Xuewen Lu

Xuewen Lu

Positions

Professor

Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Contact information

Email

xlu@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Website

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-6620

Location

Office: MS540

Background

Educational Background

PhD Statistics, University of Guelph, 1997

MSc Statistics, Peking University, 1990

BSc Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, 1987

Research

Areas of Research

Big data and high-dimensional data analysis, Semiparametric and nonparametric statistics, Data reduction and single-index models, Data mining and statistical computing, Biostatistics, Empirical likelihood, Survival analysis and randomly censored data, Reliability Theory, Generalized linear/additive models and mixed models

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
STAT 531 Monte Carlo Methods and Statistical Computing Fall
STAT 543 Statistical Learning Fall
STAT 635 Generalized Linear Models Fall
STAT 641 Statistical Learning Fall

More Information

Book

  • McKellar, Robin and Lu, Xuewen. Modeling Microbiology Food Responses CRC PRESS, 2003. Print.

Forthcoming

  • Zhang, Yukun, Lu, Xuewen and Desmond, A.F.. Variable selection in a log-linear Birnbaum-Saunders regression model for high-dimensional survival data via the elastic-net and stochastic EM (to appear)

Journal article

  • Zhang, Yukun, Lu, Xuewen and Desmond, A. F.. "Variable selection in a log-linear Birnbaum-Saunders regression model for high-dimensional survival data via the elastic-net and stochastic EM.". Technometrics (to appear), Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Song, Peter X.-K.. "Efficient sieve estimation of the partly linear additive hazards regression model with current status data". Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 42. (2015): 306-328. Print.
  • Burke, Murray and Lu, Xuewen. "Nonparametric estimation of linear functionals of a bivariate distribution under univariate censoring". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 138.10 (2008): 3238-3256. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen, Singh, R.S. and Desmond, A.F.. "Estimation for location-scale models with censored Data". Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 36. (2007): 1069-1089. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Qi, Y.. "Chover's law of the iterated logarithm for trimmed sums". Sankhya 68. (2006): 488-502. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Yongcheng Qi. "Empirical likelihood for average derivatives". J. Nonparametr. Stat. 18. (2006): 315-331. Print.
  • Xie, C., Singh, R.S., Smith, B. and Lu, Xuewen. "Generalized separation theorems for singular values of a matrix and their applications in canonical correlation analysis". Probab. Math. Statist. 25. (2005): 223-229. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Burke, Murray. "Censored multiple regression by the method of average derivatives". Journal of Multivariate Analysis 95.1 (2005): 182-205. Print.
  • McKellar, R.C. and Lu, Xuewen. "Development of a global stochastic model describing the relationship between the distribution of individual cell physiological states and population physiological state". International Journal of Food Microbiology 100. (2005): 33-40. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Qi, Yongcheng. "Empirical likelihood for the additive risk model.". Probab. Math. Statist. 24.2 (2004): 419-431. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Qi, Yongcheng. "A note on asymptotic distribution of products of sums". Statistics \& Probability Letters 68.4 (2004): 407-413. Print.
  • McKellar, R.C., Odumeru, J., Zhou, T., Harrison, A., Mercer, D.G., Young, J.C., Lu, Xuewen, Boulter, J., Piyasena, P. and Karr, S.. "Influence of a commercial warm chlorinated water treatment and packaging on the shelf-life of ready-to-use lettuce". Food Research International 37. (2004): 343-354. Print.
  • Wang, Z., Desmond, A.F. and Lu, Xuewen. "Modified censored moment estimation for the two-parameter Birnbaum–Saunders distribution". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 50. (2004): 1033-1051. Print.
  • Li, Qi, Lu, Xuewen and Ullah, Aman. "Multivariate local polynomial regression for estimating average derivatives". Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 15.4-5 (2003): 607-624. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen, Singh, R. S. and Desmond, A. F.. "A kernel smoothed semiparametric survival model". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 98.1-2 (2001): 119-135. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen. "Estimation of parameters in the location scale model under random right-censoring". Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics. Yingyong Gail\"u Tongji 10.3 (1994): 272-277. Print.

Journal articles - peer reviewed

  • Lu, Shanshan, Wu, Jingjing and Lu, Xuewen. "Efficient estimation of the varying-coefficient partially linear proportional odds model with current status data". Metrika 82.2 (2019): 173-194. Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen. "Smoothed Jackknife Empirical Likelihood for Weighted Rank Regression with Censored Data.". Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal 6.2 (2018): 555685. Print.
  • Huang, Longlong, Kopciuk, Karen and Lu, Xuewen. "Smoothed Jackknife Empirical Likelihood for Weighted Rank Regression with Censored Data". Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal 6.2 (2018). Print.
  • Zhong, Wenyan, Lu, Xuewen and Wu, Jingjing. "Feature selection for cancer classification using microarray gene expression data". Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal 1.2 (2017): BBOAJ.MS.ID.555557. Print.
  • Afzal, Arfan Raheen, Dong, Cheng and Lu, Xuewen. "Estimation of partly linear additive hazards model with left-truncated and right-censored data". Statistical Modelling 17.6 (2017): 1-26. Print.
  • Zhu, Yayuan, Wu, Jingjing and Lu, Xuewen. "Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for a two-sample semiparametric cure rate model with censored survival data". Computational Statistics 28. (2013): 2495-2518. Print.

Preprint

  • Cheng, T.-L., Ho, C.H. and Lu, Xuewen. "A note on asymptotic normality of kernel estimations for linear random fields on Z^2". , (2006). Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen and Cheng, Tsung-Lin. "Randomly censored partially linear single-index models". , (2006). Print.
  • Lu, Xuewen, Sun, Jie and Qi, Yongcheng. "Empirical likelihood for average derivatives of hazard regression functions". , (2006). Print.
  • Desmond, A.F., Rodriguez-Yam, G.A. and Lu, Xuewen. "Estimation of parameters for a Birnbaum-Saunders regression model with censored data". , (2005). Print.