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RESEARCH ARTICLES

 

2007 Faculty Publications
  1. Bura, E., Klimov, D. K. and Barsegov, V. (2007). Analyzing Forced Unfolding of Protein Tandems by Ordered Variates: 1. Independent Unfolding Times. Biophysical Journal, 93, 1100-1115


  2. Lu,Z., Shieh,L., Chen,G, and C. Chandra (2007). "Identification and control of chaotic system via recurrent high-order neural networks", Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 13, p. 357-372.


  3. Gel, Y.R., Miao, W. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2007). Robust Directed Tests of Normality Against Heavy Tailed Distributions. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 2734-2746.


  4. Gastwirth, J.L. (2007). A Graphical Summary of Health Care Rates and Related Measures of Disparity. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 1059-1065 (Special Issue on Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics: In honor of M.L. Puri).


  5. Agarwal, R., Whang, D.H., Alvero, A.B., Visintin, I., Lai, Y., Segal, E.A., Schwartz, P., Ward, D., Rutherford, T. and Mor, G. (2007) Macrophage migration inhibitory factor expression in ovarian cancer. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 196, 348.e1-5.


  6. Grobman, W.A., Lai, Y., Landon, M.B., Spong, C.Y., Leveno, K.J., Rouse, D.J., Varner, M.W., Moawad, A.H., Caritis, S.N., Harper, M., Wapner, R.J., Sorokin, Y., Miodovnik, M., Carpenter, M., O'Sullivan, M.J., Sibai, B.M., Langer, O., Thorp, J.M., Ramin, S.M., Mercer, B.M. and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network (2007) Development of a nomogram for prediction of vaginal birth after cesarean delivery. Obstetrics and Gynecology 109, 806-812.


  7. Hua, D. and Lai, Y. (2007) An ensemble approach to microarray data based gene prioritization after missing value imputation. Bioinformatics, 23, 747-754.


  8. Lai, Y., Adam, B-L., Podolsky, R. and She, J-X. (2007) A mixture model approach to the tests of concordance and discordance between two large scale experiments with two-sample groups. Bioinformatics, 23, 1243-1250.


  9. Lai, Y. (2007) A moment based method for estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses and its application to microarray gene expression data. Biostatistics, 8, 744-755.


  10. Lai, Y. (2007) Conservative adjustment of permutation p-values when the number of permutations is limited. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 3, 536-546.


  11. Zhang H, Zhang H, Li Z, and Zheng G. (2007). Statistical Methods for Haplotype-based Matched Case-control Association Studies. Genetic Epidemiology, 31: 316-326.


  12. Shu Y, Liu A, and Li Z. (2007). Two-Stage Evaluation of Sensitivity and Specificity in Binary Diagnostic Tests. Statistics in Medicine, 26: 4416-4427.


  13. Mahmoud, H. (2007). One-sided variations on tries: Path imbalance, climbing, and key sampling. Refereed Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on the Analysis of Algorithms, Juan les Pins France.


  14. Modarres, R. and Patil, G.P. (2007). Hotspot Detection with Bivariate Data. In Celebration of the Centennial of the Birth of Samarendra Nath Roy (1906-1964),Volume 137, Issue 11, 3643-3654.


  15. Modarres, R. (2007). A Test of Independence Based on the Likelihood of Cut-Points. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, Volume 36, Number 4, 817-825.


  16. Hirth, R.A., Turenne, M.N., Wheeler, J.R.C., Pozniak, A.S., Tedeschi, P., Chuang, C.C., Pan, Q., Slish, K., and Messana, J.M. (2007). Case-mix adjustment for an expanded renal prospective payment system. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 18: 2565-74.


  17. Nayak, T.K, and Kundu, S (2007). Comparison of Stopping Rules in Sequential Estimation of the Number of Classes in a Population. Sequential Analysis (2007), 26, 367-381.


  18. Singpurwalla, N. D. (2007). Betting on Residual Life: The Caveats of Conditioning. In Statistics and Probability Letters. Vol. 77, No. 12, pp. 1354-1361.


  19. Stroud, J.R. and Bentgsson, T. (2007). Sequential state and variance estimation within the ensemble Kalman filter. Monthly Weather Review, 135, 3194-3208.


  20. Lee, C., Schwab, D.J., Beletsky, D., Stroud, J.R., and Lesht, B.M. (2007). Numerical modeling of mixed sediment resuspension, transport, and deposition during the March 1998 episodic events in southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C02018.


  21. Weinberg, J., Brown, L.D., and Stroud, J.R. (2007). Bayesian forecasting of an inhomogeneous Poisson process with applications to call center data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 1185-1199.

 

2006 Faculty Publications
  1. Balaji, S. and Mahmoud, H. (2006) :  Exact and Limiting distributions in diagonal Polya processes, Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics(AISM), 58, 171-185.


  2. Balaji, S. and Dhar, S. (2006) :  On the Characterization of a bivariate distribution, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Vol.35, Issue.5, pp.759-765.


