Statistical Science

Ph.D. Graduates

This page contains the list of all Ph.D. graduates organuized by the last name. Each entry includes the name the the graduate, thesis title and the name of the advisor. Please click here to notify the department of any omission or error.

A

Bryan Adams (1998), Scatterplot Smoothing with Partially Variable Bandwidths (William R. Schucany)
Mohammad Alassaf (1984), A Comparison of Four Variance Component Estimators in Regular Group Divisible Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (C. H. Kapadia)
Michael Ames (1987), Discrimination Intervals for Percentiles in Random Effects Covariance Model (J. T. Webster)
Charles Anderson (1969), Generalized Asymptotes for Extreme Value Distributions, (John E. Walsh)
E. Dwane Anderson (1968), The Characterization of Multivariate Normal Integrals and the Distribution of Linear Combinations of Order Statistics (D. B. Owen)

B

James Baird (1978), The Bayesian Multiple Comparisons Problem for Translated Exponential Distributions (R. P. Bland)
Warren Bao (1990), Simultaneous Selection of Local Bandwidth and Kernel Order (William R. Schucany)
Richard Barham (1971), Parameter Reclassification in Nonlinear Least Squares (J. W. Drane)
Jim Beckett (1975), Some Properties and Applications of a Statistic for Analyzing Concordance of Rankings of Groups of Judges (William R. Schucany)
Ronald Boase (1971), Sequential Multivariate Quality Control Tests Using Tolerance Regions (John E. Walsh)
John Boddie (1974), Estimation of Probabilities in Problems of Selection (D. B. Owen)
Salvador Borrego (1984), The Economic Geometric Moving Average X-Bar Charts (D. B. Owen)
N. J. Bosmia (1982), Minimum Distance Estimation of a Truncation Parameter (William R. Schucany)
Tom Bratcher (1969), A Bayesian treatment of a multiple comparison Problem for Binomial Probabilities, (R. P. Bland)
Chuck Broadnax (1971), Decomposition of Time Series Into Deterministic Indeterministic Components (C. H. Kapadia)
Dwight Brock (1971), Statistical Inference for Markov Renewal Processes (A. M. Kshirsagar)

C

Cathy Campbell (1977), Properties of Ordinary and Weighted Least Squares Estimators of Regression Coefficients for Two-stage Samples (J. T. Webster)
Patrick Carmack (2004), (William R. Schcuany)
Tom Carmody (1985), Diagnostics for Multivariate Smoothing Splines (Randy Eubank)
Olivia Carrillo (1989), Measurement Error Model Collinearities (Richard F. Gunst)
Kyung Joon Cha (1990), Adaptive Bandwidth Selection of a Boundary Kernel in Nonparametric Regression (William R. Schucany)
Qin Chang Cheng (1993), Transfer Function Model Identification and Garma II Model (Wayne A. Woodward)
Eu-Ha Choi (2004), EARMA Processes with Spectral Analysis of Non-Stationary Time Series (Henry Gray and Wayne Woodward)
Youn-Min Chou (1980), Some Screening Procedures Based on Data from a Truncated Normal Variate (D. B. Owen)
Ling-Shua Chow (1983), Application of the Bivariate Singly NonCentral t-Distribution to a Screening Problem (D. B. Owen)
Krista Blevins Cohlmia (2003), Filtering M-Stationary Processes (Henry Gray and Wayne Woodward)
Michael Conerly (1982), A Comparison of Three Variance Component Estimators Using Symmetric Balanced IncompleteBlock Designs (J. T. Webster)
Jim Craig (1971), An Empirical Bayes Approach to a Variables Sampling Plan Problem (R. P. Bland)
Roy Cranley (1971), Statistical Methods for Evaluating Multiple Integrals (John E. Walsh)
Alfred Crofts (1969), An Investigation of Bivariate Normal Lognormal Distributions , (D. B. Owen)
J. Kelly Cunningham (1987), Robust Penalized Regression (Randy Eubank)

D

David L. Daniel (1992), A Locally Weighted Least Squares Approach to Nonparametric Regression (Paul Whitney)
James Davenport (1971), Comparison in a Class of Approximate F-tests (J. T. Webster)
Dovalee Dorsett (1982), Resistant M-Estimators in the Presence of Influential Points (Richard F. Gunst)
Steve Dossin (1981), A New Approach to Identification of Transfer Function Models (Henry L. Gray)
Fred Durling (1969), Bivariate Probit Logit and Burrit Analysis , (D. B. Owen)
Danny Dyer (1970), Parametric Estimation in a Doubly Truncated Bivariate Normal Distribution , (D. B. Owen)

E

Michael Ernst (1997), Permutation Tests of Bivariate Interchangeability (William R. Schucany)
Paul Eslinger (1983), Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation (W. A. Woodward)
Carol J. Etzel (1999), Meta-Analysis for Genetic Linkage Studies (Rudy Guerra)

F

Huchen Fei (1994), Nonparametric Regression with Censored Data (Yuly Koshevnik)
Cindy R. Ford (1991), The Gegenbauer and Gegenbauer Auto-Regressive Moving Average Long-Memory Time Series Models (Wayne A. Woodward)
William Frawley (1972), Improved Approximate Confidence Levels Through Modification of the Jackknife (William R. Schucany)
Lei Fu (1995), On Long Memory Time Series (Wayne A. Woodward)

G

Stephen George (1969), Partial Prior Information: Some Empirical Bayes and G-minimax Decision Functions , (R. P. Bland)
Patrick D. Gerard (1993), Combining Independent Nonparametric Regression Estimators (William R. Schucany)
Lowell Gregory (1968), A General Ranking Model, (D. B. Owen)
Kangxia Gu (2006),
Richard Gunst (1972), Simultaneous Testing and Estimation with Dependent Chi-Square Random Variables (J. T. Webster)

H

Roy Haas (1979), Selection Procedures Using Several Screening Variables Under 2-sided Specification Limits (D. B. Owen)
Suk-ki Hahn (1982), A Bayesian Approach Using a Two-Stage Prior to the Symmetric Multiple Comparison Problem (R. P. Bland)
Alemayehu Haile (1972), Comparisons of Some Designs and Quadratic Forms for Estimating Variance Components (J. T. Webster)
Joonghee (John) Han (1993), Estimation in Variance Componanet (C. H. Kapadia)
Ron Harrist (1971), On the Resolution of Hypotheses Employing the Asymptotic Independence of Successive Likelihood Ratio Statistics (J. W. Drane)
Jeff Hart (1981), On ARMA Density Estimation and Complex-Valued S-Arrays (Henry L. Gray)
Molly Isbell Hartfield (1997), Characterizing Changes in Time Across a Geographic Region (Richard F. Gunst).
Erwin Hearne (1975), Bivariate Gamma Distributions and the Estimation of Parameters (Richard F. Gunst)
Robert Henderson (1982), Robust and Resistant Estimation of Regression Coefficients (Richard F. Gunst)
James Hess (1977), Regression Estimator Evaluation Using an Integrated Mean Squared Error Criterion (Richard F. Gunst)
Jian Han (2001), Genetic Linkage Analysis of Bivariate Traits Using Identity by Descent Data from Sibpairs (Rudy Guerra)
Sunho Hong (1992), Parameter Estimation for Kriging Models (R. F. Gunst)
Md. Jobayer Hossain (2006), (Henry L. Gray & Wayne W. Woodward)
Glen Houston (1976), On G-Spectral Estimation (Henry L. Gray)
Yueh-ling Hsiao (1976), A Selection Problem Using a Screening Variable (D. B. Owen)
Tsushung Hua (1980), Extensions of Inference Procedures for Biased Estimators (Richard F. Gunst)
Moon-Yul Huh (1978), Robustness of the MINQUE (J. T. Webster)

I

J

An Jia (2003), A Tree-Based Approach for Estimating Variable Bandwidths in Local Inear Regression (William R. Schucany)
Huiping Jiang (2003), Time-Frequency Analysis: G(l) Stationary Process (Henry L. Gray and Wayne A. Woodward)
Yue Jia (2006),
Charles Johnson (1970), A Duality Property for Bayes Rules with Applications (R. P. Bland)
Sergio Juarez (2003), Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution (William R. Schucany)

K

Cindy Kalkomey (1991), Modeling Quasi-Periodic and Seasonal Long Memory Processes (H. L. Gray)
Gary Kelley (1977), A New Approach to ARMA Modeling -- the Nonstationary Case (Henry L. Gray)
Jo Kang Kuo (1999), Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci: Sampling Consideration using Bivariate Data (Rudy Guerra)
Alan Kvanli (1973), Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Mixed Models with Interaction (C. H. Kapadia)

