Overview
Background
Dr Ding Ma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biostatistics in the ULTRA team (University of Queensland’s cLinical TRials cApability). He holds a PhD in Statistics, with a focus on the estimation of semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) models incorporating time-varying covariates. Ding's research interests centre on the development and extension of semiparametric survival models, with expertise in survival analysis, semiparametric regression and computational statistics. He is passionate about advancing statistical methodologies to support applications in biostatistics, especially in the design and analysis of clinical trials. In addition to his research, Ding has extensive experience in tutoring a wide scope of statistics subjects, including introductory statistics, sampling design and analysis, statistical inference, statistical learning, etc.
Availability
- Dr Ding Ma is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Meteorology, Sun Yat-sen University
- Graduate Diploma in Statistics, University of New South Wales
- Masters (Coursework) of Applied Statistics, Macquarie University
- Masters (Research) of Statistics, Macquarie University
- Doctor of Philosophy of Statistics, Macquarie University
Research interests
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Semiparametric survival model estimation
Including semiparametric accelerated failure time model, Cox proportional hazards model, etc.
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Joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data
Works
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2026
Conference Publication
Frailty is associated with earlier dementia onset: Evidence from the Rush Memory and Aging Project
Strating, Tom R., Haapanen, Markus J., Ma, Ding, Gordon, Emily H., Rockwood, Kenneth, Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor and Ward, David D. (2026). Frailty is associated with earlier dementia onset: Evidence from the Rush Memory and Aging Project. HOBOKEN: WILEY.
2026
Conference Publication
Delirium predicts nursing home admission in individuals with and without dementia: A matched cohort study in the UK Biobank
Haapanen, Markus J., Ward, David D., Ma, Ding, Gordon, Emily H., Rockwood, Kenneth and Hubbard, Ruth Eleanor (2026). Delirium predicts nursing home admission in individuals with and without dementia: A matched cohort study in the UK Biobank. HOBOKEN: WILEY.
2026
Journal Article
Semiparametric accelerated failure time models with time-varying covariates under partly interval censoring
Bhaskaran, Aishwarya, Ma, Ding, Hong, Angela, Liquet, Benoit, Heritier, Stephane, Lo, Serigne N and Ma, Jun (2026). Semiparametric accelerated failure time models with time-varying covariates under partly interval censoring. BMC Medical Research Methodology. doi: 10.1186/s12874-026-02916-y
2026
Journal Article
Delirium and incident nursing home admission among people with and without dementia
Haapanen, Markus J., Ward, David D., Ma, Ding, Gordon, Emily H., Rockwood, Kenneth and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2026). Delirium and incident nursing home admission among people with and without dementia. Age and Ageing, 55 (5) afag151. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afag151
2023
Journal Article
On semiparametric accelerated failure time models with time‐varying covariates: a maximum penalised likelihood estimation
Ma, Ding, Ma, Jun and Graham, Petra L. (2023). On semiparametric accelerated failure time models with time‐varying covariates: a maximum penalised likelihood estimation. Statistics in Medicine, 42 (30), 5577-5595. doi: 10.1002/sim.9926
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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