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Research Projects (Co-Principal Investigator)

"Battlespace Representation for Augmented and Virtual Environments (BRAVE)", 2000-2005, ($5,000,000), in application with the U.S. Department of Defense (Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative). Joint with PI: Steven Feiner (Columbia University), Co-PIs: Gary Bishop and Gregory Welch (UNC, Chapel Hill), Philip Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute), Arie Kaufman and Amitabh Varshney (SUNY, Stony Brook).

"Computerized Medicaid Database Management and Automated Billing Data Mining and Anomaly Detection", 2000-2003, ($2,000,000), in application with the New York State Department of Health. Joint with Hongshik Ahn and Kenny Ye (SUNY Stony Brook), and the Integrated Partners, Inc. (Albany, New York).

"Detection of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse by Statistical Pattern Recognition and Computerized Database Management", ($188,860), 1997-98. New York State Medicaid #3160437A. Joint with PI: James Glimm, Co-PIs: Hongshik Ahn and Stephen Finch.

"Prediction of the Tin-Lead Alloy Thickness and Composition Using the X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer", ($23,008), 1997. A SPIR Project in Partnership with Veeco UPA. Joint with Co-PI: Hongshik Ahn..

Selected Publications

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1999]. Optimal Treatment Allocation in Comparative Biomedical Studies. Statistics in Medicine. To appear.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1999]. Bayesian Optimal Designs for Estimating a Set of Symmetrical Quantiles. Statistics in Medicine. To appear.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1999]. Optimum Treatment Allocation for Dual-Objective Clinical Trials with Binary Outcomes. Communications in Statistics. To appear.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1999]. Multiple-Objective Designs in a Dose-Response Experiment. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics. To appear.

Zeng, Q., Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1999]. Dual-Objective Bayesian Optimal Designs for a Dose-Ranging Study. Drug Information Journal. Conditional acceptance.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1998]. On the Equal Allocation Rues in Quantal Dose Response Experiments. MODA 5 -- Advances in Model-Oriented data Analysis and Experimental Design, Editors: A.C. Atkinson, L. Pronzato and H.P. Wynn, Physica-Verlag, 93-101.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [1998]. Multiple-Objective Designs in Dose-Response Experiments. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes --Monograph Series: New Developments and Applications in Experimental Designs, 73-82.

Zhu, W., Ahn, H. and Wong, W. K. [1998]. Multiple-Objective Optimal Designs for the Logit Model. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 27, 1581-1592.

Ahn, H., Zhu, W., Yang, J. and Kodell, R. L. [1998]. Efficient Designs for Animal Carcinogenicity Experiments. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 27, 1275-1287.

Zhu, W., Finch, S., Ahn, H., Glimm, J., Mugno, R. and Zheng, L. [1998]. On the Application of Statistical Methodology in Pattern Detection.. American Statistical Association 1998 Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics and the Section on Social Statistics, 223-226.

Zeng, Q. and Zhu, W. [1997]. Optimal Design with Multiple Objectives for Rheumatoid Arthritis Dose-Ranging Study Using ACR Responder Index. Merck Technical Report, 54.

Goldin, J., Zhu, W. and Sayre, S. W. [1996]. A Review of the Statistical Analysis Used in Papers Published in Clinical Radiology and British Journal of Radiology. Clinical Radiology, 51, 47-50.

Lobel, M., Yali, A. M., Zhu, W., DeVincent, C.J. and Meyer, B. [1999]. The Impact of Optimistic Disposition on Emotional Distress During High-Risk Pregnancy. Submitted to Psychology and Health.

Dai, Z. and Zhu, W. [2000]. Locally Compound Optimal Designs for the Logistic Model. To be submitted to Biometrika.

Zhu, W., Wong, W. K. and Dette, H. [2000]. Standardized Design Criteria in the Construction of Multiple-Objective Optimal Designs.

Zhu, W. and Wong, W. K. [2000]. Optimum Treatment Allocations in Multiple-Objective Clinical Trials Using Heteroscedastic Linear Models.

Sclafani, M., Zhu, W. and Leggett, W. C. [2000]. A Laboratory Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Buoyancy Measured Against Other Known Nutritional Condition Indices for Larval Cod (Gadus Morhua L).

Presentations

1. On the Application of Statistical Methodology in Pattern Detection. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas, August 9 -- 13, 1998.

2. Optimum Dosage Allocation in Multiple-Objective Quantal Dose Response Experiments. Special contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Anaheim/Orange County, California, August 10 -- 14, 1997.

3. Optimum Treatment Allocation for Dual-Objective Clinical Trials with Binary Outcomes. Presented at the 1997 WNAR-IMS Joint Meeting. Park City, July 28 -- 31, 1997.

4. Efficient Designs for Parameter Estimation in a Quantal Dose-Response Experiment. Invited talk at the 1997 AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on New Developments and Applications in Experimental Designs. Seattle, June 29 -- July 3, 1997.

5. On the Allocation Schemes in Quantal Dose-Response Experiments. Presented at the 1997 International Chinese Statistical Meeting, Rutgers, May 31 -- June 1, 1997.

6. Optimum Treatment Allocation in Multiple-Objective Clinical Trials. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Chicago, August 4 -- 8, 1996.

Ph.D. Students

Zhenyu Dai. Compound Optimal Designs. Advanced to candidacy on November 3^rd, 1999.

Raymond Mugno. Comparison of Sequential Designs.

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Revised: January 24, 2000
Copyright © 2000 Wei Zhu
zhu@ams.sunysb.edu

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