Staff

Educations and Experiences

Education

• 1988-1992 Ph.D.  University of Georgia in the USA (Research and Educational Statistics) (Minor in Teacher  performance) Dissertation: “Heterogeneous Variance in One-way ANOVA: Variance-stabilization transformation and other alternatives” under Dr. S. Olejnik
• 1986-1988 M. Ed. University of Georgia in the USA (Instructional Psychology)
• 1981-1985 B. A. Chengchi University in Taiwan (Chinese Literature)

Specializations

• Computer Simulation
• Data Analysis

Courses Offered

Undergraduate Classes

(taught to all students enrolling in the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program, National Cheng-Kung University)

• Educational Psychology
• Educational Testing and Measurement
• Gender and Education
• Service Learning

Graduate Classes

• Educational Statistics and Computer Application
• Regression Analysis
• Seminar on Psychometrics

Awards & Honors

• 2008   Fulbright Scholarship
• 2004   Outstanding Research Award in Education, National Science Council in Taiwan
• 2002   Ta-You Wu Memorial Award for extinguished  young scholar, National Science Council in Taiwan
• 2011 Outstanding Research Award in Education, National Science Council in Taiwan

Students

Publication

A. Journal Papers（2004-2015）

1. Luh, W. M. & Guo, J. H. (2004). Improved robust test statistic based on trimmed means and Hall’s transformation for two-way ANOVA models under non-normality. Journal of Applied Statistics, 31, 623-643. (SCI). (NSC91-2413-H-006-002).
2. Guo, J. H. & Luh, W. M. (2005). A robust single-stage method for the one-way ANOVA with unequal sample sizes and heterogeneous variances. Journal of Chinese Psychology, 47, 15-24. (TSSCI)
3. Hou, S.-I. & Luh, W. M. (2005). Psychometric properties of the cervical smear belief inventory for Chinese women. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 180-191. (SSCI).
4. Luh, W. M. & Guo, J. H. (2005). Heteroscedastic test statistics for one-way analysis of variance: The trimmed means and Hall’s transformation conjunction. Journal of Experimental Education, 74, 75-100. (SSCI)
5. Shu, B.C., Luh, W. M., Li, S. M., & Lu, S. Y. (2007). Self-concept and menopause among mid-life women: A survey in southern Taiwan. Maturitas, 57, 132-138. (SCI)
6. Luh, W. M & Guo, J. H. (2007). Approximate sample size formulas for the two-sample trimmed mean test with unequal variances. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 60, 137-146. (SSCI) (NSC93-2413-H-006-03).
7. Hou, S. I. & W. M. Luh (2007). The structure of a web-based HIV testing belief inventory (wHITBI) for college students: The evidence of construct validation. Medical Informatics and the internet in medicine, 32(2), 83-92.
8. Guo, J. H. & Luh, W. M. (2008). Approximate Sample size formula for Testing Group Mean Differences when Variances are Unequal in One-way ANOVA. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68, 959-971. (SSCI)（NSC94-2413-H-006-004）
9. Luh, W. M., Olejnik, S. Guo, J. H. (2008). The sample size determination for one-sample and two-sample trimmed mean tests. Journal of Experimental Education, 77(2), 167-184 .（NSC-92-2413-H-006-004）
