CURRICULUM VITAE
PIN T. NG
OFFICE ADDRESS HOME ADDRESS
Northern Arizona University 1234 W. Lil Ben Trl
The W. A. Franke College of Business Flagstaff, AZ 86005
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5066 Tel: (928) 522-9004
Tel: (928) 523-8726
Fax: (928) 523-7331
EMAIL URL
http://franke.nau.edu/pin-ng
CITIZEN
United States
COMPUTER SKILLS
· Statistical and Econometric Software: R, S, SAS, SPSS, STATA, SHAZAM, SYSTAT, TSP, RATS, Minitab
· Operating Systems: UNIX, Window XP, Mac OS X
· Programming Languages: FORTRAN, VBA, RATFOR
· Others: Microsoft Office Suite, LaTeX, HTML
SPECIALIZATIONS
Applied Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Urban and Regional Economics, Computational Statistics, Computer Simulations, Tourism.
EDUCATION
· Diploma Electronics and Communication Engineering, 1979, Distinctions, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore.
· B.A. Economics (Computer Science minor), summa cum laude, 1984, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812.
· Ph.D. Economics, 1989, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
EXPERIENCE
· Professor, August 2011 – present.
· Associate Professor, August 2004 – 2011.
W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5066.
· Assistant Professor, Aug 2001 – August 2004.
W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5066.
· Lecturer, Aug 1997 – Aug 2001.
Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
· Visiting Assistant Professor, Aug 1994 -- May 1995. Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
· Assistant Professor Aug 1989 -- May 1997.
Department of Economics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5882.
· Econometric Consultant Jun 1988 -- May 1989.
Computing Services Office, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.
· Programmer for the DRI and IMF databases Jun 1988 -- May 1989.
Bureau of Economics and Business Research, University of
Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
· Research Assistant for Roger W. Koenker Aug 1987 -- May 1988. Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
· Teaching Assistant Aug 1984 – May 1987. Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.
THESIS
Ph.D. thesis – “On Estimating the Score Function with Applications to Adaptive Estimations”
Advisor -- Professor Roger W. Koenker
COURSES TAUGHT
A. Undergraduate
“Principles of Macroeconomics”, “Intermediate Microeconomic Theory”, “Statistics for Business and Economics”, “Intermediate Business Statistics”, “Introduction to Empirical Economics”, “Introduction to Econometrics”.
B. Graduate
“Quantitative Economic Analysis”, “Econometric Theory”, “Applied Econometrics”, “Managerial Economics”.
PUBLICATIONS
A. Papers Published or Forthcoming in Refereed Journals
“Developing Professionalism in Business School Undergrads”, (with T. Clark and T.S. Amer), Journal of Education for Business, 2014, 89, 35-41.
“Refining Our Understanding of Beta through Quantile Regressions”, (with A. Atkins), Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2014, 7, 67-79.
“XLR: A Free Excel Add-In for Introductory Business Statistics”, Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 2013, 3, 32-36.
“Measuring Currency Exposure with Quantile Regression”, (with D. Du), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2013, 41 549-566.
“Using Quantile Regression to Understand Visitor Spending”, (with A. Lew), Journal Of Travel Research, 2012, 51(3), 278-288.
“No Matter How It Is Measured, Income Declines with Global Warming”, (with X. Zhao), 2011, Ecological Economics, 70, 963-970.
“The Effect of Learning Styles on Course Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis”, (with J. Pinto and S. Williams), Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 2011, 15(1), 15-38.
“Evaluation Of Human Bioclimates Using Quantile Regression: A China Case Study”, (with Y.Y. Yan), 2008, Physical Geography, 29(5), 387-403.
“A Fast and Efficient Implementation of Qualitatively Constrained Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with M. Maechler), Statistical Modelling, 2007, 7(4), 315-328.
“An Interpretive Business Statistics Course Encompassing Diverse Teaching and Learning Styles”, (with C. Lockwood and J. Pinto), Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 11(1), 11-24.
“Summarizing the Effect of a Wide Array of Amenity Measures into Simple Components”, (with R. Gunderson), Social Indicators Research, 2006, 79, 313-335.
“Analyzing the Effects of Amenities, Quality of Life Attributes and Tourism on Regional Economic Performance Using Regression Quantiles”, (with R. Gunderson), Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2005, 35, 1-22.
“Inequality Constrained Quantile Regression”, (with R. Koenker), Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics, 2005, 67, 418-440.
“A Frisch-Newton Algorithm for Sparse Quantile Regression”, (with R. Koenker), Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (English series), 2005, 21, 225-236.
“SparseM: A Sparse Matrix Package for R”, (with R. Koenker), Journal of Statistical Software, 2003, 8.
“Logical Extremes, Beta and the Power of the Test”, (with J. Pinto and D. Allen), Journal of Statistics Education, 2003, 11.
