Nan Lin Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Biostatistics Department of Mathematics Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1146 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 Tel: (314) 935-5703 Fax: (314) 935-6839 Email:

Education

Ph.D. (2003), Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. S. (2003), Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. S. (2000), Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B. S. (1999), the Special Class for Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests

· Statistical computing in massive data

· Bayesian regularization methods

· Order-restricted inference

· Ranked-set sampled data

· Statistical applications in Bioinformatics, Computer Science and Psychometrics

Teaching

Math475: Statistical Computation Using SAS

Publications and manuscripts

[1] Yan, X., Liu, T., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2009), Combining conditional and unconditional moment restrictions with missing responses using emprical likelihood.

[2] Lin, N. and Liu, T. and Zhang, B. (2009), An information criterion under general order constraints,

[3] Li, Q., Xi, R., Zhang, B. and Lin, N. (2009), Sensitivity of the false discovery rate.

[4] Lin, N. and Xi, R. (2009), Aggregated estimating equation estimation.

[5] Lin, N. and Xi, R. (2010), Fast surrogates of U-statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54, 16-24.

[6] Muenzer, J.T., Jaffe, D.M., Schwulst, S.J., Dixon, D., Schierding, W., Li, Q., Macmillan, S., Oppedal, D., Warner, B.W., Dillon, P., Lin, N., Checchia, P.A. , Cobb, J.P. (2009), Evidence for a novel blood RNA diagnostic for pediatric appendicitis: the Riboleukogram, Pediatric Emergency Care, in press.

[7] Shen, H., Liu, G., Lin, N. and Buchowski, J. (2009), Pseudarthrosis in multi-level anterior cervical fusion with rhBMP-2 and allograft: analysis of 127 cases with minimum 2-year follow-up, Spine, accepted.

[8] Cobb, J. P., Moore, E. E., Hayden, D. L., Minei, J. P., Cuschieri, J., Yang, J., Li, Q., Lin, N., Brownstein, B. L., Hennessy, L., Mason, P. H., Schierding, W. S., Dixon, D. J., Tompkins, R. G., Warren, H.S., Schoenfeld, A. D. and Maier, R. V. (2009), Validation of the Riboleukogram to detect ventilator-associated Pneumonia after severe injury, Annals of Surgery, accepted.

[9] Liu, T., Lin, N. and Zhang, B. (2009), Empirical likelihood for balanced ranked-set sampled data, Science in China Series A: Mathematics, 52, 1351-1364.

[10] Liu, T., Lin, N., Shi, N. and Zhang, B. (2009), Information criterion-based clustering with order-restricted candidate profiles in short time-course microarray experiments, BMC Bioinformatics, 10: 146.

[11]Lin, N. (2009), Multiple-trait QTL mapping using SSVS, In S. Ma and Y. Wang (eds), Frontiers of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, 40-52, USTC Press.

[12] Xi, R., Lin, N., and Chen, Y. (2009), Compression and aggregation for logistic regression analysis in data cubes, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(4), 479-492.

[13]Woods, C. and Lin, N. (2009), Item response theory with estimation of the latent density using Davidian curves, Applied Psychological Measurement, 33, 102-117.

[14]McDunn, J. E., Husain, K. D., Polpitiya, A. D., Burykin A., Ruan, J., Li, Q., Schierding, W., Lin, N., Dixon, D., Zhang W., Coopersmith, C. M., Dunne, M. W., Colonna, M., Ghosh, B., Cobb, J. P. (2008), Plasticity of the systemic inflammatory response to acute infection during critical illness: Development of the Riboleukogram, PLoSONE, 3, e1564.

[15]Lin, N. and He, X. (2006), Robust and efficient estimation under data grouping, Biometrika, 93 (1), 99-112.

[16]Lin, N., Noe, D. and He, X. (2006), Tree-based methods and their applications, in H. Pham (eds), Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, 551-569, Springer.

[17]Lin, N. and Zhao, H. (2005), Are scale-free networks robust to measurement errors?, BMC Bioinformatics, 6: 119.

[18]Lin, N., Wu, B., Jansen, R., Gerstein, M. and Zhao, H. (2004), Information assessment on predicting protein-protein interactions, BMC Bioinformatics, 5: 154.

[19]Lin, N., Bailey, B. A., He, X. and Buttlar, W. G. (2004), Adjustment of measuring devices with linear models, Technometrics, 46(2), 127-134.

Students

Qing Li, Ph.D. candidate

Jia Wang, M.S. candidate

Ruibin Xi, Ph.D., 2009, currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School

Zhiyong Huang, M.S., 2008

Xiaoqiong Yu, M.S., 2006 (co-advised with Prof. Stanley Sawyer)

Award

Special Recognition for Outstanding Mentors, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007

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