Current Research Interests:
Dr. Zhang's current research interests are survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis and semiparametric inferences. In particular, he is interested in developing methodology for data subject to complicated censorship and/or truncation, which frequently arise in clinical trials and medical studies. He is also interested in statistical research aiming at understanding biological mechanisms of gene regulation. Dr. Zhang also collaborates with colleagues in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Medical Physics and the Lymphoma Research Group.
Selected Bibliography:
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Z. Zhang. Survival Analysis. Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics. Editor: Neil J. Salkind. Sage Publications, 2006.
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Z. Zhang. Review of Modeling Longitudinal Data by Robert E. Weiss. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2006; 101: 1726-1727.
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Z. Zhang, L. Sun, J. Sun and D. M. Finkelstein. Regression analysis of failure time data with informative interval censoring. Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26: 2533-2546.
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M. J. Zelefsky, Y. Yamada, Z. Fuks, Z. Zhang, M. Hunt, O. Cahlon, J. Park, A. Shippy. Long-term Results of Conformal Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Impact of Dose Escalation on Biochemical Tumor Control and Distant Metastases-Free Survival Outcomes. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 2008; 71: 1028-1033.
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J. Zhang, X. Yang, Z. Yin, Z. Zhang, Z. Fuks, R. Kolesnick. Downregulation of KSR1 in pancreatic cancer xenografts by antisense oligonucleotides correlates with tumor drug uptake. Cancer Biology and Therapy, 2008; 7(9): 1490-1495.
