Xiaoyue Maggie Niu
Main Content
- Research Associate and Assistant Professor
323C Thomas Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
University Park, PA 16802
Email:
xiaoyue@psu.edu
Phone:
(814) 863-8127
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Washington, 2010
- M.S. in Applied Math, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2005
- B.S. in Financial Math, Peking University, 2003.
Biography:
Research Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University, August 2011-present
Faculty Consultant, Statistical Consulting Center, Penn State University, August 2011-present
Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, September 2010-July 2011
Selected Publications
- Hoff, P.D., Niu, X., and Wellner, J.A. "Information bounds for Gaussian copulas", 2011.
- Hoff, P.D. and Niu, X. "A Covariance Regression Model," Statistica Sinica 22(2): 729-753, 2012.
- Raftery, A.E., Niu, X., Hoff, P.D., Yeung, K.Y. "Fast Inference for the Latent Space Network Model Using a Case-Control Approximate Likelihood," Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2011.
- Calsyn, D., Baldwin, H. Niu, X., Crits-Christoph, P., and Hatch-Maillette, M. “Sexual Risk Behavior and Sex under the Influence: An Event Analysis of Men in Substance Abuse Treatment Who Have Sex with Women”. The American Journal on Addictions, 20(3):250-256, 2011
Research Interests
- Multivariate analysis,covariance estimation
- Latent variable models, copula models
- Bayesian statistics
- Social network and relational data analysis
- Global health
- Statistical applications