10. Guo, J. H. & Luh, W. M. (2009). On sample size calculation for 2x2 fixed-effect ANOVA when variances are unknown and possibly unequal. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 62, 417-425. (SSCI) (SCI) (NSC95-2413-H-006-005-MY3)
11. Guo, J. H. & Luh, W. M. (2009). Optimum Sample Size Allocation to Minimize Cost or Maximize Power for the Two-Sample Trimmed Mean Test. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 62, 283-298. (SSCI)(SCI)（NSC93-2413-H-006-003）
12. Luh, W. M., Olejnik, S. Guo, J. H. (2009). The sample size determination for one-sample and two-sample trimmed mean tests. Journal of Experimental Education, 77(2), 167-184. (SSCI)（NSC-92-2413-H-006-004）
13. Lu, S. Y., Tseng, H. F., Lin, L. L., Luh, W. M., & Shu, B. C. (2009). Factors related to depression during menopause: A study in southern Taiwan. Journal of Nursing Research, 17, 128-135. (護理研究)(TSSCI)
14. Mills, L., Cribbie, R. A., & Luh, W. M. (2009). A Heteroscedastic, rank-based approach for analyzing Applied Statistical Methods, 8, 322-336.
15. Luh, W. M., & Guo, J. H. (2010). The sample size needed for the trimmed test when one group size is fixed. Journal of Experimental Education, 78, 14-25. (SSCI) (NSC93-2413-H-006-003)
16. Luh, W. M., & Guo, J. H. (2011). Developing the non-centrality parameter for calculating Group sample sizes in heterogeneous ANOVA. Journal of Experimental Education, 79, 53-63. (SSCI) (NSC94-2413-H-006-004)
17. Guo, J. H., Billard, L., & Luh, W. M. (2011). New heterogeneous test statistics for the unbalanced fixed-effect nested design. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 64, 259-276. (SSCI) (SCI)
18. Guo, J. H., Chen, H. J., & Luh, W. M. (2011). Sample size planning with the cost constraint for testing superiority and equivalence of two independent groups. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 64, 439-461. (Fulbright Grant 68432114) (SSCI) (SCI)
19. Lin, C. Y., Luh, W. M., Yang, A. L., Su, C. T., & Ma, H. I. (2012). Psychometric properties and gender invariance of the Chinese version of the self-report pediatric quality of life inventory version 4.0: short form is acceptable. Quality of Life Research, 21(1), 177-182. (SCI)
20. Lin, C. Y., Luh, W. M., Cheng, C. P., Yang, A. L., Su, C. T., & Ma, H. I. (2012). Measurement equivalence across child self-reports and parent-proxy reports ×22 independent groups designs. Journal of Modern in the Chinese version of the pediatric quality of life inventory version 4.0. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 15 December 2012. (SSCI).
21. Guo, J. H., & Luh, W. M. (2013). Efficient Sample Size Allocation with Cost Constraints for Heterogeneous-variance Group Comparison. Journal of Applied Statistics, (SCI) (NSC98-2410-H-006-067-MY3)
22. Luh, W. M., & Guo, J. H. (2015) Allocating Sample Sizes to Reduce Budget for Fixed-effect 2X2 Heterogeneous ANOVA. Journal of Experimental Education.
23. Luh, W. M., & Guo, J. H. (2015) Sample Size Planning for the Non-inferiority or Equivalence of Linear Functions of Means with Cost Considerations. Psychological Methods (accepted).

