Baojiang Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2010-present  Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNMC
• 2009-2010 Acting Instructor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington

Education

• PhD   Statistics, University of Waterloo, 2008
• MS   Statistics, Nankai University, 2005
• BS    Probability & Statistics, Nankai University, 2002

Research Interests

• Missing Data
• (Clustered) Longitudinal Data Analysis
• Survival Data Analysis
• Estimating Equations
• ROC Curve
• Experimental Design
• Statistical Methods and Applications

Selected Publications

• Chen, B. and Zhou, X.H. (2010). Doubly Robust Estimates for Longitudinal Data Analysis with Missing
  Response and Missing Covariates. Biometrics, accepted.
• Chen, B., Yi, G. Y. and Cook, R. J. (2010). Analysis of Interval-Censored Disease Progression Data via
  Multi-State Models under a Nonignorable Inspection Process. Statistics in Medicine, 29, 1175--1189.
• Chen, B., Yi, G. Y. and Cook, R. J. (2010). Weighted Generalized Estimating Functions for Incomplete
  Longitudinal Response and Covariate Data that are Missing at Random. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 336--353.
• Chen, B., Yi, G. Y. and Cook, R. J. (2010).Progressive Multi-State Models for Informatively Incomplete
  Longitudinal Data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, In press.
• Yi, G. Y., Cook, R. J. and Chen, B. (2010). Estimating functions for evaluating treatment effects in cluster-randomized longitudinal studies in the presence of drop-out and non-compliance. Canadian Journal of Statistics,  38, 232--255.
• Chen, B. and Thompson, M. (2010). An Analysis of Intention to Quit Smoking in the ITC4 Survey Accounting for Missingness in  Response and Covariate. Proceedings of the XXVth International Survey Methodology Symposium.
• Zhou, X.H., Chen, B., Xie, Y.M., Tian, F. and Liang, X. (2010). Variable selection using the optimal ROC curve: An application to a traditional Chinese Medicine study on osteoporosis disease. Statistics in Medicine, accepted.
• Wong, R. K., Sagar S. M., Chen, B., Yi, G. Y. and Cook, R. J. (2010). Phase II Randomized Trial of Acupuncture-Like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation to Prevent Radiation-Induced Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer Patients. Journal of the Society of Integrative Oncology, 8, 35--42.
• Chen, B., Yi, G. Y. and Cook, R. J. (2009). Likelihood Analysis of Joint Marginal and Conditional Models for Longitudinal Categorical Data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 37,182--205.
• Chen, B., Li, P., Liu, M. and Zhang, R. (2006). Some Results on Blocked Regular 2-level Fractional Factorial Designs with Clear Effects. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 4436--4449.
• Li, P., Chen, B.,  Liu, M. and Zhang, R. (2006). A Note on Minimum Aberration and Clear Criteria. Statistics and Probability Letters,  76, 1007--1011. 

Professional Affiliations

• American Statistical Association (ASA) 
• International Biometric Society (ENAR)
• Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)