  3. Balaji, S. ,  Mahmoud, H.,  and Watanabe, O. (2006) :  Distributions in the Ehrenfest process, Statistics and Probability letters, 76, 666-674.


  4. Bose, S. (2006) :Estimating the Center of Symmetry: Is it always better to use larger sample sizes, J. Statistical Planning & Inference, vol. 136, 4194-4203.


  5. Bura, E. and Gastwirth, G. L. (2006) :  Assessing the Fairness of a Firm's Allocation of Shares in Initial Public Offerings: Adapting a Measure from Biostatistics.  Chance, 19(2), 32-37.


  6. Gastwirth, J.L. (2006). A Sixty Million Dollar Statistical Issue Arising in the Interpretation and Calculation of a Measure of Relative Disparity: Zuni Public School District 89 v. U.S. Department of Education. Law, Probability and Risk, 5, 33-61.


  7. Yin, X. and Bura, E. (2006) : Dimension Reduction for Multivariate Response Regression (2006). Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 3675-3688.


  8. Chandra, J. , Shieh, L., and Chen,G.  (2006):  Identification and control of chaotic systems via recurrent high-order neural networks, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 12, 1-17.


  9. Chandra, J.  and Landon, J. (2006) : Towards a reliable and resilient mobile wireless architecture”, J. Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 24, 827-841.


  10. Hanson, T, Johnson, W.O. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2006): Bayesian inference for prevalence and diagnostic test accuracy based on dual pooled screening. Biostatistics, 7, 41-57


  11. Small, D., Krieger, A.M., Gastwirth, J.L. and Rosenbaum, P.R. (2006) :  R-Estimates vs. GMM: A Theoretical Case Study of Validity and Efficiency. Statistical Science, 21, 363-375.


  12. Zheng, G. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2006) : On estimation of the variance in Cochran-Armitage trend tests for genetic association using case-control studies. Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 25, 3150-3159. 


  13. Zheng, G., Freidlin, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2006):  Comparison of Robust Tests for Genetic Association Using Case Control Studies. IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series 2006, Vol. 49, 253-265 (ed. J. Rojo).


  14. Lai, Y. (2006):  A statistical method for estimating the proportion of differentially expressed genes. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 30, 193-202.


  15. Lai, Y. (2006): On the identification of differentially expressed genes: improving the generalized F-statistics for Affymetrix microarray gene expression data. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 30, 321-326.


  16. Deng W, Chen H, and Li Z. (2006): A Logistic Regression Mixture Model for Interval Mapping of Genetic Trait Loci Affecting Binary Phenotypes. Genetics, 172: 1349-1358.


  17. Li Z and Gastwirth J.L. (2006):  The Effect of a Small Fraction of Undetected Half Sibs on Linkage Studies Using ED and EC sib Pairs. Journal of Statistical Research, 39: 95-110.


  18. Zheng G, Ghosh K, Chen Z, and Li Z. (2006):  Extreme Rank Selection for Linkage Analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci Using Selected Sib-pairs. Annals of Human Genetics, 70:857-866.


  19. Zhang H, Zheng G, and Li Z. (2006): Statistical Analysis for Haplotype-Based Matched Case – Control Studies. Biometrics, 62: 1124-1131.


  20. Aguech, R., Lasmar, N. and Mahmoud, H. (2006):  Limit distribution of distances in biased random tries Journal of Applied Probability, 43, 1-15.


  21. Arora, A., Jin, F., Sahin, G., Mahmoud, H. and Choi, A. (2006):  Throughput analysis in wireless networks with multiple users and multiple channels. Acta Informatica 43, 147-164.


  22. Aguech, R., Lasmar, N. and Mahmoud, H. (2006):  Distances in digital search trees. Acta Informatica , 43, 243-264.


  23. Modarres, R. and Zheng, G. (2006) : A Robust Estimate of the Correlation Coefficient for Bivariate Normal Distribution using Ranked Set Sampling. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2006, Volume 136, Issue 1, 298-309.


  24. Modarres, R., Patil, G.P., Myers, W.L., and Rathbun, S.L. (2006) : Hot-Spot Geoinformatics for Digital Governance. Encyclopedia of Digital Government,  (Editors Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Mälkiä).


  25. Modarres, R. and Freeman, J. (2006) : Inverse Box-Cox: The Power-Normal Distribution. Statistics & Probability Letters, Volume 76, Issue 8, Pages 764-772.


  26. Modarres, R. and Freeman, J. (2006) : Efficiency of Tests of Location after a Box-Cox Transformation. Communication in Statistics, Theory and Methods, Volume 35, issue 6.


  27. Modarres, R., Hui, T. and Zheng, G. (2006): Resampling Methods for Ranked Set Samples. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, The journal of the International Association for Statistical Computing, 2006, 51, 1039-1050.


  28. Modarres, R., Patil, G.P., Patakar, P. and Myers, W. (2006): Spatially Constrained Clustering and Upper Level Set Scan Hotspot Detection in Surveillance GeoInformatics. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Volume 13, Issue 4.


