William R. Schucany

Honors and Offices:

Phi Beta Kappa
Research Award, SMU Chapter, Sigma Xi (1979)
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1981)
Don Owen Award from San Antonio Chapter of ASA (1984)
Elected Member of International Statistical Institute (1994)

Communications in Statistics, Associate Editor (1972-1992),   Senior Editor (1992- present)
J. American  Statistical Association, Associate Editor (1983-1985)
J. Educational Statistics, Associate Editor (1981-1983)
Statistics: Textbooks and Monographs, Coordinating Editor (1992 - present)
North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Vice President (1970-71); President (1971-72), Secretary (1972-78)
ASA, Section on Statistical Education, Nominations Committee (1977), Chair-elect (1985),
     Chair (1986); ad hoc Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession
     (1985-88); Committee on Publications (1990-1992); Committee on Nominations
     (1994-96); Publications Management Committee (1998-2000), Section on Nonparametric Statistics Chair Elect (2000) Sigma Xi, SMU Chapter, Treasurer (1976-77), V.P. (1982-83), President (1983-84)
Phi Beta Kappa, SMU Chapter, Audit Committee Chair (1982),  Membership (1990-1992)
Organizer and Program Chairman, Texas Conference of Statisticians  (1981 and 1982),
     Program Co-Chair (1991, 1996 and 1999))

Grants and Contracts:

"Bias Reduction", (ONR Contracts), $ 76,000 (January 1972-February 1975), $288,000 (March 1975-January 1982) $145,000 (February 1982 - February 1985)

"Sample Reuse in Statistical Modeling", (ONR) $195,684 (June 1985-September 1988)

"Simulation Methodology on MELCOR Program", Sandia National Laboratories, $9,931 (Sept 1984 - March 1985) 

"Statistical Modeling of Antibody Repertoire", University of Maryland (NIH), $16,000 (June 1990 - September 1990)

"Statistical Methods for Magnetic Field Quality Assurance", (DOE/SSC) $151,000 (June 1992 - July 1993)

"Conference on Nonparametrics in Large, Multidimensional Data Mining", (NSF) $10,000 (Dec. 2000 - May 2001)

"A Project to Investigate Innovative Ways of Analyzing Neuro-Imaging Data and the Associated Records of Human Subjects", The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas/U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisiton Activity (DOD), August 2002 - May 2002.

Books and Chapters:

The Generalized Jackknife Statistic, H. L. Gray and W. R. Schucany, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1972).

“Analysis of data from censored samples," with Michael, Chapter 11 in Goodness of Fit Techniques, ed., by R. D'Agostino and M. Stephens, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1986).

Statistics of Quality, edited with S. Ghosh and W. B. Smith, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1996).

“Donald Owen’s Contribution to the Statistics of Quality” Chapter in Statistics of Quality, Marcel Dekker, Inc.:  New York (1996).

“Magnetic Field Quality Investigations for Superconducting Super Collider Magnets,” with Gunst, Chapter in Statistics of Quality, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1996).
 

Publications in Refereed Journals:

