Individual Faculty Information

Robert H. Berk

Address:

Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
Piscataway NJ 08854

E-mail: berk@stat.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 445-0447

Education:

S.B., Mathematics (1959), M.I.T.

A.M., Statistics (1960), Harvard University

Ph.D., Statistics (1964), Harvard University

Experience:

Director, Statistical Consulting Unit, 1996

Undergraduate Director, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, 1992

Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, 1990

Chairman, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, 1986-1988

Fulbright Fellow (University of Tel Aviv), 1980-1981

Professor of Applied and Mathematical Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1972-1977. (Moved to Professor II, July 1977)

Associate Professor of Applied and Mathematical Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1970-1972

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University, NY, 1969-1970

Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Science Foundation (at Hebrew University, Jerusalem), 1968-1969

Consultant in Statistics, Mathematical Reviews, 1967-1968

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-1967

Visiting Research Associate, Department of Statistics, (Summer)&Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1966

Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964-1970

Statistical Consultant, New England Center Hospital (Pratt Clinic), Boston, MA, 1963-1964

Research Assistant, Harvard University, 1963-1964

Instructor, University of Massachusetts Extension (Cambridge), 1962

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1959-1963

Trainee, Statistical Techniques Group, (Summer)&Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, NY, 1959-1960

Other Professional Activities:

Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 1974-1979, 1992

Chairman, IMS Committee on Operations, 1975

Program Co-Chairman, IMS Annual Meeting, 1980

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1980-

Chairman, IMS Publications Committee, 1986-1987

Consulting Statistician, Office of Statistical Consulting, Rutgers University, 1986-

Limiting behavior of posterior distributions when the model is incorrect. Ann. Math. Stat. 37 (1966) 51-58.

A special group structure and equivariant estimation. Ann. Math. Stat. 38 (1967) 1436-1445.

The information in a rank-order and the stopping time of some associated SPRTs (with I. R. Savage). Ann. Math. Stat. 39 (1968) 1661-1674.

On invariance and almost invariance (with P. J. Bickel). Ann. Math. Stat. 39 (1968) 1573-1576.

On biorthogonal and dual configurations and the reciprocal normal distribution. Ann. Math. Stat. 40 (1969) 393-398.

Strong consistency of certain sequential estimators. Ann. Math. Stat. 40 (1969) 1492-1495.

On a Monte-Carlo procedure of Darling and Robbins. Israel J. Math. 7 (1969) 365-368.

A remark on almost invariance. Ann. Math. Stat. 41 (1970) 733-735.

Consistency a posteriori. Ann. Math. Stat. 41 (1970) 894-906.

The stopping times of SPRTs based on exchangeable models. Ann. Math. Stat. 41 (1970).

Consistency and asymptotic normality of mles for exponential models. Ann. Math. Stat. 43 (1972) 193-204.

A note of sufficiency and invariance. Ann. Math. Stat. 43 (1972) 647-650.

Some asymptotic aspects of sequential analysis. Ann. of Stat. 1 (1973) 1126-1138.

Locally most powerful sequential tests. Ann. of Stat. 3 (1975) 373-381.

Comparing sequential and non-sequential tests. Ann. of Stat. 3 (1975) 991-998.

Asymptotic efficiencies of sequential tests. Ann. of Stat. 4 (1976) 891-911.

Characterizations via conditional distributions. J. Appl. Prob. 14 (1977) 806-816.

Sequential Bahadur efficiency (with L. D. Brown). Ann. of Stat. 6 (1978) 561-581.

Some monotonicity properties of symmetric Polya densities and their exponential families. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie 42 (1978) 303-307.

Asymptotic efficiences of sequential tests II. Ann. of Stat. 6 (1978) 813-819.

Relatively optimal combinations of test statistics (with D. Jones). Scand. J. Stat. 5 (1978) 158-162.

Relatively optimal goodness-of-fit test statistics (with D. Jones). Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie 47 (1979) 47-59.

Dirichlet processes produce discrete measures: An elementary proof (with I. R. Savage). In Contributions to Statistics (Jaroslav Hajek Memorial Volume). J. Jureckova, Ed., Academia, Prague (1979) 23-31.

Asymptotically optimal methods of combining tests (with A. Cohen). JASA 74 (1979) 812-814.

Properties of Bayes sequential tests (with L. Brown and A. Cohen). Ann. Stat. 9 (1981) 678-682.

Bounded stopping times for a class of sequential Bayes tests (with L. Brown and A. Cohen). Ann. Stat. 9 (1981) 834-845.

On an asymptotically optimal sequential test. Scand. J. Stat. 9 (1982) 159-163.

Some remarks on IRT equating. Test Equating, P. Holland and D. Rubin, eds., Academic Press (1982) 163-168.

Stochastic bounds for attained levels. J. Multivariate Anal. 14 (1984) 376-389.

Sphericity and the normal law. Ann. Prob. 14 (1986) 696-701.

Asymptotic minimal sequential tests. Seq. Anal. (1988). Under revision.

Optimality of the least-squares estimator (with J. Hwang). J. Multivar. Anal. 30 (1989) 245-254.

A concept of type-2 P-value (with K. Singh). (1992) Submitted for publication.

Dual cones, dual norms and simultaneous inference for partially ordered means (with R. Marcus). (1993) Submitted for publication.

On reversion toward the mean. (1993) Submitted for publication.