Liansheng (Larry) Tang Assistant Professor Department of Statistics The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University

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Contact Science & Tech II, Room 155 4400 University Drive, MS 4A7 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Phone: 703-993-9111 Fax: 703-993-1700 Email: ltang1@gmu.edu

Education B.S. (2000) Department of Statistics & Finance, University of Science and Technology of China Ph.D. (2005) Department of Statistics, Southern Methodist University Postdoctoral Training Department of Biostatistics, , University of Washington (2005-2007)

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Research Interests	Teaching
Diagnostic medicine Sequential clinical trials Wavelets and bootstrap methodology	Fall 2007: STAT 535 Analysis of Experimental Data Spring 2008 : STAT 660 Biostatistical Methods Fall 2008: STAT 435/535 Analysis of Experimental Data STAT 544: Applied Probability

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Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

1. Tang, L., Emerson, S. and Zhou, XH. (2007), “Nonparametric and Semiparametric Group Sequential Methods for Comparing Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests”, Biometrics. Working paper and Web Appendix

2. Tang, L., Schucany, W. and Woodward, W. (2008). “Undercoverage of wavelet-based resampling confidence intervals.” Communication in Statistics. Working paper.

Last updated: March 2008