Quality Control Data

Xiaochan Niu

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Los Angeles, CA 90020

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Educational Background:

Master of Science in Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

May 2010

. 1 year and half Full Scholarship as a Teaching Assistant.

. Cumulative GPA: 3.89/4.00

. Essential Courses: Statistical Computing, Applied Linear Model,

Statistical Theory, Quality Control

Analysis of Variance of Designed Experiment, Statistical Analysis of

Qualitative Data, Biostatistics and Statistical Epidemiology, Data mining

techniques

Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Capital University of Economics and

Business, China July 2008

. Cumulative GPA: 3.70/4.00

. Won the first class scholarship for 4 years

Research Experience:

Bayesian analysis for demonstration test June

2009-May 2010

. Estimated probability of successful demonstration with exponential

distribution for censored data

. Proposed a Bayesian approach to increase the probability of

successful demonstration

. Demonstrated how to implement the Bayesian approach

. Sample sizes and priors were chose by simulation with intensive

use of R.

Maximum likelihood estimation from censored normal data August 2009-

December 2009

. Estimated breast development in adolescent girls.

. Applied Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm on data with different

types of censorship for parameter estimation and associated variance

analysis with R.

Generalized linear model and Experiment design January

2009-December 2009

. Consulted for students and provided suggestions about utilizing

statistical methods, e.g. logistic regression model and Poisson

regression model, etc.

. Made recommendations on designing experiment to reduce errors, e.g.

RCBD, Latin Square, etc.

. Employed SAS for data analytics and demonstrated relevant outcomes.

Prediction of house price index

January 2009-May 2009

. Explored how four economical factors,which are GDP, CPI, national wage

and interest rate, influenced the national house price index from 1975

to 2007

. Constructed a multiple linear regression function, which was used to

predict the house price index

. Detected multicollinearity and solved it by model selection

. Selected a reduced model and modified it by ridge regression for the

research of house price.

Market research of luxury brand--- Louis Vuitton September

2006- January 2007

. Designed and distributed questionnaires to a random sample of Beijing

residents.

. Collected and preprocessed data and developed descriptive statistical

analysis with extensive use of SPSS.

. Demonstrated that consumers' attitude of luxury brands

Professional Experiences:

Statistics Quality Control Specialist, ALEKS Corporation

August 2010-Present

. Verifying the correctness of the question and explanation

. Testing the answer processing

. Checking the overall design of the algorithm

Lab instructor, Department of statistics in Washington State University,

January 2009-May 2010

. Presented lectures to over 60 students every week and graded homework

and exams

. Organized and design experiment for students

Internship, Great Wall Software and System Co., Ltd

January 2008-June 2008

. Constructed China Statistical database system, including system

implementation, etc.

. Designed statistical forms and wrote users' handbooks, etc,

Internship, Press of National Bureau of Statistics of China

May 2007- August 2007

. Revised statistical forms in Excel.

. Employed SAS and SPSS for data analytics, e.g. descriptive statistics

and regression models, etc.

. Collated the Statistical Yearbook of China

. Collected and summarized information from Internet.

Internship, Capital University of Economics and Business

May 2006-August 2006

. Took part in the survey of credibility indices of Beijing residents.

. Distributed questionnaires, collected and analyze data using SAS and

SPSS

Social Experience

Volunteer, Fengtai District National Forest Park

May 2007-July 2007

. Environmental protection

Volunteer, Xiao Hongmen community November 2006-

January 2007

. Publicizing legal knowledge

Volunteer, Hua Xiang bead house December

2005- January 2006

. Took care of the elderly people

Computer Skills:

. MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook express/Internet, etc

. National Computer Examination: Grade 3 (Network Techniques China)

. Statistical software, such as SPSS, SAS (Certified Base/Advanced

Programmer for SAS 9), Minitab, R etc.

Language skills:

. English: Communicate efficiently.

. Chinese: native language

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