Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University
Address: No. 300, Zhongda Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel: 886-3-4227151 Ext.65456
Office: Hong-Jing Building (M606)
E-mail: cschen1207@ncu.edu.tw
Aug. 2019 - present Professor, Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University (NCU)
Feb. 2022 - Jan. 2025 Director, Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University (NCU)
Aug. 2017 - July 2019 Professor, Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education (NCUE)
Aug. 2014 - Feb. 2015 Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. (UW-Madison)
Feb. 2012 - July 2017 Associate Professor, Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education (NCUE)
Aug. 2008 - Jan. 2012 Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education (NCUE)
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Statistics
Environmental Statistics
Statistical Learning
Model Selection
Data Science
Chiou, Y. H. and Chen, C. S.* (2025), A Frequentist Approach on Fixed Effects Estimation for Spatially Confounded Regression Models. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 32, 523-555.
Shen, C. W. and Chen, C. S.* (2024), Estimation and Selection for Spatial Zero-inflated Count Models. Environmetrics, 35:e2847.
Chen, C. W. S.* and Chen, C. S. (2024), Spatial-temporal Hurdle Model vs. Spatial Zero-inflated GARCH Model: Analysis of Weekly Dengue Fever Cases. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 38, 2119-2134.
Yang, H. D., Chang, A., Hsu, W. W., and Chen, C. S.* (2024), Zero-Inflated Models for Spatiotemporal Count Data with Extra Zeros: Application to 1950-2015 Tornado Data in Kansas. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 31, 1-25.
Hwang, Y. T., Tung, Y. Q., Chen, C. S., and Lin, B. S.* (2023), B-Spline Modeling of Inertial Measurements for Evaluating Stroke Rehabilitation Effectiveness. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 31, 4008-4016.
Chen, C. W. S.*, Chen, C. S., and Hsiung, M. H. (2023), Bayesian Modeling of Spatial Integer-Valued Time Series. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 188, 107827.
Tzeng, S., Chen, C. S., Li, Y. F., and Chen, J. H.* (2023), On Summary ROC Curve for Dichotomous Diagnostic Studies: An Application to Meta-analysis of COVID-19. Journal of Applied Statistics, 50, 1418-1434.
Yang, H. D., Chiou, Y. H., and Chen, C. S.* (2023), Estimation and Selection for Spatial Confounding Regression Models. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 52, 939-955.
Chen, C. S. and Shen, C. W.* (2022), Distribution-free Model Selection for Longitudinal Zero-inflated Count Data with Missing Responses and Covariates. Statistics in Medicine, 41, 3180-3198.
Shen, C. W., Chen, Y. H., and Chen, C. S.* (2021), Distribution-free Regression Model Selection with a Nested Spatial Correlation Structure. Spatial Statistics, 41, 100476.
Ludwig, G.*, Zhu, J., Reyes, P., Chen, C. S., and Conley, S. P. (2020), On Spline-based Approaches to Spatial Linear Regression for Geostatistical Data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 27, 175-202.
Chiou, Y. H., Yang, H. D., and Chen, C. S.* (2019), An Adjusted Parameter Estimation for Spatial Regression with Spatial Confounding. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 33, 1535-1551.
Chen, C. S. and Shen, C. W.* (2018), Model Selection Based on Resampling Approaches for Cluster Longitudinal Data with Missingness in Outcomes. Statistics in Medicine, 37, 2982-2997.
Chen, C. S.* and Chen, C. S. (2018), A Composite Spatial Predictor via Local Criteria Under a Misspecified Model. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 32, 341-355.
Chen, C. S.* and Huang, Y. T. (2018), Some Characteristics on the Selection of Spline Smoothing Parameter. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 47, 1307-1317.
Chen, C. S.*, Zhu, J., and Chu, T. (2018), A Generalized Measure of Uncertainty in Geostatistical Model Selection. Statistica Sinica, 28, 203-228.
