Duc-Khanh To

Duc-Khanh To

Ph.D in Statistics

Lecturer at Department of Probability and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh city

Publications

Academic publications

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  1. To, D. K., Adimari, G., Chiogna, M. and Remoli, G. (2026). Unravelling sensitivity: exploring covariate effects in early disease detection. Statistical Methods & Applications.DOI: 10.1007/s10260-026-00873-w

  2. To. D. K., Adimari, G., and Chiogna, M., (2026). A new evaluation strategy for diagnostic tests under umbrella or tree ordering. International Statistical Review. 94, 2, 242 - 263. DOI: 10.1111/insr.12612

  3. To. D. K., Adimari, G., and Chiogna, M. (2024). Interval estimation in three-class receiver operating characteristic analysis: A fairly general approach based on the empirical likelihood. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 33, 5, 875 - 893. DOI: 10.1177/09622802241238998

  4. Adimari, G., To. D. K., Chiogna, M., Scatozza, F. and Facchiano, A. (2024). Likelihood-type confidence regions for optimal sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 189, 107840 - 107857. DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2023.107840

  5. To. D. K., Adimari, G., and Chiogna, M. (2023). ClusROC: An R package for ROC analysis in three-class classification problems for clustered data. The R Journal. 15, 1, 254 - 270. DOI: 10.32614/RJ-2023-035

  6. To. D. K., Adimari, G., Chiogna, M. and Risso, D. (2022). Receiver operating characteristic estimation and threshold selection criteria in three-class classification problems for clustered data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 31, 7, 1325-1341. DOI: 10.1177/09622802221089029

  7. To. D. K., Adimari, G., and Chiogna, M. (2022). Estimation of the volume under a ROC surface in presence of covariates. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 174, 107434-107448. DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2022.107434

  8. Romanato, M., Piatkowska, W., Spolaor, F., To, D. K., Volpe, D., and Sawacha, Z. (2022). Different perspectives in understanding muscle functions in Parkinson’s disease through surface electromyography: exploring multiple activation patterns. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 64, 102658. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2022.102658

  9. Adimari, G., To. D. K., and Chiogna, M. (2022). Confidence regions for optimal sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test. Book of Short Papers, 51th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society - SIS 2022. Pearson, ISBN: 9788891932310, 2000-2005. Download

  10. Adimari, G., To. D. K. and Chiogna, M. (2021). Non-monotone transformation of biomarkers. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 30, 2, 349-353. DOI: 10.1177/0962280220950050

  11. Guolo. A and To. D. K. (2021). A pseudo-likelihood approach for multivariate meta-analysis of test accuracy studies with multiple thresholds. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 30, 1, 204-220. DOI: 10.1177/0962280220948085

  12. Spolaor, F., Romanato, M., Annamaria, G., Peppe, A., Bakdounes, L., To, D. K., Volpe, D. and Sawacha, Z. (2021). Relationship between Muscular Activity and Postural Control Changes after Proprioceptive Focal Stimulation (Equistasi{\textregistered}) in Middle-Moderate Parkinson’s Disease Patients: An Explorative Study. Sensors. 21, 2, 560. DOI: 10.3390/s21020560

  13. To Duc, K., Chiogna, M. and Adimari, G. (2020). Nonparametric estimation of ROC surfaces in presence of verification bias. REVSTAT-Statistical Journal. 18, 5, 697-720. DOI: 10.57805/revstat.v18i5.327

  14. To. D. K., Adimari, G. and Chiogna, M. (2020). Selecting optimal thresholds in ROC analysis with clustered data. Book of Short Papers, 50th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society - SIS 2020. Pearson, ISBN: 9788891910776, 803-808. Download

  15. To. D. K. and Adimari, G. and Chiogna, M. (2020). Mean score equation and instrumental variables: another look at estimating the volume under the ROC surface when data are missing not at random. Stat. 9:e259. DOI: 10.1002/sta4.259

  16. To Duc, K., Chiogna, M. and Adimari, G. (2019). Estimation for the volume under ROC surface in presence of nonignorable verification bias. Statistical Methods and Applications. 28, 4, 695-722. DOI: 10.1007/s10260-019-00451-3

  17. Minh N. D., Khanh T. D., Tuan N. H. and Trong D. D. (2018). A two dimensional backward heat problem with statistical discrete data. Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems. 26, 1, 13-31. DOI: 10.1515/jiip-2016-0038

  18. To Duc, K. (2017). bcROCsurface: an R package for correcting verification bias in estimation of the ROC surface and its volume for continuous diagnostic tests. BMC Bioinformatics. 18:503. DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1914-3

  19. To Duc, K., Chiogna, M. and Adimari, G. (2016). Bias-corrected methods for estimating the receiver operating characteristic surface of continuous diagnostic tests. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 10, 2, 3063-3113. DOI: 10.1214/16-EJS1202

  20. Trong D. D., Khanh T. D., Tuan N. H., Minh N. D. (2015). Nonparametric regression in a statistical modified Helmholtz equation using Fourier spectral regularization. Statistic: A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics. 49, 2, 267-290. DOI: 10.1080/02331888.2014.946929

Submitted articles

  • Remoli, G., To, D. K., Adimari, G., and Chiogna, M. (2026). Diagnostic tests under umbrella or tree ordering: a new separation index and associated classification rule. Under review.

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