Aixin Tan Ph.D. University of Florida 2009 Assistant Professor Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa 259 Schaeffer Hall Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: (319) 335-0821 Fax: (319) 335-3017 E-mail: aixin-tan@uiowa.edu

Research Interests

• Markov chain Monte Carlo
• Bayesian variable selection
• Bayesian mixture modeling

Publications

• Tan, A., Jones, G. and Hobert, J.P. (2012) On the geometric ergodicity of two-variable Gibbs samplers, Eaton's Festschrift.


• Tan, A. and Hobert, J.P. (2009) Block Gibbs sampling for Bayesian random effects models with improper priors: Convergence and regeneration, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 18, 861-878.


• Hobert, J.P., Tan, A. and Liu, R. (2007) When is Eaton's chain irreducible? Bernoulli, 13, 641-652.


• Ma, C., Yu, Q., Berg, A., Drost, D., Novaes, E., Fu, G., Yap, J. S., Tan, A., Kirst, M., Cui, Y. and Wu, R. (2007) A Statistical Model for Testing the Pleiotropic Control of Phenotypic Plasticity for a Count Trait, Genetics, 179, 627-636.

Submitted

• Tan, A., Doss, H. and Hobert, J.P. (2012) Honest importance sampling with multiple Markov chains.

Work in progress

• Doss, H. and Tan, A. (2012) Estimates and standard errors for ratios of normalizing constants from multiple Markov chains via regeneration.

Teaching

Spring 2012 22s: 238 Bayesian Analysis

Fall 2011 22s: 30/105 Statistical Methods and Computing
Fall 2011 22s: 153 Mathematical Statistics I
Spring 2011 22s: 154 Mathematical Statistics II
Fall 2010 22s: 30/105 Statistical Methods and Computing
Fall 2010 22s: 153 Mathematical Statistics I
Spring 2010 22s: 30/105 Statistical Methods and Computing
Spring 2010 22s: 238 Bayesian Analysis
Fall 2009 22s: 153 Mathematical Statistics I

Education

B.S. Peking University, Probability and Statistics
M.S. University of Florida, Statistics
Ph.D. University of Florida, Statistics

Last updated by Aixin Tan on 01/15/2012