Research

Zhang, Z., Stringer, A., Brown, P., Stafford, J. (2023). Model-based Smoothing with Integrated Wiener Processes and Overlapping Splines. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. [link to the journal] [link to the arXiv] [link to the code] 

Zhang, Z., Sun, L. (2023). The hidden factor: accounting for covariate effects in power and sample size computation for a binary trait. Bioinformatics.  [link to the journal]  [link to the code]

Zhang, Z., Stringer, A., Brown, P., Stafford, J. (2023). Bayesian inference for Cox proportional hazard models with partial likelihoods, nonlinear covariate effects and correlated observations. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. [link to the journal] [link to the code]

Zhang, Z, Brown, P., Stafford, J. (2023) Efficient Modeling of Quasi Periodic Data with Seasonal Gaussian Process, arXiv:2305.09914 [stat.ME] (Under Revision at Statistics and Computing).  [link to the arXiv]  [link to the code]

Li, D*, Zhang, Z*. (2024) Bayesian Optimization Sequential Surrogate (BOSS) Algorithm: Fast Bayesian Inference for a Broad Class of Bayesian Hierarchical Models, arXiv:2403.12250 [stat.ME]. [link to the arXiv]