B. Conference Papers（2004-2015）

1. Luh, W. M., Guo, J. H., & Wisenbaker, J. M. (2004). Difference of attitudes toward statistics between cadets and college students. The 10th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Copenhagen, Denmark, July.
2. Luh, W. M., Takahashi, Y., & Wisenbaker, J. W. (2004). Psychometric properties of Chinese survey of attitudes toward statistics (C-SATS). The 10th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Copenhagen, Denmark, July.
3. Luh, W. M., Guo, J. H., & Olejnik, S. (2006). The sample size determination for one-sample trimmed mean tests. Paper presented in 2006 International Education Research Conference, Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, Nov. 26-30.
4. Lin, L. L., Lo, M. S., Chen, S, Hu, S. C., Su, J., & Luh, W. M. (2006). The study of exercise intervention of sports groups involved in promoting the physical fitness in the Tainan city. Paper presented in the 2nd General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities, Suzhou, China, Oct. 28-30.
5. Lin, L. L., Lo, M. S., Chen, S., Hu, S. C., & Luh, W. M. (2008). Evaluation of Exercise intervention on Physical Fitness and Exercise Behavior. Paper presented in 2008 AIESEP World congress, Sapporo, Japan, Jan. 21-24.（the third place of the Best poster award）
6. Huang, C. H. & Luh, W. M. (2008). The Sex segregation of fields and educational aspiration in graduate Master's degree：The evidence from Taiwan Higher Education Data System. Poster presented in 2008 the Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (北美華人教育研究及策劃協會), New York, March 23-24.
7. Huang, C. H, Tzeng, Y, & Luh, W. M. (2009). Gender-cue is more important than order-of-mention for pronoun resolution of young Chinese-speaking Children. Paper Presented at The Nineteenth annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Rotterdam, Netherland, July 26-28.
8. Huang, C. H. & Luh, W. M. (2009). Development of pronoun resolution in Chinese-speaking children. Poster presented in the 13 th Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-11.
9. Huang, Y.-J., & Luh, W. M. (2010). A longitudinal study of body distortion in Taiwanese Adolescents. Paper presented in 2010 CAERDA International conference. Denver, CO. USA, April 29-30.
10. Wu, P.-H., Luh, W. M., & Lai, Y.-C. (2010). The effects of perceived learning environment on the achievement emotions: Analyzing clustered data by using linear mixed models. Paper presented in the AERA conference, Denver, CO. USA, April 30-May 3.
11. Cheng, Y.-C., & Luh, W. M. (2011). Dimensionality and item-wording effect of the Chinese Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Poster presented in the 2011 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS). The Hong Kong Institute of Education, July 18-22.
12. Huang, C. H., Tzeng, Y, Luh, W. M., & Chen, M. (2011). Online pronoun resolution during Chinese narrative comprehension: An eye tracking study. Poster presented in European Conference on Eye Movement, Marseille, France, August 21-25.
13. Huang, Y.-J., & Luh, W. M. (2011). YouTube Video Interventions to Enhance Body Image for Young Adolescent Girls. Paper presented in Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) Conference 2011, September 8-9.
14. Huang, C. H., & Luh, W. M. (2012). Naming and symbolic domination: Evidence from the naming of people and roads in Taiwan. Poster presented in Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Sydney, December 2-6.
15. Huang, C. H., & Luh, W. M. (2013). The interaction between gender stereotype and gender uses during pronoun resolution in Chinese children. Paper presented in the final conference of the Initial Training Network Language, Cognition and Gender, Bern, Switzerland, June 13-16.
16. Luh, W. M., Guo, J. H. (2014). Testing Linear Function of Means and Sample Size. The VI European Congress of Methodology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 22--25.
17. Huang, C. H., & Luh, W. M. (2014, July). The Implications of Occupation and Gender Stereotypical Information. In P. Ntawigira (Chair), Interdisciplinary Symposium conducted at the meeting of International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Brighton, United Kingdom.【Oral presentation】
18. Huang, C. H., & Luh, W. M. (2015, May). Pronoun Resolution for Chinese Children: Effects of Gender Semantics cues. In A. Nicolopoulou (Chair), Workshop "Linguistic and Cognitive Effects in Anaphora Resolution". Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Research Dissemination Center, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.【Oral presentation】(Accepted)

Projects

Other

Computer Program

1. Guo, J. H. & Luh, W. M. (2005). A robust single-stage method for the one-way ANOVA with unequal sample sizes and heterogeneous variances. Journal of Chinese Psychology, 47, 15-24.
2. 1s4dataJCP10.sas
3. Luh, W. M. & Guo, J. H. (2005). Heteroscedastic test statistics for one-way analysis of variance: The trimmed means and Hall’s transformation conjunction. Journal of Experimental Education, 74, 75-100.
4. 1wdataJEE.sas
5. Luh, W. M. & Guo, J. H. (2015). Sample Size Planning for the Noninferiority or Equivalence of a Linear Contrast With Cost Considerations. Psychological Methods, Jun 29 , 2015, No Pagination Specified. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000039
6. Function-Equivalence.R : R code to calculate the approximate group sizes for testing equivalence of a linear contrast for a designated power
7. Function-Equivalence-Fix-size.R : R code to calculate other non-fixed group sizes when some group sizes are fixed, for testing equivalence of a linear contrast for a designated power
8. Function-Non-inferiority.R : R code to calculate the approximate group sizes for testing non-inferiority/ superiority of a linear contrast for a designated power
9. Function-Non-inferiority-Fix-size.R : R code to calculate other non-fixed group sizes when some group sizes are fixed, for testing non-inferiority/superiority of a linear contrast for a designated power