Pingfu Fu

With a broad training in mathematics, statistics/biostatistics and computer science, the majority of my work is collaborative, interdisciplinary research, which aligns with the School of Medicine's mission of carrying out cutting-edge biomedical research. The content areas of my research interests include cancer, HIV/AIDS, dermatology and behavior problems in children among others. My primary interests in these areas include providing advice for researchers in terms of study design, the best practice for estimation, diagnostics, and use of appropriate statistical methods to analyze the complex data from pre-clinical and clinical studies. My methodologic research interests are in the areas of survival analysis, study design, measurements with limits of detection, tree-based methods, problem of separation and copula models to estimate the correlation of bivariate failure times.