My primary research interest is

• Functional data analysis
• Statistics in sports
• Nonparametric and semi-parametric statistical methods
• Data mining and machine learning

Recent Publications

Guan, T., Lin, Z., and Cao, J. (2020), Estimating Truncated. Functional Linear Models with a Nested Group Bridge Approach, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (in press).

Guan, T., Lin, Z., Groves, K., and Cao, J. (2020), Sparse Functional. Partial Least Squares Regression with Locally Sparse Slope Function, submitted.

Guan, T., Nguyen, R., Cao J., and Swartz, T. (2020), In-game Win Probabilities for the National Rugby League, submitted.

Guan, T., Cao J., and Swartz, T. (2020), Should You Park the Bus?, submitted

Current Teaching (2019-2020)

• MATH 3P81 Experimental Design (Winter 2021)
• MATH 4P82/5P82 Nonparametric Statistics (Winter 2021)