Jing Cao
Assistant Professor 

Department of Statistical Science 

 

Contact

 Education
Department of Statistical Science             
Southern Methodist University                 
3225 Daniel Avenue Avenue         
P O Box 750332                             
Dallas, Texas 75275-0332
Phone: 214-768-2451
Fax:     214-768-4035
email:  jcao@smu.edu
B.S.               Applied Mathematics, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, 1997
M.S.              Econometrics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China,  2000
M.S.              Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2003
Ph.D.             Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2005

                 Research Interests                                                                   Teaching

  •    Bayesian hierarchical models

  •    Bayesian survival analysis

  •    Spatial-temporal models

  •    Item response theory

  •    Bayesian applications in psychology, ecology, and epidemiology
  • STAT 2301 - Business Statistics
  • STAT 6345 - Linear Regression

http://courses.smu.edu/

Selected Publications

Jing Cao and Chong He (2005).  Bias adjustment in Bayesian estimation of bird nest  age-specific survival rates,  Biometrics, 61, 877-878.

Jing Cao and Chong He (2007).  Estimation of age-specific nest survival rates with categorical covariates, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, in press.

Jing Cao and Lynne Stokes (2008).  Bayesian IRT guessing models for partial guessing behaviors,  Psychometrica, in press.

 

4/2008