Vinh Q. Nguyen
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Contact
Vinh Q. Nguyen, PhD |
Center for Statistical Consulting |
Department of Statistics |
Bren Hall 2056 |
University of California, Irvine |
Irvine, CA 92697-1250 |
Phone: | +1 (949) 824 - 5968 |
Fax: | +1 (949) 824 - 1683 |
Email: | vqnguyen AT uci DOT edu |

Education
PhD, Statistics | University of California, Irvine, CA | 2006–2011 |
MS, Statistics | University of California, Irvine, CA | 2006–2007 |
BS, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude | University of California, Irvine, CA | 2003–2006 |
BA, Economics, Magna Cum Laude | University of California, Irvine, CA | 2003–2006 |
Research Interests
- robust statistical methods
- survival analysis
- sequential testing
- issues in clinical trials
- prediction
- applications to Alzheimer's Disease
Curriculum Vitae
A pdf version of my complete CV is available here.
Center for Statistical Consulting
Campus affiliates should visit the UCI Center for Statistical Consulting for basic statistical consulting needs.
Teaching
- Spring 2012: Stat 295 (275), Statistical Consulting
- Fall 2012: Stat 255, Survival Analysis
Talks
- 2011 JSM Health Policy Statistics Student Paper Competition: Robust Inference in Discrete Hazard Models for Randomized Clinical Trials
- 2011 WNAR Contributed Talk: Continuous Vs. Discrete Methods for Grouped Proportional Hazards Data
- 2010 WNAR Contributed Talk: Robust Inference in Semi-parametric Discrete Survival Models for Observational Studies
- 2009 WNAR Student Paper Competition: Robust Inference in the Discrete-Time Proportional Hazards Model
- UCI-SeminaR: Parallel Computing in R using snow and snowfall
- UCI-SeminaR: Sweave = R + LaTeX (check out this site for examples I present in the talk and other interesting R presentations at UCI)
- 2009 Advancement to Candidacy presentation: Robust Inference and Group Sequential Methods in Clinical Trials with Discrete Survival Endpoint
- 2008 Post-qualifying presentation: Causal Inference and Propensity Score
Open Source Software
- Software I write in graduate school are freely available under the GPL version 3.0 license, hosted primarily on github and sometimes on R-Forge (R packages that interface with
C/C++
).
- RobustSurvival and NewtonRaphson are R packages that grew out of my dissertation. They are work in progress and will be released on CRAN in the near future.
- inference and day2day contain functions that I use on a day to day basis.
- RobustSurvival and NewtonRaphson are R packages that grew out of my dissertation. They are work in progress and will be released on CRAN in the near future.
Comments and Thoughts
- The following two plots summarize and justify my use of statistical inference in scientific research. They convey a lot of ideas, but can you name the two main concepts?


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