Italy (2006)

Annie (Peiyong) Qu
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
725 S. Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820 USA

Email: anniequ@illinois.edu

Phone: (217) 244-8334, Fax: (217) 244-7190
Office: 116B Illini Hall

Teaching

  • Fall 2008, ST200: Statistical Analysis for Biological Sciences

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, Department 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:

Selected Publications in Refereed Statistical Journals and Chapters  

  • Lan Xue, Li Wang, and Annie Qu, ``Incorporating correlation for multivariate failure time data when cluster size is large."  Biometrics, to appear.
  • Peter Song, Zhichang Jiang, Eunjoo Park and Annie Qu (2009). ``Quadratic inference functions in marginal models for longitudinal data." Statistics in Medicine, V. 28, 3683-3696.
  • Dziak, J. J., Li, R and Annie Qu (2009) ``An overview on quadratic inference function approaches for longitudinal data." Frontiers of Statistics, Vol 1: New developments in biostatistics and bioinformatics, edited by Fan, J., Liu, J. S. and Lin, X. World scientific publishing, Chapter 3, 49-72.
  • 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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 and Lan Xue (2009),  Discussion of ``Gaining efficiency via weighted estimators for multivariate failure time data" by Fan, Zhou, Cai and Chen. Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, V. 52, 1134-1136.

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

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.

JSM Short Course, Longitudinal Data Analysis: Semiparametric and Nonparametric Approaches, (References), by Annie Qu and Peter Song, JSM, Aug., 2009, DC.

Collaborative Publications in Refereed Journals: