Bing Han
Updated 10/26/15
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CONTACT
RAND Corporation
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Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vbeneJQAAAAJ&hl=en&cstart=20
PROFESSONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 Full statistician, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Professor of statistics (non-tenure track), Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA
2007 - 2011
Associate statistician, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
2002 - 2007
Graduate assistant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
RESEARCH INTEREST
Methodology: large scale simultaneous inference, causal inference, nonparametric statistics, Bayesian statistics,
longitudinal data, categorical data
Application: general public policy and program evaluation, obesity epidemiology and physical activity, health
services research, mental health, education effectiveness, natural science and technology
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Statistics, 2007, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
M.S., Statistics, 2005, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
M.S.E., Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2002, Institute of Nuclear Energy & Technology, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
B.E., Engineering Physics, 1999, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPER
1. Derose, K.P., Felician, M., Han, B., Palar, K., Ramirez, B., Farias, H., Martinez, H. (2015) A pre-post pilot
study of peer nutritional counseling and food insecurity and nutritional outcomes among antiretroviral therapy
patients in Honduras. BMC Nutrition. In press.
2. Derose, K.P., Han, B., Williamson, S., Cohen, D.A. (2015) Racial-ethnic variation in park use and physical
activity in the City of Los Angeles. Journal of Urban Health. In press.
3. Cohen, D., Han, B., Derose, K.P., Williamson, S., Marsh, T., Raaen, L., McKenzie, T.L. (2015) The paradox
of parks in low-income areas: park use and perceived threats. Environment & Behavior. Accepted.
4. Han, B., Wong, E.C., Mao, Z., Meredith, L.S., Cassells, A., Tobin, J.N. (2015) Validation of a brief PTSD
screener for underserved patients in federally qualified health centers. General Hospital Psychiatry. In press.
5. Lapham, S., Cohen, D.A., Han, B., Williamson, S., Evenson, K., McKenzie, T., Hillier, A., Ward, P. (2015).
How important is perception of safety to park use? A four-city survey. Urban Studies. In press.
6. Han, B., Cohen, D., Derose, K.P., Marsh, T., Williamson, S., Raaen, L. (2015) Validation of a new counter
for direct observation of physical activity in parks. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. In press.
7. Liu, J., Han, B., Cohen, D.A. (2015) Beyond neighborhood food environments: how far do people travel to
food establishments in 5 US cities, 2009-2011. Preventing Chronical Disease. 12, E126. PMCID:
PMC4552139.
8. Pearson, M.L., Needleman, J., Beckman, R., Han, B. (2015) Facilitating quality improvement on nursing
units: a fifty-two hospital collaborative. Journal for Healthcare Quality. In press.
9. Han, B., Cohen, D., Derose, K.P., Marsh, T., Williamson, S., Loy, S.(2015) Effectiveness of a free exercise
program in a neighborhood park. Preventive Medicine Reports, 2, 255-258.
10. Liu, J., Han, B., Cohen, D. (2015) Associations between eating occasions and places of consumption among
adults. Appetite, 87, 199-204. PMID: 25558025.
11. Han, B., Cohen, D.A., Derose, P.K., Marsh, T., Williamson, S., Raaen, L. (2014) How much do
neighborhood parks contribute to local residents’ MVPA in the City of Los Angeles--a meta-analysis.
Preventive Medicine, 69, S106-S110. PMID: 25199733. PMCID: PMC4268157.
12. Cohen, D., Han, B., Isacoff, J., Shulaker, B., Williamson, S., Marsh, T., McKenzie, T.L., Bhatia, R., Wier, M.
(2015) Impact of park renovations on park use and park-based physical activity. Journal of Physical Activity
& Health, 12, 289-295. PMID: 24956608.
13. Hunter, S.B., Ayer, L., Han, B., Garner, B.R., Godley, S.H. (2014) Examining the sustainment of the
Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach in community addiction treatment settings: protocol for a
longitudinal mixed method study. Implementation Science, 9, 104. PMCID: PMC4243817.
14. Meredith, L.S., Eisenman, D.P., Green, B.L., Kaltman, S., Wong, E.C., Han, B., Cassells, A., Tobin, J.N.
(2014) Design of the Violence and Stress Assessment (ViStA) study: a randomized controlled trial of care
management for PTSD among predominantly Latino patients in safety net health centers. Contemporary
Clinical Trials, 38, 163-172. PMID: 24747932.
