Ling Chen

Research Interests

Selected Publications

• The Strong Convergence of Conditional Risk Estimator in the NN Prediction Problem with Square Loss. Journal of Engineering Mathematics , 2(1), 161-165 (1985).

• Strong Convergence Rates of Estimator of Conditional Risk in NN Prediction. Journal of Mathematics & Physics . 6(1), 87-100 (1986).

• A Note on Sutton's Composite Test for the Mean of Asymmetrical Distributions. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 49, 244-249 (1994).

• A Minimum Cost Estimator for the Mean of Positively Skewed Distributions With Applications to Estimation of Exposure to Contaminated Soils. Environmetrics, 6, 181-193 (1995).

• Testing the Mean of Skewed Distributions, Journal of the American Statistical Association , 90, 767-772 (1995).

• An Alternative Test for Normality Based on Normalized Spacing (with Shapiro, S.S.). Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation . 53, 269-288 (1995).

• A One-Sided Trimmed Mean Estimator for the Mean of Positively Skewed Distributions. Austral. J. Statist. 37(3), 313-322 (1995).

• Estimation of Non-occurrence Probability in Periodic Model (with Mi, J.). Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 24(6), 1493-1505 (1995).

• Conservative, Nonparametric Estimation of Mean Concentration to Contaminants (with Jernigan, W.R.). Statistica Sinica , 6(3), 547-559 (1996).

• Can the Idea of the QH Test for Normality be Used for Testing the Weibull Distribution? (with Shapiro, S.S.). Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation , 55, 257-263 (1996).

• Prediction Bounds for Random Shelf-Lives (with Shao, J.). Statistics in Medicine , 16, 1167-1173. (1997)

• Testing Normality for Censored Data (with He, X.). Applied statistical Science III , NOVA Sci. Publi., Commack, NY, 113-125. (1998)

• An Improved Penalized Mean for Estimating the Mean Concentration of Contaminants. Journal of Applied Statistics, 25(6), 739-750. (1998).

• Bootstrap Minimum Cost Estimation of the Average Chemical Concentration in Contaminated Soils (with Shao, J.). Environmetrics, 10, 153-161. (1999).

• A Bayesian Decision Rule for Remediation Action at Toxic Waste Sites (with Shao, J.) .Statistics and Probability Letters, 50,83-88 (2000).

• Composite Tests for the Gamma Distribution (with Shapiro, S.S.). Journal of Quality Technology, 33(1), 47-59 (2001).

• Normality Tests Based on Weighted Order Statistics. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, (2002).

• Weighted W Test for Normality and Asymptotics--A Revisit of CHEN-SHAPIRO Test for Normality (with Zhidong Bai). Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 113(2), 485-503, (2003).

• A Conservative, Nonparametric Estimator for the 5th Percentile of the Species Sensitivity Distributions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, to appear.

Professional Service:

• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

• Member of Membership Committee of International Chinese Statistical Association

Teaching Experience

• 1991-2003, Department of Statistics, Florida International University.
  Taught: Statistics for Business & Economics; Introduction to Statistics I,II; Statistics I,II; Probability and Statistics for Compu ter Science; Nonparametric Methods; Mathematical Statistics I,II; Regression Analysis; Statistical Methods I; Statistical Methods in Research I; Thesis Research.
  

• 1997 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.
  Taught: STAT 413, General Linear Model and Its Applications and STAT 100, Introduction to Statistical Reasoning.

• 1989-1990 Instructor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, The American University.
  Taught: Intermediate Algebra

• 1984-1986 Lecture, Research Department of Applied Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Shanghai, China.
  Taught: Probability; Mathematical Statistics; Regression Analysis.

Address

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