Peng Rong

Peng Rong

Associate Professor of Statistics
Academic Area: Statistics

Research interests

Long Term Care and Elderly Health
Longitudinal Data Analysis Methods
Aging and Health Care Utilization
Health Insurance

Bio

Peng Rong is an associate professor of Statistics at School of Economics and Trade, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics in China. Dr. Peng received her M.Sc. in Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Central China Normal University in 2002 and Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics at Sun Yat-sen University in 2011. Her current research focuses on long term care and aging health, longitudinal data analysis methods and long term care insurance. She studied at Duke University in the United State of American for one year as a visiting scholar from 2002 to 2003. She takes over or participates in several research projects, including projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China and etc. She has published one book and more than 20 research articles, of which 4 were indexed by SSCI or SCI. As a teacher, Dr. Peng teaches both undergraduate courses and graduate courses. The undergraduate courses she teaches include Econometrics, Principle of Statistics, Design of Experiment, and Statistical Quality Control. Graduate Courses Dr. Peng Teaches are Design of Experiments and Data Mining, Life and Health Insurance, English in Statistics.

Education

Ph.D. Epidemiology and Health Statistics (09/2006-06/2011), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
M.Sc. Probability and Mathematical Statistics (09/1999-06/2002), Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
B.Sc. Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (09/1995-06/1999), China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China

Work experience

Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Associate professor (09/2009-present)
Lecturer (09/2004-08/2009)
Teaching assistant (07/2002-08/2004)

Duke University (Duke Global Health Institute)
Visiting scholar (09/2012-10/2013)

Center for Master of Insurance at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Duty director (11/2013-12/2015)

Teaching experience

Undergraduate courses: econometrics; principle of statistics; design of experiment; statistical quality control; probability and mathematical statistics; numerical analysis.
Graduate courses: design of experiments and data mining; life and health insurance; English in Statistics.

Research grant

01/2016-12/2018: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Grant title: Using the system dynamics modelings to study the long-term care services distribution and policy simulation
Project Number: 71503054
Role: Principal Investigator

11/2014-12/2016: The National Statistical Scientific Research Projects
Grant title: Complex longitudinal data analysis methods and its application in the field of health research
Project Number: 2014LY110
Role: Principal Investigator

02/2012-12/2015: Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China
Grant title: Study on long term care need and financing of the oldest Chinese
Project Number: 12YJCZH164
Role: Principal Investigator

Participation in research projects

1. Research on national economic operation in the big data era (2015/01-2017/12), supported by Humanity and Social Science Foundation of ordinary university of Guangdong Province. Project Number: 2014GWXM018.
2. The system theory research of community methadone maintenance treatment effect and the influence factors (2011/01-2015/12), supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Project Number: 71173245.
3. Nonsampling error of sampling survey in China (2010/12-2011/12), supported by National Statistical Research Program of China. Project Number: 2010LC43
4. The building and cost effect analysis of community methadone maintenance treatment auxiliary service mode (2010/12-2012/12), supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Project Number: 30972552.
5. Construction of Guangdong community methadone maintenance treatment auxiliary service model (2009/10-2011/10), supported by Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province. Project Number: 9151008901000023.
6. Venture decision research based on behavioral economics (2010/11-2012/11), supported by Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China. Project Number: 10YJC790324.
7. Optimum of factor analysis model L (2009/11-2013/07), supported by Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China. Project Number:  09YJA910002.

Publications (after 2007)

1. Rong Peng, Bei Wu. Changes of health status and institutionalization among older adults in China. Journal of Aging and health, 2015, 27(7), 1223–1246.
2. Rong Peng, Bei Wu, Li Ling. Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. Research on Aging, 2015, 37(2), 148-170.
3. Rong Peng. Changes of marital status and cognitive function predicted institutionalization among elders in China. Statistics Application in Social Research from China, edited by Konglai Zhu and Henry Zhang, 2014, Australia: Aussino Academic publishing House.
4. Qun He, Yinghua Xia, Fisher Raymond, Rong Peng, Fang Yang, Li Ling. Hiv trends and related risk factors among men having sex with men in mainland China: findings from a systematic literature review. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2011, 42(3), 616-633.
5. Rong Peng, Li Ling, Qun He. Self-rated health status transition and long-term care need of the oldest Chinese. Health Policy, 2010, 97(2-3), 259–266.
6. Jihua Wu, Minyu Xie, Rong Peng, Zhihua Sun. Goodness-of -fit test with genetic background. Journal of systems sciences and complexity. 2005, 18(1), 27-34.
7. Rong Peng. Risk factors of nursing home admission among older adults in China: Based on the perspective of health changing. Chinese Journal of Social Medicine, 2015, 32(4), 275-278. (in Chinese)
8. Wenjing Wang, Rong Peng, Tong Wang, Xiaotao Lai. A study on the factors affecting the commercial health insurance needs in China using a panel model. Zhejiang Finance, 2015, 6, 59-60. (in Chinese)
9. Rong Peng, Bei Wu. Long-term care policy in China: 15 years of development and its implications. Global Health Journal, 2014, 1(2): 29-36. (in Chinese)
10. Rong Peng. Development strategy of Chinese health insurance under the background of Big Data. Guangdong Insurance, 2014, 6, 35-38. (in Chinese)
11.   Rong Peng. Changes of care need satisfaction among the oldest Chinese based on multilevel logistic regression model. Chinese Journal of Gerontology, in press. (in Chinese)
12. Rong Peng. The significant test methods for comparing proportions and its application based on the unbalanced panel data. Statistics and Decision, in press. (in Chinese)
13. Rong Peng, Li Ling. The hidden problems in and enlightenment from foreign elderly population long term care financing. Chinese Journal of Gerontology, 2012, 32(11), 2444-2447. (in Chinese)
14. Rong Peng. Care needs satisfaction and determinants among the oldest Chinese based on multilevel cumulative logistic regression model. Chinese Journal of Gerontology, 2012, 32(14), 3005-3008. (in Chinese)
15. Rong Peng, Li Ling, Qun He. Probability of transition among health status for older adults in China, Chinese Journal of Health Statistics, 2009, 26(5), 480-482. (in Chinese)
16. Rong Peng. Analysis of senior population nursing needs based on Markov model. Statistics and Information Forum, 2009, 24(3): 77-80. (in Chinese)
17. Rong Peng. Domestic and foreign long term care insurance research progress and review. Co-operative Economy and Science, 2009, 2, 64-66. (in Chinese)
18. Rong Peng, Li Ling. Consistency research on two kinds of health assessment index. Mathematics in Practice and Theory, 2008, 38(23): 104-108. (in Chinese)
19. Rong Peng. An empirical analysis of the impact of human capital investment expectation on Chinese resident saving. Statistics and Decision, 2008, 24, 87-89. (in Chinese)
20. Rong Peng. Reflections on developing long term care insurance in China. Zhejiang Finance, 2008, 11, 37-39. (in Chinese)
21. Chunlan Huang, Rong Peng. Factorization method used in our life insurance market. Application of Statistics and Management, 2007, 26(1), 47-52. (in Chinese)