Publications

Below is a full list of my publications. I also have a Google Scholar profile, a ResearchGate profile, and an ORCID profile.

Recent Submissions

1. Christine P. Chai. Contribution to the Discussion of "Safe Testing" by Peter Grunwald, Rianne de Heide, and Wouter Koolen. Accepted to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, January 2024.

Statistics Publications -- Full Articles

1. Christine P. Chai. Comparison of Text Preprocessing Methods. Natural Language Engineering, 29(3):509-553, May 2023. [link]

2. Jun Lu and Christine P. Chai. Robust Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Implicit Regularizers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.10053, August 2022. [link]

3. Christine P. Chai. Word Distinctivity -- Quantifying Improvement of Topic Modeling Results from N-Gramming. REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, 20(2):199-220, May 2022. [link]

4. Christine P. Chai. The Importance of Data Cleaning: Three Visualization Examples. CHANCE, 33(1):4-9, February 2020. [version 1] [version 2] This article is included in the 2020 Most Read Collection from the American Statistical Association (ASA).

5. Christine P. Chai. Text Mining in Survey Data. Survey Practice, 12(1):1-13, March 2019. [link]

6. Teague Henry, David Banks, Derek Owens-Oas, and Christine Chai. Modeling Community Structure and Topics in Dynamic Text Networks. Journal of Classification, 36(2):322-349, January 2019. [link] [arXiv link]

7. Merlise Clyde, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Colin Rundel, David Banks, Christine Chai, and Lizzy Huang. An Introduction to Bayesian Thinking. GitHub, 1st edition, August 2018. https://statswithr.github.io/book/. 

8. Christine Peijinn Chai. Statistical Issues in Quantifying Text Mining Performance. PhD dissertation, Duke University, May 2017. Advisor: Dr. David L. Banks. [pdf] 

9. Robert B. Avery, Mary F. Bilinski, Brian K. Bucks, Christine Chai, Ming Chow, Audrey Clement, Tim Critchfield, Samuel Frumkin, Ian H. Keith, Ismail E. Mohamed, Forrest W. Pafenberg, Saty Patrabansh, Jay D. Schultz, and Claudia E. Wood. A Profile of 2014 Mortgage Borrowers: Statistics from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations. Technical Report Series, National Mortgage Database, Federal Housing Finance Agency, March 2017. [pdf] 

10. Robert B. Avery, Mary F. Bilinski, Brian Bucks, Christine Chai, Tim Critchfield, Ian H. Keith, Ismail E. Mohamed, Forrest W. Pafenberg, Saty Patrabansh, Jay D. Schultz, and Claudia E. Wood.  A Profile of 2013 Mortgage Borrowers: Statistics from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations. Technical Report Series, National Mortgage Database, Federal Housing Finance Agency, published in May 2016 and updated in March 2017. [pdf v1] [pdf v2]

11. Erin Beckman, Christine Chai, Jingjing Lyu, Shant Mahserejian, Hoang Tran, Shirin Yavari, Herman Mitchell, Agustin Calatroni, and Emily Lei Kang. Investigating the Relationship Between the Microbiome and Environmental Characteristics. Industrial Math/Stat Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students, North Carolina State University, July 2015. [link] 

12. Christine Peijinn Chai. Facebook Account Misuse Detection – A Statistical Approach. Master’s thesis, National Taiwan University, June 2013. Advisor: Dr. Chin-Laung Lei. [pdf]

Statistics Publications -- Shorter Content

1. Christine P. Chai. Contribution to the Discussion of “A system of population estimates compiled from administrative data only” by John Dunne and Li-Chun Zhang. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 187(1): 31-32, January 2024. [link]

2. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference" by Karl Rohe and Muzhe Zeng. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 85(4): 1081-1082, September 2023. [link]

3. Christine P. Chai. Written contribution to the discussion meeting "Statistical Aspects of Climate Change." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 72(4): 854-855, August 2023. [link]

4. Christine P. Chai. Written contribution to the "First Discussion Meeting on Statistical Aspects of the Covid-19 Pandemic." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 185(4):1823-1824, November 2022. [link]

5. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Gaussian Differential Privacy" by Jinshuo Dong, Aaron Roth, and Weijie J. Su. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 84(1):43-44, February 2022. [link] [pdf, see page 41]

6. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Testing by betting: A strategy for statistical and scientific communication" by Glenn Shafer. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 184(2):449-450, May 2021. [link] [pdf, see page 43]

7. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Linear mixed effects models for non-Gaussian continuous repeated measurement data" by Ozgur Asar, David Bolin, Peter J. Diggle, and Jonas Wallin. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 69(5):1056, September 2020. [link] [pdf, see page 42]

8. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with couplings" by Pierre E. Jacob, John O’Leary, and Yves F. Atchadé. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 82(3):582-583, May 2020. [link] [pdf, see page 40]

9. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "Multiple-systems analysis for the quantification of modern slavery: classical and Bayesian approaches" by Bernard W. Silverman. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 183(3):723, March 2020. [link] [pdf, see page 33]

10. Christine P. Chai. Written contribution to the discussion meeting on "Signs and sizes: understanding and replicating statistical findings." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 183(2):452-453, January 2020. [link] [pdf, see page 4] The two discussion papers are published in the same journal. [preprint 1] [published 1] [preprint 2] [published 2]

11. Christine P. Chai. Written discussion to the preprint "A comprehensive approach to problems of performance measurement" by N.I. Fisher.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 182(3):794-795, April 2019.  [link] [pdf, see page 40]

Electrical Engineering Publications

1. Christine Peijinn Chai, He-Ming Ruan, Yu-Sheng Yang, I-An Fan, Yun-Hsin Chuang, Chin-Laung Lei, Chun-Ying Huang, Chi-Wen Teng, Yuh-Sheng Shaw, and Minsiong Liang. A Lightweight Mutual Authentication Scheme for Advanced Metering Infrastructure. International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research, Taiwan: Taipei, December 2012. [pdf] 

2. He-Ming Ruan, Yu-Sheng Yang, I-An Fan, Christine Peijinn Chai, Chun-Ying Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei. Security Threats in Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Joint Workshop on Information Security, Taiwan: Kaohsiung, October 2011. [pdf] 

3. Yen-Hsin Chai, Eric Chai, Liang-Yu Chen, Christine Chai, Yi-Feng Qiu, Jing-Bin Wang, Jia-Jun Li, Gui-Ming Chen, Zhen-Yu Wang, and Wu-Ren Xu. Smart Thermal Bottle. Taiwan Patent, Certificate No. M398397, February 2011. [version 1] [version 2] (Full description in Mandarin Chinese)

4. Yen-Hsin Chai, Hou-Te Lee, Liang-Yu Chan, Yue-Sheng Lin, and Christine Peijinn Chai. Automatic Sterilization Trash-Can with Application of UV-LED and Photocatalytic Oxidation. Northern Taiwan Journal, 32:51-58, March 2009. [pdf long] [pdf short] (Article in Mandarin Chinese, abstract in English)