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:
Associate Editor, Commmunications in Statistics - Theorey & Methods
Associate Editor, Commmunications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Medical Informatics Journal
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 rxc 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. 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.
  13. Tang, Man-Lai, Tian, Maozai, and Chan, Ping-Shing. (2008). On bootstrap quantile-treatment-effect test. Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 335-350.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Yu, Jun-Wu and 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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).
  19. 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 (Accepted).
  20. Tang, Man-Lai, and Tian, Maozai. (2008). Asymptotic confidence interval construction for risk difference under inverse sampling. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Accepted).
  21. Tian, Guo-Liang, Tan, Ming, Ng, Kai-Wang, and Tang, Man-Lai. (2008). An unified method for checking compatibility and uniqueness for finite discrete conditional distributions. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Accepted).
  22. 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).
  23. 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 (Accepted).
  24. Tian, Maozai, Tang, Man-Lai, Chan, Ping-Shing. (2008). Semiparametric quantile modelling hierarchical data. Acta Mathematica Sinica (Accepted).
  25. 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).
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