Aixin Tan

Associate Professor
Biography

Research interests

  • Bayesian modeling and computing

Selected professional memberships

  • International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 2015
  • American Statistical Association (ASA), 2010
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2010

Selected publications

  • Roy, V., TAN, A. & Flegal, J. (2018). Estimating standard errors for importance sampling estimators with multiple Markov chains. Statistica Sinica, 28, 1079-1101.
  • TAN, A., Huang, J. (2016). Bayesian inference for high-dimensional linear regression under mnet priors. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 44, 180-197.
  • TAN, A., Doss, H. & Hobert, J. P. (2015). Honest importance sampling with multiple Markov chains. J. Comput. Graph. Statist., 24, 792-826.
  • Ghosh, J., TAN, A. (2015). Sandwich algorithms for Bayesian variable selection. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 81, 76-88.
  • Doss, H., TAN, A. (2014). Estimates and standard errors for ratios of normalizing constants from multiple Markov chains via regeneration. J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B. Stat. Methodol., 76, 683-712.
  • Qian, X., TAN, A., Wang, W., Ling, J. J., McKeown, R. D. & Zhang, C. (2012). Statistical Evaluation of Experimental Determinations of Neutrino Mass Hierarchy. Physical Review D, 86, 113011.
  • TAN, A., Hobert, J. P. (2009). Block Gibbs sampling for Bayesian random effects models with improper priors: Convergence and regeneration. J. Comput. Graph. Statist., 18, 861-878.
  • Hobert, J. P., TAN, A. & Liu, R. (2007). When is Eaton's chain irreducible?. Bernoulli, 13, 641-652.
  • Im, Y., Tan, A. (In Press). Bayesian subgroup analysis in regression using mixture models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
  • Jin, R., Tan, A. (2021). Fast MCMC for high dimensional Bayesian regression models with shrinkage priors. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
Research areas
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Computational statistics
  • Data science
  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo
  • Model selection
  • Statistical consulting
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Education
PhD, Statistics, University of Florida
MS, Statistics, University of Florida
BS, Probability and Statistics, Peking University
Contact Information
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University of Iowa
259 Schaeffer Hall (SH)
20 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
United States