Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised:

 

  1. Sommers, John P.  On the Improvement of Kernel Type Density Estimators  (June 1972)

  2. Frawley, William H.  Improved Approximate Confidence Levels.  (Dec 1972)

  3. Li, Lai-Hung Loretta.  A Rank Test Sensitive to Common Concordance in Two Groups  (Aug 1973).

  4. Minor, James Marshall.  Improved Estimation of f'(y)/f(y)  (Aug 1973).

  5. Beckett, James III.  Some Properties and Applications of a Statistic for Analyzing Concordance of Rankings of Groups of Judges  (June 1975).

  6. Michael, John R.  Goodness-of-Fit: Type II Censoring and Influence Functions  (Aug1977).

  7. Parr, William C.  Minimum Distance and Robust Estimation  (Aug.1978).

  8. Ulrich, Gary.  Bilinear Rank Statistics  (Dec 1980).

  9. Palachek, Albert D.  Applications of U-Statistics to Testing and Estimation of Concordance  (Aug 1981).

  10. Bosmia, Natwarlal J.  Minimum Distance Estimation of a Truncation Parameter  (Aug 1982).

  11. Lee, Young-Ha.  An Improvement of the Bootstrap Methodology (Aug 1983).

  12. Thombs, Lori A.  Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Autoregressive Processes  (Aug 1985).

  13. Cha, Kyung-Joon.  Adaptive Bandwidth Selection for a Boundary Kernel in Nonparametric Regression (Aug. 1990).

  14. Bao, Weihang.  Simultaneous Selection of Local Bandwidth and Kernel Order (Dec 1990). 

  15. Perera, Nalin.  Nonparametric Regression with Measurement Error Model (Aug 1993).

  16. Gerard, Patrick.  Combining Independent Nonparametric Regression Estimators (Dec  1993).

  17. Polansky, Alan.  Kernel Smoothing to Improve Bootstrap Confidence Intervals  (Aug1995)

  18. Ernst, Michael D.  Permutation Tests of Bivariate Interchangeability (May 1997).

  19. Adams, Bryan E.  Scatterplot Smoothing with Partially Variable Bandwidths (Aug 1999)

  20. Pitblado, Jeff.  Estimating Partially Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression using an Information Criterion (May 2000)

  21. Juarez, Sergio.  Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution  (May 2003) (pdf file of dissertation)(GPD files for Splus)

  22. Minhajuddin, Abu.  Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Ordered Alternative Hypotheses (August 2003)

  23. Jia, An.  Recursive Partitioning for Kernel Smoothers (December 2003)

  24. Carmack, Patrick S.  Recursive Partitioning in Spatially Correlated Data.  (August 2004).

  25. Tang, Liansheng.  Undercoverage of Wavelet-based Resampling Confidence Intervals and a Parametric Spatial Bootstrap.  (May 2005)

  26. Montemajor, Jorge.  Resampling Tests for Heritability (expected December 2008).

  27. Kozlitinia, Julia.   Improved Tests for Trend in Genetic Association (expected August 2008).

  28. Gedif, Kinfemichael.  Detecting Brian Activations in fMRI Experiments with a Cross-Correlation Statistic (expected August 2008).