“Robust Misspecification Tests for Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation in the Multiple Regression Model”, (with A. Bera), Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, 2002, 6, 78-96.
“Using Quantile Smoothing Splines to Identify Employment Subcenters in a Multicentric Urban Area”, (with S. Craig), Journal of Urban Economics, 2001, 49, 100-120.
“COBS: Qualitatively Constrained Smoothing via Linear Programming”, (with X. He), Computational Statistics, 1999, 14, 315-337.
“Quantile Splines with Several Covariates” (with X. He), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 1999, 75, 343-352.
“Bivariate Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with X. He and S. Portnoy), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (B), 1998, 60, 537-550.
“A Remark on Bartels and Conn's Linearly Constrained Discrete L1 Algorithm”, (with R. Koenker), ACM Transaction on Mathematical Software, 1996, 22, 493-495.
“An Algorithm for Quantile Smoothing Splines”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 1996, 22, 99-118.
“Tests for Normality Using Estimated Score Function”, (with A. Bera), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 1995, 52, 273-287.
“Finite Sample Properties of Adaptive Regression Estimators”, Econometric Reviews, 1995, 14, 267-297.
“Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with R. Koenker and S. Portnoy), Biometrika, 1994, 81, 673-680.
“Smoothing Spline Score Estimator”, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 1994, 15, 1003-1025.
“Forecast Comparison of Exchange Rate Models with Kalman Filter”, (with A. Heidari), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1992, 41, 435-443.
“XploRe'-ing the World of Nonparametric Analysis”, (with R. Sickles), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1990, 5, 293-298.
B. Articles in Books or Proceedings
“Computational Issues Surrounding the Sharpe's Ratio and Treynor’s Ratio As Measures of Risk-Adjusted Security Performance”, (with D. Allen and J. Pinto), International Business & Economics Research Conference, 2003.
“Sparse Linear Algebra for the R Language: SparseM”, (with R. Koenker), Computing Science and Statistics, 2003.
“A Large Sample Normality Test Using the Score Function”, (with A. Bera), American Statistical Association Proceeding of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 1993, 196-201.
“Computing Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with R. Koenker), Computing Science and Statistics, 1992, 24, 385-388.
“Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Quantile Functions”, (with R. Koenker and S. Portnoy), in Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1 Norm and Related Methods, ed. Yadoleh Dodge, North-Holland, 1992.
“Quantile Smoothing Splines”,(with R. Koenker), in Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, ed. A.K.Md.E. Saleh, North-Holland, 1992.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS
· Spring World Congress on Engineering and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2013, Presented: “XLR: A Free Excel Add-In for Introductory Business Statistics”.
· The 2013 IMS-FPS Workshop, Singapore, 2013, Presented: “Stochastic Dominance via Quantile Regression with Applications to Investigate Arbitrage Opportunity and Market Efficiency”.
· Singapore Economic Review Conference 2011, Singapore, 2011, Presented: “Statistical Identification of Employment Subcenters”.
· The Seventh Biennial International China Tourism Conference, Zhangjiajie, China, 2011, Presented: “The Impact of Climate Change on Tourism Economies” and “Is tourism a long-run economic growth factor?”.
· International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Complex Data, Kunming, China, 2010, Presented: “Bayesian Semi-parametric Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data”.
· International Conference on Sustainable and Alternative Tourism, Yangshuo, China, 2009, Presented: “Quantile Regression Analysis of Visitor Spending: An Example of Mainland Chinese Tourists in Hong Kong”.
· The 18th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management, Beijing, China, 2010, Presented: “Time and Regime Dependence of Foreign Exchange Exposure”.
· International Conference on Financial Statistics and Financial Econometrics, Chengdu, China, 2009, Presented” “Stochastic Dominance via Quantile Regression.”
· Workshop on “Quantile Regression, LMS Method and Robust Statistics in the 21st Century”, Edinburgh, Scotland, 19-23 June, 2006: Presented “Fast and Efficient Computations of Constrained Nonparametric Quantile Regression Involving Large Data Sets”.
· The R User Conference 2006, Vienna, Austria, June 15-17, 2006: Presented “RXL - A Free Excel Add-in for Introductory Business Statistics”.
· The 2005 International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science, Las Vegas, June, 2005: Presented “A Fast and Efficient Implementation of Qualitatively Constraint Quantile Smoothing Splines”.
· The 2005 Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, April, 2005: Presented “Summarizing the Effect of a Wide Array of Amenity Measures into Simple Components” (with R. Gunderson).
· The 2005 International College Teaching Methods & Styles Conference, Reno, Nevada, September, 2005: Presented “Using the Hybrid Approach to Teach the Principles of Microeconomics” (with J. Pinto).
· International Conference on Robust Statistics, Beijing, China, July, 2004: Presented “Computational Issues in Quantile Regression Involving Large Data”.
