Ying Yuan, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Departments
Biostatistics
Contact Information
Ying Yuan, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room 6009
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: ying.yuan@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-2714
FAX: (901) 595-8843
Education
BS – Xinyang Teachers’ College, Xinyang, Henan, China
MS – Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi, China
PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Honors & Awards
- 2011 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Student Paper Awards, ICSA
Research Interests
- Medical imaging data
- Imaging genetics
- Functional data analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- High-dimensional data
- Bayesian statistics
Selected Publications
Yuan Y, Zhu H, Lin W, Marron JS. Local polynomial regression for symmetric positive definite matrices. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology) 74(4) 697-719, 2012.
Villarreal-Calderon R, Dale G, Delgado-Chávez R, Torres-Jardón R, Zhu H, Herritt L, Gónzalez-Maciel A, Reynoso-Robles R, Yuan Y, Wang J, Solorio-López E, Medina-Cortina H, Calderón-Garcidueñas L. Intra-city Differences in Cardiac Expression of Inflammatory Genes and Inflammasomes in Young Urbanites: A Pilot Study. Journal of Toxicological Pathology 25(2):163-73, 2012.
Chow S-M, Tang N, Yuan Y, Song X, Zhu H. Bayesian estimation of semiparametric nonlinear dynamic factor analysis models using the Dirichlet process prior. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 64(1):69-106, 2011.
Yuan Y, Zhu H, Ibrahim J, Lin W, Peterson BS. A note on the validity of statistical bootstrapping for estimating the uncertainty of tensor parameters in diffusion tensor images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 27(10):1506-1514, 2008.
Last updated: September 2012