Research
Yaqing Chen's research is partially supported by NSF grant DMS-2311035, "Modeling Complex Functional Data and Random Objects in Metric Spaces'' (sole PI).
Publications and Manuscripts
Chen, Y.*, Lin, S.-C.*, Zhou, Y.*, Carmichael, O., Müller, H.-G., Wang, J.-L. (2024+). Gradient synchronization for multivariate functional data, with application to brain connectivity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (in press) [code]
Dubey, P.*, Chen, Y.* and Müller, H.-G. (2024). Metric statistics: Exploration and inference for random objects with distance profiles. The Annals of Statistics 52 757–792 [arXiv] [code]
Chen, Y., Lin, Z. and Müller, H.-G. (2023). Wasserstein regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association 118 869–882 [arXiv] [code]
Zhu, C., Chen, Y., Müller, H.-G., Wang, J.-L., O’Muircheartaigh, J., Bruchhage, M. and Deoni, S. (2023). Trajectories of brain volumes in young children are associated with maternal education. Human Brain Mapping 44 3168–3179
Zhou, Y., Müller, H.-G., Zhu, C., Chen, Y., Wang, J.-L., O’Muircheartaigh, J., Bruchhage, M., Deoni, S. and RESONANCE Consortium (2023). Network evolution of regional brain volumes in young children reflects neurocognitive scores and mother’s education. Scientific Reports 13 2984
Chen, Y. and Müller, H.-G. (2022). Uniform convergence of local Fréchet regression with applications to locating extrema and time warping for metric space valued trajectories. The Annals of Statistics 50 1573–1592 [arXiv] [code]
Dubey, P., Chen, Y.*, Gajardo, Á.*, Bhattacharjee, S.*, Carroll, C.*, Zhou, Y.*, Chen, H.* and Müller, H.-G. (2022). Learning delay dynamics for multivariate stochastic processes, with application to the prediction of the growth rate of COVID-19 cases in the United States. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 514 125677 [arXiv]
Chen, Y. and Müller, H.-G. (2021). Wasserstein gradients for the temporal evolution of probability distributions. Electronic Journal of Statistics 15 4061–4084
Chen, Y.*, Dubey, P.*, Müller, H.-G.*, Bruchhage, M., Wang, J.-L. and Deoni, S. (2021). Modeling sparse longitudinal data in early neurodevelopment. NeuroImage 237 118079
Chen, Y., Dawson, M. and Müller, H.-G. (2020). Rank dynamics for functional data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 149 106963 [arXiv] [code]
Carroll, C., Bhattacharjee, S.*, Chen, Y.*, Dubey, P.*, Fan, J.*, Gajardo, Á.*, Zhou, X.*, Müller, H.-G., and Wang, J.-L. (2020). Time dynamics of COVID-19. Scientific Reports 10 21040
* contributed equally.