Zhiliang Ying (; born April 1960) is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics,

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from 1997 to 2001. His wide research interests cover

Survival Analysis Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysi ...

Sequential Analysis In statistics, sequential analysis or sequential hypothesis testing is statistical analysis where the sample size is not fixed in advance. Instead data are evaluated as they are collected, and further sampling is stopped in accordance with a pre- ...

, Longitudinal Data Analysis,

Stochastic Processes In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables. Stochastic processes are widely used as mathematical models of systems and phenomena that appe ...

, Semiparametric Inference,

Biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

and Educational Statistics. He is a co-editor of ''Statistica Sinica'' and has been Associate Editor of '' JASA'', ''Statistica Sinica'', ''

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Biometrics Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify in ...

'', and ''Lifetime Data Analysis''. Ying has supervised, collaborated with and encouraged many researchers. He has written or co-authored more than 100 research articles in professional journals.

Selected honours and awards

* Fellow,

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

(1995 election) * Fellow,

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

(1999 election) * The Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics 2004 * The Distinguished Achievement Award 2007, International Chinese Statistical Association

Selected papers

* Lin, D. Y., Wei, L. J., & Ying, Z. (1993). Checking the Cox model with cumulative sums of martingale-based residuals. Biometrika, 80(3), 557–572. * Lin, D. Y., & Ying, Z. (1994). Semiparametric analysis of the additive risk model. Biometrika, 81(1), 61–71. * Chang, H. H., & Ying, Z. (1996). A global information approach to computerized adaptive testing. Applied Psychological Measurement, 20(3), 213–229. * Jin, Z., Lin, D. Y., Wei, L. J., & Ying, Z. (2003). Rank‐based inference for the accelerated failure time model. Biometrika, 90(2), 341–353. * Ying, Z. (1993), A large sample study of rank estimation for censored regression data. The Annals of Statistics, 76–99.

References

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