Gengsheng (Jeff) Qin
Associate Professor
Graduate Director of Statistics
Office: 712 COE
Office phone: 404.413.6434
E-mail: matgjq [at]langate.gsu.edu
Personal website
Education
B.S. Mathematics, Lanzhou University, China, 1983
M.S. Statistics, Sichuan University, China, 1992
Ph.D. Statistics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1999
Research/Teaching
Dr. Qin's current research interests are mainly in the areas of statistical methods in diagnostic medicine, survival analysis, bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods.
He teaches elementary statistics, biostatistics and mathematical statistics courses to undergraduate and graduate students.
Selected Publications
Qin, G.S., and Zhou, X.H. (2006). Empirical likelihood inference
for the area under the ROC curve. Biometrics 62 , 613-622.
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.
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.
Qin, G.S., and Tsao, M. (2005). Empirical likelihood based
inference for the derivative of the nonparametric regression
function. Bernoulli 11, 715-735.
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.
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.
Hermers, R., Jing, B.-Y., Qin, G.S. and Zhou, W. (2004).
Saddlepoint approximations to the trimmed mean. Bernoulli 10,
465-501.
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.
Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2003). Edgeworth expansion in censored
linear regression model. Ann Institute of Statistical Mathematics
55, 597-617.
Qin, G.S. and Tsao, M. (2003). Empirical likelihood inference for
median regression models of censored survival data. J Multi Anal
85, 416-430.
Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2001). Censored partial linear models
and empirical likelihood. J Multi Anal, 78, 37-61.
Qin, G.S. and Jing, B.-Y. (2001). Empirical likelihood for
censored linear regression. Scand J of Statist, 28, 661-673.