School of Public Health

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics at Southern Methodist University
• M.A. in Mathematical Statistics at University of South Florida
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University
• B.S. in Mathematics at Changchuan Normal University

Background

Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington (2012-)

Director, Study Design and Data Analysis Consulting Center

Research

Dr. Chen's research interests include Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Nonparametric Methods, Clinical Trial, Linear Mixed Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Meta-analysis, Bayesian Methods, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, and Collaborative Researches.

For more information, please visit Dr. Chen's webpage.

Publications

For a full list of Dr. Chen's publications, please visit his website.

Books

Q. Liu, A. Sung, M. Qiao, B. Ribeiro, Z. Chen (2011), Feature Mining and Pattern Recognition in Multimedia Forensics, Book Chapter in the book Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics, edited by PSP Wang, High Education Press and Springer, pages 561-604. ISBN 978-3-642-22406-5.

Articles

Z. Chen (2013) "Association tests through combining p-values for case control genome-wide assocation studies". Statistics and Probability Letters, first published online April 28, 2013, doi:10.1016/j.spl.2013.04.021.

Z. Chen, H. Haung, H.K. Ng (2013) "Testing for association in case-conrol genome-wide association studies with shared controls". Statistical Methods in Medical Research, first published online February 1, 2013, doi:10.1177/0962280212474061.

Z. Chen, H, Haung, J. Liu, H.K.T> Ng, S. Nadarajah, X. Haung, Y. Deng (2013) "Detecting Differentially Methylated loci for Illumina Array Methylation Data Based on Human Ovarian Cancer Data". BMC Medical Genomics 2013, 6(Suppl 1):S9 doi:10.1186/1755-8794-6-S1-S.

H. Huang, Z. Chen*, X. Haung (2013) "Age-adjusted nonparametric detection of differential DNA methylation with case-control designs". BMC Bioinformatics, 2013, 14:86.

Z. Chen, Q. Liu, and S. Nadarajah (2012) "A New Statistical Approach to Detecting Differentially Methylated Loci for Case Control Illumina Array Methylation Data". Bioinformatics. 28(8): 1109-1113.

Z. Chen, H. Huang, and H.K.T. Ng (2012) "Design and Analysis of Multiple Diseases GWAS without Controls". GENE, 510(1):87-92.

Z. Chen, H.K.T. Ng, S. Nadarajah (2012) "A Note on Cochran Test for Homogeneity in One-way ANOVA and Meta-analysis". Statistical Papers. First published online, DOI 10.1007/s00362-0475-9.

Z. Chen, H.K.T. Ng (2012) "A Robust Method for Testing Association in Genome-wide Association Studies". Human Heredity, 73: 26-34.

Z. Chen (2011) "A New Association Test Based on Chi-Square Partition for Case-control GWA Studies". Genetic Epidemiology, 35:658-663.

Z. Chen, Q. Liu (2011) "A New Approach to Account for the Correlations among SNPs in Genome-Wide Association Studies". Human Heredity, 72(1):1-9.

Z. Chen, J. Liu, H.K.T. Ng, S. Nadarajah, H.L. Kaufman, J.Y. Yang, Y. Deng (2011) "Statistical Methods on Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes for RNA-seq Data". BMC Systems Biology, 2011,5(Suppl 3):S1.

Z. Chen, Q. Liu, M. McGee, M. Kong, X. Huang, Y. Deng, R.H. Scheuermann (2011) "A Gene Selection Method for GeneChip Array Data with Small Sample Sizes." BMC Genomics, 2011, 12(Suppl 5):S7.

Z. Chen, M. McGee, Q. Liu, M. Kong, Y. Deng, R.H. Scheuermann (2009) "A Distribution-free Convolution Model for Background Correction of Oligonucleotide Microarray Data". BMC Genomics, 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S19.

Z. Chen, M. McGee, Q. Liu, R. Scheuermann (2007) "A Distribution Free Summarization Method for Affymetrix GeneChip® Arrays". Bioinformatics, 23(3):321-327.