Research Interests                                                                   Teaching

Selected  Publications

      1.  Cao, J. and He, C. (2005).  Bias adjustment in Bayesian estimation of bird nest age-specific

                survival rates. Biometrics, 61, 877-878.

           2.  Cao, J. and Stokes, S.L. (2008).  Bayesian IRT guessing models for partial guessing 

               behaviors. Psychometrica, 73, 209-230.

           3.  Cao, J., He, C., and McCoy, T. (2008).  Bayesian estimation of age-specific bird nest survival

               rates with categorical covariates. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15, 49-58.

           4.  Cao, J., Xie, X., Zhang, S., Whitehurst, A., and White, M. (2009). Bayesian optimal discovery

               procedure for simultaneous significance testing. BMC Bioinformatics, 10:5.

           5.   Livingston, E.H., Elliot, A.C., Hynan, L.S., and Cao, J. (2009). Effect size estimation: necessary

               component of statistical analysis. Archives of Surgery, 144, 706-712.

           6.  Cao, J., He, C., Suedkamp Wells, K.M., Millspaug, J.J., and Ryan, M.R. (2009).  Modeling

               age and nest-specific survival using a hierarchical Bayesian approach. Biometrics (to appear).

           7.  Cao, J., Moosman, A., and Johnson, V.E. (2009). A Bayesian goodness-of-fit test for censored

   data. Biometrics (to appear).

          8.  Cao, J., Lee, J.J., and Albert, S. (2009). Comparison of Bayesian sample size determination

   criteria: ACC, ALC, and WOC. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (to appear).

          9.  Cao, J., Stokes, S.L., and Zhang, S. (2009). A Bayesian approach to ranking and rater 

   evaluation: an application to grant reviews. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

   (to appear).

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