Xiaohui (Amanda) Wang
Assistant Professor of
Statistics
Office: 121
Kerchof
Hall
Mailing
Address: Department of Statistics
Email: xw5a at
virginia dot
edu
P.O.
Box 400135 Kerchof Hall
Telephone: (434)
924-3136
University of Virginia
Fax:
(434) 924-3076
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Research
Interests:
Nonlinear
dimension reduction
Model selection
Bayesian
modeling and MCMC technology
Statistical
application in educational measurement and social science
Teaching:
STAT
512 (Spring 2009) Applied
Multivariate Statistical Analysis
STAT
322 (Spring 2009) Introduction to
Regression Analysis
Book: Testlet
Response Theory and Its Applications, (with H. Wainer and E.T. Bradlow), 272 pages, Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming April 2007.
Grant:
Principal investigator, National
Science Foundation grant, Variable selection for mixed effect model,
Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2009.
Awards:
2006
National Council on Measurement in Education Award for Scientific Contribution to a Field of Educational
Measurement for the development of Testlet Response Theory (with H. Wainer
& E. Bradlow).
2003
National Council on Measurement in Education Award for Scientific Contribution to a Field of Educational
Measurement, (with J.O. Ramsay and N. Rossi).
Excellence in Diversity Fellows, University of Virginia,
2004-2005.
NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001-2004.