Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. Weinshel, S., Irvin, D. J., Zhang, P., Weintraub, D., Shaw, L. M., Siderowf, A. and Xie, S. X.* (2022). Appropriateness of applying CSF biomarker cutoffs from Alzheimer's disease to Parkinson's disease. Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 12(4), 1155-1167. [DOI]

  2. Zhang, P.*, Wang, T. and Yan, J. (2022). PageRank centrality and algorithms for weighted, directed networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. [DOI]

  3. Zhang, P.* and Wang, X. (2022). Several topological indices of random caterpillars. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. [DOI]

  4. Tang, C., Wang, T. and Zhang, P.* (2021+). Functional data analysis: An application to COVID-19 data in the United States. Quantitative Biology. In press.

  5. Wang, T., Xiao, S., Yan, J. and Zhang, P.* (2022). Regional and sectoral structures and their dynamics of Chinese economy: A network perspective from multi-regional input-output tables. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 581, 126196. [DOI]

  6. Yuan, Y., Yan, J. and Zhang, P.* (2021). Assortativity measures for weighted and directed networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 9(2), cnab017. [DOI] MR4266155

  7. Ren, Y., Zhang, P.* and Dey, D. K. (2021). Characterizations of random lobster trees and random spider trees. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability. [DOI]

  8. Zhang, P.* (2020). Characterizing several properties of high-dimensional random Apollonian networks. Journal of Complex Networks, 8(4), cnaa038. [DOI] MR4189631

  9. Robinson, J. L., Porta, S., Garrett, F. G., Zhang, P., Xie, S. X., Sun, E., Van Deerlin, V. M., Abner, E. L., Jicha, G. A., Barber, J. M., Lee, V. M.-Y., Lee, E. B., Trojanowski, J. Q. and Nelson, P. T.* (2020). Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy differs from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Brain, 143(9), 2844-2857. [DOI]

  10. Zhang, P.*, Wang, T. and Xie, S. X. (2020). Meta-analysis of several epidemic characteristics of COVID-19. Journal of Data Science, 18(3), 536-549. [DOI]

  11. Galarza, C. E., Zhang, P. and Lachos, V. H.* (2020). Logistic quantile regression for bounded outcomes using a family of heavy-tailed distributions. Sankhya B. Available online. [DOI]

  12. Zhang, P.* (2020). On several properties of a class of preferential attachment trees---plane-oriented recursive trees. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 35(4), 839-857. [DOI] MR4320478

  13. Mahmoud, H. M. and Zhang, P.* (2020). Distribution in the constant-differentials Pólya processes. Statistics and Probability Letters, 156, 108592. [DOI] MR3996837

  14. Zhang, P.* and Mahmoud, H. M. (2020). On nodes of small degrees and degree profile in preferential dynamic attachment circuits. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 22(2), 625-645. [DOI] MR4104007

  15. Ouyang, G., Dey, D. K. and Zhang, P.* (2020). Clique-based method for social network clustering. Journal of Classification, 37(1), 254-274. [DOI] MR4111894

  16. Zhang, P.* and Dey, D. K. (2019). The degree profile and Gini index of random caterpillar trees. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 33(4), 511-527. [DOI] MR401805

  17. Chen, C. and Zhang, P.* (2019). Characterizations of asymptotic distributions of continuous-time Pólya processes. Communications in Statistics — Theory and Methods, 48(21), 5308-5321. [DOI] MR4007715

  18. Zhang, P.* and Mahmoud, H. M. (2016). The degree profile and weight in Apollonian networks and k-trees. Advances in Applied Probability, 48(1), 163-175. [DOI] MR3473572

  19. Zhang, P.* and Mahmoud, H. M. (2016). Distributions in a class of poissonized urns with an application to Apollonian networks. Statistics and Probability Letters, 115, 1-7. [DOI] MR3498362

  20. Zhang, P.*, Chen, C. and Mahmoud, H. M. (2015). Explicit characterization of moments of balanced triangular Pólya urns by an elementary approach. Statistics and Probability Letters, 96, 149-153. [DOI] MR3281759


PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. Zhang, P.* (2016). On terminal nodes and the degree profile of preferential dynamic attachment circuits. In Proceedings of S.I.A.M.: Thirteenth Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics, 80-92. Presented at ANALCO16, Arlington, VA, January 2016. MR3480250


BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Zhang, P.* and Glaz, J. (2018) “Scan Statistics on Graphs and Networks.” In Glaz, J. and Koutras, M. V. (Eds.) Handbook of Scan Statistics. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.


PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

  1. Wang, T.* and Zhang, P. (2021+). Hybrid random networks mixing preferential attachment with uniform attachment mechanisms. Revision submitted to Annals of Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

  2. Chen, J., Yan, J. and Zhang, P.* (2020+). Clustering US States by time series of COVID-19 new case counts with non-negative matrix factorization. Submitted to Journal of Nonparametric Statistics.

  3. Ouyang, G., Dey, D. K. and Zhang, P.* (2020+). Model-based method for social network clustering. Submitted to Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics.

  4. Zhang, P.* (2020+). The Zagreb index of several random models. Submitted to Advances in Applied Mathematics.

  5. Dolui, S., Tisdall, D., Vidorreta, M., Nasrallah, I., Habes, M., Zhang, P., Davatzikos, C., Xie, S.X., Wolk, D. and Detre, J. A.* (2020+). Microvascular perfusion as a biomarker of cerebral small vessel function. Submitted to Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.

(* refers to the corresponding author)