Associate Professor
Phone: 407-823-6664
Local: CCII 210A
email: lni@mail.ucf.edu
Education
Ph.D. Statistics, 2003 – University of Minnesota
B.S. Computational Mathematics , 1996 – Fudan University
Research
Multivariate analysis, dimension reduction, regression analysis, data mining, bioinformatics.
Publications
Ni, L. and Cook, R.D. (2007) A robust inverse regression estimator, to appear in Statistics & Probability Letters.
Wang, H., L. and Tsai, C-L. (2007) Improving dimension reduction via contour- projection to appear in Statistica Sinica.
Ni, L., and Cook R.D. (2006) Sufficient Dimension and Reduction in Regressions across Heterogenous Subpopulations, Journal of Royal Statistical Society Ser. B. 68,89-107.
Cool, R.D. and Ni, L. (2006) Using Intra- Slice onvariances for Improved Estimation of the Central Subspace in Regression, Biometrika 93,65-74
Ni, L. (2006) Dimension Reduction, to appear in Encuclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, SAGE.
Cook, R.D. amd Ni, L. (2005) Dimension Reduction with Inverse Regression: a Minimum Discrepancy Approach, Journal of American Statistical Association , 100, 410-428.
Ni, L., Cook, R.D., and Tsai, C-L.(2005) A Note on Shrinkage Sliced Inverse Regression, Biometrika 92, 242-247.