Research Interests:

• Empirical likelihood theory, saddlepoint approximation and applied statistics.

Extended empirical likelihood papers (as of June, 2014):

• Min Tsao (2013). Extending the empirical likelihood by domain expansion. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. 257-274.
• Min Tsao and Fan Wu (2013). Empirical likelihood on the full parameter space. The Annals of Statistics. 2176-2196.
• Fan Wu and Min Tsao (2013). Two-sample extended empirical likelihood (for difference between two univariate means).
• Fan Wu and Min Tsao (2014). Multivarite two-sample extended empirical likelihood (two-sample extended empirical likelihood for difference between two multivariate means.) Statistics and Probability Letters. 81-87.
• Min Tsao and Fan Wu (2014). Extended empirical likelihood for estimating equations (same as arXiv:1306.1493 but with Figure 1 correctly displayed). A revision of this paper has been accepted by Biometrika.

Selected Publications:

• Gengsheng Qin and Min Tsao (2004). Empirical likelihood based inference for the derivative of the nonparametric regression function. To appear in Bernoulli.
• Min Tsao (2004). Bounds on coverage probabilities of the empirical likelihood ratio confidence regions. To appear in the Annals of Statistics. Vol 32, No. 3, June 2004.
• Min Tsao (2004). A new method of calibration for the empirical loglikelihood ratio. To appear in Statistics and Probability Letters. Tables for E distributions (pdf file).
• Xiaohua Zhou, Min Tsao and Gengsheng Qin (2004). Edgeworth expansion based confidence intervals for the difference between two proportions. To appear in the Journal of Statistical Inference and Planning.
• Gengsheng Qin and Min Tsao (2003). Empirical likelihood inference for median regression models for censored survival data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 85/2, 416-430.
• Min Tsao and Julie Zhou (2002). A nonparametric confidence interval for the trimmed mean, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Vol. 14/6, 665-673.
• Min Tsao and Julie Zhou (2001). On the robustness of the empirical likelihood ratio confidence interval for location. Canadian Journal of Statistics , Vol. 29/1, 129-140.
• Min Tsao (2000). On the random placement hypothesis. Journal of Ecological and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 7/4, 415-422.
• Rick Routledge and Min Tsao (1997). On the relationship between two asymptotic expansions of the distribution of sample mean and its applications. Annals of Statistics, Vol. 25, No. 5, 2200-2209.
• Min Tsao (1996). A measure of accuracy for quadrature methods for Fredholm integral equations of the first kind. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 69/2, 243-249.
• Rick Routledge and Min Tsao (1995). Uniform validity of saddlepoint expansion on compact sets. Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 23/4, 425-431.
• Bent Jorgensen, Jose Raul Martinez and Min Tsao (1994). Asymptotic behaviour of the variance function. The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 21/3, 223-243.