Yongzhao Shao, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics

Dr. Shao is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Shao has been on editorial board of some major statistical and medical journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and Clinical and Translational Science (CTS). Dr. Shao has served on many special review panels and councils of the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Research Interests : Design and analysis of biomedical experiments including clinical trials; Likelihood and entropy-based statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing);  re-sampling techniques; Goodness of fit and model specification and selection; Survival analysis and risk assessment;  Mixed-effects and mixture models; Modeling and adjusting for population heterogeneity in biomedical studies; Genetic epidemiology; Statistical genetics, and bioinformatics.

Education : Dr. Shao received his Ph.D. from Tufts University in 1994.

Courses :

Dr. Shao is Course Director for Biostatistics for medical students at NYU Langone Medical Center (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine)

Contact Information :
650 First Avenue, 5th floor
New York, NY 10016
E-Mail: Yongzhao Shao
Phone: 212-263-6502
Fax: 212-263-8570

Recent Publications :

Mukhi, V. and Shao, Y. (2009) Optimal two-stage design for screening a large series of   agents/treatments.  Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (2009).
Tseng, C.H. and Shao, Y. Sample size analysis for pharmacogenetic studies. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research. (2009).
Liu, M., Lu, W., Shao, Y. (2008) A Monte Carlo based test for change points in Cox’s proportional hazard models. Statistics in Medicine27:3894-3909
Liu, M. and Shao, Y. (2008) Repeated Measures Analysis.  Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Analysis and Assessment, Editors: Ed Melnick & Brian S. Everitt. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2008.
Shao, Y. Mukhi, V. and Goldberg, J. (2008) A hybrid Bayesian-frequentist approach to evaluate clinical trial designs for tests of superiority and non-inferiority.  Statistics in Medicine27:504
Shao, Y. and Tseng, C. (2007) Sample size analysis for FDR-control in microarray studies with adjustment for dependence. Statistics in Medicine26:4219
Liu, M., Lu, W. and Shao Y. (2006) Interval mapping of quantitative trait loci for time-to-event data using the proportional hazards mixture cure model. Biometrics
Liu, X. and Shao, Y. (2004) Asymptotics for likelihood ratio test in a two-component normal mixture model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 123, 61-81.