ADDRESS

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Georgia State University
University Plaza, Atlanta
Georgia 30303-3083, USA

Phone:(404)413-6434
Fax: (404)413-6403
Email: gqin@gsu.edu

EDUCATION

• Post-doctoral Fellow (2001). Indiana University School of Medicine
• PIMS Post-doctoral Fellow (1999-2000). Pacific Institute of Mathematical Science, University of Victoria, Canada
• PhD in Statistics (1999). The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Master of Science in Statistics. Sichuan University
• Diploma in French. Sichuan International Studies University
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Lanzhou University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• 2007-, Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta
• 2001-2007, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta
• 1999-2000, Sessional Lecturer, University of Victoria, CANADA
• 1994-1996, Associate professor, Sichuan University
• 1992-1994, Assistant professor, Sichuan University
• 1985-1989, Lecturer, Sichuan University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biostatistics and mathematical statistics. Specific topics of current interest:

• Statistical methods in diagnostic medicine
• Survival analysis
• Bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods
• Non-parametric and semi-parametric regression
• Discrete data analysis
• Empirical process and its applications in statistics
• Edgeworth expansion and saddlepoint approximation
• Time series

PUBLICATIONS

43. Qin, G.S. and Zhao, Y.C. (2007). Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship. Statistics & Probability Letter 77, 549-557.

42. Zhao, Y.C. and Qin, G.S. (2007). Simultaneous confidence band for a linear functional of cumulative hazard function via empirical likelihood. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods 36, 313-327.

41. Zhou, X.H., Qin, G.S. (2007). A Supplement to "A New Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Two Binomial Proportions of Paired Data". J Statist Plan Infer 137, 357-358.

40. Zhou, X.H., Qin, G.S., and Maciejewski, M.L. (2006). Estimating the VA inpatient care cost using a semi-parametric heteroscedastic two-part model. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 6, 69-80.

39. Qin, G.S., Hsu, Y.-S., and Zhou, X.H. (2006). New confidence intervals for the difference between two sensitivities at a fixed level of specificity. Statistics in Medicine 25 , 3487-3502.

38. Qin, G.S., and Zhou, X.H. (2006). Empirical likelihood inference for the area under the ROC curve. Biometrics 62 , 613-622.

37. Zhao, Y.C., and Qin, G.S. (2006). Inference for the mean residual life function via empirical likelihood. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods 35, 1025-1036.

36. Zhou, X.H., Qin, G.S., Lin, H.Z. and Li, G. (2006). Inferences in censored cost regression models with empirical likelihood. Statistica Sinica 16, 1213-1232.

35. Qin, G.S., and Tsao, M. (2005). Empirical likelihood based inference for the derivative of the nonparametric regression function. Bernoulli 11, 715-735.

34. Zhou, X.H., and Qin, G.S. (2005). Improved confidence intervals for the sensitivity at a fixed level of specificity of a continuous-scale diagnostic test. Statistics in Medicine 24, 465-477.

33. Zhou, X.H., and Qin, G.S. (2005). A new confidence interval for the difference between two binomial proportions of paired data. J Statist Plan Infer 128, 527-542.

32. Qin, G.S., Tsao, M., and Hsu, Y.-S. (2004). Empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for the Winsorized mean. Advances and Applications in Statistics 4, 167-180.

31. Hermers, R., Jing, B.-Y., Qin, G.S. and Zhou, W. (2004). Saddlepoint approximations to the trimmed mean. Bernoulli 10, 465-501.

30. Zhou, X.H., Tsao, M. and Qin, G.S. (2004). New intervals for the difference between two independent binomial proportions. J Statist Plan Infer 123, 97-115.

29. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2003). Edgeworth expansion in censored linear regression model. Ann Institute of Statistical Mathematics 55, 597-617.

28. Qin, G.S. and Tsao, M. (2003). Empirical likelihood inference for median regression models of censored survival data. J Multi Anal 85, 416-430.

27. Qin, G.S. and Tsao, M. (2002). Empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for the trimmed mean. Commun in Statist, Theory and Methods 31, 2197-2208.

26. Hermers, R., Jing, B.-Y., Qin, G.S. and Zhou, W. (2002). Saddlepoint approximations to the trimmed mean. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Report PNA-R0219, Amsterdam, October 2002, 1-29.

25. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2001). Censored partial linear models and empirical likelihood. J Multi Anal, 78, 37-61.

24. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2001). Empirical likelihood for Cox regression model under random censorship. Commun in Statist, Simulation & Computation, 30, 81-91.

23. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2001). Empirical likelihood for censored linear regression. Scand J of Statist, 28, 661-673.

22. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2000). Asymptotic properties for estimation of partial linear model with censored data. J Statist Plan Infer, 84, 95-110.

21. Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (1999). Berry-Esseen bound for parametric estimate in partial linear model with censored data. Sankhya, Series A, 61, 398-421.

20. Qin, G.S. (1999). Residuals density estimation in censored linear regression model. Acta Math Appl Sinica (English Ed), 15, 109-112.