  1. “The Gegenbauer Function", Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 21 (1967), 349-351.
  2. “A New Approximation Related to the Error Function,"  with Gray, Mathematics of Computation, 22 (1968), 201-202.
  3. “On the Evaluation of Distribution Functions," with Gray, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 63  (1968), 715-720.
  4. “Lower Confidence Limits for Availability Assuming Lognormally Distributed  Repair Times," with Gray, IEEE  Transactions on Reliability, R-18 (1969), 157-162.
  5. “Some Limiting Cases of the G-Transformation," with Gray, Mathematics of  Computation, 23 (1969), 849-860.
  6. “Bayesian Prediction and Population Size Assumptions," with Bratcher and Hunt, Technometrics, 13 (1971), 678-681.
  7. “On Bias Reduction in Estimation," with Gray and Owen, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 66 (1971), 524-533.
  8. “A Survey of Statistical Packages," with Shannon and Minton, Computing  Surveys, 4 (1972), 65-79.
  9. “Order Statistics in Simulation," J. Statist. Compt. Simul., 1 (1972),  281-286.
  10. “A Rank Test for Two Group Concordance," with Frawley, Psychometrika, 38 (1973), 249-258.
  11. “On the Jackknife Statistic and its Relation to UMVU Estimators in the Normal  Case," with Gray and Watkins, Commun. in Statist., 2 (1973), 285-320.
  12. “Some Properties of a Test for Concordance of Two Groups of Rankings," with Li, Biometrika, 62 (1975), 417-423.
  13. “On the Generalized Jackknife and its Relation to Statistical Differentials," with Gray and Watkins, Biometrika, 62 (1975),  637-642.
  14. “Generating Random Variates Using Transformations with Multiple Roots," with  Michael and Haas, The American Statistician, 30 (1976), 88-90.
  15. “Best Estimates of Functions of Parameters in the Gamma and Gaussian Distributions”,  with Gray and Woodward, IEEE Trans. on Reliability, R-25 (1976), 95-99.
  16. “Efficient Estimation of P(Y<X) in the Exponential Case," with Kelley and Kelley, Technometrics, 18 (1976), 359-360.
  17. “Analysis of Multiple Sets of Incomplete Rankings," with Beckett, Commun. Statist. 5 (1976), 1327-1334.
  18. “Improvement of Kernel Type Density Estimators," with Sommers, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 72 (1977), 420-423.
  19. “Combination of a Preference Pattern with the Triangle Taste Test," with Woodward, Biometrics, 33 (1977), 31-39.
  20. “Adjusting the Degrees of Freedom for the Jackknife," with Woodward, Commun. Statist., 6 (1977), 439-442.
  21. “Bibliography for Statistical Consulting," with Woodward, Biometrics, 33 (1977),   564-565.
  22. “Correlation Structure in Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern Distributions," with Parr and  Boyer, Biometrika, 65 (1978),  650-653.
  23. “A New Approach to Testing Goodness-of-Fit for Censored Samples," with Michael, Technometrics, 21 (1979), 435-441.
  24. “Analysis of the Reliability of a New Scale for Housing Quality," with Mansfield, Woodward and Hess, J. Statist. Planning and Inference, 3 (1979), 305-313.
  25. “Concordance among Categorized groups of Judges," with Beckett, J. of Edu. Statist., 4 (1979), 125-137.
  26. “Robustness of Minimum Distance Estimation," with Parr, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 75 (1980), 616-624.
  27. “A Special Distribution Result for Bilinear Forms," with Beckett and Broffitt, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 75 (1980),  466-468.
  28. “The Jackknife: A Bibliography" with Parr, Int. Statist. Rev., 48 (1980), 73-78.
  29. “Jackknifing L-Statistics with Smooth Weight Functions," with Parr, J. Amer.  Statist. Assoc., 77 (1982), 629-638.
  30. “Minimum Distance Estimation and Components of Goodness-of-Fit Statistics," with Parr, J. Roy Statist. Soc., Ser. B, 44 (1982), 178-189.
  31. “An Empirical Study of Related Correlation Coefficients", with Boyer and  Palachek, J. Edu. Statist., 8 (1983), 75-86.
  32. “On the Correlation of a Group of Rankings with an External Ordering Relative to the Internal Concordance", with Palachek, Statist. Prob. Letters, 1 (1983), 259-263.
  33. “On Approximate Confidence Intervals for Measures of Concordance," with  Palachek, Psychometrika, 49 (1984), 133-141.
  34. “A Comparison of Minimum Distance and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a  Mixture Proportion," with Woodward,  Parr & Lindsey, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 79 (1984), 590-598.
  35. “The Influence Curve and Goodness of Fit" with Michael, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc.,  80 (1985), 678-682.
  36. “Locally Optimal Window Widths for Kernel Density Estimation with Large Samples", Statist. Prob. Letters, 7 (1989),  401-405.
  37. “A Local Cross-Validation Algorithm", with Hall, Statist. Prob. Letters, 8 (1989),  109-117.
  38. “Jackknifing R-estimators", with Sheather, Biometrika, 76, (1989), 393-398.
  39. “On Nonparametric Regression with Higher-order Kernels", J. Statist. Planning &  Inference, 23, (1989), 145-151.
  40. “Small Sample Variance Estimators for U-Statistics," with Bankson, Austral. J. Statist., 31 (1989), 417-426.
  41. “Better Nonparametric Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Correlation  Coefficient," with Hall and Martin, J. Statist. Comp. Simul., 33 (1989), 161-172.
  42. “Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Autoregression", with Thombs, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 85 (1990), 486-492.
  43. “Jackknife Estimation of the Bootstrap Acceleration Constant", with Frangos, Comp. Statist. Data Anal., 9 (1990), 271-281.
  44. “Gaussian-based Kernels", with Wand, Canadian J. Statist., 18 (1990), 197-204.
  45. “One-step Bootstrapping for Smooth Iterative Procedures", with Wang, J. Roy.  Statist. Soc., B, 53 (1991), 587-596.
  46. “Adaptive Bandwidth Choice for Kernel Regression", J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 90  (1995), 535-540.
  47. “Improved Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in Certain Toxicological Experiments"  with Frangos, Commun. in Statist., Theo. & Meth., A24, (1995), 829-844.
  48. “A Comparison of Confidence Intervals from R-estimators in Regression", with  George, McKean, and Sheather, J  Statist.  Comp. Simul., 53 (1995), 13-22.
  49. “On Combining Independent Nonparametric Regression Estimators", with Gerard, Statist. Prob. Letters 26 (1996), 25-34.
  50. "Scatterplots for Unordered Pairs", with Ernst and Guerra, The American  Statistician, 50 (1996), 260-265.
  51. "Kernel Smoothing to Improve Bootstrap Confidence Intervals", with Polansky,  J. Roy. Statist. Soc., B., 59 (1997),  821-838.
  52. "Asymptotically Efficient Nonparametric Estimation with Additional Dichotomous  Observations", with Koshevnik  Statistica Sinica, 7 (1997), 1121-1133.
  53. "Methodology for Nonparametric Regression from Independent Sources", with Gerard, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 25 (1997), 287-304.
  54. “Smoothed Bootstrap Confidence Intervals with Discrete Data", with Guerra and Polansky, Computational Statistics and  Data Analysis, 26 (1997), 163-176.
  55. "Locating Exotherms in Differential Thermal Analysis with Nonparametric Regression," with Gerard, J. Agri. Biol. Environ. Statist., 2 (1997), 255-268.
  56. “Nonparametric Kernel Regression Estimation Near Endpoints", with Cha, J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 66 (1998),  289-304.
  57. "A Class of Permutation Tests of Bivariate Interchangeability", with Ernst, Journal of American Statistical Association, 94 (1999), 273-284.
  58. "Local Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Estimation of Population Densities with Line Transect Sampling", with Gerard, Biometrics, 55 (1999), 769-773.
  59. "Combining Population Density Estimates in Line Transect Sampling using the Kernel Methods", with Gerard, tJ. Agri. Biol. Environ. Statist. 7 (2002).
  60. "The Mixture Approach for Simulating a Bivariate Distribution with Specified Correlations", with Michael, The American Statistician, 56 (2002), 48-54.

