Xiaoqiong Joan Hu
                           
                                Associate Professor of Statistics

Contact Information

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada                                                                 
Tel:  (778) 782-6714
Fax: (778) 782-4368
Email: joanh@stat.sfu.ca

Education

Ph.D., 1995, University of Waterloo

Research Interests

Dr. Hu's current statistical research focuses on issues arising in longitudinal studies. She has been working on analyses of incomplete data, with particular attention to event history data and data with selection-bias. Another area of interest is the design and data analyses for interim reviews in clinical trials.

Dr. Hu has collaborated with investigators in a variety of medical areas, including HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Hematology, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Nutrition.



Teaching

• STAT 450 ``Mathematical Statistics/Statistical Theory"              Fall 2004
• STAT 802 ``Multivariate Analysis"             Fall 2004  Fall 2006
  
• STAT 805 ``Nonparametric Statistics and Discrete Data Analysis"             Fall 2003  Fall 2005
           

• Hu, X.J. and Lawless, J.F. (1996). ``Estimation from Truncated Lifetime Data with Supplementary Information on Covariates and Censoring Times," Biometrika, 83: 747-761.
• Hu, X.J. and Lawless, J.F. (1996). ``Estimation of Rate and Mean Functions from Truncated Recurrent Event Data," J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 91: 300-310.
• Hu, X.J., Lawless, J.F., and Suzuki, K. (1998). ``Nonparametric Estimation of a Lifetime Distribution When Censoring Times are Missing," Technometrics, 40: 3-13.
• Hu, X.J. and Lagakos, S.W. (1999). ``Interim Analyses Using Repeated Confidence Bands," Biometrika, 86: 517-29.
• Gulick, R.M., Hu, X.J., Fiscus, S.A., Fletcher, C.V., Haubrich, R., Cheng, H., Edward A., Lagakos, S.W., Swanstrom R., Freimuth, W., Snyder, S., Mills, C., Fischl, M., Pettinelli, C., and Katzenstein D.  (2000). ``Randomized Study of Saquinavir with Ritonavir or Nelfinavir Together with Delavirdine, Adefovir or Both in HIV-Infected Adults with Virologic Failure on Indinavir: AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Study 359," The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 182: 1375-84.
• Steen, R.G., Hu, X.J., Elliott, V.E., Miles, M.A., Jones, S., and Wang, W.C (2002) ``Kindergarten Readiness Skills in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Evidence of Early Neurocognitive Damage?" Journal of Child Neurology, 17: 111-6.
• Hu, X.J., Sun, J. and Wei, L.J. (2003). ``Regression Analysis of Panel Count Data," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 25: 25-43.