Ran Xu
Assistant Professor/Allied Health Sciences
Scholarly Contributions

67 Scholarly Contributions

Late retirement, early careers, and the aging of US science and engineering professors
2018
Ran Xu, Navid Ghaffarzadegan
Research Type: Journal Article

A call for a public health agenda for social media research
2019
Ran Xu, others, Sherry Pagoto, Molly E Waring
Research Type: Journal Article

A Call for a Public Health Agenda for Social Media Research.
2019
Research Type: Journal Article

Affective ties that bind: Investigating the affordances of social networking sites for commemoration of traumatic events
2019
Yunya Song, Ran Xu
Research Type: Journal Article

konfound: Command to quantify robustness of causal inferences
2019
Kenneth A Frank, Spiro J Maroulis, Ran Xu, Joshua M Rosenberg
Research Type: Journal Article

The impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum on high school math course-taking
2019
Kenneth Frank, Ran Xu, Barbara Schneider, Gregory Wallsworth, Susan Dynarski, Soobin Kim, Brian Jacob
Research Type: Journal Article

COVID-19 and retail grocery management: Insights from a broad-based consumer survey
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Food liking-based diet quality indexes (DQI) generated by conceptual and machine learning explained variability in cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults
2020
Valerie Duffy, Ran Xu, Lauren Corso, Jeanne McCaffrey, Stephen Woolley, Bruce Blanchard
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12040882
Causal inference for social network analysis
2020
Ran Xu, Kenneth A Frank
Research Type: Journal Article

Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP): changes to inventory in six food pantries over one year
2020
Talea Cornelius, Margaret Read, Marlene B Schwartz, Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Katie S Martin, Ran Xu, Michelle McCabe, Michele Wolff
Research Type: Journal Article

Food pantries select healthier foods after nutrition information is available on their food bank's ordering platform.
2020
Kathleen S Martin, Ran Xu, MARLENE B SCHWARTZ
Research Type: Journal Article

Statistical methods for the estimation of contagion effects in human disease and health networks
2020
Research Type: Journal Article

Challenges and opportunities in the estimation of dynamic models
2020
Christopher R Dishop, Richard P DeShon, Ran Xu
Research Type: Journal Article

Presence of Safety Disclaimers in Instagram Posts about Physical Activity During Pregnancy
2020
Madison L Bracken, Ran Xu, Brooke A Libby, Tiffany A Moore Simas, Sherry Pagoto, Paige Piera, Molly Waring, Valeria Herrera
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Pilot Test of Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP): Clients Chose Healthier Foods after Implementation
2020
Eminet A Gurganus, Katie Martin, Sarah L McKee, Ran Xu, MARLENE B SCHWARTZ, Abiodun T Atoloye
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Quantifying the robustness of empirical inferences in strategic management: The impact threshold of a confounding variable and robustness of inference to replacement
2021
Ran Xu, Qinyun Lin, Spiro J Maroulis, Kenneth A Frank, John R Busenbark
Research Type: Book Chapter

Social network analysis of the effects of a social media--based weight loss intervention targeting adults of low socioeconomic status: Single-arm intervention trial
2021
Ran Xu, David Cavallo
Research Type: Journal Article

Health inequities in COVID-19 vaccination among the elderly: Case of Connecticut
2021
Shijin Qu, Ran Xu, Aaron Adams, Xiang Chen, Hui Wang, Marlene Schwartz
Research Type: Journal Article

Food pantries select healthier foods after nutrition information is available on their food bank???s ordering platform
2021
Marlene B Schwartz, Katie Martin, Ran Xu
Research Type: Journal Article

An Exploratory Approach to Deriving Nutrition Information of Restaurant Food from Crowdsourced Food Images: Case of Hartford
2021
Ran Xu, Xiang Chen, Aditya Kulkarni, Yanyan Chen, Natalie Ranelli, Caiwen Ding, Evelyn Johnson
Research Type: Journal Article