Position Title
Professor
Department Chair
Position Title
Professor
Department Chair
- Statistics
He/Him/His
4234 Mathematical Sciences Building
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616
One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616
Bio
Education
Ph.D. Statistics (UC Berkeley, 1995)
Research Interests
- Mixed effects models
- Generalized linear models
- Model selection
- Small area estimation
- Big Data intelligence
- Precision medicine
- Pharmacokinetics
- Asymptotic theory
- Spatial statistics
- Testing hypotheses
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Matrix algebra
- Numerical analysis
- Monte Carlo methods
- Reliability
Selected Works
- Jiang, J. (2017), Asymptotic Analysis of Mixed Effects Models: Theory, Application, and Open Problems, Chapman & Hall/CRC. (link)
- Jiang, J., Rao, J. S., Fan, J., and Nguyen, T. (2018), Classified mixed model prediction, Journal of the American Statistical Association 113, 269-279. (link)
- Jiang, J. and Rao, J. S. (2020), Robust small area estimation: An overview, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Applications 7, 337-360. (link)
- Jiang, J. and Torabi, M. (2020), Sumca: Simple, unified, Monte-Carlo assisted approach to second-order unbiased MSPE estimation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 82, 467-485. (link)
- Jiang, J., Feuer, E. J., Li, Y., Nguyen, T., and Yu, M. (2021), Inference about Age-standardized Rates with Sampling Errors in the Denominators, Statistical Methods in Medical Research 30, 535–548. (link)
- Jiang, J. and Nguyen, T. (2021), Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Their Applications, 2nd ed., Springer, New York. (link)
- Jiang, J., Wand, M. P. and Bhaskaran, A. (2022), Usable and precise asymptotics for generalized linear mixed model analysis and design, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 84, 55–82. (link)
- Jiang, J. (2022), Large Sample Techniques for Statistics, 2nd ed., Springer, New York. (link)
Honors and Awards
- SAE Award (for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation) 2023-24
- Morris Hansen Lecture, at Washington Statistical Society (WSS) 2023
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), since 2019.
- Distinguished Alumni Award, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2015.
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institutes (ISI), since 2015.
- The DSMD Distinguished Lecture, U.S. Census Bureau, 2013.
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), since 2008.
- Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA), since 2007.
- (with A. Gelman and F. Bois) Outstanding Statistical Application Award, American Statistical Association, 1998.
Publications
- A one-bring-one route for assessing the uncertainty of small area estimation in nested-error regression models
Journal Article | Liu, Y., Ma, H., Liu, X., Jiang, J. TEST, 34, 383-430. 10.1007/s11749-025-00965-x - Asymptotic distribution of maximum likelihood estimator in generalized linear mixed models with crossed random effects
Journal Article | Jiang, J. The Annals of Statistics, 53, 1298-1318. 10.1214/25-aos2504 - Measuring the uncertainty for shrinkage model selection in quantile regression models
Journal Article | Xiao, P., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Jiang, J. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, ahead-of-print, 1-22. 10.1080/00949655.2025.2541295 - Robust Small Area Estimation, Methods, Theory, Applications, and Open Problems
Book | Jiang, J., Rao, S. 1-257. 10.1201/9781003395171 - Classified functional mixed effects model prediction
Journal Article | Liu, X., Jiang, J. Statistics in Medicine, 43, 1329-1340. 10.1002/sim.10007 - See publications and more on Aggie Experts: https://experts.ucdavis.edu/expert/K6Iz9GEW