University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Yu Cheng

Yu Cheng
Assistant Professor

2734 Cathedral of Learning
412-648-1851

http://www.stat.pitt.edu/yucheng/

Education:

  • PhD Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 2006
  • MS Statistics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2001
  • BS Statistics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1999

Research Interests:

  • Competing risks data and frailty models in survival analysis
  • Empirical processes
  • Adaptive design in clinical trials
  • Classification and discriminant analysis
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Epidemiology

Courses:

Selected Publications:

  • Cheng, Y., Fine, J. P. (2008) “Nonparametric estimation of cause-specific cross hazard ratio with bivariate competing risks data”. Biometrika, Vol. 95, 233-240.

    Cheng, Y., Fine, J. P., Kosorok, M. R. (2008) “Nonparametric association analysis of clustered exchangeable competing risks data”. Biometrics, 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01072.x.

    Swartz, H. A., Frank, E., Zuckoff, A., Cyranowski, J. M., Houck, P. R., Cheng, Y., Fleming, M.A., Grote, N. K., Shear, M. K. (2008) “Brief Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Mothers Whose Children Are Receiving Psychiatric Treatment”. The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 165, 1155-1162.

    Fagiolini, A., Frank, E., Axelson, D. A., Birmaher, B., Cheng, Y., Curet, D. E., Friedman, E. S., Gildengers, A. G., Goldstein, T., Grochocinski, V. G., Houck, P. R., Stofko, M. G., Thase, M. E., Thompson, W. K., Turkin, S. R., Kupfer, D. J. “Enhancing Outcomes in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: Results from the Bipolar Disorder Center for Pennsylvanians Study”. Bipolar Disorder. In press.

    Cheng, Y., Fine, J. P., Kosorok, M. R. (2007) “Nonparametric analysis of multivariate competing risks data”. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 102, 1407-1416.

    Yan, X. Y., Cheng, Y., Bai, Z. D. (2006) “Asymptotics of adaptive design with two alternating generating matrices”. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 136, 4043-4058.

    Lai, H. J., Cheng, Y., Farrell, P. M. (2005) “The survival advantage of patients with cystic fibrosis diagnosed through neonatal screening: evidence from the United States cystic fibrosis foundation registry data”. Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 147, S57 - S63.

    Raman, A., Colman, R. J., Cheng, Y., Kemnitz, J. W., Baum, S. T., Weindruch, R., Schoeller, D. A. (2005) “Reference body composition in adult rhesus monkeys: glucoregulatory and anthropometric
    indices”. Journal of Gerontology, Vol. 60A, No. 12, 1518-1524.

    Cheng, Y. (2004) “Asymptotic probabilities of misclassification of two discriminant functions in cases of high dimensional data”. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 67, 9-17.