Xin Dang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Mississippi Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2005

Contact Information

Hume Hall 315
Phone: (662) 915-7409
Email: xdang@olemiss.edu
Fax: (662) 915-5491
Personal Webpage

Teaching -Spring 2009

T Th 8:30-10:00 am or by appointment
Math 676: Statistical Learning II, T Th 1:00-2:15pm
Math 375: Introduction to Statistical Methods, T Th 4:30-5:45pm

Statistics, especially Nonparamtric and Robust Multivariate Analysis
Data Mining, Outlier Identification and Cluster Analysis
Applications of Depth Functions
Correlated Data Analysis
Publication List in MathSciNet

• Robust Clustering in High Dimensional Data Using Statistical Depths. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8 (Suppl 7) (with Y. Ding, H. Peng and D. Wilkins).
• Depth-Based Novelty Detection and its Application to Taxonomic Research. The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 113-122, Omaha, Nebraska, October 2007 (with Y. Chen, H. Bart and H. Peng).
• Outlier Detection with the Kernelized Spatial Depth Function. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 30, no. , pp. , 2008 (With Y. Chen, H. Peng and H. Bart).
• Influence Functions of Some Depth Functions, with Application to L-Statistics. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, to appear (with R. Serfling and W. Zhou).
• A Numerical Study of Multiple Imputation Methods Using Nonparametric Multivariate Outlier Identifiers and Depth-Based Performance Criteria with Clinical Laboratory Data. (With R. Serfling). Submitted.
• Projection Based Scatter Depth Functions and Associated Scatter Estimators. (With W. Zhou). Submitted.
  

Personal Interests

Ping-pong, Traveling, Camping, Photography