19. Qin, G.S. (1998). Strong uniform consistency of k-nearest neighbor regression function estimators under m(n)-dependent samples. Chinese J Appl Probab Statist, 14, 55-66.

18. Qin, G.S. and Cai, L. (1996). Estimation for the asymptotic variance of parametric estimates in partial linear model with censored data. Acta Math Sci (English Ed), 16, 192-208.

17. Qin, G.S. (1996). Consistent residuals density estimation in non-parametric regression under m(n)-dependent sample. J Math Res & Exposition 16, 505-516.

16. Qin, G.S., Shi, S. and Chai, G.X. (1996). Asymptotics of the residuals density estimation in non-parametric regression under m(n)-dependent sample. Appl Math J Chinese Univ Ser B, 11, 59-76.

15. Qin, G.S., Shi, S.J. (1996). An empirical distribution function for m(n)-dependent samples and its application to Hazard's estimate. Chinese J Appl Probab Statist, 12, 69-76.

14. Cai, L., Qin, G.S. (1996). Asymptotics of convex minimal M-estimators for a-mixing samples. Sichuan Daxue Xuebao, 33, 134-140.

13. Qin, G.S. (1995). Kernel smoothing method in partial linear model under random censorship. Chinese J Contemp Math, 16, 283-300.

12. Qin, G.S. (1995). A functional central limit theorem for k-nearest neighbor regression estimators. Acta Math Appl Sinica, 18, 1-8.

11. Qin, G.S. (1995). The kernel smoothing method in partial linear models under random censorship. Chinese Ann Math Ser A, 16, 441-453.

10. Qin, G.S., Du, B. (1995). Strong consistency of an improved nearest neighbor estimate for regression functions under m(n)-dependent samples. Sichuan Daxue Xuebao, 32, 128-134.

9. Qin, G.S. (1995). k-NN method in partial linear model under random censorship. Appl Math J Chinese Univ Ser B, 10, 275-286.

8. Qin, G.S. (1995). Fourier transformation estimation of the truncated linear model. Chinese J Appl Probab Statist, 11, 137-146.

7. Qin, G.S. (1995). Semi-parametric estimation of index coefficients under random censorship. Sichuan Daxue Xuebao, 32, 10-15.

6. Qin, G.S., Cheng, P. (1995). Parameter estimation for general regression models on the basis of censored data. J Systems Sci & Math Sci., 15, 329-338.

5. Qin, G.S. and Jiang, Z.Y. (1995). Consistent error estimation in a non-parametric regression model under dependent samples. Chinese J Appl Probab Statist, 11, 371-377.

4. Qin, G.S. and Cheng, P. (1994). Strong uniform consistency of k-nearest neighbor regression function estimators. Science in China, Ser A, 37, 1032-1040.

3. Chai, G.X., Qin, G.S., Sun, P. (1993). The estimation of discrete density function. Chinese J Comtemp Math, 14, 51-66.

2. Chai, G.X, Qin, G.S., Sun, P. (1993). Estimation of discrete density functions. Chinese Ann Math Ser A, 14, 39-50.

1. Qin, G.S. (1993). Orthogonal series and least square estimation for a class of semi-parametric models. Sichuan Daxue Xuebao, 30, 1-6.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Inferences in Censored Cost Regression Models with Empirical Likelihood", 11th Biennial CDC&ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, Decatur, Georgia, USA, April 16-18, 2007.

"Comparison of Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for the Area Under the ROC Curve of a Continuous-Scale Diagnostic Test", International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region Spring Meeting with IMS and Section of ASA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 11-14, 2007.

"Diagnostics I" (chair), Sponsored by ENAR. International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region Spring Meeting with IMS and Section of ASA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 11-14, 2007.

"Empirical Likelihood Based Confidence Intervals for the Sensitivity at a Fixed Level of the False Positive Rate", invited talk at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November, 2006.

"Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Area under the ROC Curve", JSM 2006, American Statistical Association, Seattle, USA, August 6-10, 2006.

"Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Based Confidence Intervals for a ROC curve", 2006 WNAR/IMS Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, June 27-30, 2006.

"Empirical likelihood-based inference for the area under the ROC curve", JSM 2005, American Statistical Association, Minneapolis, USA, August 7-11, 2005.

"Biomedical nonlinear models", Biometrics Section (chair), JSM 2005, American Statistical Association, Minneapolis, USA, August 7-11, 2005.

"Empirical likelihood-based inference for the area under the ROC curve", invited talk at the Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 23, 2005.

"Empirical likelihood-based inference for the area under the ROC curve", The joint meeting of CSPS/IMS, Peking University, Beijing, China, July 9-12, 2005.

"New confidence intervals for the difference between two sensitivities at a fixed level of specificity", invited talk at ICSA 2005 Applied Statistics Symposium, Washington DC, USA, June 12-15, 2005.

"Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship", ICSA 2005 Applied Statistics Symposium, Washington DC, USA, June 12-15, 2005.

