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Dr. Zewei Lin

  • Assistant Professor - Dept of Information Systems & Analytics
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Biography and education

Dr. Zewei Lin is an Assistant Professor in Analytics at the Department of Information Systems and Analytics, McCoy College of Business. He got his PhD in Business Analytics from the University of Cincinnati in 2024, a B.S. in Statistics, a B.Ec. in Economic Statistics, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Renmin University of China in 2019. His research focuses on developing statistical/machine learning methods to address the multifaceted challenges associated with model transparency. He primarily works on problems that involve discrete data (e.g., binary, rating, or count data) which amplify statistical challenges and call for new developments.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Liu, D., Lin, Z., & Zhang, H. (2025). A unified framework for residual diagnostics in generalized linear models and beyond. The Journal of the American Statistical Association. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2504037
  • Zhu, X., Lin, Z., Liu, D., & Greenwell, B. (2024). SurrogateRsq: An R Package for Categorical Data Goodness-of-Fit Analysis Using the Surrogate R2. The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, 1–12. Retrieved from https://nejsds.nestat.org/journal/NEJSDS/article/77/text
  • Liu, D., Zhu, X., Greenwell, B., & Lin, Z. (2022). A new goodness-of-fit measure for probit models: Surrogate R2. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 76(1), 192–210. Retrieved from https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bmsp.12289
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student and Early-Career Travel Awards, Symposium on Data Science & Statistics. June 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student Poster Awards, New England Statistics Symposium. May 2022
  1. Reviewer / Referee

    The Canadian Journal of Statistics

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    Statistica Sinica

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    Statistics and Probability Letters

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    AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

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    INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research