15. Harris, K., Uscher-Pines, L., Han, B., Lindley, M.C., Lorick, S.A. (2013) The impact of influenza vaccination
requirements for hospital personnel in California: knowledge, attitudes, and uptake. American Journal of
Infection Control, 42, 288-293. PMID: 24581018.
16. Cohen, D., Marsh, T., Williamson, S., Han, B., Derose, K.P., Golinelli, D., McKenzie, T.L. (2013) The
potential for pocket parks and to increase physical activity. American Journal of Health Promotion. 28, S19S26. PMCID: PMC4091959.
17. Cohen, D.A., Han, B., Derose, K.P., Williamson, S., Marsh, T., McKenzie, T.L. (2013) Increasing physical
activity in parks: a randomized controlled trial using community engagement. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine. 45, 590-597. PMID: 24139772, PMCID: PMC4091686.
18. Han, B., Cohen, D., McKenzie, T.L. (2013) Quantifying the contribution of neighborhood parks to physical
activity. Preventive Medicine. 57, 483-487. PMID: 23827723, PMCID: PMC3800218.
19. Dalal, S., Han, B., Lempert, R., Jaycocks, A., Hackbarth, A. (2013) Improving scenario discovery using
orthogonal rotations. Environmental Modelling & Software. 48, 49-64.
20. Mendeloff, J., Han, B., Fleishman, L., Vesely, J. (2013) Evaluation of process safety indicators collected in
conformance with ANSI/API recommended practice 754. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process
Industries. 26, 1008-1014.
21. Han, B. (2013) Conditional Akaike information criterion in Fay-Herriot model. Statistical Methodology, 11,
53-67.
22. Cohen, D., Han, B., Derose, K., Williamson, S., Marsh, T., Rudick, J., McKenzie, T.L. (2012) Neighborhood
poverty, park use, and park-based physical activity in a southern California city. Social Science and Medicine,
75, 2317-2325. PMID: 23010338, PMCID: PMC3646794.
23. Han, B., McCaffrey, D.F., Springer, M., Gottfried, M. (2012) Teacher effect estimates and decision rules for
establishing student-teacher linkages: what are the implications for high-stakes personnel policies in an urban
school district? Statics, Politics, and Policy, 3, article 4.
24. Han, B., Dalal, S. (2012) A Bernstein-type estimator for decreasing density with application to p-value
adjustment. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 56, 427-437.
25. Han, B., Dalal, S., McCaffrey, D.F. (2012) Simultaneous one-sided tests with application to education
evaluation systems. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37, 114-136.
26. Lara-Cinisomo, S., Chandra, A., Burns, R., Jaycox, L., Tanielian, T., Ruder, T., Han, B. (2012) A mixedmethod approach to understanding the experiences of non-deployed military caregivers. Maternal and Child
Health, 16, 374-384. PMID:21461790.
27. Han, B., Lim, N. (2010) Estimating conditional proportion curves by regression residuals. Statistics in
Medicine, 29, 1443-1454. PMID: 20333715.
28. Dalal, S., Han, B. (2010) Detection of radioactive material entering national ports: a Bayesian approach to
radiation portal data. Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, 1256-1271.
29. McCaffrey, D.F., Pacula, R.L., Han, B., Ellickson, P. (2010) Marijuana use and high school dropout: the
influence of unobservables. Health Economics, 19, 1281-1299. PMID: 19937639, PMCID: PMC2910149
30. Chandra, A., Lara-Cinisomo, S., Jaycox, L., Tanielian, T., Burns, R., Ruder, T., Han, B. (2010) Children on
the homefront: the experience of children from military families. Pediatrics, 125, 16-25, PMID: 19969612.
31. Han, B., Huang, W., (2009) Modeling semicontinuous IT patent values by a mixture of Bayesian two-part
models. International Journal of Statistics and Management System, 4, 165-187.
32. Han, B., Altman, N.S., Mong, J.A., Klein, L.C., Pfaff, D.W., Vandenbergh, D.J. (2008) Comparing
quantitative trait loci (QTL) and gene expression data. Advances in Bioinformatics, 2008, article ID 719818,
PMID: 19920989, PMCID: PMC2775685.
33. Han, B., Tong, J., Xue, D. (2003) Computer-aided fault tree building expert system. Nuclear Power
Engineering, 24, 77-79, (in Chinese).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (technical report, book chapter, and conference abstracts)
1. Hunter, S.B., Godley, S.H., Garner, B.R., Han, B., Ayer, L., Slaughter, M.E., Pham, C. (2015) The
sustainment of evidence-based adolescent substance abuse treatment in community settings. Addiction
Science & Clinical Practice, 10, A23. PMCID: PMC4347489.
2. Goldman, C. A., Butterfield, L., Lavery, D., Miller, T., Daugherty, L., Beleche, T., Han, B. (2015). Using
Workforce Information for Degree Program Planning in Texas. Project Report, RAND.
3. McCaffrey, D.F., Han, B., Lockwood, J.R. (2014). Using Auxiliary Teacher Data to Improve Value-Added:
An Application of Small Area Estimation to Middle School Mathematics Teachers. In Lissitz, R.W., Jiao, H.
(Ed.), Value Added Modeling and Growth Modeling with Particular Application to Teacher and School
Effectiveness. Information Age Publishing. Charlotte, NC.
4. Cohen, D.A., Sturm, R., Han, B., Marsh, T. (2014) Quantifying the Contribution of Public Parks to Physical
Activity and Health. Project Report, RAND.
5. Kilmer, B., Everingham, S., Caulkins, J., Midgette, G., Reuter, P., Pacula, R.L., Burns, R., Han, B., Lundberg,
R. (2014) What America’s Users Spend on Illicit Drugs, 2000-2010. Project Report, RAND.
6. Scharf, D.M., Eberhart, N.K., Schmidt-Hackbarth, N., Horvitz-Lennon, M., Beckman, R., Han, B., Lovejoy,
S., Pincus, H.A., Burnam, A.B. (2013) Evaluation of the SAMHSA Primary and Behavioral Health Care
Integration (PBHCI) Grant Program. Project Report, RAND.
7. Pearson, M.L., Needleman, J., Beckman, R., Han, B. (2013) Evaluation of TCAB: Results from the New
Jersey Hospital Association Collaborative. Project Report, RAND.
8. Berry, S.H., Concannon, T.W., Morganti, K.G., et al. (among the other eighteen contributing authors whose
names are ordered alphabetically) (2013) CMS Innovation Center Health Care Innovation Awards Evaluation
Plan. Project Report, RAND.
9. Mendeloff, J., Han, B., Fleishman, L., Vesely, J. (2012) Evaluation of Process Safety Indicators Collected in
Conformance with ANSI/API Recommended Practice 754, Project Report, RAND.
10. Stecher, B.M., Fuller, B., Timar, T., Marsh, J.A., with Briggs, M., Han, B., Katz, B., Spain, A., Waite, A.
(2012) Deregulating School Aid in California: How Districts Responded to Flexibility in Tier 3 Categorical
Funds in 2010–2011. Project Report, RAND.
11. Cohen, D., Derose, K., Han, B., Marsh, T., Williamson, S. (2012) Factors Related to Park Use and Physical
Activity in Los Angeles City Parks. Research Brief, RAND.
12. Buddin, R., Han, B. (2011) Is Military Disability Compensation Adequate to Offset Civilian Earnings Losses
from Service-Connected Disabilities. Project Report, RAND.
13. Chandra, A., Lara-Cinisomo, S., Jaycox, L., Tanielian, T., Han, B., Burns, R., Ruder, T. (2011) Views from
the Homefront: the Experiences of Youth and Spouses from Military Families. Project Report, RAND.
14. Chandra, A., Lara-Cinisomo, S., Jaycox, L., Tanielian, T., Han, B., Burns, R., Ruder, T. (2011) Views from
the Homefront: How Military Youth and Spouses are Coping with Deployment. Research Brief, RAND.
15. Chandra, A., Lara-Cinisomo, S., Jaycox, L., Tanielian, T., Burns, R., Ruder, T., Han, B. (2009) Views from
the Home Front: The Experience of Children from Military Families. Research Brief, RAND.
16. Han, B., Arnold, S.F., Altman, N.S. (2009) A Bayesian Approach to Large Scale Simultaneous Inference.
Technical report. Dept. of Statistics, Penn State Univ., no. 09-01.
17. McCaffrey, D.F., Han, B., Lockwood, J.R. (2009) Turning student test scores into teacher compensation
systems. In M.G. Springer (Ed.), Performance Incentives: Their Growing Impact on American K-12
Education (pp. 113-148). Brookings Press. Washington, D.C.
18. McCaffrey, D.F., Pacula, R.L., Han, B., Ellickson, P. (2008) Marijuana use and high school dropout: the
influence of unobservables, NBER working paper, No. 14102. (Also published in Health Economics).
19. Lim, N., Yeung, D., Orvis, B., Zhuo, X., Han, B., Pham, C., & Zhao, H. (2008.) Population Analysis and
Planning Tools to Improve Army ROTC Production and Diversity. Project Report, RAND.