  29. Modarres, R.M. and Gastwirth (2006) :  A Cautionary Note on Estimating the Standard Error of the Gini Index of Inequality. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 68, 455-461.


  30. Nayak, T.K. and El-Baz, A. (2006):  On Bayesian and Decision Theoretic Approaches to Statistical Prediction. In Advances in Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference, ed.  N. Balakrishnan, E. Castillo, and J.M. Sarabia, Boston: Birkhauser, 405-416.


  31. Singpurwalla, N.D. (2006):  On Competing Risk and Degradation Processes. In The Second Erich L. Lehman Symposium – Optimality. Institute of Mathematical Statistics – Monograph Series, (J. Rojo, Ed.) , Vol. 49, 289 – 304.


  32. Singpurwalla, N.D. (2006): The Hazard Potential: Introduction and Overview. Journal of American Statistical Association.  Vol. 101, No. 476, pp. 1705-1717.


  33. Singpurwalla, N.D. (2006): Reliability and Survival in Financial Risk. In Advances in Statistical Modeling and Inference – Essays in Honor of Kjell Doksum (V. Nair, Ed). World Scientific Publications, 93-114.
2005 Faculty Publications
  1. Bura,E., Gastwirth, J.L, and Modarres,R. (2005): The Use of the Lorenz Curve, Gini Index and Related Measures of Relative Inequality and Uniformity in Securities Law, METRON , vol. LXIII, 451-469.

  2. Bura,E., Gastwirth, J.L, and Modarres,R. (2005):Statistical methods for assessing the fairness of the allocation of shares in initial public offerings, Law, Probabilityand Risk, 4, 143-158.

  3. Zheng, G. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2005). Fisher information in randomly sampled sib pairs and extremely discordant sib pairs in genetic analysis for a quantitative trait locus. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 130, 299-315.

  4. Zheng, G., Freidlin B., Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2005). Genomic Control for Association Studies: Variance Inflation Factors and Tests for Recessive and Dominant Models. Biometrics, 61, 186-192.

  5. Yu, B.B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2005). Sensitivity Analysis for Trend Tests: Application to the Risk of Radiation Exposure. Biostatistics, 6, 201-209.

  6. Graubard, B.I., Rao, R.S. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2005) Using the Peters-Belson Method to Measure Health Care Disparities form Complex Survey Data. Statistics in Medicine, 24, 2659-2668.

  7. Gel, Y., Miao, W. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2005). The importance of checking the assumptions underlying statistical analyses: graphical methods for assessing normality. Jurimetrics Journal, 46, 3-29.

  8. Gastwirth, J.L. (2005). Case Comment: Statistical tests for the analysis of data on peremptory challenges: Clarifying the standard of proof needed to establish a prima facie case in Johnson v. California. Law, Probability and Risk, 4, 179-185.

  9. Chen Z, Zheng G, Ghosh K, and Li, Z. Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci by Selective Genotyping. American Journal of Human Genetics, 77: 661-669, 2005.

  10. Lai, Y. and Zhao, H. (2005) A statistical method to detect chromosomal regions with DNA copy number alterations using SNP-array-based CGH data. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 29, 47-54.

  11. Mor, G., Visintin I., Lai, Y., Zhao, H., Schwartz, P., Rutherford, T., Yue, L., Bray-Ward, P. and Ward, D.C. (2005) Serum protein markers for early detection of ovarian cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, 7677-7682

  12. Cahan, P., Ahmad, A.M., Burke, H., Fu, S., Lai, Y., Florea, L., Dharker, N., Kobrinski, T., Kale, P. and McCaffrey, T.A. (2005) List of lists-annotated (LOLA): A database for annotation and comparison of published microarray gene lists. Gene, 360, 78-82.

  13. Li, Z, Gastwirth, J.L. and Gail, M.H. (2005). Power and Related Statistical Properties of Conditional Likelihood Ratio Score Tests for Association Studies in Nuclear Families with Parental Genotypes. Annals of Human Genetics, 69, 296-314.

  14. McGee DL, and Diverse Populations Collaboration (Li, Z. is a member of the group). Body Mass Index and Mortality: A Meta-analysis Based on Person-level Data from Twenty-six Observational Studies. Annals of Epidemiology, 15: 87-97, 2005.

  15. Christophi, C. and Mahmoud, H. (2005). The oscillatory distribution of distances in random tries. The Annals of Applied Probability, 15, 1536-1564.

  16. Itoh, Y. and Mahmoud, H. (2005). Age Statistics in the Moran Population Model. Statistics and Probability Letters, 74, 21-30.

  17. Modarres, R., Gastwirth, J.L. and Ewens, W.E. (2005). A cautionary note on the Use of Nonparametric tests in the Analysis of Environmental Data. Environmetrics, 16, 319-326.

  18. Singpurwalla, N.D (2005): Decelerated Testing : A Hierarchical Bayes Approach, Technometrics, 47, 4.

  19. Singpurwalla, N.D and Seung, B.J. (2005):Equitable and adversarial pricing for items under warranty, Law, Probability and Risk, 4, 51-77.

  20. Keller-McNulty, S., Nakhleh, C.W., and Singpurwalla, N.D (2005): A Paradigm for Masking (Camouflaging) Information, International Statistical Review, 73, 331-349.

     

2004 Faculty Publications
  1. Bose, S. (2004) "On the robustness of the predictive distribution for sampling from finite populations", Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 69, 21-27.

  2. Lu,Z., Shieh,L.S., and Chandra, J.(2004)"Tracking control of nonlinear system: A sliding mode design via chaotic optimization, Interna. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14, p.1343-1355.

  3. Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2004). On the Power of Affected Relative Pair Designs for Linkage Studies. Annals of Human Genetics, 68, 65-68.

  4. Miao, W. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2004). The Effect of Dependence on Confidence Intervals for a Population Proportion. American Statistician, 58, 124 - 130.

  5. Rao, S., Graubard, B., Breen, N and Gastwirth, J.L. (2004). Understanding the Underlying Disparities in Cancer Screening Rates Using the Peters-Belson Approach: Results from the National Health Survey. Medical Care, 42, 789-800.

  6. Zheng, G., Freidlin, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2004). Using Kullback-Leibler Information for Model Selection when the Data-generating Model is Unknown: Applications to Genetic Testing Problems. Statistica Sinica, 14, 1021-1036.

  7. Gastwirth, J.L. and Freidlin, B. (2004). A Note on the Use of Tests of Mutation Rates on Ordered Groups. Genetic Testing, 8, 437-440.

  8. Gastwirth, J.L. and Sinclair, M.D. (2004), A Re-examination of the Kalven-Zeisel Study of Judge-Jury Agreements Using Modern Contingency Table Analysis Techniques. Law, Probability and Risk, 169-191.

  9. Ghosh K. and Tiwari R.C. (2004) Bayesian Density Estimation using Ranked Set Samples, Environmetrics, 15 (7), 711-728.

  10. Tiwari R.C., Ghosh K., Jemal A., Hachey M., Ward E., Thun M.J. and Feuer E.J. (2004) A New Method of Predicting US and State-Level CancerMortality Counts for the Current Calendar Year, CA: A Cancer Journal forClinicians, 54 (1), 30-40.

  11. Lachin JM. (2004)The role of measurement reliability in clinical trials. Clinical Trials, 1, 553- 566.

  12. Dickersin K, Davis BR, Dixon DO, George SL, Hawkins BS, Lachin JM, Peduzzi P, Pocock S.(2004) The Society for Clinical Trials supports United States legislation mandating trials registration. Clinical Trials, 1, 417-420.

  13. Lachin JM. ()2004)Conflicts of interest in data monitoring of industry versus publicly financed clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine, 23, 1519-1521, 2004

  14. Lai, Y. and Sun, F. (2004) Sampling distribution for microsatellites amplified by PCR: mean field approximation and its applications to genotyping. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228: 185-194.

  15. Lai, Y., Wu, B., Chen, L. and Zhao, H. (2004) A statistical method for identifying differential gene-gene co-expression patterns. Bioinformatics, 20: 3146-3155.

  16. Wright ME, Mayne ST, Stolzenberg-Sologmon R, Li Z, Pietinent P, Taylor PR, Virtamo J,and Albanes, D. Development of a Comprehensive Dietary Antioxidant Index and Application to Lung Cancer Risk in a Cohort of Male Smokers. American Journal of Epidemiology, 160: 68-76, 2004.

  17. Itoh, Y., Mahmoud, H. and Takahashi, D. (2004). A stochastic model forsolitons. Random Structures and Algorithms, 24, 51-64.

  18. Mahmoud, H. (2004). Random sprouts as Internet models and Polya processes.Acta Informatica, 41, 1-18.

  19. Mahmoud, H. and Tsukiji, T. (2004). Limit laws for terminal nodes in random circuits with restricted fan-out: a family of graphs generalizing binary search trees. Acta Informatica, 42, 99-110.

  20. Javanian, M., Mahmoud, H. and Vahidi-Asl, M. (2004). Paths in m-ary interval trees. Discrete Mathematics, 287, 45-53.

  21. Johnson, N., Kotz, S. and Mahmoud, H. (2004). Polya-type urn models with multiple drawings. Journal of the Iranian Statical Society, 3, 165-173.

  22. Modarres, R., Marki,A., and Hopkin, R.(2004): Cryptosporidiosis Risk in New York City: A Case Study of Incorporating Susceptibility into Microbial Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis : A special issue on microbial risk assessment. Vol. 24, No. 1, 2004, pp. 209-220.

  23. Modarres, R., and Zheng, G.(2004): On Estimation of Dependence using Ranked Set Samples Statistics and Probability Letters, 2004. Vol. 68, no. 3, 315-323.

  24. Abeer El-Baz, and T.K. Nayak(2004): Efficiency of Composite Sampling for estimating a Lognormal Distribution. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, (2004), 11, 283-294.

