Selected Publications

• Zhang, C.M., Lu, Y., Johnstone, T., Oaks, T., and Davidson, R.J. (2007). "Efficient modeling and inference for event-related functional MRI data".
  Technical report #1125, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Zhang, C.M. (2007). "Prediction error estimation...".
  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, to appear.
• Zhang, C.M., Li, J. and Meng, J. (2006). "On Stein's lemma, dependent covariates and functional monotonicity in multi-dimensional modeling".
  Journal of Multivariate Analysis, to appear.
• Zhang, C.M. and Yu, T. (2008). "Semiparametric detection of significant activation for brain fMRI".
  The Annals of Statistics, 36, 1693-1725. [abstract]
• Li, J., Nordheim, E.V., Zhang, C.M., and Lehner, C.E. (2008). "Estimation and confidence regions for multi-dimensional effective dose".
  Biometrical Journal, 50, 110-122. [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M., Jiang, Y. and Yu, T. (2007). "A comparative study of one-level and two-level semiparametric estimation of hemodynamic response function for fMRI data".
  Statistics in Medicine, 26, 3845-3861. (special issue on statistical analysis of neuronal data.) [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M., Fu, H., Jiang, Y. and Yu, T. (2006). "High-dimensional pseudo logistic regression and classification with applications to gene expression data".
  To appear.
• Zhang, C.M. and Fu, H. (2006). "Masking effects on linear regression in multi-class classification".
  Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 1800-1807. [abstract]
• Hall, P., Minnotte, M.C., and Zhang, C.M. (2004). "Bump hunting with non-Gaussian kernels".
  The Annals of Statistics, 32, 2124-2141. [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M. (2004). Comment on "The estimation of prediction error: covariance penalties and cross-validation" by Bradley Efron.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99, 637-640.
• Zhang, C.M. (2004). "Assessing the equivalence of nonparametric regression tests based on spline and local polynomial smoothers".
  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 126, 73-95. [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M. and Dette, H. (2004). "A power comparison between nonparametric regression tests".
  Statistics and Probability Letters, 66, 289-301. [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M. (2003). "Calibrating the degrees of freedom for automatic data smoothing and effective curve checking".
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 609-628. [abstract]
• Zhang, C.M. (2003). "Adaptive tests of regression functions via multi-scale generalized likelihood ratios".
  Canadian Journal of Statistics, 31, 151-171. [abstract]
• Fan, J., Jiang, J., Zhang, C.M., and Zhou, Z. (2003). "Time-dependent diffusion models for term structure dynamics".
  Statistica Sinica, 13, 965-992.
• Fan, J. and Zhang, C.M. (2003). "A reexamination of diffusion estimators with applications to financial model validation".
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 118-134. [abstract]
• Fan, J., Zhang, C.M., and Zhang, J. (2001). "Generalized likelihood ratio statistics and Wilks phenomenon".
  The Annals of Statistics, 29, 153-193. (correction, 2002, 30, 1811-1811.) [abstract]
• Zhang, Z.J., Yang, Z.Q., and Zhang, C.M. (1994). "Monotone piecewise curve fitting algorithms".
  Journal of Computational Mathematics, 12, 163-172. [abstract]

Technical Reports

• Zhang, C.M. (2000). "Topics in generalized likelihood ratio test". Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.