Publications

Lianfen Qian

Heilmayer, O., Digialleonardo, J., Qian, L.F. and Roesijadi, G. Stress tolerance of a subtropical Crassostrea virginica population to the combined effects of temperature and salinity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2008), doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2008.03.022. In press. Accepted, March 2008. http://en.scientificcommons.org/30002805. (pdf)

Diaz, N., Lizardi, H., Qian, L.F. and Liu, Z. The relationship between different types of childhood abuse and a history of major depressive disorder in a sample of Latino College students. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma. Vol 17, Issue 2, in press. Accepted, November 2007. (pdf)

Edited Book: Asymptotic Theory in Probability and Statistics with Applications. Editors: Tze Leung Lai, Lianfen Qian and Qi-Man Shao). Higher Eduction Press of China, June 2007 and International Press, November, 2007.

Piecewise Regression Models: Estimation Theory and Applications. Asymptotic Theory in Probability and Statistics with Applications (Tze Leung Lai, Lianfen Qian and Qi-Man Shao). 309-341, 2007.

Estimating Tree Resin Dose Effect On Termites (with Soyoung Ryu). Environmentrics , 17 (2006), 183-197.

Performance Analysis for Integrating Biometrics (with Hanqi Zhuang). Proceeding of FCRAR , Miami, Florida, May 25-26, 2006.

Asymptotics of M-estimators in two phase linear regression models. (with H. L. Koul and D. Surgailis). Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 103 (2003) no.1, 123-154.

Estimation of Weibull parameters for grouped data with competing risks. (with Jose A. Correa). Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 73 (April, 2003), no.4, 261-275.

An Analytic Study of Two Probabilistic Models for Establishing Ad Hoc WLANs. (with S. Hsu, M. Ilyas). Information Technology and Management. 4 (2003), 55-67.

Estimating software project effort using piecewise linear regression models, (with Yao, Q.). Proceedings of The 15th Annual Motorola Software Engineering Symposium (SES 2002).

Asymptotics of maximum likelihood estimator in a two-phase linear regression model. (with H. L. Koul). Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 108, (2002), no. 1, 99-119.

A putative tropical American plant, Ipomoea Nil (Convolvulaceae), in pre-Columbian Japanese art (with Austin, F. D., Kaoru Kitajima, Yoshiaki Yoneda). Economic Botany 55(4) (2001), 515-527.

Bias-corrected heteroscedasticity robust covariance matrix (sandwich) estimators. (with S. Wang). Journal of Statistical Computation adn Simulation. 70 (2001), 161-174.

Local estimation of a biometric function with covariate effects. (with Z. Cai) In Asymptotics in Statistics and Probability -- Papers in Honor of George Gregory Roussas (Editor: M.L. Puri). (2000), 47-70.

Application of the occupancy problem to wireless local area network establishments. (with H. Niederhausen and S. Hsu). Proceedings of the Thirty-First Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Boca Raton, FL, 2000). Congr. Numer. 147 (2000), 191-200.

Analysis of trends in loggerhead turtle (Caretta Caretta) nesting densities along a southeast Florida beach, 1990-1997. (with D. Carson, L. Wood and C. Johnson). Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, compiled by Kalb, H.J. and T. Wibbels U.S. Dept. Commerce. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-443. (2000), 287-291.

A simulation study of optimal algorithms in establishing ad hoc WLANs. (with S. Hsu and M. Ilyas). Book of Extended Abstracts, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications (ISWC'99), edited by A. Annamalai, Jr. and C. Tellambura. (1999), 51-52.

Performance analysis of algorithms for establishing ad hoc WLANs. (with M. Ilyas and S. Hsu). Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications 1999 . 2 (1999), 436-442.

On maximum likelihood estimation for a threshold autoregression. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 75 (1998) no. 1, 21-46.

Minimum distance estimators for random coefficient autoregressive models. Statistics & Probability Letters. 29 (1996), no. 3, 251-262.

A law of the iterated logarithm for nearest neighbor regression function estimates. Chinese J. Appl. Probab. Statist. 9 (1993), no. 3, 225-230.

Asymptotic normality of double kernel estimators of conditional density with dependent variables. J. Hangzhou University. 18 (1991), no. 1, 7-15.

The strong convergence rate of a nonparametric density estimator for dependent random variables. Gaoxiao Yingyong Shuxue Xuebao. 6 (1991), no. 2, 214-221.

Published Book Reviews

System and Bayesian Reliability: Essays in Honor of Professor richard E. Barlow on His 70th Birthday edited by Yu Hayakawa, Telba Irony and Min Xie, World Scientific, 2001. American Mathematical Reviews.
Regularized radial basis function networks: Theory and applications by Paul V. Yee and Simon Haykin, New York: Wiley, 2001. Technometrics. August (2002), Vol. 44, No. 3.

Probability applications in mechanical design by Franklin E. Fisher and Joy R. Fisher, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000. Technometrics. November (2001), Vol. 43, no. 4, p. 490.

Nonparametric curve estimation: methods, theory and applications by Sam Efromovich, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999. Technometrics. 42 (2000), pp. 429.

Parameter estimation in non-linear time series: Random coefficient and self-exciting threshold autoregressive models.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University. August, 1996.

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Footprints

One night I had a dream. I was
walking along a beach with the Lord,
and across the sky flashed scenes
from my life. In each scene,
I noticed two sets of footprints,
side by side in the sand.
One was mine and one was the Lord's.
When the last scene of my life
appeared before me, I looked back,
and to my surprise, I saw that
during the lowest
and saddest times of my life, there
was only one set of footprints!

"Lord", I cried, "you said that once I
decided to follow you, you would walk
beside me all the way.
But during the most troublesome times
in my life there is only one set
of footprints. I don't understand
why you left my side
when I needed you the most."

The Lord turned and looked at me,
His eyes filled with love,
"My precious child," He said,
"I have never left you.
During your times of trial, where
you only see one set of footprints,
that was when I was carrying you."

---Mary Stevenson

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