 
 
2003 Faculty Publications
  1. Balaji and Mahmoud (2003).Tenability of Polya urns. College Mathematics Journal , Vol.34, p.405-406.

  2. Bura, E. and Pfeiffer, R.M. (2003). Graphical classification of tumours using dimension reduction techniques on DNA microarray data. Bioinformatics, 19, 1252-1258.

  3. Bura, E. and Cook, R.D. (2003). Rank Estimation in Reduced-Rank Regression. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 87, 159-176.

  4. Bura, E. (2003). Using Linear Smoothers to Assess the Structural Dimension of Regressions. Statistica Sinica, 13, 143--162.

  5. Bura, E. and Cook, R.D. (2003). Assessing Corrections to the Weighted Chi-Squared Test Statistic for Dimension. Communications in Statistics -- Simulation and Computation, 32, 127--146.

  6. Chandra, J.,"Information fusion for critical infrastructure
    protection?, Proc. SMS Fifth Annual Conference on Military Data Fusion, September 2003

  7. Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). Issues Arising in Using Samples as Evidence in Trademark Cases. Journal of Econometrics, 113, 69-82.

  8. Zheng, G., Freidlin, B., Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). Choice of Scores in Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Candidate-Gene Associations. Biometrical Journal, 45, 335-348.

  9. Zou, K.H., Gastwirth, J.L. and McNeil, B.J. (2003) A Goodness-of-Fit Test for a Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve from Continuous Diagnostic Test Data in Crossing Boundaries: Statistical Essays in Honor of Jack Hall. (Ed J. E. Kolassa and D. Oakes) 59-68.

  10. Li, Z, Xie, M and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). When Can the Haseman-Elston Procedure be Improved: Insights from Optimal Design Theory. Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics: In Celebration of Prof. Y. Zhang's 70th Birthday (Ed. H. Zhang and J. Huang), 246-261.

  11. Zheng, G. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). Fisher Information in Ordered Randomly Censored Data with Applications to Characterization Problems. Statistica Sinica, 13, 507-513.

  12. Freidlin, B., Zheng, G., Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). Efficiency Robust Tests for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Using Extremely Discordant Sib Pairs. Human Heredity, 55, 117-124.

  13. Freidlin, B., Miao, W. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). On the Use of the Shapiro-Wilk Test in Two-Stage Adaptive Inference for Paired Data with Moderate to Heavy Tails. Biometrical Journal, 45, 887-9.

  14. Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). On the Power of Affected Relative Pair Designs for Linkage Studies. (to appear in the Annals of Human Genetics).

  15. Gastwirth, J.L., Miao, W. and Zheng, G. (2003). Statistical Issues Arising in Disparate Impact Cases and the Use of the Expectancy Curve in Assessing the Validity of Pre-Employment Tests. Review of the International Statistical Institute, 71, 565-580.

  16. Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). The Need for Careful Evaluation of Epidemiological Evidence in Product Liability Cases: A Reexamination of Wells v. Ortho and Key Pharamaceuticals. Law, Probability and Risk, 2, 151-189.

  17. Yu, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2003). The 'reverse' Cornfield Inequality and its Use in the Analysis of Epidemiologic Data. Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3383-3401.

  18. Ghosh, K., Jammalamadaka, S. R. and Tiwari, R.C. (2003). Semiparametric Bayesian Techniques for Problems in Circular Data. Journal of Applied Statistics, 30(2), 145--161.

  19. Shinde, D., Lai, Y., Sun, F. and Arnheim, N. (2003) Taq DNA polymerase slippage mutation rates measured by PCR and quasi-likelihood analysis: (CA/GT)n and (A/T)n microsatellites. Nucleic Acids Research 31, 974-980.

  20. Lai, Y., Shinde, D., Arnheim, N. and Sun, F. (2003) The mutation process of microsatellites during the polymerase chain reaction. Journal of Computational Biology 10, 143-155.

  21. Lai, Y. and Sun, F. (2003) Microsatellite mutations during the polymerase chain reaction: mean field approximations and their applications. Journal of Theoretical Biology 224, 127-137.

  22. Lai, Y. and Sun, F. (2003) The relationship between microsatellite slippage mutation rate and the number of repeat units. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 2123-2131.

  23. Zheng G, Chen Z, and Li Z. Tests for Candidate-Gene Association Using Case-Parents Design. Annals of Human Genetics, 67: 589-597, 2003

  24. Xie M and Li Z. The Optimal Design for Hypothesis Test and its Applications in Genetic Linkage Analysis. Science of China, Ser A 46 (6): 737-749, 2003

  25. Li Z and Xie M. Statistics in Genetics. Advanced Medical Statistics, Ed by Fang, JQ and Lu,Y, 583-615, World Scientific Publishing Co. PTE. LTD., Singapore, 2003

  26. Mahmoud, H. Neininger, R. (2003).Distribution of distances in random binary search trees.The Annals of Applied Probability, 13, 253-276.

