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Minao Tang

Address: *** ****** **. *** *** Lexington, KY 40503

Tel: 859-***-**** (Monday to Friday 9:00 Am – 4:00 Pm)

Email: *****-****@***.***

■ OBJECTIVE

To secure a statistician position, involving excellent analytical and quantitative capability.

■ SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• More than 3 years of statistical data analysis experience in chemistry research.

• More than 4 years of teaching experience in chemistry and statistics.

• Research assistantship with SSTARS Center at University of Kentucky.

• Proficient with SAS(SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/SQL, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ODS, SAS/ACCESS), Matlab, R, JMP and Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint).

• SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS®9 (ID: SR5317996)

■ EDUCATION

• M.S., Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY August 2007-May 2009

• M.S., Chemistry(thesis), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY August 2004-May 2007

• B.S., Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, CHINA August 1996-June 2000

■ EXPERIENCE

Research Experience August 2007 – Present

Social Sciences Teaching and Research Statistics Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

• Statistical consulting service for researchers from agriculture science, medical center and chemistry.

• Developing statistical measures to the frequencies, variations and similarities for large data sets.

• Performing statistical analysis through linear regression, general linear models and multivariate analysis,

• interpreting and evaluating results.

• Generating new data sets, graphs and reports.

Teaching Experience August 2007 – May 2009

Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Courses involved Statistics for Management and Economics, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Design and Analysis of Experiment.

Teaching and Research Assistant August 2004 – May 2007

Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

• Designed experiments include randomized complete block design, split-plot design for the discovery of

• optimal synthesis route.

• Monitored and collected research data to assess accuracy, validity, and integrity.

• Performed data manipulation and statistical analysis.

• Prepared reports and presentations.

■ SELECTED PROJECTS

‘A Statewide Statistical Summary of Violent Deaths in Kentucky 2006’

• Large data sets collected by Kentucky State, which contains 120 counties with 214 variables.

• Applied SAS base, macro, ods and graph to the generation of tables, listings and figures.

• Output to non-SAS formats, e.g., Excel, Access, text files.

‘Prediction and Classification of Plasma Beta-Carotene Levels’

• Investigated the relationship between personal characteristics and dietary factors, and plasma concentrations of beta-carotene by different data mining techniques.

• Applied Logistic Regression, Discriminant Analysis and Classification Tree to the classification of dichotomous outcomes.

• Applied Multiple Linear Regression, Neural Networks and Regression Tree to the prediction of Plasma Beta-Carotene Levels for patients.

‘Beech bark disease and soil acid-base status’

• Analyzed the forest disease data set collected from the experiment, which tested how the beech bark disease influenced the growth of American beech and sugar maple.

• Fit multiple linear regression model and stepwise variable selection method to analyze six factors which have significant statistical effects to soil nutrient status.

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