Min Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Department

M4126 SPH II
1420 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Phone: 734-763-9385; Fax: 734-763-2215

E-mail: mzhangst@umich.edu

Website(s): Personal Website

Professional Summary

Min Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics. Min received her Ph.D. in statistics in May 2008 from North Carolina State University and joined the University of Michigan in the same year. She received travel awards from the Biometrics Section of American Statistical Association (ASA) and the International Biometric Society (ENAR) for work from her Ph.D. dissertation. While obtaining her Ph.D., she also did a summer intern at Eli Lilly and worked part-time as a statistician at Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University.

Courses Taught

BIOSTAT602: Biostatistical Inference    Syllabus (PDF)

Education

Ph.D, Statistics, North Carolina State University, 2008
M.A., Ecology, Duke University, 2004
B.S., Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 2001

Research Interest & Projects

My research interests include semiparametric methods with missing and censored data, clinical trials, causal inference, survival analysis, and longitudinal data analysis. I have also been collaborating with clinicians and medical doctors in cardiovascular diseases at Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Selected Publications

Zhang, M., Tsiatis, A.A., and Davidian, M. (2008). Improving efficiency of inferences in randomized clinical trials using auxiliary covariates. Biometrics, 64, 707-715.

Zhang, M. and Davidian, M. (2008). "Smooth" semiparametric regression analysis for arbitrarily censored time-to-event data. Biometrics, 64, 567-576.

Tsiatis, A.A., Davidian, M, Zhang, M. and Lu, X. (2007). Covariate adjustment for two-sample treatment comparisons in randomized clinical trials: A principled yet flexible approach. Statistics in Medicine, special issue on "Statistical Methods in HIV/AIDS and its practical application", 27, 4658-4677.

Mehta, R.H., Rao, S.V., Ohman, E.M., Bates, E.R., Marcucci, G., Zhang, M., Pieper, K.S., Armstrong, P.W., White, H.D., Van de Werf, F., Califf, R.M., Granger, C.B. (2008). Variation in the use of stress testing and outcomes in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronoray syndromes: insights from GUSTO IIb. European Heart Journal , 29(7), 880-887.

Professional Affiliations

American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society, ENAR