  27. Mahmoud, H. (2003).Urn models and connections to random trees: A review.
    Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society, 2, 53-114.

  28. Mahmoud, H. (2003).Mixed distributions in Sattolo's algorithm for cyclic permutationsvia randomization and derandomization.Journal of Applied Probability, 40, 790-796.

  29. Itoh, Y. and Mahmoud, H. (2003).One-sided variations on interval trees.Journal of Applied Probability, 40, 654-670.

  30. Mahmoud, H. (2003).One-sided variations binary search trees.The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55, 885-900.

  31. Modarres, R. (2003). Estimation of a Bivariate Symmetric Distribution Function. Statistics and Probability Letters, 63, 25-34.

  32. T.K. Nayak. Finding Optimal Estimators in Survey Sampling Using Unbiased Estimators of Zero. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, (2003), 114, 21-30.

  33. N.D.Singpurwalla(2003) Knowledge management and Information superiority: A Taxonomy. Journal of Statistical Planning and inference. Vol.115, No.2, 361-364.

  34. N.D.Singpurwalla, T.R.Bement, J.M.Booker, and S.Keller McNulty(2003): Testing the untestable: Reliability in the 21st Century. IEEE Transactions in Reliability. Vol.52, No.1, 118-124.

  35. N.D.Singpurwalla(2003) Warranty: A surrogate of Reliability. Mathematical Reliability: An Expository perspective(Soyer et al. Eds.), 317-333.

  36. N.D.Singpurwalla, C.W.Kong, and A.Swift (2003): Predicting Damage. Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliabilty 2002(Lindquist and Dokum Eds.), World Scientific, 267-282.

  37. N.D.Singpurwalla, Mazzuchi, Ozekici and Soyer(2003): Stochastic process models for reliability in dynamic environments, Handbook of Statistics()C.R.Rao, and R.Khattre, Eds.), Elsevier Science, Vol.22, 1109-1129.

  38. Tatsuoka, C. and Ferguson, T. (2003). Sequential Classification on Partially Ordered Sets. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 65, 143-157.

2002 Faculty Publications
  1. Rosenberger, W. & Lachin, J.M. Randomization in Clinical Trials: Theory and Practice. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.

  2. Hubalek, F., Hwang, H. Lew, W., Mahmoud, H., Prodinger, H. (2002). A multivariate view of random bucket digital search Trees. Journal of Algorithms, 44, 121-158.

  3. Li, Z., Xie, M., and Hsu, Z. (2002). Statistics in Genetics. Advanced Medical Statistics, Ed by Fang, JQ and Lu,Y, 391-412, People's Health Publishing Inc., Beijing.

  4. Li, Z., Gail, M. H., Pee, D., and Gastwirth, J. L. (2002). Statistical Properties of Teng and Risch's Sibship Tests for Detecting an Association between Disease and a Candidate Alelle, Human Heredity, 53: 114-129.

  5. Freidlin, B., Zheng, G., Li, Z., and Gastwirth, J. L. (2002). Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Genetic Markers: Power, Sample Size and Robustness, Human Heredity, 53: 146-152.

  6. Pfeiffer, R., Rutter, J., Struewing, J, Gail, M. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2002). Efficiency of DNA Pooling to Estimate the Joint Allele Frequencies and a Measure of Linkage Disequilibrium. Genetic Epidemiology, 22, 94-102.

  7. Modarres, R., Nayak, T.K. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2002). Estimation of Upper Quantiles and Model Uncertainty. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 39, 529-554.

  8. Modarres, R. (2002). Efficient Estimation of a Distribution Function. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 39, 75-95.

  9. Zheng, G., Freidlin, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2002). Robust TDT-type Candidate-Gene Association Tests. Annals of Human Genetics, 66, 145-155.

  10. Gastwirth, J. L. (2002). Book Review: Posner, R.A. (2002), Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election and the Courts. Law, Probability and Risk, 1, 53-65.

  11. Gastwirth, J.L., and Nayak, T.K. (2002). Law and Environmental Statistics. In Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 2, ed. Abdel H. El-Shaarawi and Walter W. Piegorsch, New York: Wiley, pp. 1142-1146.

  12. Nayak, T.K. (2002). Rao-Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean Squared Error of Prediction. American Statistician, 56(2), 102-106.

  13. Tatsuoka, C. (2002). Data Analytic Methods for Latent Partially Ordered Classification Models. Appl. Statist. 51, part 3, 337-350.

  14. Pfeiffer, R. M., Bura, E., Smith, A. and Reiter, J. L. (2002). Two Approaches to Mutation Detection Based on Functional Data, Statistics in Medicine, 21, 3447-3464.

  15. Zitikis, R and Gastwirth, J.L. (2002). The Asymptotic Distribution of the S-Gini Index . Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 44, 439-446.

  16. Gastwirth, J.L. and Miao, W. (2002). The Potential Effect of Dependence in the Analysis of Data in Jury Discrimination Cases: Moultrie v. Martin Reconsidered. Jurimetrics, 43, 115-128.

