Submitted Manuscripts

• Dependence Calibration in Conditional Copulas: A Nonparametric Approach (with Elif F. Acar and Fang Yao)
  
  
• Bayesian Methods to Overcome the Winner's Curse in Genetic Studies (with Lizhen Xu and Lei Sun) ( arXiv )
  
  
• Conditional logistic regression with longitudinal follow up and individual-level random coefficients: A stable and efficient two-step estimation method (with Thierry Duchesne, Daniel Fortin and Sophie Baillargeon)
  
  
• A Mixture-Based Approach to Regional Adaptation for MCMC (with Antonio F. Di Narzo) ( arXiv )
  
  

Selected Publications

• Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves (2009). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, to appear. (with Fang Yao and Benjamin Reiser) ( arXiv ) Supplemental material for the paper is here.
  
  
• Learn From Thy Neighbor: Parallel-Chain and Regional Adaptive MCMC (2009). Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear. (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Chao Yang) ( pdf )
  
  
• On the Choice of Parametric Families of Copulas (2008). Advances and Applications in Statistics , 10, No. 1, 25--40. (with Mariana Craiu)
  
  
• Choosing the lesser evil: trade-off between false discovery rate and non-discovery rate (2008). Statistica Sinica, 18, No. 3, 861--879. (with Lei Sun) ( pdf )
  
  
• Generalized estimating equations and model selection for longitudinal conditional logistic regression (2008). Biometrical Journal, 50, No. 1, 97--109. (with Thierry Duchesne and Daniel Fortin) ( pdf ). Correction (pdf).
  
  
• Acceleration of the Multiple-try Metropolis Algorithm using Antithetic and Stratified sampling (2007). Statistics and Computing, 17, No. 2, 109--120. (with Christiane Lemieux) ( pdf)
  
  
• Stratified False Discovery Control for Large-scale Hypothesis Testing with Application to Genome-Wide Association Studies (2006). Genetic Epidemiology, 30, No. 6, 519--530. (with Lei Sun, Andrew Paterson and Shelley Bull) ( pdf )
  
  
• Meeting Hausdorff in Monte Carlo: A Surprising Tour with the Antihype Fractal (2006). Statistica Sinica , 16, No. 1, 77--91. (with Xiao-Li Meng) ( pdf )
  
  
• Inference for the dependent competing risks model with masked causes of failure (2006). Lifetime Data Analysis, 12, No. 1, 21--33. (with Benjamin Reiser) ( pdf )
  
  
• Pattern generation using likelihood inference for cellular automata (2006). IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 15, No. 7, 1718--1727. (with Thomas C.M. Lee) ( pdf )
  
  
• Model Selection for the Competing Risks Model With and Without Masking (2005). Technometrics, 47, No. 4, 457--467. (with Thomas C.M. Lee) ( pdf )
  
  
• Multi-process parallel antithetic coupling for forward and backward Markov chain Monte Carlo (2005). Annals of Statistics, 33, No. 2, 661--697. (with Xiao-Li Meng) ( pdf )
  
  
• Using EM and Data Augmentation for the competing risks model (2004). In Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from an Incomplete-Data Perspective. Edited by A. Gelman and X.L. Meng, Wiley. (with Thierry Duchesne) ( pdf)
  
  
• Inference based on the EM algorithm for the competing risks model with masked causes of failure (2004). Biometrika , 91, No. 3, 543--558. (with Thierry Duchesne) ( pdf )
  
  
• Efficient bootstrap resampling (2001). Scientific Bulletin, 3, 3--10.
  
  
• Chance and Fractals (2001). Chance, 14, 47--52. (with Xiao-Li Meng)
  
  
• Antithetic coupling for perfect sampling (2001). In Bayesian Methods with Applications to Science, Policy, and Official Statistics - Selected Papers from ISBA 2000. Edited by E. I. George. (with Xiao-Li Meng) ( pdf )
  
  

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