Professor of Statistics

Ph.D. in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 1998

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Research Interests

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

Honors and Appointments

• NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2009
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008-
• Associate Editor, Biometrics, 2006-
• Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2010

Representative Publications

• 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." Journal 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." Journal 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.