  17. Gastwirth, J.L. (2002). Comment on the Age Discrimination Example, 42 Jurimetrics J. 333-340.

  18. Ghosh, K. (2002), Detecting Changes in the von Mises Distribution, in: Advances on Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Probability and Statistics, N. Balakrishnan (editor), 225—238, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  19. The DPP Research Group (J. Lachin, Co-Director, Coordinating Center, member, Writing Committee). Cost associated with the primary prevention of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Diabetes Prevention Program. Diabetes Care, 2002, 26, 36-47.

  20. The DPP Research Group (J. Lachin, Co-Director, Coordinating Center, member, Writing Committee). Hypertension, Insulin, Proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension, 2002, 40, 679-686.

  21. The DCCT/EDIC Research Group (J. Lachin, Director, Coordinating Center, member, Writing Committee). The effect of intensive therapy on the microvascular complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002, 287, 2563-2569.

  22. The DPP Research Group (J. Lachin, Co-Director, Coordinating Center; member, Writing Committee). Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2002; 346, 393-403.

  23. Diverse Population Collaborative Group (Li, Z. is a coauthor). Prediction of Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease among Diverse Populations: Is There a Common Predicative Function? Heart, 88: 222-228, 2002.

  24. Nayak, T.K. Rao-Cramer Type Inequalities for Mean Squared Error of Prediction. American Statistician, (2002), 56(2), 102-106.

  25. Nayak, T.K., and Kundu, S. Some Remarks on Generalizations of the Likelihood Function and the Likelihood Principle. In Advances on Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Probability and Statistics, ed. N. Balakrishnan, New York: Taylor and Francis, (2002), pp. 199-211.

  26. Singpurwalla, N., On Exchangeable, Causal and Cascading Failures (with Dennis Lindley), (2002). Statistical Science. Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 209-219.

  27. Singpurwalla, N., On Causality and Causal Mechanisms (with Discussion), (2002). International Statistical Review. Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 198-206.

  28. Singpurwalla, N., Some Cracks in the Empire of Chance: Flaws in the Foundations of Reliability, (2002). International Statistical Review (with Discussion). Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 53-78.
 
2001 Faculty Publications
  1. Kundu, S. (2001). A short note on repeated significance tests and unified Bayesian-Frequentist measure. Sequential Analysis, Vol. 20, 77-86.

  2. Nayak, T.K., and Kundu, S. (2001). Calculating and Describing Uncertainty Propagation in Risk Assessment: The Bayesian Approach. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 7(2), 307-328.

  3. Yuan J., Gastwirth, J.L., and Li, Z. (2001). Effect of Family Relatedness on Linkage Testing Using Affected Sib-Pairs, Proceeding of the 2001 Meeting of the American Statistical Association, CD Rom Publication.

  4. Li, Z. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2001), A Weighted Test Using Both Extreme Discordant and Concordant Sib-pairs for Detecting Linkage. Genetic Epidemiology, 20, 34-43.

  5. Johnson, W.O., Gastwirth, J.L. and Pearson, L.M. (2001), Screening without a Gold Standard: The Hui-Walter Paradigm Revisited. American Journal of Epidemiology, 153, 921-924.

  6. Zheng, G. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2001), On the Fisher Information in Randomly Censored Data. Statistics and Probability Letters, 52, 421-426.

  7. Yang, X., Goldstein, A.M., Chase, G.A., Gastwirth, J.L. and Goldin, L.R. (2001). Use of Weighted P-values in Regional Inference Procedures. Genetic Epidemiology, 21 (Supp. 1), S484-489.

  8. Christophi, C. and Mahmoud, H. (2001). Distribution of the size of Random hash trees, pebbled hash trees and N-trees. Statistics and Probability Letters, 23, 277-288.

  9. Tsukiji, T. and Mahmoud, H. (2001). A limit law for outputs in random circuits. Algorithmica, 31, 403-412.

  10. Mahmoud, H. and Tsukiji, T. (2001). On the internal structure of random recursive circuits. Journal of Computational Applied Mathematics, 142, 155-171.

  11. Balaji, S., Vidyasagar, M., and Hammer, B. Closure properties of Uniform convergence of Empirical means and PAC-Learnability under a family of Probability measures, Systems and Control Letters, Vol 42, issue 2, (2001) pp.151-157.

  12. Bura, E. and Cook, R. D. (2001). Extending SIR: The Weighted Chi-Square Test, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 996-1003.

  13. Bura, E. and Cook, R. D. (2001). Estimating the Structural Dimension of Regressions via Parametric Inverse Regression, Journal of the Royal Statistical Association, Series B, 63, 393-410.

  14. Bura, E. and Gastwirth, J. L. (2001). The Binary Regression Quantile Plot: Assessing the importance of Predictors in Binary Regression Visually, Biometrical Journal, 43, 5-21.

