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Biography
Tiejun Tong is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD degree in 2005 from University of California at Santa Barbara. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010, Professor Tong was a Postdoctoral Associate from 2005-2007 at Yale University, and an Assistant Professor from 2007-2010 at University of Colorado at Boulder. Professor Tong is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. His research areas include statistics, biostatistics, meta-analysis and evidence-based medicine. He has published more than 80 journal articles including 3 highly cited papers and 3 hot papers, with a total of 6300 citations in Google Scholar.
Research Interests
High-dimensional data analysis, Meta-analysis and medical statistics, Nonparametric regression models
Education/Academic qualification
Mathematics, PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara
1 Sept 2001 → 31 Aug 2005
Award Date: 31 Aug 2005
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Developing stimuli-responsive hyperbranched poly(amidoamine) conjugates bearing Cx43, GFAP, and iSTAT3 bioligands
ALL, A. H. (PI), TONG, T. (CoI), Al-Nashash, H. (CoI), ZHANG, Q. (CoI) & Adeli, M. (CoI)
1/01/26 → 31/12/28
Project: Research project
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Statistical inference for inverse binomial proportion and dependent p-values
TONG, T. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research project
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Difference-based methods in statistics and their wide applications
TONG, T. (PI)
Project: Research project
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Developing new models and methods for meta-analysis
TONG, T. (PI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research project
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Some new developments in hypothesis testing for high-dimensional data
TONG, T. (PI)
1/12/18 → 31/05/22
Project: Research project
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Causal Mediation Analysis With Latent Subgroups for Survival Model
Sun, Y., Zhou, Y., Hu, T., Tong, T. & Wang, W. W., Jun 2026, In: Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. 19, 3, e70082.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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ChauBoxplot and AdaptiveBoxplot: two R packages for boxplot-based outlier detection
Tong, T., Lin, H., Gang, B. & Zhang, R., 24 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Statistical Theory and Related Fields. p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Minimum distance estimation of mean and standard deviation from reported quantiles
Tang, X., Tong, T., Zhang, X. & Chu, H., 15 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research Synthesis Methods. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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When Tukey meets Chauvenet: a new boxplot criterion for outlier detection
Lin, H., Zhang, R. & Tong, T., 2 Jan 2026, In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 35, 1, p. 198-211 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access9 Citations (Scopus) -
A difference-based method for testing no effect in nonparametric regression
Li, Z., Tong, T. & Wang, Y., Jan 2025, In: Computational Statistics. 40, 1, p. 153–176 24 p., e197.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Mathematical Foundations of Computing (Journal)
Tong, T. (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Statistics and its Interface (Journal)
TONG, T. (Associate editor)
2017 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)