WORKING PAPER (selected)
1. Han, B., Yu, H., Friedberg, M. (2015). Evaluating the impact of parent-reported medical home status on
children’s health care utilization, costs, and quality: a difference-in-differences analysis with causal inference.
Revising with Health Services Research.
2. Han, B. (2015). A Bayesian birth-death process model for estimating the total physical activity in
neighborhood parks. In preparation.
3. Han, B., Kovalchik, S. (2015) A fast algorithm for computing joint probabilities from a conditionally
specified discrete distribution. In preparation.
4. Meredith, L.S., Eisenman, D.P. Han, B. Green, B.L., Kaltman, S., Wong, E.C. Sorbero, M., Vaughan, C.,
Cassells, A., Zatzick, D., Diaz, C., Hickey, S., Kurz, J., Tobin, J.N. (2015) Impact of Collaborative Care for
Underserved Patients with PTSD in Primary Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Revising with Journal of
General Internal Medicine.
5. Hunter, S., Han, B., Slaughter, M.E., Godley, S.H., Garner, B.R. (2015) Associations between
implementation characteristics and evidence-based practice sustainment: a study of the adolescent community
reinforcement approach. Revising with Implementation Science.
6. Cohen, D.A., Han, B., Nagel, C., Harnik, P., McKenzie, T.L., Evenson, K.R., Marsh, T., Williamson, S.,
Vaughan, C., Katta, S. (2015) The first U.S. national study of neighborhood parks: implications for physical
activity. Submitted.
LECTURE, CONFERENCE TALK, AND SEMINAR (selected activities)
1. “Design and methods for the National Study of Neighborhood Parks (NSNP)”. Presented at the 8th Childhood
Obesity Conference, San Diego, 2015, panel.
2. “Efficient causal difference-in-differences estimation in quasi-experiments”. Presented at RAND Center for
Causal Inference Brownbag, 2014, internal; Annual Symposium of Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of
ASA: Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods, 2013, invited.
3. “Statisticians at RAND”. Presented at Statistics Career Day, the Southern California Chapter of the American
Statistical Association (SCASA), 2014, invited.
4. “A model-averaging approach to improve the efficiency of teacher value-added estimates”. Presented at JSM,
2013, topic-contributed.
5. “Estimating park-based moderate to vigorous physical activities by a Bayesian infinite server queue model”.
Presented at JSM, 2012, topic-contributed.
6. “A Fay-Herriot estimator to improve the mean squared error of teacher value-added estimates”. Co-authored
with D.F. McCaffrey and J.R. Lockwood. Presented at SREE spring meeting, 2012, contributed.
7. “Results or chance? Multiple testing and strategies for correction”. Delivered in RAND statistics short course,
2011, internal.
8. “A Bernstein-type estimator for decreasing density with application to p-value adjustments”. Presented in
Dept. of Statistics, UC Riverside, 2011, invited; Dept. of preventive medicine, USC, Pasadena, CA, 2011,
invited; RAND statistics group, 2012, internal.
9. “Beta mixture with application to fitting the monotonic empirical distribution of p-values”, presented at JSM,
2011, contributed.
10. “Simultaneous one-sided hypothesis tests in education evaluations”. Co-authored with S. Dalal and D.F.
McCaffrey. Presented at Dept. of Biostatistics, UCLA, 2009, invited; 4th IES conference, 2009, invited poster;
JSM, 2009, DC, contributed poster.
11. “The sensitivity of teacher value-added estimates to decision rules for effective student-teacher linkages”.
Co-authored with M.G. Springer. Presented in JSM, 2008, topic-contributed.
12. “A robust residual-based estimator for proportion”. Presented at JSM, 2008, contributed; RAND statistics
group, 2008, internal.
13. “A Bayesian approach to large scale simultaneous inference based on false discovery rate”. Presented at
ENAR, 2008, contributed; RAND Corporation, 2007, job talk; Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univ.
of Florida, 2007, job talk.
GRANT AND CONTRACT (selected activities)
1. 7/1/14 – 6/30/16 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Role:
principal investigator. Title: “A Novel Causal Difference-in-differences Method to Study the Medical
Home Effects” Grant No. R21HD078881. Total cost: $532,155.
2. 9/1/13 – 7/1/17 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Role: statistician. Title: “Do Departments of Parks
and Recreation Foster or Alleviate Health Disparities?” Grant No. R01HL114432. PI: Cohen.
