Research

Publications & Talks

That an article appears in a peer-reviewed journal only means that two or three reviewers and the editor have agreed it is worth publishing. It does not mean that the conclusions are correct or that the findings are important.

Journal Articles

Ma, Y., Mushkudiani, N., & Schouten, B. (forthcoming). An optimal stratification method for addressing nonresponse bias in Bayesian adaptive survey design. Sociological Methods & Research.

Ma, Y., West, B. T., & McCabe, S. E. (submitted). Daily Web Survey Data Collection of Time-Varying Cannabis Use Motives and Contexts, with Implications for Adaptive Interventions: A Pilot Study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

West, B. T., Ma, Y., Lankenau, S., Wong, C. F., Bonar, E. E., Patrick, M. E., Walton, M. A., & McCabe, S. E. (2024). Latent transition analysis of time-varying cannabis use motives to inform adaptive interventions. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 38(7), 759–771. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0001012

Van De Schoot, R., De Bruin, J., Schram, R., Zahedi, P., De Boer, J., Weijdema, F., Kramer, B., Huijts, M., Hoogerwerf, M., Ferdinands, G., Harkema, A., Willemsen, J., Ma, Y., Fang, Q., Hindriks, S., Tummers, L., & Oberski, D. L. (2021). An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews. Nature Machine Intelligence, 3(2), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-00287-7

Conference Presentations

Traugott, M., & Ma, Y. (2025). Motivated reasoning and acceptance of poll results on a health policy issue. Paper presentation. 7th Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research Conference, Washington, DC, United States. https://dornsife.usc.edu/cesr/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2025/03/3-Traugott-CIPHER-Presentation-V1.pdf

Traugott, M., & Ma, Y. (2025). The Role of Polls in a Democratic Society. Paper presentation. 78th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Ma, Y. (2025). Replacing nonresponse modeling with active learning on AI-generated textual descriptions of sample units for efficient survey data collection. Paper presentation. 80th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Louis, MO, United States. https://aapor.confex.com/aapor/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/3983

Traugott, M., & Ma, Y. (2025). The relationship between public understanding of polls and their credibility. Paper presentation. 80th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Louis, MO, United States. https://aapor.confex.com/aapor/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/3678

Ma, Y. (2025). Stratification method for identifying subgroups requiring different survey data collection strategies. Paper presentation. 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Ma, Y., & Traugott, M. (2025). Survey attitudes and privacy concerns: Measurement invariance across Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Paper presentation. 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Ma, Y. (2024). Leveraging Survey Variables to Estimate Response Propensity in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design: A Simulation Study. Paper presentation. 79th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Atlanta, GA, United States. https://aapor.confex.com/aapor/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/2469

Ma, Y., West, B. T., & McCabe, S. E. (2024). Daily Web Survey Data Collection to Improve Health: Temporal Dynamics of Cannabis Use Motives and Context, with Implications for Adaptive Interventions. Paper presentation. 79th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Atlanta, GA, United States. https://aapor.confex.com/aapor/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/2816

Ma, Y., & Miller, P. V. (2023). Leveraging Survey Variables to Estimate Response Propensity in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design: A Simulation Study. Paper presentation. 48th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, IL, United States.

Ma, Y., Mushkudiani, N., & Schouten, B. (2021). An optimal stratification approach for addressing nonresponse bias in Bayesian adaptive survey design. Paper presentation. 7th International Workshop on Advances in Adaptive and Responsive Survey Design, Online.

Ma, Y., Mushkudiani, N., & Schouten, B. (2021). An optimal stratification approach for addressing nonresponse bias in Bayesian adaptive survey design. Paper presentation. 9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Online. https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2021/uploads/57/3653/67/Ma_ESRA21.pdf

Invited Talks

Ma, Y. (2022). Human-centered AI through reliable graphical user interfaces. 1st ASReview Users Meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands.