Wei Ma

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Associate Professor
Institute of Statistics and Big Data
Renmin University of China
59 Zhongguancun Street
Beijing, China
Email: mawei [at] ruc [dot] edu [dot] cn

Bio

Wei Ma received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2009 and his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Virginia in 2014. After his Ph.D., he worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Biostatistician with Biogen for three years. In 2017, he returned to academia as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Statistics and Big Data at Renmin University of China. He became an Associate Professor in 2021 and was promoted to tenure in 2023.

Research Interests

  • Adaptive Design

  • Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

  • Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials

  • Health Big Data Analytics

Professional Activities and Awards

  • Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2024.

  • Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2024–2026.

Selected Publications

  • Ye, X., Hu, F., and Ma, W. (2024) Robustness of response-adaptive randomization. Biometrics, 80(2), ujae049.

  • Ma, W., Li, P., Zhang, L. X., and Hu, F. (2024) A new and unified family of covariate adaptive randomization procedures and their properties. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 119(545), 151–162.

  • Gu, Y., Liu, H., and Ma, W. (2023) Regression-based multiple treatment effect estimation under covariate-adaptive randomization. Biometrics, 79(4), 2869–2880.

  • Liu, H., Tu, F., and Ma, W. (2023) Lasso-adjusted treatment effect estimation under covariate-adaptive randomization. Biometrika, 110(2), 431–447.

  • Ma, W., Tu, F., and Liu, H. (2022). Regression analysis for covariate-adaptive randomization: A robust and efficient inference perspective. Statistics in Medicine, 41(29), 5645–5661.

  • Wang, T. and Ma, W. (2021) The impact of misclassification on covariate-adaptive randomized clinical trials. Biometrics, 77(2), 451-464.

  • Ma, W., Qin, Y., Li, Y., and Hu, F. (2020) Statistical inference for covariate-adaptive randomization procedures. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 115(531), 1488-1497.

  • Ma, W., Hu, F., and Zhang, L. X. (2015) Testing hypotheses of covariate-adaptive randomized clinical trials. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110(510), 669-680.

Full list of publications.