Yingli Qin
Associate Professor, Department
of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Contact
Information
o
Office: M3-4019, 200
University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON,
CANADA N2L 3G1
o Email:
Yingli dot Qin at uwaterloo dot ca
o
Phone: +1(519)888-4567 ext.
35506
Education
o PhD,
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, USA
o M.S.
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, USA
o M.S.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China
o B.S.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China
Research
Interests
o High-dimensional
statistics and random matrix theory
Selected
Publications
o
Wu, Y., Qin, Y. and Zhu, M.
(2019+). High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation using a low-rank and
diagonal decomposition. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. In
press.
o Wu,
Y., Qin, Y. and Zhu, M. (2019). Quadratic discriminant analysis for
high-dimensional data. Statistica
Sinica. 29, 939-960.
o
Qin, Y. and Li, W. (2017).
Bias-reduced moment estimators of population spectral distribution and their
applications. Big and Complex Data Analysis. Springer International
Publishing. 103-119.
o Qin,
Y. and Li, W. (2016). Testing the order of a population spectral distribution
for high-dimensional data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.
95, 75-82.
o Li,
W. and Qin, Y. (2014). Hypothesis testing for high-dimensional covariance
matrices. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 128,
108-119.
o Xia,
N., Qin, Y. and Bai, Z. (2013).
Convergence rates of eigenvector empirical spectral distribution of large
dimensional sample covariance matrix. The Annals of Statistics, 41
(5), 2572-2607.
o Li,
W., Chen, J., Qin, Y. , Bai, Z. and Yao, J.
(2013). Estimation of the population spectral distribution from a large
dimensional sample covariance matrix. Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 143(11), 1887-1897.
o Chen, S. and Qin, Y.
(2010). A two-sample test for high-dimensional data with applications to
gene-set testing. The
Annals of Statistics, 38 (2), 808-835.
o Chen,
S., Peng, L. and Qin, Y. (2009). Effects of Data Dimension on Empirical
Likelihood. Biometrika, 96 (3), 711-722.
Teaching
o Stat
923 Multivariate Analysis: Winter 2018/Winter 2016/Spring 2014
o Stat
850 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Fall 2019/Winter 2016/Winter 2014
o Stat
450 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Winter 2019/Winter 2016/Winter 2014
o Stat
330 Mathematical Statistics: Fall 2018/Winter 2015/Fall 2012
o
Stat 241 Statistics (Advance
level): Winter 2020