TANG, Man Lai

BSc, MPhil, CUHK; PhD, UCLA
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Research Interests:
Exact methods for discrete data, Equivalence/Non-inferiority trials, Biostatistics

Telephone: (+852) 3411-7018
Facsimile: (+852) 3411-5811
Email:
Office: FSC1201, Fong Shu Chuen Building, HKBU
Professional Service:
Editorial Board Member, Advances and Applications in Statistical Sciences
Associate Editor, Commmunications in Statistics - Theorey & Methods
Associate Editor, Commmunications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Probability and Statistics
Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Medical Informatics Journal

Books
  1. 邵慰慈、鄧文禮 (2008) 統計學初探, 香港教育圖書公司

Recent Publications (Complete List)
  1. Ng, Hon Keung Tony, Gu, Kangxia, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2007). A comparative study of tests for the difference of two Poisson means. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 3085 - 3099.
  2. Shi, Jian-Qing, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2007). Trend estimation. Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 1:1, 1 - 7.
  3. Tang, Man-Lai, Liao, Yijie, Ng, Tony Hon-Keung, and Chan, Ben Ping-Shing. (2007). Testing of rate ratio under inverse sampling. Biometrical Journal, 49, 551 - 564.
  4. Tang, Man-Lai, Ng, Kai-Wang, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tan, Ming. (2007). On improved EM algorithm and confidence interval construction for incomplete r×c tables. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 2919 - 2933.
  5. Tang, Man-Lai, and Poon, Wai-Yin. (2007). Statistical inference for equivalence trials with ordinal responses: A latent normal distribution approach. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 5918 - 5926.
  6. Tang, Nian-Sheng, Tang, Man-Lai, and Wang, Shun-Fang. (2007). Sample size determination for matched-pair equivalence trials using rate ratio. Biostatistics, 8, 625 - 631.
  7. Tian, Guo-Liang, Yu, Jun-Wu, Tang, Man-Lai, and Geng, Zhi. (2007). A new non-randomized model for analyzing sensitive questions with binary outcomes. Statistics in Medicine, 26, 4238 - 4252.
  8. Yin, Xiao-Lin, Ma, Wen-Qing, Tang, Man-Lai, and Guo, Jianhua. (2007). Testing for homogeneity of gametic disequilibrium across strata. BMC Genetics, 8:85, doi:10.1186/1471-2156-8-85.
  9. Yu, Jun-Wu, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2007). Predictive analyses for nonhomogeneous Poisson processes with power law using Bayesian approach. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 4254 - 4268.
  10. Gu, Kangxia, Ng, Hon Keung Tony, Tang, Man-Lai, and Schucany, W. R. (2008). Testing the ratio of two Poisson rates. Biometrical Journal, 50, 1 – 16.
  11. Ng, Kai-Wang, Tang, Man-Lai, Tan, Ming, and Tian, Guo-Liang. (2008). Grouped Dirichlet distribution: A new tool for incomplete categorical data analysis. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99, 490 – 509.
  12. Pei, Yanbo, Tang, Man-Lai, and Guo, Jianhua. (2008). Testing the equality of two proportions for combined unilateral and bilateral data. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, 37, 1515 - 1529.
  13. Tang, Man-Lai, Liao, Yijie, and Ng, Tony Hon-Keung. (2008). On tests of risk ratio under standard inverse sampling. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 89, 261 - 268.
  14. Tang, Man-Lai, Tian, Maozai, and Chan, Ping-Shing. (2008). On bootstrap quantile-treatment-effect test. Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 335 - 350.
  15. Tang, Nian-Sheng, Tang, Man-Lai, and Qiu, Shi-Fang. (2008). Testing the equality of proportions for correlated otolaryngologic data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 3719 - 3729.
  16. Tian, Guo-Liang, Tang, Man-Lai, Fang, Hong-Bin, and Tan, Ming. (2008). Efficient methods for estimating constrained parameters with applications to lasso logistic regression. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 3528 - 3542.
  17. Tian, Maozai, Tang, Man-Lai, Ng, Tony Hon-Keung, and Chan, Ben Ping-Shing. (2008). Confidence interval estimators for risk ratio under inverse sampling. Statistics in Medicine, 27: 3301 - 3324.
  18. Yu, Jun-Wu, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). Statistical inference and prediction for the Weibull process with incomplete observations. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 1587 - 1603.
  19. Yu, Jun-Wu, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). Two new models for survey sampling with sensitive characteristic: Design and analysis. Metrika, 67, 251 - 263.
  20. Tian, Guo-Liang, Tan, Ming, Ng, Kai-Wang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2009). An unified method for checking compatibility and uniqueness for finite discrete conditional distributions. Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 38, 115 - 129.
  21. Liang, Jiajuan, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). A Generalized F-test for the Multivariate Normal Mean. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Accepted).
  22. Ng, Kai-Wang, Tang, Man-Lai, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tan, Ming. (2008). The nested Dirichlet distribution and incomplete categorical data analysis. Statistica Sinica (Accepted).
  23. Tan, Ming, Tian, Guo-Liang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). Sample surveys with sensitive questions: A non-randomized response approach. The American Statistician (Accepted)
  24. Tang, Man-Lai, Ling Man-Ho, and Tian, Guo-Liang. Exact and Approximate Unconditional Confidence Intervals for Proportion Difference in the Presence of Incomplete Data. Statistics in Medicine (Accepted).
  25. Tang, Man-Lai, and Tian, Maozai. (2008). Asymptotic confidence interval construction for risk difference under inverse sampling. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Accepted).
  26. Tian, Guo-Liang, Tang, Man-Lai, Liu, Zhenqiu, Tan, Ming, and Tang, Nian-Sheng. Sample size determination for the non-randomized triangular model for sensitive questions in survey. Statistical Methods in Medicine Research (Accepted).
  27. Tian, Guo-Liang, Yuen, Kam-Chuen, Tang, Man-Lai, and Tan, Ming. (2008). Bayesian non-randomized response models for surveys with sensitive questions. Statistics and Its Interface (Accepted).
  28. Tian, Maozai, Tang, Man-Lai, Ng, Tony Hon-Keung, and Chan, Ben Ping-Shing. (2008). A comparative study of confidence intervals for negative binomial proportion. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Accepted).
  29. Tian, Maozai, Tang, Man-Lai, Chan, Ping-Shing. (2008). Semiparametric quantile modelling of hierarchical data. Acta Mathematica Sinica (Accepted).
  30. Tang, Nian-Sheng, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). Testing the equality of two ordered multinomial proportions. Advances and Applications in Statistical Science (Accepted).

Teaching

SCI7470 Business Statistics and Modeling