Yi Huang, in the department of mathematics and statistics, was first author in a recent paper in JAMA Pediatrics.
In a press release put out by the University of Virginia, Huang was quoted,
“Our study provides strong evidence that bedsharing promotes breastfeeding by increasing breastfeeding duration using survival analysis, with the greatest effect found among frequent bedsharers,” said Yi Huang, a biostatistician at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She noted that this is “one of the very few nationwide studies with a high response rate for extensive postnatal measurements on this issue and a sample large enough that under-represented demographic categories have enough subjects to be included in analyses.”
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