6), 473-480
• YANG, M, COID, J. and TYRER, P., 2010. A national survey of personality pathology recorded by severity British Journal of Psychiatry. 197, 1-7
• HU, J., YANG, M., HUANG, X., LIU, X. and COID, J., 2010. Forensic psychiatry assessments in Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China, 1997-2006 The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 21(4), 604-619
• MORRISS, R., MARTTUNNEN, S., GARLAND, A., NIXON, N., MCDONALD, R., SWEENEY, T., FLAMBERT, H., FOX, R., KAYLOR-HUGHES, C. and JAMES, M., 2010. Randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a specialist team for managing refractory unipolar depressive disorder BMC psychiatry. 10(1), 100
• 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.
• COID, J., YANG, M., ULLRICH, S., ROBERTS, A., MORAN, P., BEBBINGTON, P., BRUGHA, T., JENKINS, R., FARRELL, M. and LEWIS, G., 2009. Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 32(3), 134-141
• 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. and YANG, M., 2009. Violence and delayed social independence among young adult British men Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 45(3), 301-308
• 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
• COID, J. and YANG, M., 2009. Violence and delayed social independence among young adult British men. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
• 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, 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. 32, 134-141
• 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, 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
• HICKEY, N., YANG, M. and COID, J., 2009. The development of the Medium Security Recidivism Assessment Guide (MSRAG): an actuarial risk prediction instrument The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 20(2), 202-224
• 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
• COID, J.W., KIRKBRIDE, J.B., BARKER, D., COWDEN, F., STAMPS, R., YANG, M. and JONES, P.B., 2008. Raised incidence rates of all psychoses among migrant groups: findings from the East London first episode psychosis study Archives of general psychiatry. 65(11), 1250-1258
• 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
• KIRKBRIDE, JB, BARKER, D., COWDEN, F., STAMPS, R., YANG, M., JONES, PB and COID, JW, 2008. Psychoses, ethnicity and socio-economic status The British Journal of Psychiatry. 193(1), 18-24
• ROBERTS, A., YANG, M., ZHANG, T. and COID, J., 2008. Personality disorder, temperament, and childhood adversity: findings from a cohort of prisoners in England and Wales The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 19(4), 460-483
• YANG M, ULLRICH S, ROBERTS A and COID J, 2007. Childhood Institutional Care And Personality Disorder Traits In Adulthood: Findings From The British National Surveys Of Psychiatric Morbidity. The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry. 77(1), 67-75
• COID J, HICKEY N, KAHTAN N, ZHANG T and YANG M, 2007. Patients Discharged From Medium Secure Forensic Psychiatry Services: Reconvictions And Risk Factors. The British Journal Of Psychiatry. 190(3), 223-229
• COID, J.W., HICKEY, N. and YANG, M., 2007. Comparison of outcomes following after-care from forensic and general adult psychiatric services The British Journal of Psychiatry. 190(6), 509-514
• COID, J., YANG, M., ULLRICH, S., ZHANG, T., ROBERTS, A., ROBERTS, C., ROGERS, R. and FARRINGTON, D., 2007. Predicting and understanding risk of re-offending: the Prisoner Cohort Study: Ministry of Justice, London, UK Ministry of Justice, London, UK.
• SUNDQUIST, K. and YANG, M., 2007. Linking social capital and self-rated health: A multilevel analysis of 11,175 men and women in Sweden Health & Place. 13(2), 324-334
• YANG, M. and COID, J., 2007. Gender differences in psychiatric morbidity and violent behaviour among a household population in Great Britain Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 42(8), 599-605
• COID, J., YANG, M., TYRER, P., ROBERTS, A. and ULLRICH, S., 2006. Prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in Great Britain The British Journal of Psychiatry. 188(5), 423-431
• COID, J., YANG, M., ROBERTS, A., ULLRICH, S., MORAN, P., BEBBINGTON, P., BRUGHA, T., JENKINS, R., FARRELL, M. and LEWIS, G., 2006. Violence and psychiatric morbidity in a national household population:: a report from the British Household Survey American journal of epidemiology. 164(12), 1199
• COID, J., YANG, M., ROBERTS, A., ULLRICH, S., MORAN, P., BEBBINGTON, P., BRUGHA, T., JENKINS, R., FARRELL, M. and LEWIS, G., 2006. Violence and psychiatric morbidity in the national household population of Britain: public health implications The British Journal of Psychiatry. 189(1), 12-19
• ANDERSEN, R., YANG, M. and HEATH, A.F., 2006. Class Politics and Political Context in Britain, 1964-1997: Have Voters Become More Individualized? European sociological review. 22(2), 215-228
• MüLLER, HP, BARRIESHI€NUSAIR, KM, KöNöNEN, E. and YANG, M., 2006. Effect of triclosan/copolymer-/containing toothpaste on the association between plaque and gingival bleeding: a randomized controlled clinical trial 33(11), 811-818
• SUNDQUIST, J., JOHANSSON, S.E., YANG, M. and SUNDQUIST, K., 2006. Low linking social capital as a predictor of coronary heart disease in Sweden: a cohort study of 2.8 million people Social Science & Medicine. 62(4), 954-963
• SUNDQUIST, K., THEOBALD, H., YANG, M., LI, X., JOHANSSON, S.E. and SUNDQUIST, J., 2006. Neighborhood violent crime and unemployment increase the risk of coronary heart disease: a multilevel study in an urban setting Social Science & Medicine. 62(8), 2061-2071
• FIELDING, A. and YANG, M., 2005. Generalized linear mixed models for ordered responses in complex multilevel structures: effects beneath the school or college in education Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). 168(1), 159-183
• HOYLES, C., KüCHEMANN, D., HEALY, L. and YANG, M., 2005. Students' developing knowledge in a subject discipline:: Insights from combining quantitative and qualitative methods Int. J. Social Research Methodology. 8(3), 225-238
• MERLO, J., CHAIX, B., YANG, M., LYNCH, J. and RÃ¥STAM, L., 2005. A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon Journal of epidemiology and community health. 59(6), 443-449
• MERLO, J., CHAIX, B., YANG, M., LYNCH, J. and RÃ¥STAM, L., 2005. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health Journal of epidemiology and community health. 59(12), 1022-1029
• MERLO, J., YANG, M., CHAIX, B., LYNCH, J. and RÃ¥STAM, L., 2005. A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people Journal of epidemiology and community health. 59(9), 729-736
• YANG, M., COID, J.W. and PAN, H., 2005. Multilevel generalized linear models for modelling age related gender difference in violent behaviour and associated factors in the general household population International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 14(3), 130-145
• FIELDING, A., YANG, M. and GOLDSTEIN, H., 2003. Multilevel ordinal models for examination grades: Statistical modelling Statistical modelling. 3(2), 127
• MERLO, J., LYNCH, J.W., YANG, M., LINDSTRöM, M., ÖSTERGREN, P.O., RASMUSEN, N.K. and RÃ¥STAM, L., 2003. Effect of neighborhood social participation on individual use of hormone replacement therapy and antihypertensive medication: a multilevel analysis American journal of epidemiology. 157(9), 774
• YANG, M., 2003. Review of Mixed-Up Suite for Windows Available at: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/mix.html>
• YANG, M., 2003. A review of random effects modelling in SAS (release 8.2) Available at: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/sas.htlm>
• YANG, M., 2003. Review of HLM 5.04 for Windows Available at: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/hlm5.htlm>
• YANG, M., 2003. A review on SYSTAT (10) on random effects modelling Available at: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/systat.htlm>
• YANG, M. and GOLDSTEIN, H., 2003. Modelling survival data in MLwiN 1.20
• YANG, M, GOLDSTEIN, H, BROWNE, W and WOODHOUSE, G, 2002. Multivariate Multilevel Analyses Of Examination Results Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society. 165(1), 137-153
• YANG, M., 2002. A review of random effects models in EGRET for Windows (Version 2.0.3) Available at: <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/egret.htlm>
• BROWNE, W.J., GOLDSTEIN, H., WOODHOUSE, G. and YANG, M., 2001. An MCMC algorithm for adjusting for errors in variables in random slopes multilevel models Multilevel modelling newsletter. 13(1), 4-9
• YANG, M. and WOODHOUSE, G., 2001. Progress from GCSE to A and AS level: institutional and gender differences, and trends over time British Educational Research Journal. 27(3), 245-267
• YANG, M, GOLDSTEIN, H and HEATH, A, 2000. Multilevel Models For Repeated Binary Outcomes: Attitudes And Voting Over The Electoral Cycle Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society. 163, 49-62
• GOLDSTEIN, H, YANG, M, OMAR, R, TURNER, R and THOMPSON, S, 2000. Meta-Analysis Using Multilevel Models With An Application To The Study Of Class Size Effects Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics. 49, 399-412
• TURNER RM, OMAR RZ, YANG M, GOLDSTEIN H and THOMPSON SG, 2000. A Multilevel Model Framework For Meta-Analysis Of Clinical Trials With Binary Outcomes. Statistics In Medicine. 19(24), 3417-32
• RASBASH, J., BROWNE, W., GOLDSTEIN, H., YANG, M., PLEWIS, I., HEALY, M., WOODHOUSE, G., DRAPER, D., LANGFORD, I. and LEWIS, T., 2000. A user's guide to MLwiN. London: Centre for Multilevel Modelling INstitute of Education.
• RASBASH, J., GOLDSTEIN, H., BROWNE, W., YANG, M. and WOODHOUSE, G., 2000. The MLwiN Command Interface
• YANG, M, GOLDSTEIN, H, RATH, T and HILL, N, 1999. The use of assessment data for school improvement purposes Oxford Review of Education. 25(4), 469-483
• FIELDING, A. and YANG, M., 1999. Random effects models for ordered category responses and complex structures in educational progress Discussion Papers.
• YANG, M., RASBASH, J., GOLDSTEIN, H. and BARBOSA, M., 1999. MLwiN macros for advanced multilevel modelling London: Institute of Education.
• WOODHOUSE, G, YANG, M, GOLDSTEIN, H and RASBASH, J, 1996. Adjusting For Measurement Error In Multilevel Analysis Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics In Society. 159, 201-212
• WOODHOUSE, G., RASBASH, J., GOLDSTEIN, H. and YANG, M., 1996. In: Introduction to multilevel modelling: Multi-level Modelling Applications: A Guide for Users of Mln 9-57
• YANG, M. and GOLDSTEIN, H., 1996. Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data. In: Analysis of change: Advanced techniques in panel data analysis 1. Walter de Gruyter. 191-220
• YANG, M. and LEUNG, SSF, 1994. A comparison of the growth patterns of Chinese infants in Chengdu and Hong Kong: 0-2 years Journal of paediatrics and child health. 30(4), 336-340
• YANG, M. and LEUNG, SSF, 1994. Weight and length growth of two Chinese infant groups and the seasonal effects on their growth Annals of Human Biology. 21(6), 547-562
• GOLDSTEIN, H., RASBASH, J., YANG, M., WOODHOUSE, G., PAN, H., NUTTALL, D. and THOMAS, S., 1993. A Multilevel Analysis of School Examination Results [1] Oxford Review of education. 19(4), 425-433
• HEALY, MJR, RASBASH, J. and YANG, M., 1988. Distribution-free estimation of age-related centiles Annals of Human Biology. 15(1), 17-22