Portrait of Jingqin (Rosy) Luo, PhD

Jingqin (Rosy) Luo, PhD

Professor of Surgery
Division of Public Health Sciences

Specialties

  • Cluster studies 
  • Marker correlation 
  • Genetic data analysis 

Meet Dr. Luo 

Dr. Rosy Luo is a statistician specializing in statistical computing and biostatistics. 

Her research interests focus on diagnostic tests, change point models and linear mixed effects model, variable/feature selections and predictive models. She has developed statistical measures to summarize diagnostic abilities of markers in three ordinal groups and devised an R package DiagTest3Grp for conducting statistical inference, hypothesis tests and sample size calculation on evaluating diagnostic ability of markers. 

Dr. Luo earned her doctorate in statistical science and a master of science degree in statistical science at Duke University. She also earned a master of science degree in statistics from Renmin University.  


Degrees

Doctorate in Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, NC
2006

 

Master of Science in Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, NC
2003

 

Master of Science in Statistics
Renmin University, Beijing, China
2001


Research interests

Marker to marker correlation 

Prediction models 

Genetic data analysis 

Causal treatment effect inference 

Marginal structural models 


Dr. Luo in the news

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Graduate School

1998, BS Department of Statistics, Renmin University, Beijing, China
2001, MS Department of Statistics, Renmin University, Beijing, China
2003, MS Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2006, PhD Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Teaching Appointments

2007–2011, Course master, Statistical Computing with SAS, Division of Biostatistics, WUSM
2008–2013, Instructor, Intro to R (R Bootcamp), Division of Biostatistics, WUSM
2012 –    Coursemaster, Introduction to Bioinformatics, Division of Biostatistics, WUSM
2012–2014, Instructor, Advanced topics in statistics (Bayesian Statistics module), Division of Biostatistics, WUSM