· The 6th International Chinese Statistical Association International Conference, Singapore, July, 2004: Presented “Efficient Computation for Quantile Regression”.
· 35th Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2004: Presented “Analyzing the Effects of Amenities, Quality of Life Attributes and Tourism on Regional Economic Performance Using Regression Quantiles” (with R. Gunderson).
· 10th Scientific Seminar on the Quality of Education: Exchange of Experiences of Cuban and North American Professionals, Havana, Cuba, October 2003: Presented “Using The Internet To Teach Business Statistics From The Classroom” (with J. Pinto).
· 2003 International Business & Economics Research Conference, Las Vegas, October, 2003: Presented “Computational Issues Surrounding the Sharpe’s Ratio and Treynor’s Ratio As Measures of Risk-Adjusted Security Performance” (with D. Allen and J. Pinto).
· 35th Symposium on the Interface, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2003: Presented “Sparse Linear Algebra for the R Language: SparseM”, (with R. Koenker).
· Fourth International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, August, 2002: Presented “A Sparse Implementation of the Frisch-Newton Algorithm for Quantile Regression”, (with R. Koenker).
· North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, New Orleans, January, 2001: Attended.
· Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting, Singapore, July, 1999: Presented “Using Quantile Smoothing Splines to Identify Employment Subcenters in a Multicentric Urban Area”.
· North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, New York, January, 1999: Attended.
· 2nd Texas Econometric Camp, Port Aransas, Texas, February, 1997: Presented “Qualitatively Constrained Smoothing Via Linear Programming”, (with X. He).
· 1st Texas Econometric Camp, Boerne, Texas, February, 1996: Presented “Quantile Estimation of Population and Employment Densities”, (with S. Craig).
· Econometric Society 7th World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1995: Presented “The Elasticity of Demand for Gasoline: A Semi-Parametric Analysis”, (with J. Smith).
· American Statistical Association’s Joint Statistical Meeting, San Francisco, California, August, 1993: Attended.
· Econometric Society European Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, August, 1993: Attended.
· Third Eugene Lukacs Symposium in Statistics, Bowling Green, Ohio, March, 1993: Attended.
· 24th Symposium on the Interface, College Station, Texas, March, 1992: Presented “Computing Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with R. Koenker).
· Second International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, August, 1992: Presented “Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Quantile Functions”, (with R. Koenker and S. Portnoy).
· North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seattle, Washington, June, 1992: Attended.
· International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, Ottawa, Canada, May, 1991: Presented “Quantile Smoothing Splines”, (with R. Koenker).
· American Statistical Association’s Joint Statistical Meeting, Anaheim, California, August, 1990: Attended.
GRANTS
· Co-PI of Research Grant for “Sustainability and Resilience to Disturbance and Change in Rural Taiwan Communities”, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2014-2016.
· Summer Research Grant for “Predicting Operating Cash Flows”, W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, 2011.
· Summer Research Grant for “Cross-Sectional Relationship between Income and Temperature: New Model and New Data”, W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, 2010.
· Summer Research Grant for “Stochastic Dominance Test Using Quantile Regression with Applications to iShares”, W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, 2008.
· Summer Research Grant for “Refining Our Understanding of Beta Through Quantile Regressions”, W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, 2009.
· Co-PI of grant awarded to The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences from U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Mathematical Sciences Programme, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and the London Mathematical Society to organize a workshop on “Quantile Regression, LMS Method and Robust Statistics in the 21st Century”, Edinburgh, Scotland, 19-23 June, 2006.
· Intramural Grant Program for “RXL – A Free Excel Add-In for Introductory Business Statistics”, Northern Arizona University, 2006.
· E-Learning Hybrid Course Development in Electronically-Mediated Instruction Grant for “A Proposal to Redesign BA201 to Better Teach Critical Thinking Skills to Students”, Northern Arizona University, 2005.
· Provost’s Faculty Travel Awards, 2005.
· E-Learning Hybrid Course Development in Electronically-Mediated Instruction Grant for “A Hybrid Approach to Teaching the Principles of Economics”, Northern Arizona University, 2003.
· Intramural Grant Program for “Analyzing the Effects of Amenities, Quality of Life Attributes and Tourism on Regional Economic Performance Using Regression Quantiles”, Northern Arizona University, 2004.
· Intramural Grant Program for “Efficient Computation of Triogram Smoothing”, Northern Arizona University, 2002.
· FISAS - Faculty Improving Student Achievement Success grant for “An Interpretive Approach Utilizing Web Technology to Tackle the High Attrition Rate in a Business Statistics Course”, 2001-2002.
· Scholars’ Travel Fund Program, University of Illinois, 2000.
· PEW Grant Program in Course Redesign (with L. Arvan & W. Hendricks), 1999.
· Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement (with W. Hendricks), 1999.