Liqiang Ni (lēchĭông nē)

Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL 32816-2370

Office: Computer Center II 210A, Phone: 407-823-6664
FAX: 407-823-3930, Email:lni@ucf.edu

Education


Research Interests
  • dimension reduction, regression graphics
  • classification and pattern recognition
  • time series and stochastic processes

Class Webpages Publications and Manuscripts
  • Ni, L. (2010) Comments on "Envelope models for parsimonious and efficient multivariate linear regression" by Cook at al., Statistica Sinica, 20, 968-971.
  • Ni, L. (2010) "Principal component regression revisited ", Statistica Sinica, to appear.
  • Wei, W., Alon, I., Ni, L. (2010) Determinants of Chinese Outward Direct Investment: 1987-2009. In "Chinese International Investments",, Edited by Alon, I, Fetscherin, M. and Gugler, Philippe. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK.
  • McIntee, E., Viglino, E., Rinke, C., Kumor, S., Ni, L. Sigman, M. (2010) Comparative analysis of automotive paints by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and nonparametric permutation tests, Spectrochimica Acta B: Atomic Spectroscopy,, 65, 7, 542-548.
  • McIntee, E., Viglino, E., Kumor, S., Rinke, C., Ni, L. Sigman, M. (2010) Nonparametric permutation test for discrimination of automobile float glass samples based on LIBS spectra, Journal of Chemometrics,, 24, 312-319.
  • Ni, L.,, Alon, I. (2010) US-based fast food restaurants: factors influencing international expansion of franchise systems, Journal of Marketing Channels, , 17, 4, 339-359.
  • Wang, H., Ni, L., and Tsai, C-L. (2008) "Improving dimension reduction via contour-projection.", Statistica Sinica, 18, 299-311.
  • Cook, R. D. and Ni, L.(2007) "Elevated Soil Lead: Statistical Modeling and Apportionment of Contributions from Lead-Based Paint and Leaded Gasoline", The Annals of Applied Statistics , 1, 130-151.
  • Ni, L. and Cook, R. D. (2007) " A robust inverse regression estimator", Statistics & Probability Letters, 77, 343-349.
  • Cook, R. D. and Ni, L.(2006) "Using Intra-slice Covariances for Improved Estimation of the Central Subspace in Regression", Biometrika 93, pp.65-74.
  • Ni, L. and Cook, R. D. (2006) "Dimension Reduction in Regressions Across Heterogeneous Subpopulations", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B. Vol. 68, 89-107.
  • Ni, L., Cook, R. D., and Tsai, C-L. (2005)"A Note on Shrinkage Sliced Inverse Regression", Biometrika 92, pp. 242-247.
  • Cook, R. D. and Ni, L. (2005) "Dimension Reduction with Inverse Regression: a Minimum Discrepancy Approach", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 410-428.

Last updated on Jan 8, 2012.