"New intervals for the difference between two independent binomial proportions", invited talk at IISA 2004, Fifth Biennial International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas. The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May 14-16, 2004.

"Censored regression models with empirical likelihood", invited talk at Bernoulli Society East Asian and Pacific Regional Conference 2003, Hong Kong, December 18-20, 2003.

"Empirical likelihood for Cox regression model". ICRSA 2003, International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis, Columbia, South Carolina, May 21-24, 2003.

"Improved confidence intervals for the sensitivity of a continuous-scale test at a fixed level of specificity", invited talk (with X. Zhou) at JSM 2002, American Statistical Association, New York, August 11-15, 2002.

"Empirical likelihood inference for median regression". JSM 2002, American Statistical Association, New York, August 11-15, 2002.

"A better confidence interval for the difference between two binomial proportions of paired data". SSC 2002, Statistical Society of Canada, Hamilton, Canada, May 26-29, 2002.

"Censored partial linear models and empirical likelihood", invited talk at Central Indiana ASA meeting. Indianapolis, USA. March 13, 2001.

"Refined confidence intervals for the difference of two sensitivities or specificities", invited talk at ICSA 2001 Applied Statistics Symposium, Chicago, June 2001.

"Empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for the trimmed mean". The Second Annual PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Workshop. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. December 4-5, 1999.

"Berry-Esseen bound for parametric estimate in partial linear model with censored data". Joint Statistical Meeting. Dallas, USA. August 1998.

"Edgeworth expansion in censored linear regression model". The Fifth International Chinese Statistical Association Conference. Kunming, China. August 1998.

"Residuals density estimation in censored linear regression model". International Symposium on Contemporary Multivariate Analysis and its Applications. Hong Kong. May 1997.

"Asymptotic theory for estimation of partial linear model with censored data". 50 Session of International Statistical Institute. Beijing, China. August 1995.

"Strong uniform consistency of k-nearest neighbor regression function estimators under m(n)-dependent samples". The Third International Chinese Statistical Association Conference. Beijing, China. August 1995.

"Asymptotic M-estimators defined by convex minimization for a-mixing samples". The Fifth Japan-China Symposium on Statistics. Okayama, Japan. 1994.

"Randomly weighted M-estimates in linear models for strictly stationary a-mixing errors". International Conference on Modeling and Simulation and Control. Chengdu, China. 1993.

GRANTS

• Principal investigator, "Some problems in censored regression models". Project founded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (1996-1998)
• Co-PI, "The theory of estimation for non-parametric distribution and applied software". Project founded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (1993-1995)
• Principal investigator, "Empirical likelihood based interval estimation for ROC curves". GSU RIP grant, $8500, 2005-2006.
• Principal investigator, "Empirical Likelihood Based Statistical Methods for Diagnostic Systems". NSF DMS 0603913, $79,935, 2006-2009.
• Principal investigator(NIH subcontract), "Statistical Methods in Diagnostic Medicine". 2006 (PI. Andrew Zhou, University of Washington, Seattle. R01 EB005829-01A2. $685,691).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Referred papers for the following journals:

• Annals of Statistics
• Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
• Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics
• Biometrics
• Canadian Journal of Statistics
• Communications in Statistics
• International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
• International Journal of Biostatistics
• International Journal of Statistics and Systems
• Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
• Journal of Statistics and Applications
• Journal of Statistical Computations and Simulations
• Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B
• Medical Decision Making
• Metron
• Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
• Statistics in Medicine
• Statistics & Probability Letters
• Statistica Sinica
• Test
• Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics
• Acta Mathematica Scientia
• The Journal of Sichuan University

TEACHING

1. Courses Taught At Georgia State University:

• Math 1070 Elementary Statistics
• Math 4544/6544 Biostatistics
• Biol 4744/6744 Biostatistics
• Math 4751/6751 Mathematical Statistics I
• Math 4752/6752 Mathematical Statistics II
• Stat 8440 Survival Analysis
• Stat 8630 Experimental Design
• Stat 8680 Applied Nonparametric Methods
• Stat 8760 Sample Surveys
• Stat 8999 Thesis Research in Statistics

2. Courses Taught At Sichuan University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology:

• Complex Analysis
• Discrete Data Analysis
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics
• Linear Algebra
• Mathematical Analysis
• Non-parametric Methods
• Probability and Statistics
• Sampling
• Stochastic Process
• Survival Analysis
• The Convergence of Stochastic Process

GRADUATE STUDENTS DIRECTED

Cai, Lei : M.S. in Statistics, Sichuan University, 1993.
Jiang, Zeyun: M.S. in Statistics, Sichuan University, 1993.
Tian, Linhui: M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2003.
Kim, Jihye: M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2004.
Hotilovac, Lejla: M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2005.
Gao, Ang: M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2005.
Jin, Xiaoping: M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2006.
Davis, Angela E : M.S. in Biostatistics, Georgia State University, 2007.

Last updated:8/31/2006