Cheng, Jing
Profile Information
- Full Titles
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics,
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Phone
- 352.265.0111 x86278
- Email Address
- jcheng@biostat.ufl.edu
- Fax
- 352.265.8047
- Address
1329 SW 16th Street, Room 5129
PO Box 100177
Gainesville, FL 32610-0177- Education
Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
M.S., Nutrition, Cornell University, 2002
B.M. (M.D. equivalent), West China University of Medical Sciences- Professional Bio
Jing Cheng, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, Division of Biotatistics at the University of Florida, and a biostatistician of Biostatistics Core for Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Brain Rehabilitation Research Center and Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center. Dr. Cheng is interested in estimation and inference of causal effects of treatments/exposures in randomized trials with noncompliance and in observational studies with measured and unmeasured confounding. Dr. Cheng has experience in study design and data analyses for both big and small longitudinal randomized clinical trials and observational studies, and in survey design and analyses of large data sets from national surveys.
- Expertise
Causal inference (instrument variables and propensity scores) with applications in clinical trials and observational studies, longitudinal data analysis, survey design and analysis, and nonparametric statistics.