Chang, Y. M., Shen, P. S., and Chen, C. S.* (2017), Adaptive Cox Model Averaging for Right-censored Data. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46, 9364-9376.
Yang, H. D. and Chen, C. S.* (2017), On Estimation and Prediction of Geostatistical Regression Models via a Corrected Stein’s Unbiased Risk Estimator. Environmetrics, 28:e2424. doi:10.1002/env.2424.
Chen, J. H., Chen, C. S.*, Huang, M. F., and Lin, H. C. (2016), Estimating the Probability of Rare Events Occurring Using a Local Model Averaging. Risk Analysis, 36, 1855-1870.
Chen, C. S.* and Chen, K. C. (2016), Two-stage Signal Restoration Based on a Modified Median Filter. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86, 122-134.
Ludwig, G.*, Zhu, J., and Chen, C. S. (2015), On Fixed Effects Estimation in Spline-based Semiparametric Regression for Spatial Data. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, 27, 59-78.
Chen, C. S.*, Yang, H. D., and Li, Y. (2014), A Stabilized and Versatile Spatial Prediction Method for Geostatistical Models. Environmetrics, 25, 127-141.
Chen, C. S.*, Lee, Y. H., and Hsu, H. W. (2014), Adaptive Order Selection for Autoregressive Models. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84, 1963-1974.
Lee, Y. H., Yang, H. D., and Chen, C. S.* (2012), Spatial Risk Assessment of Typhoon Cumulated Rainfall: A Case Study in Taipei Area. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 26, 509-517.
Lee, Y. H.* and Chen, C. S. (2012), Autoregressive Model Selection Based on a Prediction Perspective. Journal of Applied Statistics, 39, 913-922.
Chen, C. S.* and Huang, H. C. (2012), Geostatistical Model Averaging Based on Conditional Information Criteria. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 19, 23-35.
Chang, Y. M.*, Chen, C. S., and Shen, P. S. (2012), A Jackknife-based Versatile Test for Two-sample Problems with Right-censored Data. Journal of Applied Statistics, 39, 267-277.
Chen, C. S.* and Yang, H. D. (2011), A Joint Modeling Approach for Spatial Earthquake Risk Variations. Journal of Applied Statistics, 38, 1733-1741.
Chen, C. S. and Chang, Y. M.* (2011), Model Selection for Two Sample Problems with Right-censored Data: An Application of Cox Model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, 2120-2127.
Chen, C. S.* and Huang, H. C. (2011), An Improved Cp Criterion for Spline Smoothing. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, 445-452.
Huang, H. C.* and Chen, C. S. (2007), Optimal Geostatistical Model Selection. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 1009-1024.
Liu, J. Y.*, Chen, Y. I., Chuo, Y. J., and Chen, C. S. (2006), A Statistical Investigation of Pre-earthquake Ionospheric Anomaly. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, A05304, doi:10.1029/2005JA011333.
Chen, Y. I*., Liu, J. Y., Tsai, Y. B., and Chen, C. S. (2004), Statistical Tests for Pre-earthquake Ionospheric Anomaly. Terrestrial Atomospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 15, 385-396.
Honors and Awards
2019 - present
2025 Contribution Award of the Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics (CIPS)
2025 Excellent Teaching Award of the College of Science (NCU)
2025 Outstanding Research Award (NCU)
2024 Outstanding Research Award (NCU)
2023 Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
2023 Outstanding Research Award (NCU)
2023 Excellent Teaching Award of the College of Science (NCU)
2022 Top Journal Award of the College of Science (NCU)
2019 - 2022 Newly Appointed Outstanding Teaching and Research Personnel (NCU)
2019 - 2022 Outstanding Young Scholar Research Project (MOST; NSTC)
Editorial Service
Oct. 2024 - present Associate Editor, Environmetrics
Aug. 2024 - present Editor, Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association
Aug. 2018 - present Associate Editor, Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association
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