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Xiaoming Sheng, PhD

Dr. Xiaoming Sheng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He earned his Bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and received his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Sheng currently teaches applied linear and logistic regression, applied multivariate data analysis, and other advanced biostatistical courses to students in the Public Health and Master of Statistics programs. He is a member of the University Statistics Committee. His research interests include, but are not limited to, categorical data analysis, missing data, resampling methods, Bayesian methods and Markov Chain Monte Carlo, health outcome research, and applying general statistical methods in public health and medical research.

Contact Information
Address: 375 Chipeta Way, Suite A, SLC, UT 84108
Office phone: (801) 585-9217
Fax: (801) 587-3353
Xiaoming.Sheng@hsc.utah.edu

Selected Publications

• Stevenson, D. A., Moyer-Mileur, L. J., Murray, M., Slater, H., Sheng, X., Carey, J. C., Dube, B., and Viskochil, D. H. (2006). Bone Mineral Density in Children and Adolescents with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (Under review).
• Byington, C. L., Kendrick, J., and Sheng, X. (2006). Cerebrospinal Fluid Profiles in Febrile Infants 1 - 90 Days of Age without Evidence of Bacterial or Enteroviral Infection (Under review).
• Holubkov, R., Curtin, K., Sheng, X., Ma, Khe-ni, and Slattery, M. (2005). Assessing Additive Interaction in the Logistic Regression Model. Statistics in Medicine (Under review).
• Byington, C. L., Cutler, C., Sheng, X., Enriquez, F. R., Hoff, C., Firth, S., Christenson, J. C., and Pavia, A. T. (2006). Reassessment of the Rochester Criteria and Age in the Evaluation of Febrile Infants. Pediatrics (Under review).
• Lyon, J. L., Alder, S., Stone, M. B., Scholl, A., Reading, J., Holubkov, R., Sheng, X., White G., Meikle, W., Hegmann, K., Anspaugh, L. R., Hoffman, F. O., Simon, S. L., and Thomas, B. A. (2006). Thyroid Disease Associated with Exposure to the Nevada Test Site Radiation: A Reevaluation Based on Corrected Dosimetry and Examination Data. Epidemiology (accepted).
• Rosychuk, R. J., Sheng, X., and Stuber, J. (2006). Comparison of variance estimation approaches in a two-state Markov model for longitudinal data with misclassification. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 1906 - 1921.
• Sheng, X., and Carriere, K. C. (2005). Strategies For Analyzing Missing Item Response Data with an Application to Lung Cancer. Biometrical Journal, 47, 605 - 615.
• Carriere, K. C., Huang, R., Liang, Y., and Sheng, X. (2004). Missing Values in Repeated Measurement Designs. Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Second Edition.
• Sheng, X., Biswas, A., and Carriere, K. C. (2003). Incorporating Inter-item Correlations for Item Response Data Analysis. Biometrical Journal, 45, 837 - 850.
• Sheng, X., and Carriere, K. C. (2002). An Improved CML Estimation Procedure for the Rasch Model with Item Response Data. Statistics in Medicine, 21, 407 - 416.
• Sheng, X., and Field, C. (2001). Variance Components Estimation with Uncertainty. In Fernholz, L.T., Morgenthaler, S., and Stahel, W. (Eds.), Statistics in Genetics and in the Environmental Sciences, 27-40. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.