My research interests include nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, and applications in causal inference, survey sampling, and Monte Carlo integration.

Biostatistics, nonparametric statistics, semiparametric models, causal inference, survey sampling, statistical computing

Chi, Z. and Tan, Z. (2007) Positive false discovery proportions: Intrinsic bounds and adaptive control, Statistica Sinica, in press.

Tan, Z. (2006) Regression and weighting methods for causal inference using instrumental variables, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1607-1618.

Tan, Z. (2006) A distributional approach for causal inference using propensity scores, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 1619-1637.

Tan, Z. (2006) Monte Carlo integration with acceptance-rejection, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 15, 735-752.

Tan, Z. (2004) On a likelihood approach for Monte Carlo integration, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99, 1027-1036.

Kong A, McCullagh P, Meng X-L, Nicolae D, and Tan Z (2003) A theory of statistical models for Monte Carlo integration (with discussion), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B, 65, 585-618.