3. 2/1/13 – 1/31/17 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Role: statistician. Title: “Promoting Physical
Activity in High Poverty Neighborhoods”. Grant No. R01HL114283. PI: Cohen.
4. 1/1/13 – 12/31/17 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism. Role: statistician. Title: “Effectiveness
of Technology Assisted Diffusion for Evidence Based Treatment”. Grant No. R01AA021217. PI: Hunter.
5. 8/20/09 – 3/31/15 National Institute of Mental Health. Role: statistician. Title: “Improving PTSD
Management in Primary Care”. Grant No. R01MH082768. PI: Meredith.
6. 6/26/12 – 8/31/12 US Chemical Safety Board. Role: Second principal investigator. Title: “Evaluation of
Process Safety Indicators”. Contract No. CSB-00120-12-0015. PI: Mendeloff.
7. 6/1/07 – 3/31/13 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Role: statistician. Title: “Parks and Physical
Activity in Diverse Communities". Grant No. R01HL083869. PI: Cohen.
8. 9/1/10 – 8/31/13 Center of Disease Control and Prevention. Role: statistician. Title: “Evaluating the Impact
of Mandatory Influenza Vaccination for Hospital Workers”. Grant No. U01IP000416. PI: Harris.
9. 10/2008 – 9/2012 Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education. Role: principal investigator.
Title: “Simultaneous Statistical Inference in Evaluating Teacher Performance”. Grant No. R305U08003.
Total cost $399,960.
10. 3/2009 – 2/2013 Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Education. Role: investigator. Title:
“Reducing Bias and Improving Efficiency of Estimated Teacher Effects from Value-Added Models”. Grant
No. R305D090011. PI: Lockwood.
11. 6/2006-6/2012 National Center for Performance Incentives, Institute of Education Sciences (subcontract).
Role: collaborator. Title: “Teacher Pay-for-Performance Initiative”. PI: McCaffrey.
12. 11/2009 – 10/2011 National Science Foundation. Role: investigator. Title: “New Algorithm for Scenario
Discovery”. Grant No. SES-0922754. PI: Lempert.
13. 7/2007 – 3/2011, National Military Family Association. Role: statistician, title: “Operation Purple Camp”. PI:
Chandra and Lara-Cinisomo.
14. 9/2009 – 9/2010. U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services. Role: statistician. Title: “Developing an
Evaluation Design for the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Grant Program”. Contract No.
HHSP23320095649WC. PI: Keyser.
TRAINING AWARD
Travel award to the Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy sponsored by American Education
Research Association (AERA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Center of Education
Statistics (NCES), 2009
Travel award to the Writing Workshop sponsored by American Statistical Association (ASA) and National
Institute of Statistical Science (NISS), 2009
Travel award to the Workshop for Junior Biostatisticians in Health Research sponsored by Eastern North
American Region of International Biometric Society (ENAR), 2009.
MERIT AWARD
Graduate fellowship of Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, 2002
Scholarships for academic excellence in college and graduate studies received each year during 1997-2002 in
Tsinghua Univ., including Nuclear Electricity Scholarship in 2001, Guanghua Scholarship in 2000, and a
few others.
TEACHING
In Pennsylvania State University:
Teaching three undergraduate courses: elementary statistics (elementary biostatistics, undergraduate-level
probability); teaching assistants for two undergraduate-level course (elementary statistics, statistical
inference), and two graduate-level courses (regression and linear model, statistical consulting practice).
In Pardee RAND Graduate School:
Teaching three graduate-level course: empirical analysis II: applied regression (2008-2015)
survey sampling I and II (2013, 2015)
Writer for the regression part of the phd qualifier exam (2008-2014)
First year review committee (2011-2012)
Phd dissertation committee (1)
Advising independent studies (6)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for:
Environmental modeling & Software (1), Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2), BMC
Public Health (1), Health Education & Behavior (1), Statistics and Public Policy (2), Stat (1), Statistical
Methodology (regular, 2008-2015), Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education (1),
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2), Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis (1), Statistics,
Policy and Politics (1), American Statistician (1), Economics of Education Review (1), Annals of Applied
Statistics (1), Journal of American Statistical Association (2), RAND report (1), National Defense
Research Institute working paper (1)
Associate editor, Annals of Applied Statistics (2012-)
Organizer and chair for contributed and topic-contributed sessions in JSM 2012.
Coordinator of RAND statistics short course series (2014-)
Coordinator of RAND statistics seminar series (2008-2013)
Co-organizer of Student Organized Seminar Series, Dept. of Statistics, Penn State University (2005-2006)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
Member, American Statistical Association
Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics