FACULTY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
(1998-1999)

Publications

Steven Buyske

"Clinical and pathological correlates of stillbirths in a single institution". (1998) Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 77, 722-728 with D. Wgunyemi, U. Jackson and A. Risk.

"Optical Design for Item Calibration in Computerized Adaptive Testing: The 2PL Case", (1998) New Developments and Applications in Experimental Design, 115-125 (Refereed). Selected Proceedings of a 1997 Joint AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Conference, ed. N. Flournoy, W.F. Rosenberger and W.K. Wong, Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Arthur Cohen

"Directional tests for one sided alternatives in multivariate models" (1998) Ann. of Statist, 26 with H.B. Sackrowitz.

Richard Gundy

"Stability Properties for a Compactly Supported Prescale Function". In Press. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, with V. Dobric and P. Hitczenko.

"Stopping Times and Local Convergence for Spline Wavelet Expansions". In Press. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, with K. Kazarian.

"Characterizations of Orthonormal Scale Functions: A Probabilistic Approach". In Press. Journal of Geometric Analysis, with V. Dobric and P. Hitczenko.

"Two Remarks Concerning Wavelets: Cohen’s Criterion for Low-Pass Filters and Meyer’s Theorem on Linear Independence". In Press. In Harmonic Analysis of Wavelets, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI.

Regina Liu

"Monitoring Multivariate Aviation Safety Data by Data Depth – Control Charts and Threshold Systems". (June 1999) IIE Transactions, with A. Cheng and J. Luxhoj.

"Multivariate Analysis by Data Depth: Descriptive Statistics, Graphics and Inference". (June 1999) Ann. Statist., with J. Parelius and K. Singh.

Discussion on "Regression Depth", by M. Hubert and P. Rousseeeuw (June 1999) J. American Statist. Assoc., with K. Kingh.

"Data Depth Monitoring Schemes for Quality Control". (1998) Ergonomics for Global Quality and Productivity, ed. By R. Bishu, W. Karwowski and R. Goonnetilleke, 177-181.

Harold Sackrowitz

"Rationality Criterion" (1998) Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences 575-576, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

Lawrence Shepp

"An Optimal Acceptance Policy for an Urn Scheme" (1998) Siam J. Discrete Math., 11, 183-195, with R.W. Chen, A. Zame and A. Odlyzko.

"Explicit Sufficient Invariants for an Interacting Particle System" (1998) J. Applied Probab., 35, 633-641, with Y. Itoh and C. Mallows.

Kesar Singh

"Breakdown Theory for Bootstrap Quantiles" (1998) Ann. Statist., 26(5), 1719-1732.

"Multivariate Analysis by Data-Depth: Descriptive Statistics, Graphics and Inferences" to appear with Discussions and Rejoinder, Ann. Statist.¸ 27(3), with R. Liu and J. Parelius.

Discussion on the paper, "Regression Depth," by M. Hubert and P. Rousseeus, J. American Statist. Assoc., March 1999, with R. Liu.

William Strawderman

"On the Construction of Bayes Minimax Estimators" (1998) Ann. Statist, 26, 660-671, with D. Fourdrinier and M. Wells.

"Estimation robuste pour des lois a symetrie elliptique a matrice de covariance inconnue" (1998) C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. 1, 326, 1135-1140, with D. Fourdrinier and M. Wells.

"On Estimation with Balanced Loss Functions" (1998) Prob. and Statist. Letters, with D. Dey and M. Ghosh, to appear.

"The Asymptotic Behavior of Bayes Estimators for Dichotomous Quantal Response Models" (1998) Sankhya, 60, 418-425, with M. Messig.

David Tyler

"Performance Assessment by Resampling: Rigid Motion Estimators" (1998) Empirical Evaluation Techniques in Computer Vision, 72-95, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA with B. Matei and P. Meer.

"Matching Sequences: Cross Spectral Analysis of Categorical Time Series" (1998) Biometrika 85, 201-203, with D. Stoffer.

"Smoothing the gap between statistics and image understanding" Comments on the paper "Edge preserving smoother for image processing" by C.K. Chu, I.K. Glad, F. Godtliebsen & J.S. Marron, (1998) J. American Statist. Assoc., with P. Meer.

"S-estimators" (1999) Encyclopedia of Statistic Science, 659-662, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

"Illustrating the Behavior of CM-Estimates of Location and Scale" (1998) Brazilian J. Probab. and Statist.12, 41-53, with B. Mendes.

"Retrieval Performance Improvement through Low Rank Corrections" (1999) to appear in IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries, (CBAIVL-99) with D. Comaniciu, P. Meer and K. Xu.

Yehuda Vardi

"The Discrete Radon Transform and its Approximate Inversion via the EM Algorithm" (1998) International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology 9, 155-173, with D. Lee.

"Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Constrained Multinomial Models" (1998) J. Statistical Computation and Simulation 61, 141-161, with U. Rothblum.

"Positron Emission Tomography and Random Coefficients Regression" (1998) Annals of the Institute for Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo), with A. Feuerverger.

"On Some Connections Between Positron Emission Tomography and Random Coefficients Regression" Proceedings of the 6th Prague Symposium on Asymptotic Statistics, Prague Stochastics 1998, Charles Univ. Vol. 1, 153-157.

"Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Semiparametric Selection Bias Models with Application to AIDS Vaccine Trials" (1999) Biometrika, 86, 27-43, with P. Gilbert and S. Lele.

"Linear Programming in Factorization of Characteristic Functions" (1999) Bernoulli, with A. Kagan, C. Mallows, L. Shepp and R. Vanderbei.

"Reconstruction of Binary Images from Limited Projections via the EM Algorithm" (1999) in Discrete Tomography: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications (edited by G. Herman and A. Kuba), with C.-H. Zhang.

Minge Xie

"Regression Modelling of Ordinal Data with Nonzero Baselines" (1999) Biometrics 55/1, 308-316, with D. Simpson.

"Randon Effects in Censored Ordinal Regression: Latent Structure and Bayesian Approach" (Tentatively accepted) Biometrics, with D. Simpson and R. Carroll.

Zhiliang Ying

"Additive Hazars Regression with Current Status Data" (1998) Biometrika, 85, 289-298, with D.Y. Lin and D. Oakes.

"Nonparametric Estimation for the Gap Time Distributions for Serial Events with Censored Data", (1998) Biometrika, 86, 59-70, with D.Y. Lin and W. Sun.

"Accelerate Failure Time Models for Counting Processes" (1998) Biometrika, 85, 605-628, with D.Y. Lin and L.J. Wei.

"A General Theory on Stochastic Curtailment for Censored Survival Data" (in press) J. American Statist. Assoc.

"A Class of G-rho Type Weighted Log-Rank Tests for Survival Data when the Event is Rare" (in press) J. American Statist. Assoc.

"A Stratified Multistage Computerized Adaptive Testing" (in press) Statistica Sinica.

Cunhui Zhang

"Moments of Some Stopping Rules" (1999) J. London Math. Soc., 57, 503-512 with W. Teicher.

"Linear regression with interval censored data" (1998) Ann. Statist., 26, 1306-1327 with G. Li.

"Unbiased estimation of a lattice mixing distribution and the characteristic function of a general mixing distribution" (1999) Sankhya, 61, 101-112.

"Sub-Bernoulli functions, moment inequalities and strong laws for positive and symmetrized U-Statistics" (1999) Ann. Probab., 27, 432-453.

"A central limit theorem for convex chains in the square" (in press) Discrete and Computational Geometry, with I. B« r« ny, G. Rote and W. Steiger.

"Reconstruction of binary images from limited projections via the EM algorithm" (in press) To appear in Discrete Tomography: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications, with Y. Vardi.