Qu, Annie

Italy (2006)

Annie (Peiyong) Qu, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

Affiliated Faculty of Center of Genome Research and Biocomputing

Mailing address:
44 Kidder Hall, Statistics Department
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4606
Phone: (541) 737-2239 Fax: (541) 737-3489
E-mail: qu@science.oregonstate.edu
Office: Kidder Hall, Room 82

Education:

The Pennsylvania State University 1994-98, Ph.D. 1998 (Dec.) Statistics
University of Montana 1990-94, M.A. 1992 Operations Research
FuDan University 1986-90, B.S. 1990 Computational Mathematics

Employment:

2008(Aug)- Associate Professor, UIUC, Dept. of Statistics

2004(July)- 2008(July)	Associate Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Statistics
2005 (Sep)- 2006(June)	Visiting Associate Professor (sabbatical leave), Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
2004(Nov.), 2005(Mar.)	Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
1999 (Sep)-2004(June)	Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Statistics
1999 (Jan.-Aug.)	Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Research Interests:

Estimating Equations, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Missing Data, Robustness, Nonparametric Models, Mixed Effects Models, Cell Cycle Microarray Data, Biostatistics

Grants:

Principle Investigator: NSF, DMS 0348764 ``CAREER: Semiparametric and nonparametric models for correlated data." 2004-2009.
Co-Principle Investigator (PI: John Fowler, Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State): EPA, ``Indicators of fitness in the maize pollen transcriptome: A screen for correlation between gene expression and pollen competitve ability." 2006-2009.
Principle Investigator: NSF, DMS 0103513 ``Semiparametric models for correlated data: The quadratic inference function approach."2001-2004.
Co-investigator (P.I.: W.C. Hayes): NIH, ``Fall biomechanics and hip fracture risk." 2002-2003.

Selected Publications in Refereed Statistical Journals and Papers in Revision

Lan Wang and Annie Qu "Consistent model selection and data-driven tests for longitudinal data in the estimating equation approach." J ournal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, to appear.

Annie Qu, J. Jack Lee and Bruce G. Lindsay "Model diagnostic tests for selecting informative correlation structure in correlated data." Biometrika, to appear.

Peng Zhang, Peter Song, Annie Qu and Tom Greene (2008), "Efficient estimation of treatment effects on disease progression using non-normal random effects models." Biometrics, V. 64, 29-38.

Guei-Feng Tsai and Annie Qu (2008), "Testing the significance of cell-cycle patterns in time-course microarray data using nonparametric quadratic inference functions." Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, V. 52, 1387-1398.

Peter Song, Peng Zhang and Annie Qu (2007), "Maximum likelihood inference in robust linear mixed-effects models using multivariate t distribution." Statistica Sinica, V. 17, 929-943.

Lan Wang and Annie Qu (2007), "Robust tests in regression models with omnibus alternatives and bounded influence."J ournal of the American Statistical Association , V. 102, 347-358.

Annie Qu and Runze Li (2006), "Quadratic inference functions for varying coefficient models with longitudinal data." Biometrics, V. 62, 379-391.
Annie Qu and Peter Song (2004), "Assessing robustness of generalised estimating equations and quadratic inference functions." Biometrika, V. 91, 447-459.
Bruce Lindsay and Annie Qu (2003), ``Inference functions and quadratic score tests." Statistical Science, V. 18: 394-410.

Annie Qu and Bruce Lindsay (2003), ``Building adaptive estimating equations when inverse of covariance estimation is difficult." J ournal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, V. 65: 127-142.

Annie Qu and Peter Song (2002), ``Testing ignorable missingness in estimating equation approaches for longitudinal data." Biometrika, V. 89: 841-850.

Annie Qu, Bruce Lindsay and Bing Li (2000), ``Improving generalised estimating equations using quadratic inference functions.'' Biometrika, V. 87: 823-836.

Annie Qu (2006), Book review "Mixed models: Theory and Application" by Eugene Demidenko. Biometrics, V. 62, 304-305.

My Ph.D. Thesis (Penn State, 1998) "Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations" Advisors: Bruce G. Lindsay and Bing Li.

QIF Software: SAS Macro request form from Peter Song's website, and manual (2007)

Workshop "Longitudinal Data Analysis: Featuring the QIF Approach" by Peter Song and Annie Qu, May 2007, Toronto.

