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Yongzhao Shao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research Interests : Bioinformatics; Bootstrap and re-sampling techniques; Design and analysis of biomedical experiments and clinical trials; Entropy and likelihood methods for statistical inference; Genetic epidemiology; Goodness of fit and model selection; Mixed-effects and mixture models; Modeling and adjusting for population heterogeneity; Statistical genetics; Survival analysis.
Education : Dr. Shao received his Ph.D. from Tufts University in 1994.
Courses :
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 :
Parhar P, Ezer R, Shao Y et al. (2005) "Possible association of p53 codon 72 polymorphism with susceptibility to adult and pediatric high-grade astrocytomas".
Molecular Brain Research. 137:98-109.
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, In Press.
Lo, S., Liu, X. and Shao, Y. (2003) A marginal likelihood model for family based genetic data. Annals of Human Genetics, 67, 357-366.
Liu, X., Parsarica, C. and Shao, Y. (2003) Testing homogeneity in gamma mixture models. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 30, 227-239.
Liu, X. and Shao, Y. (2003) Asymptotics for likelihood ratio tests under loss of identifiability. Annals of Statistics, 31, 807-832.
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.
Some preprints :
Cao, J. and Shao, Y. (2004) Statistical inference for a hazard rate change-point model. NYU Biostatistics Technical Report, NYU BioStat 04-04
Cao, J. and Shao, Y. (2004) Testing parametric tail distribution based on Kullback-Leibler information. Technical Report on Data Mining and Statistics, Bell Labs.
Han, J., Goldberg, J. D. and Shao, Y. (2004) On genetic linkage/association analysis with incomplete parental information.
NYU Biostatistics Technical Report, NYU BioStat 04-05
Han, J., Goldberg, J. D. and Shao, Y. (2004) Power comparison of a new family-based linkage/association test with other methods using the GAW14 data.
NYU Biostatistics Technical Report, NYU BioStat 04-06
Shao Y., Belitskaya-Lévy I. and Goldberg JD (2004) Statistical Analysis of the Stratified Missing-At-Random (SMAR) Designs for Large Clinical Trials. NYU Biostatistics Technical Report, NYU BioStat 04-01.
Shao, Y. and Liu, X. (2004) On the null distribution of HLOD for testing linkage and linkage heterogeneity. NYU Biostatistics Technical Report, NYU BioStat 04-07
Shao, Y. and Wang, H. (2003) On model selection and the likelihood ratio test for finite mixture models. NYU Biostatistics Technical Report., NYU BioStat 03-05.
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