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Peng Zhang
Assistant
Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,
University of Alberta
Office: CAB 431
Phone: (780)
492-4115
Fax: (780)
492-6826
Email: pengz@ualberta.ca
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2004 - 2006, PhD, Biostatistics, Department of
Statistics and Actuarial Science,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
2001 - 2003, MA and PhD, Statistics,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto,
Ontario.
1994 - 1997, MA, Economics, Department of Finance
and Insurance, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
1986 - 1990, BSc, Information Science, Department of
Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
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Longitudinal data analysis, data
mining, nonparametric regression, measurement error model and
bioinformatics.
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| Publications
Journal
Articles:
[1] Zhang, P., Wang, X. and Song, P.
X.-K. (2006) Clustering categorical data based on
distance vectors. Journal of the
American Statistical Association 101:355-367.
[2] Song,
P. X.-K., Zhang, P. and Qu, A. (2007) Maximum likelihood inference
in robust linear mixed-effects models using multivariate t distributions. Statistica Sinica 17:929-943.
[3] Zhang,
P., Song, P. X.-K., Qu, A. and Greene, T. (2007) Efficient estimation
for patient-specific rates of disease progression using non-normal
linear mixed models. Biometrics 64:29-38.
[4] Zhang,
P., Qu, Z., Fu, Y. and Song, P. X.-K. (2009) Robust transformation
mixed-effects models for longitudinal continuous proportional
data. Canadian Journal of
Statistics 37:266-281.
[5] Browne, J., Gill, J., Dong, J.,
Rose, C., Johnston, O., Zhang, P., Landsberg, D. and Gill, J .(2011)
The Impact of pancreas transplantation on kidney allograft survival. American Journal of Transplantation (accepted).
[6]
Zhang, P., Liu, J., Dong, J., Holovati, J. L., Letcher, B. and McGann, L. E.
(2011) A Bayesian adjustment for multiplicative measurement errors for
a calibration problem with application to a stem cell study. Biometrics (accepted).
[7] Niu, X., Li, P. and Zhang, P.
(2011) Testing homogeneity in a multivariate mixture model.
Canadian Journal of
Statistics (accepted).
Conference Proceedings:
[8] Zhang, P. and Song, P. X.-K. (2009)
Nonlinear random mean models for longitudinal
data analysis. Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of New Researchers in
Statistics and
Probability.
[9] Su, W. and Zhang, P. (2009) Statistical inference on recall,
precision and average precision.
Proceedings of the Twelfth Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and
Probability.
[10] Zhang, P., Feng, Y. and Wang, X. (2011) Estimation of number of
clusters in categorical data using distance-based likelihood function.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Computation
& the 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge
Discovery. (accepted).
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Presentations:
2005:
- Efficient estimation of
patient-specific treatment effects on disease progression using
nonnormal linear mixed models. Statistical Society of Canada Annual
Meeting, Saskatoon,
Saskatchwan, Canada
- Nonparametric approach to solving
high-order pooling problem in case-control study.
International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region 2005
Annual Meeting,
Austin, Texas, USA
- Efficient estimation of
patient-specific treatment effects on disease progression using
nonnormal linear mixed models. Poster presentation at Workshop on
Current Issues in the Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Efficient subject-specific effects
estimation and modified GEE approach for longitudinal
data. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2006:
- Efficient subject-specific effects
estimation and modified GEE approach for longitudinal
data. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Efficient subject-specific effects
estimation and modified GEE approach for longitudinal
data. University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
- Efficient subject-specific effects
estimation and modified GEE approach for longitudinal
data. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Efficient subject-specific effects
estimation and modified GEE approach for longitudinal
data. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2007:
- Detecting DNA copy number alterations
in array CGH data. Alberta Statistician Meeting,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2008;
- Robust analysis of longitudinal
proportional data using mixed-effects models. Statistical
Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2009:
- Nonlinear joint mean-covariance
modeling for longitudinal data analysis. The Third
Annual Meeting of the Prairie Network for Research in MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCES,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2010:
- HD vector method for clustering
categorical data. Statistical Society of Canada Annual
Meeting, University Laval, Quebec City, Canada
- HD vector method for clustering
categorical data. International Conference on Statistical
Analysis of Complex Data, Yunnan University, China
- Log-gamma linear mixed models for
multiple characteristics with application to a longitudinal glaucoma
study. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, University Laval,
Quebec City, Canada
2011:
- Estimation of number of clusters in
categorical data using distance-based likelihood function. The 7th
International Conference on Natural Computation & the 8th
International
Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Shanghai, China
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Supervision:
Current PhD students:
Dandan
Luo, Random mean models for longitudinal data analysis. 2008-
Jianghu (James) Dong, Measurement error models in calibration problem
and case-control study. 2008- Current position: Statistician, St.
Paul’s Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Canada
Graduated Master students:
Kehu Zhou, Current
position: Biostatistician, Alberta Agriculture Research Institute, Red
Deer, AB
Manli Yan, Current Position: Statistician, Xinhua Life Insurance Ltd.,
Beijing, China
Ting Wang, Current Position: Statistician, ATB Financial, Edmonton, AB Canada
Canada
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Department
of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University
of Alberta
632 Central
Academic Building
Edmonton,
AB T6G 2G1 |
Phone:
780.492.3396
Fax:
780.492.6826
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7.06.07
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