Ming-Hui Chen, Ph.D.

Professor of Statistics
Address:

Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
215 Glenbrook Road, U-4120
Storrs, CT 06269-4120, U.S.A.
E-mail: mhchen at stat.uconn.edu
Phone: (860) 486-6984
Fax: (860) 486-4113
Office: 335 CLAS Building

Education

Ph.D., 1993, Purdue University, Thesis Advisors: James O. Berger and Bruce W. Schmeiser.

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , 2007.
Fellow of the American Statistical Association , 2005.
Elected as an ordinary member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), 1999.
Received the Harold J. Gay Professorship in Mathematical Sciences from WPI, 1998-2000.
Received the I.W. Burr Award in Statistics from Purdue University, 1993.

Professional Activities

Associate Editor, Lifetime Data Analysis , 2001---Present.
Co-Editor, Sankhya , 2004---Present.
Associate Editor, Bayesian Analysis , 2004---Present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics , 2005---present.
Associate Editor, Statistics and Its Interface , 2007---present.
Executive Director, International Chinese Statistical Association , 2007-2010.
Publications Officer, Section On Bayesian Statistical Sciences (SBSS), American Statistical Association, Elected in 2007, Serving for 2008-2009.
Board of Directors, International Chinese Statistical Association, 2004-2006.
Program Chair, Section On Bayesian Statistical Sciences (SBSS), American Statistical Association, Elected in 2003, Serving for 2005.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Committee for New Researchers, 1997-1999.

Professional Society Memberships

Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics; American Statistical Association; ENAR, The International Biometric Society; Section on Bayesian Statistics; International Chinese Statisticians Association; and The International Statistical Institute.

Areas of Research Interest:

Bayesian Statistical Methodology, Bayesian Computation, Categorical Data Analysis, DNA Microarray Data Analysis, Missing Data Analysis (EM, MCEM, and Bayesian), Monte Carlo Methodology, Prior Elicitation, Statistical Methodology for Prostate Cancer Data, Statistical Modeling, Survival data analysis, and Variable Selection.

Books

Recent Publications

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Chen, M.-H., Huang, L., Ibrahim, J.G., and Kim, S. (2008). Bayesian Variable Selection and Computation for Generalized Linear Models with Conjugate Priors. Bayesian Analysis, 3, 585-614.
Huang, L., Chen, M.-H., Yu, F., Neal, P.R., and Anderson, G.J. (2008). On Modeling Repeated Binary Responses and Time-Dependent Missing Covariates. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics . To appear.
Cheng, S., Xi, Y., and Chen, M.-H. (2008). A New Mixture Model for Misclassification with Applications for Survey Data. Sociological Methods and Research, 37, 75-104.
Kim, S., Chen, M.-H., and Dey, D.K. (2008). Flexible Generalized t-Link Models for Binary Response Data. Biometrika, 95(1), 93-106.
D'Amico, A.V., Chen, M.-H., Renshaw, A.A., Loffredo, M., and Kantoff, P.W. (2008). Androgen Suppression and Radiation vs Radiation alone for Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Trial. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 299 (3), 289-295.
Yu, F., Chen, M.-H., and Kuo, L. (2008). Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes Using Calibrated Bayes Factors. Statistica Sinica, 18 , 783-802.
Chen, Q., Ibrahim, J.G., Chen, M.-H., and Senchaudhuri, P. (2008). Theory and Inference for Regression Models with Missing Response and Covariates. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99 , 1302-1331.
Das, S., Chen, M.-H., Kim, S., and Warren, N. (2008). A Bayesian Structural Equations Model for Multilevel Data with Missing Responses and Missing Covariates. Bayesian Analysis, 3 , 197-224.
Chen, M.-H., Ibrahim, J.G., and Chi, Y.-Y. (2008). A New Class of Mixture Models for Differential Gene Expression in DNA Microarray Data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 387-404. DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.06.007.
D'Amico, A.V., Kantoff, P.W., and Chen, M.-H. (2007). Aspirin and Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(26), 2737-2738 (Correspondence).
Patel, A.A., Chen, M.-H., Renshaw, A.A., and D'Amico, A.V. (2007). PSA Failure Following Definitive Treatment of Prostate Cancer Having Biopsy Gleason Score 7 with Tertiary Grade 5. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(13), 1533-1538.
Banerjee, T., Chen, M.-H., Dey, D.K., and Sungduk Kim (2007). Bayesian Analysis of Generalized Odds-Rate Hazards Models for Survival Data. Lifetime Data Analysis, 13 , 241-260.