  15. Hayek, L. A. and Bura, E. (2001). On the Ends of the Taxon Range Problem. In Pattern from Process in the Fossil Record, Jackson, J.B.C., Lidgard, S. and McKinney, F.K. (eds), pp. 221-244. Chicago University Press.

  16. Singpurwalla, N., and Swift, A. (2001). Network Reliability and Borel’s Paradox. The American Statistician. Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 213-218.

 
2000 Faculty Publications
  1. Mahmoud, H. (2000). Sorting: A Distribution Theory. Wiley, New York.

  2. Lachin, J.M. Biostatistical Methods: The Assessment of Relative Risks. John Wiley and Sons, 2000. (ISBN: 0-471-36996-9; 541 pages)

  3. Kundu, S., Majumdar, S. and Mukherjee, K. (2000). Central Limit Theorems Revisited. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 47, 265-275.

  4. Li, Z. and Zhang, H. (2000). Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci in Humans Using both Extremely Discordant and Concordant Sib Pairs: a Unified Approach for Meta-analysis, Communications in Statistics, 29: 1115-1127.

  5. Mahmoud, H., Flajolet, P., Jacquet, P. and Rignier, M. (2000). Analytic variations on bucket selection and sorting. Acta Informatica, 36, 735-760.

  6. Kotz, S., Mahmoud, H. and Robert, P. (2000). On generalized Polya urn models. Statistics and Probability Letters, 49, 163-173.

  7. Nayak, T.K. (2000). On Best Unbiased Prediction and Its Relationships to Unbiased Estimation. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 84, 171-189.

  8. Johnson, W.O. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000), Dual Group Test Screening. Journal of Statistical Inference and Planning, 83, 449-473.

  9. Freidlin, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000), Change Point Tests Designed for the Analysis of Hiring Data Arising in Equal Employment Cases. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 18, 315-322. (This article received an Outstanding Applications Award at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association.)

  10. Sinclair, M.D. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000), Properties of the Hui and Walter and Related Methods for Estimating Prevalence Rates and Error Rates of Diagnostic Testing Procedures. Drug Information Journal, 605-615.

  11. Freidlin, B. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000). Should the Median Test be Retired from General Use? The American Statistician, 54, 161-164.

  12. Gastwirth, J.L. (2000). Issues Arising in the Use of Statistical Evidence in Discrimination Cases. Statistical Science in the Courtroom ed. by Gastwirth, J.L., 227-243.

  13. Gastwirth, J.L., Freidlin, B. and Miao, W. (2000). The Shonubi Case as an Example of the Legal System’s Failure to Appreciate Statistical Evidence. Statistical Science in the Courtroom ed. by Gastwirth, J.L., 405-413.

  14. Zheng, G. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000), Where is the Fisher Information in an Ordered Sample? Statistics Sinica, 10, 1267-1280.

  15. Gastwirth, J.L. and Freidlin, B. (2000). On Efficiency and Power Robust Linkage Tests for Affected Sibs. Annals of Human Genetics, 64, 443-453.

  16. Bura, E. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000). The Binary Regression Quantile Plot: Assessing the Importance of Predictors in Binary Regression Visually. Biometrical Journal, 43, 5-21.

  17. Engels, E.A., Sinclair, M.D., Biggar, R.J., Whitby, D., Ebbesen, P., Goedert, J.J. and Gastwirth, J.L. (2000). Latent Class Analysis of Human Herpesvirus 8 Assay Performance and Infection Prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa and Malta. International Journal of Cancer, 88, 1003-1008.

  18. Gastwirth, J.L. (2000), The Efficiency of Pooling in the Detection of Rare Mutations. American Journal of Human Genetics, 67, 1036-1039.

  19. Balaji S and Meyn S.P: Multiplicative Ergodicity and Large deviations for an irreducible Markov chain, Stochastic processes and their applications, 90 (2000) pp.123-144.

  20. Balaji S and Ramasubramaninan S: Passage time moments for Multidimensional diffusions, Journal of Applied Probability, 37 (1), (2000), pp.246-251.

  21. Hu, M., and Lachin JM. Application of robust estimating equations to the analysis of quantitative longitudinal data, Statistics in Medicine, 20, 3411-3428, 2001.

  22. Bautista OM, Bain RP and Lachin JM. A flexible stochastic curtailing procedure for the log-rank test. Controlled Clinical Trials, 21, 428-439, 2000.

  23. Lachin JM. Statistical Considerations in the Intent-to-treat Principle. Controlled Clinical Trials, 21, 167-189, 2000.

  24. The DCCT Research Group (J. Lachin, Director, Coordinating Center; member, Writing Committee). The effect of pregnancy on microvascular complications in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT). Diabetes Care, 2000, 23, 1084-1091.

  25. The DCCT/EDIC Research Group (J. Lachin, Director, Coordinating Center; Chair, Writing Committee). Retinopathy and nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes four years after a trial of intensive therapy. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2000; 342, 381-9.

  26. The Point Process Paradox: Where Should We Extend the Conversation?, (2000). The American Statistician. Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 119-120.

 

 
 
 
   
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