Academic Positions

September 2020–present, Associate Professor, Xiamen University

August 2017–August 2020, Assistant Professor, Xiamen University

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Waterloo

M.Sc. in Statistics, University of Calgary

B.Sc. in Statistics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Research Areas

Non-/Semi-parametric inference methods based on empirical likelihood and density ratio modeling, with their applications in sampling/selection bias problems, e.g., non-ignorable missing data, diagnostic medicine, measures of inequality, case-control studies, semi-continuous data, finite mixture models, etc

Publications

(Student: *; corresponding author: ✉)

[11] Baohao Wei*, Dongsheng Tu, Chunlin Wang^✉ (2025+). A semi-parametric approach to receiver operating characteristic analysis with semi-continuous biomarker. Revised.

[10] Qiyin Zheng*, Chunlin Wang^✉ (2025+). Multiply robust estimation for two-part regression models with missing semi-continuous response. Submitted.

[9] Weixuan Zhu, Tiantian Zuo*, Chunlin Wang^✉ (2024). Approximate Bayesian computation with semiparametric density ratio model. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, in press.

[8] Chunlin Wang, Zheyu Liu*, Xinyu Wang* (2024). Using a monotonic density ratio model to increase the power of goodness-of-fit test for logistic regression model with case-control data. Statistics in Medicine, 43(22): 4272-4286.

[7] Chunlin Wang, Pengfei Li, Yukun Liu, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Jing Qin (2023). Hypothesis test on a mixture forward-incubation-time epidemic model with application to COVID-19 outbreak. Statistica Sinica, 34(4): 2219-2236.

[6] Chunlin Wang, Paul Marriott, Pengfei Li (2022). A note on the coverage behaviour of bootstrap percentile confidence intervals for constrained parameters. Metrika, 85(7): 809-831.

[5] Meng Yuan, Chunlin Wang^✉, Boxi Lin, Pengfei Li (2022). Semiparametric inference on general functionals of two semicontinuous populations. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 74(3): 451-472.

[4] Chunlin Wang, Dongsheng Tu (2020). A bootstrap semiparametric homogeneity test for the distributions of multi-group proportional data, with applications to analysis of quality of life outcomes in clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine, 39(12): 1715-1731.

[3] Chunlin Wang, Paul Marriott, Pengfei Li (2018). Semiparametric inference on the means of multiple nonnegative distributions with excess zero observations. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 166: 182-197.

[2] Chunlin Wang, Paul Marriott, Pengfei Li (2017). Testing homogeneity for multiple nonnegative distributions with excess zero observations. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 114: 146-157.

[1] Chunlin Wang, Gemai Chen (2016). A new hybrid estimation method for the generalized Pareto distribution. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 45(14): 4285-4294.

Research Grants

[4] Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (24YJA910005), 2024-2027, PI.

[3] National Natural Science Foundation of China (12001454), 2021-2023, PI.

[2] Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2020J01031), 2020-2023, PI.

[1] Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (19YJC910005), 2019-2021, PI.

Courses Taught

Nonparametric Statistics (in English; Fall 2021 & 2022 & 2024)

Regression Analysis (in English; Fall 2020 & 2021 & 2023 & 2024)

Stochastic Process (in English; Spring 2019) 

Mathematical Statistics (in English; Spring 2018 & 2019 & 2020 & 2021)