Individual Faculty Information

John E. Kolassa

Address:

Statistics Department
467 Hill Center
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

E-mail: kolassa@stat.rutgers.edu
Phone: 732-445-5299

Education:

Ph.D. 1989 University of Chicago (Statistics)

Certificate Cambridge University (Mathematics)

B.S. University of Chicago (Mathematics)

Present Position:

Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
Piscataway NJ 08854

Previous Positions:

1992-1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Rochester

1995-1996: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University

1991-1992: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Rochester

19890-1991: Post-doctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Department, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY

Professional Associations:

Institute of Mathematical Statistics, since 1988

American Statistical Association, since 1990

Awards:

National Science Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago, Graduate Study, 1986-1988

Hertz Foundation Research Grantee, University of Chicago, Graduate Study, 1988

Winston Churchill Scholar, Churchill College, Cambridge, Graduate Study, 1986

Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar, University of Chicago Student Marshal

Research Grants:

1994-1999: National Institutes of Health: ``Small Sample Biostatistical Inference''

Publications:

Topics in Series Approximations to Distribution Functions, Chicago: Unpublished dissertation, 1989.

``Edgeworth series for lattice distributions,'' Ann. Statist., 18 (1990), 981-985.

``Selected approximations in the case of intractable cumulant generating functions,'' Selected Proceedings of the Sheffield Symposium on Applied Probability, I.V. Basawa and R.E. Taylor, eds., Hayward CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1991, pp. 236-255.

``Confidence intervals for thermodynamic constants,'' Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55 (1991), 3543-3552.

``Statistical review of the henhouse experiments: The effects of a pulsed magnetic field on chick embryos,'' Bioelectromagnetics 13 (1992), 429-433 (with M.S. Handcock).

``Discussion on the meeting on the Gibbs sampler and other Markov chain Monte Carlo methods,'' J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 55 (1993), 78 (with M.A. Tanner).

Series Approximation Methods in Statistics, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.

``Carbamazepine treatment of agitation in nursing home patients with Dementia: A preliminary study,'' J. Amer. Geriatrics Soc. 42 (1994), 1160-1166 (with P.N. Tariot, et al.)

``Approximate conditional inference in exponential families via the Gibbs sampler,'' J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 89 (1994), 697-702 (with M.A. Tanner).

``Small sample conditional inference in biostatistics,'' Proceedings of the Symposium on the Interface 26, J. Sall and A. Lehman, eds., Fairfax Station VA: Interface Foundation of North America, 1994, pp. 333-339.

``A comparison of size and power calculations for the Wilcoxon statistic for ordered categorical data,'' Statist. in Med. 14 (1995), 1577-1581.

``Edgeworth approximations for rank sum test statistics,'' Statist. Probab. Lett. 24 (1995), 169-171.

``Acute respiratory tract infection in daycare centers for the elderly,'' J. Amer. Geriatrics Soc. 43 (1995), 30-36 (with A.R. Falsey et al.)

``Monte Carlo sampling in multiway contingency tables,'' Bull. International Statistical Institute: Proc. Fiftieth Session, II, Beijing: International Statistical Institute, 1995, pp. 471-480.

``Higher-order approximations to conditional distribution functions,'' <Ann. Statist. 24 (1996), 353-365.

``Approximate Monte Carlo conditional inference in exponential families,'' Proceedings of the Symposium on the Interface 28, L. Billard, ed., Fairfax Station VA: Interface Foundation of North America, 1996. In press. (with M.A.Tanner).

``The common cold in frail older persons: Impact of Rhinovirus and Coronavirus in a senior daycare center,'' J. Amer. Geriatrics Soc. 45 (1997), 706-711 (with A.R. Falsey et al.)

``Infinite parameter estimates in logistic regression,'' Scand. J. Statist. (1997), 523-530.

``Medical practice with nursing home residents: Results from the National Physician Activities Census,'' J. Amer. Geriatrics Soc. 45 (1997), 911-917.

``Gene-environment interaction in vulnerability in Schizophrenia: Findings from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study,'' Amer. J. Psychiatry 154 (1997), 355-62 (with K.-E. Wahlberg et al.)

Series Approximation Methods in Statistics, 2d ed., New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997.

``Convergence and accuracy of Gibbs sampling for conditional distributions in generalized linear models,'' Ann. Statist. (1997). In press.

``Uniformity of double saddlepoint conditional probability approximations,'' J. Multivar. Anal. (1998). In press.

``Confidence intervals for parameters lying in a random polygon,'' Canad. J. Statist. (1998). In press.

``Approximate Monte Carlo conditional inference in exponential families,'' Biometrics (1998). In press. (with M.A. Tanner).

``Explicit bounds for geometric convergence of Markov chains,'' (1997). Submitted.

``Bounding convergence rates for Markov chains: An example of the use of computer algebra,'' (1998). Submitted.

Presentations at Major Professional Meetings:

``Approximate saddlepoint methods,'' Symposium on Applied Probability, Sheffield UK, 1989.

``Confidence intervals for extrema in random linear programs,'' American Statistical Association Summer Meetings, Anaheim CA, 1990.

``Estimating random effects generalized linear models,'' Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta GA, 1991.

``Approximate conditional inference in exponential families via the Gibbs sampler,'' Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston MA, 1992.

``Approximate conditional inference in exponential families via the Gibbs sampler,'' Biometric Society (ENAR) Spring Meeting, Philadelphia PA, 1993. Invited paper.

``Higher-order approximations to conditional distribution functions,'' Biometric Society (ENAR) Spring Meeting, Cleveland OH, 1994.

``Approximate conditonal inference in exponential families via the Gibbs sampler,'' AMS-ASA-SIAM Conference on Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, 1994 (with M.A. Tanner).

``Small sample conditional inference in biostatistics,'' Twenty-Sixth Symposium on the Interface, Research Triangle Park NC, 1994. Invited paper.

``Uniformity of double saddlepoint conditional probability approximations,'' Biometric Society (ENAR) Spring Meeting, Birmingham AL, 1995.

``Uniformity of double saddlepoint conditional probability approximations,'' Conference on Likelihood, Asymptotics and Neno-Fisherian Inference, Brixin Italy, 1995. Invited paper.

``Monte Carlo sampling in multiway contingency tables,'' Fiftieth Session of the ISI, Beijing China, 1995. Invited paper.

``Approximate Monte Carlo conditional inference in exponential families,'' Twenty-Eighth Symposium on the Interface, Sydney NSW, 1996. Invited paper.

``Approximate Monte Carlo conditional inference in exponential families,'' Biometric Society (ENAR) Spring Meeting, Memphis TN, 1997.

``Approximate Monte Carlo conditional inference in exponential families,'' CRM Summer School on Asymptotics, Banff AB, 1997. Invited paper.

``Explicit bounds for geometric convergence of Markov chains,'' CRM Workshop on Symbolic Computation, Montreal QE, 1997. Invited paper.

``Saddlepoint approximations in biostatistics,'' Biometric Society (ENAR) Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh PA, 1998. Organized session.

``Multivariate confidence regions for generalized linear models,'' Biometric Society (WNAR) Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, 1998. Invited paper.