Collaborative Publications in Refereed Journals:

J. R. Jaeger, K. C. Olson, T. Delcurto and A. Qu (2008), ``Case study: Pattern of parturition as effected by time of feeding and prediction of the time of day that parturition will occur in spring-calving beef cows." The Professional Animal Scientist, V. 24, 247-253.
S. Machado, S. Petrie, K. Rhinhart and A. Qu (2007), "Long-term continuous cropping in the Pacific Northwest: Tillage and fertilizer effects on winter wheat, spring wheat, and spring barley production." Soil & Tillage Research, V. 94, 473-481.
M. Serdani, R.A. Spotts, J.M. Calabro, J.D. Postman and A. P. Qu (2006), "Evaluation of the USDA national clomal Pyrus germplasm collection for resistance to Podosphaera leucotricha." HortScience, V. 41, 717-720.
Peter Heidmann, Susan Tornquist, Annie Qu and Christopher Cebra (2005), `` Laboratory measures of hemostasis and fibrinolysis after intravenous administration of ε-aminocaproic acid in clinically normal horses and ponies." American Journal of Veterinary Research, V. 66: 313-318.
Ling Zhang, John Selker, Annie Qu and Ajoy Velayudhan (2001), ``Numerical estimation of multicomponent adsorption isotherms in preparative chromatography: implications of experimental error." Journal of Chromatography, A, V. 934, 13-29.
S.L. Wimberley, M.T. Haug, K.M. Shermock, A. Qu, J.R. Maurer, A.C. Mehta, R.J. Shilz and S.M. Gordon (2001), ``Enhanced Cyclosporine-Itraconazole Interaction with Cola in Lung Transplant Recipients.'' Clinical Transplantation, V.15: 116-122.
I.L. Katzan, A.J. Furlan, L.E. Lloyd, J.I. Frank, D.L. Harper, J.A. Hinchey, J. Hammel, A. Qu, C.A. Sila (2000), ``Use of Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator for Acute Ischemic Stroke, the Cleveland Area Experience.'' Journal of American Medical Association, V. 283: 1151-1158. (Over 200 ISI citations)

Technical Reports and Proceedings:

Annie Qu, Bruce Lindsay (1999), "Bootstrapping for Hypothesis Testing Using Quadratic Inference Functions" Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Penn State University.
Annie Qu, Bruce Lindsay and Bing Li (1998), ``Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations''. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, ASA, p.192-197.
Annie Qu (1997). ``Comparison of PROC MIXED in SAS and HLM for Hierarchical Linear Models.'' Available at stat-core web page, Population Research Institute, Penn State University: www.pop.psu.edu/stat-core/software/hlm.htm

Instructional & Departmental Activities:

Doctoral students and Postdoc:

(2005) Guei-Feng (Cindy) Tsai, Ph.D. (NSF Research Assistant, 2004-2005): "Semiparametric marginal and mixed models for longitudinal data."
(2008) Lin Lu, Ph. D. (NSF Research Assistant, 2005 - 2007) (Co-advisor with David Birkes): "Unconditional estimating equation approaches for missing data."
Xianlong Wang, Ph.D. student (NSF Research Assistant, 2007 - ).
Peng Wang, Ph.D. student.
Li Wang, Ph.D., Postdoc/Research Associate (supported by NSF), 2006-2007.

Teaching:

ST 421: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Fall, 1999)

ST 563: Theory of Statistics III (Spring, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

ST 625: Survival Analysis (Winter, 2001)

ST 557: Applied Multivariate Analysis (Spring, 2001, 2005, 2007)

ST 561: Theory of Statistics I (Fall, 2001, 2002)

ST 599: Topic course: Longitudinal Data Analysis (Winter, 2002, 2004)

ST 663: Advanced Theory of Statistics III (Fall, 2003, 2007)

ST 623: Generalized Linear Models (Fall, 2006)

ST 599: Topic course: Nonparametric and Semiparamtric Models for Correlated Data (Fall, 2007)

MCB 599: Special topic: Microarray Data Analysis (Winter, 2008)

Professional Societies/Responsibilities/Honors:

Thomas T. Sugihara Young Faculty Research Award, College of Science, Oregon State University, 2005
NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2009
Associate Editor: JASA, 2008-
Associate Editor: Biometrics, 2006-
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM), NIEHS/NIH, 2006-2010.
ENAR Student Award, 1999
Davey - Homeyer Fellowship Award, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996
Vollmer - Kleckner Scholarship Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Member of American Statistical Association (ASA)
Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Member of International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
Member of International Biometric Society / ENAR
Invited session organizer for JSM, 2008, Denver
Invited session organizer for ENAR, 2008, DC
Invited session organizer for JSM, 2007, Salt Lake City
Invited session organizer for JSM, 2006, Seattle
Topic contributed session organizer for IBC 2006, Montreal, Canada
Invited session co-organizer for ENAR, 2006, Tempa, FL
Invited session organizer for JSM, 2005, Minneapolis
Special contributed session co-organizer for CSPS and IMS, 2005, Beijing, China
Invited session organizer for ENAR/IMS, 2005, Austin, TX
Invited session organizer for JSM, 2004, Toronto
Invited session organizer for ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, 2004, San Diego
Topic contributed session organizer for JSM, 2003, San Francisco
Invited session organizer for WNAR/IMS, 2003, Golden, CO
Referee for: The American Statistician, Annals of Statistics, Biometrics, Biometrika, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Method, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Controlled Clinical Trials, Journal of American Medical Association, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, J. of Statistical Planning and Inference, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Statistics in Medicine, Statistica Neerlandica, Statistics & Probability Letters
Proposal reviewer for NSF, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong