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Primary Research Interests

  • Survival analysis
  • Correlated processes over time
  • Epidemiology studies
  • Cinical trials
  • Identify SNP or SNP cluster in genomics data

Other Areas of Interest

  • Survival techniques in equal employment opportunity cases
  • Compensation estimation in discrimination cases

Peer-Reviewed Publications

·         Pan, Q. Multiple testing methods in clinical trials and genomic studies. Frontiers in Public Health 2013, 1(63): 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00063

 

·         Xu, W., Pan, Q. and Gastwirth, J.L. Proportional hazards models with frailty for negatively correlated processes. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 2014, 70: 295-307 .

 

  • Xu, W., Pan, Q. and Gastwirth, J.L. Adaptive procedures for nested processes: Application to equal employment. Statistics & Its Inference 2014, 7(2): 153-165 .

 

  • Pan, Q. and Schaubel, D.E.  Proportional hazards regression in the presence of missing study eligibility information. Lifetime Data Analysis, DOI: 10.1007/s10985-013-9273-5.

 

  • Pan, Q. and Gastwirth, J.L. Estimating restricted mean job tenures in semi-competing risk data compensating victims of discrimination. Annals of Applied Statistics, 2013, 7(3): 1474-1496.

 

  • Pan, Q. Case Comment: Adams v. Perrigo and the appropriate criterion for bioequivalence in patent infringement cases. Law, Probability & Risk 2013, 12(2): 147-153  

 

  • Pan, Q. and Gastwirth, J.L. The appropriateness of survival analysis for determining lost pay in discrimination cases: application of the ‘Lost Chance’ doctrine to Alexander v. Milwaukee.  Law, Probability & Risk  2013, 12(1): 13-35

 

  • Pan, Q. and Grace, Y.Y.  An estimation method of marginal treatment effects on correlated longitudinal and survival outcomes. Statistics and Its Inference 2011, 4(4): 499-509.

 

  • Gastwirth, J.L. and Pan, Q. Statistical measures and methods for assessing the representativeness of juries: a reanalysis of the data in Berghuis v. Smith. Law, Probability & Risk 2011, 10(1): 17-57

 

  • Pan, Q. and Schaubel, D.E.  Evaluating bias correction in weighted proportional hazards regression.  Lifetime Data Analysis 2009, 15(1): 120-146.

 

  • Pan, Q. and Schaubel, D.E.  Flexible estimation of differences in treatment-specific recurrent event means in the presence of a terminating event.  Biometrics 2009, 65(3): 753-761.

 

  • Pan, Q. and Gastwirth, J.L. Issues in the use of survival analysis to estimate damages in equal employment cases. Law, Probability & Risk 2009, 8(1): 1-24

 

  • Gastwirth, J.L. and Pan, Q. Diaz v. Eagle Produce Ltd. Partnership: the potential for and limitations of formal statistical analysis to assist courts when drawing inferences from a relatively small data set. Jurimetrics 2009, 49(4): 439-466.

 

  • Sinclair, M.D. and Pan, Q. Using the Peters-Belson Method in EEO personnel evaluations (with Comments). Law, Probability & Risk 2009, 8(2): 95-117

 

  • Pan, Q. and Schaubel, D.E.  Weighted Cox regression with biased samples and empirically estimated selection probabilities. Canadian Journal of Statistics 2008, 36(1): 111-127.

 

·         Delahanty, L.M., Pan, Q., Jablonski, K.A., Aroda, V.R., Watson, K., Bray, G.A., Kahn, S.E., Florez, J.C., Perreault, L. and Franks, P.W. Effects of weight loss, weight cycling and weight loss maintenance on diabetes incidence and cardiometabolic traits in the diabetes prevention program (Diabetes Care).

 

  • Marrero, D., Pan, Q., Barrett-Connor, E., de Groot, M., Zhang, P., Percy, C., Florez, H., Ackermann, R., Montez, M. and Rubin, R.R., Impact of diagnosis of diabetes on health-related quality of life among high risk individuals: the DPP outcome study. Quality of Life Research 2014, 23(1), 75-88.

 

  • Pan, Q., Delahanty, L.M., Jablonski, K.A., Knowler, W.C., Kahn, S.E., Florez, J.C. and Franks, P.W.

 

  •  Variation at the melanocortin 4 receptor gene and response to weight-loss interventions in the diabetes prevention program. Obesity 2013, doi: 10.1002/oby.20459

 

  • Pollin, T. I., Isakova, T.,  Jablonski, K.A., de Bakker, P.I.W., Taylor, A.,  McAteer, J.,  Pan, Q., Horton, E.S., Delahanty, L.M., Altshuler, D., Shuldiner, A.R., Goldberg, R.B., Florez, J.C. and Franks, P.W. Genetic modulation of lipid profiles following lifestyle modification or metformin treatment: the diabetes prevention program. PloS Genetics 2012, 8(8): e1002895

 

  • Florez, H., Pan, Q., Rubin, R., Ackermann, R.T., Marrero, D.G., Barrett-Connor, E., Delahanty, L., Kriska, A., Saudek, C.D., Goldberg, R.B. and Rubin, R.R. Impact of lifestyle intervention and metformin on health-related quality of life: the diabetes prevention program randomized trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2012, 27(12): 1594-1601

 

  • Perreault, L., Pan, Q., Mather, K.J., Watson, K.E., Saudek, C., Hamman, R.F. and Kahn, S.E. Effect of regression from prediabetes to normal glucose regulation on long-term reduction in diabetes risk: results from the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study. Lancet 2012, 379(9833): 2243-2251

 

  • Delahanty, L.M., Pan, Q., Jablonski, K.A., Watson, K.E., McCaffery, J.M., Shuldiner, A., Kahn, S.E., Knowler, W.C., Florez, J.C. and Franks, P.W. Genetic predictors of weight loss and weight regain after intensive lifestyle modification, metformin treatment or standard care in the diabetes prevention program. Diabetes Care 2012, 35(2): 363-366

 

  • Damle, S., Teal, C.B., Lenert, J.J., Marshall, E.C., Pan, Q. and Mcswain, A.P. Mastectomy and contralateral prophylactic mastectomy rates: an institutional review.  Annals of Surgical Oncology 2011, 18(5): 1356-1363

 

  • Hirth, R.A., Pan, Q.,  Schaubel, D.E. and Merion, R.M. Efficient utilization of the Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD) deceased donor kidney pool: an analysis of the effect of labeling. American Journal of Transplantation 2010, 10(2): 304-309.

 

  • Hirth, R.A., Turenne, M.N., Wheeler, J.R.C., Pan, Q., Ma, Y. and Messana, J.M. Provider monitoring and pay-for-performance when multiple providers affect outcomes: an application to renal dialysis. Health Service Research 2009, 44(5): 1585-1602

 

  • Turenne, M.N., Hirth, R.A., Pan, Q., Wolfe, R.A., Messana, J.M. and Wheeler, J.R.C. Using knowledge of multiple levels of variation in care to target performance incentives to providers. Medical Care 2008, 46(2): 120-126

 

  • Hirth, R.A., Turenne, M.N., Wheeler, J.R.C., Pozniak, A.S., Tedeschi, P., Chuang, C.C., Pan, Q., Slish, K. and Messana, J.M. Case-mix adjustment for an expanded renal prospective payment system. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2007, 18(9): 2565-2574

 

  • Wheeler, J.R., Messana, J.M., Turenne, M.N., Hirth, R.A., Pozniak, A.S., Pan, Q., Chuang, C.C., Slish, K., Tedeschi, P., Roys, E.C. and Wolfe, R.A. Understanding the basic case-mix adjustment for the composite rate. American Journal of Kidney Disease 2006, 47(4): 666-671

 

  • Gastwirth, J.L. and Pan, Q.  Comments on “Qualifying the weight of evidence from a forensic fingerprint comparison: a new paradigm” by C. Neumann, I.W. Evett & J. Skerrett J. R. Statistic. Soc. A 2012, 175(2): 402-403.

 

  • Pan, Q. Entry “Standard Error of Estimate” in Encyclopedia of Research Design edited by Neil Salkind,  2010, SAGE publications Inc: 1424-1427.

 

  • Gastwirth, J.L. and Pan, Q.  Careful statistical reasoning can provide support for supreme court decision. AmStat News 2010, 397: 23-24.

 

Referee
Journal of American Statistics Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series B, Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Lifetime Data Analysis, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Law Probability & Risk, The American Statistician, Indian Pediatrics, Biometrical Journal, HongKong Research Grants Council, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Journal of Statistics and Computing, Statistics in Medicine, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, GW UFF/CCFF proposals, Obesity, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Scientific Reports, BMC Medical Research Methodology

Assistant Editor
 Law Probability & Risk

Associate Editor
 Frontiers in Epidemiology

PhD Students
Wenjing Xu, Li Chien Cheung, Aotian Yang, Lingjie Zhou