Selected Publications

• Uniform convergence rate of sample autocovariances and autocorrelations for linear spatial series, Adv. Math. (Chinese) 18 (1989), 497-499.
  
  
• Uniform convergence rate of sample ACV and ACR for linear spatial series under more general martingale condition, Adv. Math. (Chinese) 20 (1991), 39-50.
  
  
• Parameter estimation of spatial AR model, Chinese Ann. Math. 12 B (1991), 432-444.
  
  
• (with Z. Zheng) Asymptotic property of Lindstrom-Maddens' confidence lower limit, Chinese J. Appl. Probab. Statist. 8 (1992), 403-410.
  
  
• Estimation of spatial AR models, Acta Math. Appl. Sinica 9 (1993), 174-187.
  
  
• REML estimation: Asymptotic behavior and related topics,
  The Annals of Statistics 24 (1996), 255-286.
  
  
• (with A. Gelman and F. Bois) Physiological pharmacokinetic analysis using population modeling and informative prior distribution,
  Journal of The American Statistical Association 91 (1996), 1400-1412.
  
  
• Wald consistency and the method of sieves in REML estimation,
  The Annals of Statistics 25 (1997), 1781-1803.
  
  
• A derivation of BLUP - best linear unbiased predictor, Statistics & Probability Letters 32 (1997), 321-324.
  
  
• Sharp upper and lower bounds for asymptotic levels of some statistical tests, Statistics & Probability Letters 35 (1997), 395-400.
  
  
• Consistent estimators in generalized linear mixed models,
  Journal of The American Statistical Association 93 (1998), 720-729.
  
  
• Asymptotic properties of the empirical BLUP and BLUE in mixed linear models, Statistica Sinica 8 (1998), 861-885.
  
  
• On unbiasedness of the empirical BLUE and BLUP, Statistics & Probability Letters 41 (1999), 19-24.
  
  
• Some laws of the iterated logarithm for two parameter martingales, Journal of Theoretical Probability 12 (1999), 49-74.
  
  
• On maximum hierarchical likelihood estimators, Commun. Statist. - Theory Meth. 28 (1999), 1769-1775.
  
  
• (with L. Gan) A test for global maximum,
  Journal of The American Statistical Association 94 (1999), 847-854.
  
  
• Conditional inference about generalized linear mixed models,
  The Annals of Statistics 27 (1999), 1974-2007.
  
  
• A nonlinear Gauss-Seidel algorithm for inference about GLMM, Computational Statistics 15 (2000), 229-241.
  
  
• A matrix inequality and its statistical application,
  Linear Algebra and Its Applications 307 (2000), 131-144.
  
  
• (with H. Jia and H. Chen) Maximum posterior estimation of random effects in generalized linear mixed models, Statistica Sinica 11 (2001), 97-120.
  
  
• A nonstandard chi-square test with application to generalized linear model diagnostics, Statistics and Probability Letters 53 (2001), 101-109.
  
  
• Mixed-effects models with random cluster sizes, Statistics and Probability Letters 53 (2001), 201-206.
  
  
• (with P. Lahiri) Empirical best prediction for small area inference with binary data, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 53 (2001), 217-243.
  
  
• (with W. Zhang) Robust estimation in generalized linear mixed models,
  Biometrika 88 (2001), 753-765.
  
  
• Goodness-of-fit tests for mixed model diagnostics,
  The Annals of Statistics 29 (2001), 1137-1164.
  
  
• (with P. Lahiri and C. Wu) A generalization of the Pearson's chi-square goodness-of-fit test with estimated cell frequencies, Sankhya 63 A (2001), 260-276.
  
  
• On actual significance levels of combined tests, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 13 (2001), 763-774.
  
  
• (with W. Zhang) Distribution-free prediction intervals in mixed linear models, Statistica Sinica 12 (2002), 537-553.
  
  
• (with P. Lahiri and S. Wan) A unified jackknife theory for empirical best prediction with M-estimation,
  The Annals of Statistics 30 (2002), 1782-1810.
  
  
• (with P. Fu and J. S. Rao) Robust estimation of multivariate failure data with time-modulated frailty, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods 1 (2002), 367-378.
  
  
• Empirical best prediction for small area inference based on generalized linear mixed models, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 111 (2003), 117-127.
  
  
• Empirical method of moments and its applications, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 115 (2003), 69-84.
  
  
• (with J. S. Rao) Consistent procedures for mixed linear model selection, Sankhya 65 A (2003), 23-42.
  
  
• (with K. Das and J. N. K. Rao) Mean squared error of empirical predictor,
  The Annals of Statistics 32 (2004), 818-840.
  
  
• Dispersion matrix in balanced mixed ANOVA models, Linear Algebra and Its Applications 382 (2004), 211-219.
  
  
• Comment on ``Conditional and marginal models: Another view'' by Y. Lee and J. A. Nelder, Statistical Science 19 (2004), 232-233.
  
  
• Partially observed information and inference about non-Gaussian mixed linear models,
  The Annals of Statistics 33 (2005), 2695-2731.
  
  
• Comment on ``Maximization by parts in likelihood inference'' by P. X-K. Song, Y. Fan and J. D. Kalbfleisch, Journal of the American Statistical Association 100 (2005), 1158-1159.
  
  
• (with P. Lahiri) Estimation of finite population domain means - a model assisted empirical best prediction approach,
  Journal of The American Statistical Association 101 (2006), 301-311.
  
  
• (with P. Lahiri) Mixed model prediction and small area estimation (with discussion), TEST 15 (2006), 1-96.
  
  
• (with Z. Ge) Mixed models: An overview, in Frontiers of Statistics in honor of Professor Peter J. Bickel's 65th birthday, J. Fan and H. Koul ed., Imperial College Press (2006), 445-466.
  
  
• (with Y. Luan and Y.-G. Wang) Iterative estimating equations: Linear convergence and asymptotic properties, The Annals of Statistics 35 (2007), 2233-2260.
  
  
• (with J. S. Rao, Z. Gu and T. Nguyen) Fence methods for mixed model selection, The Annals of Statistics 36 (2008), 1669-1692.
  
  
• (with J. S. Rao and T. Nguyen) A simplified adaptive fence procedure, Statistics and Probability Letters 79 (2009), 625-629.
  
  
• (with T. Nguyen) Comments on ``Goodness-of-fit tests in mixed models'' by G. Claeskens and J. D. Hart, Test 18 (2009), 248-255.
  
  
• (with F. Bois, A. Gelman, D. Maszle, and G. Alexeef) Population toxicokinetics of tetra chloroethylene, Archives of Toxicology 70 (1996), 347-355.
  
  
• (with F. Petty, P. Bickel, M. Ostland, J. Rice, Y. Ritov, and F. Schoeberg) Accurate estimation of travel times, Transportation Research B 32 (1998), 1-17.
  
  
• (with D. K. Leonard) Gender bias and the college prediction of the SAT's: A cry of despair, Research in Higher Education 40 (1999), 375-407.
  
  
• (with Zhongguo Zheng) Asymptotic property of confidence lower limit obtained by MML method, Tech. Report, Peking Univ. 1991.
  
  
• (with F. Bois, A. Gelman and D. Maszle) A toxicokinetic analysis of tetrachloroethylene metabolism in humans, Tech. Report, Cal-EPA 1994.