College of Public Health

 

College of Public Health


 

 





Fang Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Student Life Center, 3028
Phone: (402)559-9436
Fax: (402) 559-7259
Email: fangyu@unmc.edu





Professional Summary

2007-Present University of Nebraska Medical Center

Courses Taught

Precalculus, Algebra, Functions and Graph (2002)
Probability Models for Engineers (2005)
COPH 808, Biostatistics II


Education

B.M.,B.S. Management Science, Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2000
M.S. Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, 2003
Ph.D. Statistics, University of Connecticut, 2007

Research Interest & Projects

My current research interest is in developing and applying statistical methods for analyzing high-dimensional data, missing data from biomedical research, and clinical trials.


Selected Publications

Kalajzic I, Staale A, Yang W-P, Wu Y, Johnson SE, Feyen JHM, Krueger W, Maye P, Yu F, Zhao Y, Kuo L, Gupta RR, Achenie LEK, Wang H-W, Shin D-G, and Rowe DW. (2005). Expression Profile of Osteoblast Lineage at Defined Stages of Differentiation, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(6), 24618-24626.

Yu F, Chen M-H, and Kuo L. (2007). Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes Using Calibrated Bayes Factors, Statistica Sinica, in press.

Huang L, Chen M-H, Yu F, Neal PR, and Anderson GJ. (2008). On Modeling Repeated Binary Responses and Time-Dependent Missing Covariates, JABES, in press.

Kuo L, Yu F, and Zhao Y. (2008). A Review for Statistical Methods for Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes in Replicated Microarray Experiments, in Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences: Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, and Bioinformatics, edited by Biswas A, Data S, Fine J, Segal M, Wiley, 341-364.


Professional Affiliations

American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society (ENAR)
International Chinese Statistical Association