Shu-Chuan (Grace) Chen 
Assistant Professor of Statistics
 
439 PSA, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
Email: scchen@math.asu.edu
Phone: PSA 439 -- (480) 965-6639

Office hours: 3:00-4:30pm Tuesday&Thursday, or by appointment (PSA 439)

Teaching:

    Probability (Penn State)

    Experimental Methods (Penn State)

    STP 226 Elementary Statistics

    STP 533 Applied Multivariate Analysis   

    MAT 351/CBS598 Mathematical Methods for Genetics Analysis

    STP 421 Probability

    STP 531 Applied Analysis of Variance

    Fall 2009:

        STP 421 Probability

        STP 531 Applied Analysis of Variance

Principal Areas of Teaching and Research:

Dr. Chen's research mainly focuses on bioinformatics, especially in developing statistical methods and algorithms for functional genomic data.  Her past publications involved with the development of mixture models for clustering high dimensional sequences, its related theoretical justifications and applications.  She also published papers in analysis of election data and DNA sequences' matching probability.

She holds a joint appointment between Department of Mathematics & Statistics and Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University.

Honors and Distinctions:

Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, June 1996

Selected Publications:

Chen, S.C., and Lindsay, B.  Building mixture trees from binary sequence data, Biometrika.

Wilson, J. R., and Chen, S. C. Dirichlet-multinomial Model with varying rates over time, Journal of Data Science.

Chen, S.C. (2004). Election Study: A mathematical model for recounting. Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association. Vol. 42, No 3, pp 277-287.

Fu, J.C., Lou, W. Y.W., and Chen, S.C. (1999). On the probability of pattern matching in non-aligned DNA sequences: a finite Markov chain imbedding approach. Book chapter in Scan Statistics and Applications, J. Glaz and N. Balashrinan, Birkhauser.