Jiashun's Reports (by area)

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1. Social Network

• Fast network community detection by SCORE.
  Manuscript.

2. Sparse Signal Recovery and Variable Selection when p >> n

• A comparison of the lasso and marginal regression.
  With Christopher Genovese, Larry Wasserman and zhigang Yao. J. Mach. Learn. Res. 13, 2107-2143 (2012).

• UPS delivers optimal phase diagram in high dimensional variable selection.
  With Pengsheng Ji, Ann. Statist., 40(1), 73-103.

• Optimality of graphlet screening in high dimensional variable selection.
  With Cun-Hui Zhang and Qi Zhang.
  

• Covariance assisted screening and estimation.
  With Jianqing Fan and Tracy Ke.
  

3. Higher dimensinal classfication, with application to cancer classification

• Higher Criticism thresholding: optimal feature selection when useful features and rare and weak.
  With David Donoho, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol 105 no 39 14790-14795. (Software will be posted soon).

• Feature selection by Higher Criticism thresholding: optimal phase diagram.
  With David Donoho, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A. 367, 4449-4470.

• Impossibility of successful classification when useful features are rare and weak.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106(22), 8859-8864.
  (One of the top 30 most read paper in June 2009 in PNAS).

• Feature selection when there are many influential features.
  With Peter Hall and Hugh Miller, manuscript.

• Optimal classification in sparse Gaussian graphic model.
  With Yingying Fan and Zhigang Yao. Manuscript.
  

4. Large-scale Multipe Testing and Applications to Genomics

• Higher Criticism for Detecting Sparse Heterogeneous Mixtures.
  With David Donoho, Ann. Statist., Vol 32, No.3, 962-994.

• Detecting A Target in Very Noisy Data From Multiple Looks.
  IMS Monograph, No. 45, 255-286.

• Asymptotic Minimaxity of FDR for Sparse Exponential Model.
  With D.L.Donoho, Ann. Statist., Vol 34, No. 6, 2980-3018.

• Estimation and Confidence Sets For Sparse Normal Mixtures.
  With T. Cai and M. G. Low. Ann. Statist. 35, 2421-2449.

• Estimating the Null and the Proportion of non-Null Effects in Large-Scale Multiple Comparisons.
  With T. Cai. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), 495-506.
  Click for sortware in R.
  

• Properties of Higher Criticism under long-range dependence.
  With P. Hall. Ann. Statist. 36(1), 381-402.

• Innovated Higher Criticism for detecting sparse signals in correlated noise.
  With P. Hall, Ann. Statist., Vol 38(3), 1686-1732.

• Proportion of nonzero normal means: oracle equivalence and uniformly consistent estimators.
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS), Seriers B. 70(3), 461-493.

• Optimal rate of convergence of estimating the null density and the proportion of non-null effects in large-scale multiple testing.
  With Tony Cai, Ann. Statist. Vol. 38(1), 100-145.

• A generalized Fourier approach to estimating the null and the proportion of non-null parameters in large-scale multiple testing.
  With Jie Peng and Pei Wang, to appear in the special volume of JSR in honor of Bradley Efron.

• Robustness and accuracy of methods for high dimensional data based on Student's t statistic.
  With Aurore Delaigle and Peter Hall, J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B 73, 283-301.

• Detection of sparse hetergeneous and heteroscedastic mixtures.
  With Tony Cai and X. Jessie Jeng, J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B 73, 629-662.

• Detection boundary and Higher Criticism approach for sparse and weak genetic effects.
  With Zheyang Wu, Yiming Sun, Shiquan He, Judy Cho, Hongyu Zhao. Manuscript.
  

5. Probability and infinite Bernoulli convolution

• Large partial random permutation of conditionally convergent series.
  With Joesph Kadane and Avranil Sarkar. Stochastics, Vol 82, Issue 5, 427-443.

• Almost sure limit relative frequencies for discrete random walks.
  With Jay Kadane, to appear in Econometric Review.
  

6. Cosmology and Astronomy

• Cosmological non-Gaussian Signature Detection: Comparing Performance of Different Statistical Tests.
  With J.-L Starck, D.L. Donoho, N. Aghanim and O. Forni, Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 15, 2470-2485.

• Higher Criticism Statsistic: Detecting and Identifying Non-Gaussianity in the WMAP First Year Data.
  With L.Cayon and A. Treaster, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 362, 826-832.

• Higher Criticism Statistic: Theory and Applications in nonGaussian detection.
  Proceeding of PHYSTAT 2005, Oxford.

• No Higher Criticism of the Bianchi Corrected WMAP Data.
  With L. Cayon, A.J. Banday, T. Jaffe, H.K. Eriksen, F.K. Hansen and K.M. Gorski, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. Vol. 369, Issue 2, 598-602.

• The Non-Gaussian Cold Spot in the 3-Year WMAP Data,
  With M. Cruz, L. Cayon, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, and P. Vielva, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 655, 11.

7. Computer Security

• When do Data Mining Results Violate Privacy?
  With Murat Kantarcioglu and Chris Clifton. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (2004).
  

• Statistical disclosure limitation for data access.
  With Stephen Fienberg. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2783-2789, Springer US.

• Matrix Masking.
  With Stephen Fienberg. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1698-1699, Springer US.

• Privacy-preserving data sharing in high dimensional regression and classification settings.
  With Stephen E. Fienberg. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiablity. 4(1), 221-243.

8. Biology and Nanotechnology

• Counting of six pRNAs of phi29 DNA-packaging motor with customized single-molecule dual-view system.
  With Dan Shu, Hui Zhang, and Peixuan Guo. In press, The Embo journal.
  See abstract and related information in Purdue News.