  61. "Simulating Multivariate Distributions with Specific Correlations", with Harris and Minhajuddin, J. Statist. Comp. Simul., 74 (2004), 599-607.

  62. "Kernel Smoothers: An overview of curve estimators", Statistical Science, 19 (2004), 663-675.

  63. “Recursive Partitioning for Kernel Smoothers: A Tree-based Approach for Estimating Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression” with An Jia, submitted to JCGS (2005).

  64. "Folly of Preliminary Formal Goodness-of-fit Tests for Normality”, with Tony Ng, submitted to The American Statistician (2005).

  65. "Improved Agreement Between Talairach and MNI Coordinate Spaces in Deep Brain Regions", with Carmack, Spence, Gunst, Woodward and Haley,  NeuroImage, 22 (2004), 367-371.

  66. "Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution," with S. Juarez, Extremes, 7 (2004), 237-251.

  67. "Using a White Matter Reference to Remove the Dependency of Global Signal on Experimental Conditions in SPECT”, with Spence, Carmack, Gunst, Woodward and Haley, submitted to NeuroImage.

  68. "Increasing the Power of Group Comparisons in SPECT Brain Imaging through Spatial Modeling of Intervoxel  Correlations" with Spence, Carmack, Gunst and Haley, submitted to J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. (2004).

  69. “An Enhanced Sign Test for Dependent Binary Data with Small Numbers of Clusters” with Pat Gerard submitted to Comp. Statist. Data Analysis (2005).

  70. “Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Directional Alternative Hypotheses” with Minhajuddin, Frawley, and Woodward submitted to Statist. In Medicine (2005).

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