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Dr Zen Lu
Position: Senior Lecturer Dr Zen Lu
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Mathematics and Statistics
Campus: City West Campus
Office: Y3-66
Telephone: +61 8 830 20648
Fax: +61 8 830 20765
Email: Zen_dot_Lu_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Zen.Lu
(Zen Lu is currently on leave - last day on leave is Monday, 21 December 2009)

I teach the following courses

MATH 1029Statistical Analysis in Business
MATH 1036Statistical Methods

Qualifications

Ph.D, Econometrics, Monash University.

PostGrad Diploma, Economics, Monash University.

Bsc, Physics, Sichuan University, China.

Research interests

  • Mixture Models/Switching Regression Models
  • Limited Dependent Variable Models
  • Applied Economics
  • Wald Test
  • Numerical Techniques For Computing Distributions
  • EM Algorithm, Simulated Annealing Algorithm

Research publications

Lu, Z.-H., The Numerical evaluation of the probability density function of a quadratic form in normal variables, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, (In Press).

Lu, Z.-H. and B.M. Brown, An exclusive regressors binary mixture model with an application to labor supply, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, (In Press).

Lu, Z.-H. and M.L. King, (2004), A Wald-type test of quadratic parametric restrictions, Economics Letters, 83, 359-364.

Brown, B.M., Brien, C.J. and Lu, Z.-H., (2003), Statistical analysis in business, Prentice-Hall: Sydney.

Smyth, R. and Z.-H. Lu, (2003), Explaining total factor productivity growth in Chinese industry, Journal of International Economic Studies, 17, 71-86.

Lu, Z.-H. and M.L. King, (2002), Improving the numerical technique for computing the accumulated distribution of a quadratic form in normal variables, Econometric Reviews, 21, 149-165.

Smyth, R. and Z.-H. Lu, (2000), Trade-offs between collective learning and specialisation in the collective township and village enterprise sector in China, The Asian Economic Review, 42, 263-278.

Research Degree Supervisor

Currently supervising one PhD student and co-supervising another PhD student.

Current Projects:

 The effects of child disability on carer’s labour market outcomes in Australia
 ---Funded by Australian Research Council through the Discovery Project, DP0666677, for 2006-2008, Chief Investigators: Zeng-Hua Lu and Justin Trogdon

Increasing prevalence of children with disabilities in Australia accompanied by lack of research makes this study imperative.
The innovative approach adopted in this project means there will be a number of national benefits resulting from this study.
It will help governments in Australia make more informed policies toward providing assistance to affected families, which will reduce the burden on families caring for children with disabilities.
More informed policy will improve the well being of such children.
It will advance knowledge in the fields of labour and health economics, and econometrics, and hence enhance Australian research reputation in the fields.



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