Pin T. Ng

Associate Professor of Economics Northern Arizona University

Degrees: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in Economics (minor in Computer Science), University of Minnesota at Duluth; Diploma in Electronic and Communication Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic.

 

Positions Held: Associate Professor, The W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, since 2004, Assistant Professor, The W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, 2001-2003; Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2001; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston, 1989-1997; Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1995.

 

Specialization: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, International Trade and Finance, Urban and Regional Economics, Computational Statistics, Computer Simulations.

 

Publications:

``A Fast and Efficient Implementation of Qualitatively Constrained Quantile Smoothing Splines'', (with M. Maechler), Statistical Modelling, 7(4), 315-328, 2007.

``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, 2007.

``Summarizing the Effect of a Wide Array of Amenity Measures into Simple Components'', (with R. Gunderson), Social Indicators Research, 79, 313-335, 2006.

``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, 35, 1-22, 2005.

``Inequality Constrained Quantile Regression'', (with R. Koenker), Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics, 67, 418-440, 2005.

``Frisch-Newton Algorithm for Sparse Quantile Regression'', (with R. Koenker), Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (English series), 21, 225-236, 2005.

``SparseM: A Sparse Matrix Package for R'', (with R. Koenker), Journal of Statistical Software, 8, 2003.

``Logical Extremes, Beta and the Power of the Test'', (with J. Pinto and D. Allen), Journal of Statistics Education, 11, 2003.

``Sparse Linear Algebra for the R Language: SparseM'', (with R. Koenker), Computing Science and Statistics, 2003.

``Robust Tests for Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation in the Multiple Regression Model'', (with A. Bera), Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, 6, 2002, 78-96.

`` Using Quantile Smoothing Splines to Identify Employment Subcenters in a Multicentric Urban Area'', (with Steven Craig), Journal of Urban Economics, 49, 2001, 100-120.
``COBS: Qualitatively Constrained Smoothing via Linear Program '', (with X. He), Computational Statistics, 14, 1999, 315-337.
``Quantile Splines with Several Covariates'', (with X. He), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , 75, 1999, 343-352.
``Bivariate Quantile Smoothing Splines'', (with X. He and S. Portnoy), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (B), 60, 1998, 537-550.
``A Remark on Bartels and Conn's Linearly Constrained Discrete L1 Algorithm'', (with R. Koenker), ACM Transaction on Mathematical Software, 22, 1996, 493-495.
``An Algorithm for Quantile Smoothing Splines'', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 22, 1996, 99-118.
``Finite Sample Properties of Adaptive Regression Estimators'', Econometric Review, 14, 1995, 267-297.
``Tests for Normality Using Estimated Score Function'', (with A. Bera), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 52, 1995, 273-287.
``Quantile Smoothing Splines'', (with R. Koenker and S. Portnoy), Biometrika, 81, 1994, 673-680.
``Smoothing Spline Score Estimator'', SIAM, Journal of Scientific Computing, 15, 1994, 1003-1025.
``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.

``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.
``Computing Quantile Smoothing Splines,'' (with R. Koenker), Computing Science and Statistics, 24, 1992, 385-388.
``Quantile Smoothing Splines,'' (with R. Koenker), in Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, ed. A.K.Md.E. Saleh, North-Holland, 1992.
``Forecast Comparison of Exchange Rate Models with Kalman Filter'', (with A. Heidari), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 41, 1992, 435-443.
``XploRe'-ing the World of Nonparametric Analysis'', (with R. Sickles), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 5, 1990, 293-298.

 

Working Papers:
``Using Quantile Regression to Evaluate Human Thermal Climates in China'', (with Y. Y. Yan).

``What Do Regressions Estimate?", (with J. Pinto)

``The Effect of Learning Styles on Course Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis'', (with J. Pinto and S. Williams)

``The Elasticity of Demand for Gasoline: A Semi-Parametric Analysis '', (with J. Smith).
``Computing Smoothing Spline Score Estimator''.

Teaching :

• Undergraduate Courses: “Principles of Economics”, “Principles of Microeconomics”, “Intermediate Microeconomic Theory”, “Statistics for Business and Economics”, “Intermediate Business Statistics”, “Introduction to Empirical Economics”, “Introduction to Econometrics”.
• Graduate Courses: “Quantitative Economic Analysis”, “Econometric Theory”, “Advanced Econometrics”,  “Applied Econometrics”, “Consumers, Markets and Organization”.

 

Email: Pin.Ng@nau.edu

Curriculum Vitae