Yichuan Zhao
Associate Professor
Office: 726 COE
Office phone 404.413.6446
Email: matyiz [at]langate.gsu.edu
Personal webpage
Education
B.S. Mathematics, Peking University, 1987
M.S. Applied Mathematics, Peking University, 1991
M.S. Stochastics & Operations Research, University of Utrecht, 1997
Ph.D. Statistics, Florida State University, 2002
Research/Teaching
The current research focuses on Survival Analysis, Empirical Likelihood Method and Its Application, Nonparametric Statistics, Bioinformatics, Monte Carlo Methods, and Statistical Modeling of Fuzzy Systems etc.
Teaching interests include Survival Analysis, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Theory, Advanced Methods in Biostatistics, Biostatistics, Regression Analysis etc.
Selected Publications
Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z. Huang, X. Tony Hu and Y. Zhao. Recursive fuzzy granulation for gene subsets extraction and cancer classification, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2008.
E. Bishop and Y. Zhao. Empirical likelihood based rank regression inference, Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 37, 746—755, 2008.
J. Chen, L. Peng and Y. Zhao. Empirical likelihood based confidence intervals for copulas, to appear in Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2008.
Y. Zhao and S. Yang. Empirical likelihood inference for censored median regression with weighted empirical hazard functions, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 60, 441-457, 2008.
Y. Zhao and F. Chen. Empirical likelihood inference for median regression model via nonparametric kernel estimation, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99, 215—231, 2008.
Y. Qiu, H. Yang, Y.Q. Zhang and Y. Zhao. Polynomial regression interval-valued fuzzy systems, Soft Computing--A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, 12, 137-145, 2008.
Y. Zhao, Y. Zhou and M. Zhao. Analysis of additive risk model with high dimensional covariates using partial least squares, Statistics in Medicine, in press, 2008.
Y. Zhao and H. Wang. Empirical likelihood inference for regression model of mean quality-adjusted lifetime with censored data, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 36, 463-- 478, 2008.
S. Yang and Y. Zhao. Testing treatment effect via empirical likelihood using weighted log rank tests, Statistics and Probability Letters, 77, 1385—1393, 2007.
X. Chen, Y. Zhao, Y.-Q. Zhang and R. Harrison. Combining SVM classifiers using genetic fuzzy systems based on AUC for gene expression data analysis. Proceedings of International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 4463, 496—505, 2007.
Y. Zhao and W. Jian. Analysis of longitudinal data in the case-control studies via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 36, 565—578, 2007.
Y. Zhao and Y. Huang. Test-based interval estimation under the accelerated failure time model, Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, 36, 593—605, 2007.
N. Glenn and Y. Zhao. Weighted empirical likelihood estimates and their robustness properties, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 5130—5141, 2007.
G. Qin and Y. Zhao. Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship, Statistics and Probability Letters, 77, 549—557, 2007.
Y. Zhao and G. Qin. Inference for a functional of cumulative hazard functions via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, 36, 313— 327, 2007.
Y. Zhao and G. Qin. Inference for the mean residual life function via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 35, 1025--1036, 2006.
I. McKeague and Y. Zhao. Width-scaled confidence bands for survival functions, Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 327—339, 2006.
I. McKeague and Y. Zhao. Comparing distribution functions via empirical likelihood, International Journal of Biostatistics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, article 5, 2005.
Y. Zhao. Regression analysis for long-term survival rate via empirical likelihood, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 17, 995—1007, 2005.
Y. Zhao and Y. S. Hsu. Semiparametric analysis for additive risk model via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics--Simulation and Computation, 34, 135—143, 2005.
I. McKeague and Y. Zhao. Simultaneous inference for ratios of survival functions via empirical likelihood, Statistics and Probability Letters, 60, 405-415, 2002.