Min Yang

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68583-0712
Tel:  402-472-8188 (office)
       402-472-2903 (Stat. Dept.)
Fax: 402-472-5179 (Stat. Dept.)
Email: myang2@unl.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002
M.S. in Probability theory, Beijing Normal University, 1994
B.S. in Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, 1991

Research

My research areas are: experimental design, measurements of agreement, nonlinear mixed-effects model, multiple comparisons procedures and microarray analysis.

Currently I am working on optimal crossover designs, which is supported by National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to identify and construct optimal/efficient crossover design for comparing test treatments versus a control treatment.

Grants

PI, National Science Foundation DMS-0304661 (2003-2006), “Crossover Designs For Comparing Test Treatments with a Control Treatment: Optimality, Efficiency, and Robustness”, Division of Mathematical Science.

Publications

Optimal/efficient Crossover Designs for Comparing Test Treatments with a Control Treatment (With A. S. Hedayat), Ann. Statist., in press. [PDF]

Universal Optimality for Selected Crossover Designs (With A. S. Hedayat), J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 99, 461-466, 2004.[PDF]

Universal Optimality in Balanced Uniform Crossover Design (With A. S. Hedayat), Ann. Statist. 31, 978-983, 2003. [PDF]

Statistical Methods in Assessing Agreement: Model, Issues & Tools (With Lawrence Lin, A. S. Hedayat, and Bikas Sinha) J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 97, 257-270, 2002. [PDF]

A Limit Theorem of Interactive Measure-valued Branching Processes (With X. Zhao), Acta Mathematics Scientia, Vol. 17, 241-249, 1997

Courses taught

Stat 380/880 (Applied statistics), Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003
Stat 802 (Experimental design), Fall 2003, Spring 2004
Stat 997 (Stat Consulting), Spring 2004

Hobbies

For a long time, soccer was my favorite way to relax and have fun. Recently I made a switch to tennis although I still play soccer occasionally. I enjoy playing tennis games. Playing games is the best way to improve my tennis skills. If you want to play with me, feel free to contact me.

The first LCCA & CSSA-UNL tennis tournament