L

Mani Lakshminarayan (1984), Estimation in Simple Linear Regression Models when Both Variables are Subject to Measurement Error (Richard F. Gunst)
Euikyoo Lee (2001), Bayesian Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Models with Applilcation to the Modeling of Hanford Site Tritium Concentrations (Richard F. Gunst)
Kwan-Rim Lee (1981), Estimation in the Incomplete Block Design Model (C. H. Kapadia)
Young Ha Lee (1983), A Modified Bootstrap Method for Distribution Free Confidence Intervals (William R. Schucany)
William Lester (1974) A Double Sampling Acceptance Plan of Variables Based on the Range from a Normal Population (D. B. Owen)
Huaixiang (Helen) Li (1988), On the UMVU Estimators after Using a Normalizing Transformation (D. B. Owen)
Loretta Li (1973), A Rank Test Sensitive to Common Concordance in Two Groups (William R. Schucany)
Ping Li (1994), Estimation of Semivariogram Model Parameters (Richard F. Gunst)
Qihua (Catherine) Lin (2006), (Richard F. Gunst)
T. P. Lin (1974), Combining Inter- and Intra-Block Estimators in Group Divisible Designs (C. H. Kapadia)
Liangang Liu (2004), Spectral Analysis with Time-Varying Frequency (Wayne Woodward)
Yushan (Alex) Liu (2004), On Estimation of the Number of Multinomial Cells from Cluster Sampling (Lynne Stokes)

M

Prabir Majumder (1996), Variance Component Estimation for Genetic Models (Rudy Guerra)
Edward Mansfield (1975), Principal Component Approach to Handling Multicollinearity and Regression Analysis (J. T. Webster)
Robert Mason (1971), Tests when Errors are Correlated in a Randomized Block Design (J. T. Webster)
Gibb Matlock (1970), Statistical Theory for the Detection of Signals, (D. B. Owen)
Donald McIntire (1977), A New Approach to ARMA Modeling (Henry L. Gray)
Stephen Meeks (1978), MTBE Confidence Sets and Robustness Properties for Sequential Test Plans for the MIL-STD-781 (D. B. Owen)
John Michael (1977), Goodness-of-Fit: Type II Censoring; Influence Functions (William R. Schucany)
Gregory K. Miller (1996), Estimation for Renewal Processes with Unobservable Interarrival Times (U. Narayan Bhat)
James W. Miller (1994), Forecasting with Fractionally Differenced Time Series Models (Henry L. Gray)
Abu Minhajuddin (2003), Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Directional Hypotheses (William R. Schucany and Wayne A. Woodward)
Jim Minor (1973), Improved Estimation of f'(y)/f(y) (William R. Schucany)
Sukanya Mookerjee Misra (1996), Statistical Monitoring of Online Instruments (Sabyasachi Basu & Donald Strickert)
Myung Song Moon (1992), Polynomial Measurement Error Models (Richard F. Gunst)
Satish Chandra Misra (1971), On Estimating the Reliability of a Components Subject to Several Different Stresses (D. B. Owen)
Frederick Morgan (1975), The G-Spectral Estimator (Henry L. Gray)
Mike Morton (1981), (Henry L. Gray)
Stewart Musket (1971), An Evaluation of Kendall's Order-Statistic Method of Discriminant Analysis and Related Studies (A. M. Kshirsagar)

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P

Albert Palachek (1981), Applications of U-Statistics in Testing and Estimation of Concordance (William R. Schucany)
Elinor Pape (1971), When the Coefficient of a Covariate Changes from Block to Block (J. T. Webster)
William Parr (1978), Minimum Distance and Robust Estimation (William R. Schucany)
Shirlene Pearson (1979), On Smoothing S-Arrays and their Application in Time Series (Henry L. Gray)
Nalin Perera (1993), Nonparametric Regression with Measurement Error Model (William R. Schucany)
Jeffrey S. Pitblado (2000), Estimating Partially Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression Using an Information Criterion (William R. Schucany)
Alan Polansky (1995), Kernel Smoothing to Improve Bootstrap Confidence Intervals (William R. Schucany)
Terry Pope (1969), On the Stepwise Construction of a Prediction Equation, (J. T. Webster)

Q

Wenzi Qiu (1993), Rank Tests for Unbalanced Two-Way ANOVA (Georgia Thompson)

R

Miriam Reilman Daunis (1986), Estimation and Prediction in Measurement Error Model (Richard F. Gunst)
Joan Reisch (1974), Using a Regression Equation for Prediction in Subsequent Samples (J. T. Webster)
Rebecca Rosenstein (1986), Components of Phi-Squared and Tests of Symmetry (Randy Eubank)

S

Raymond Sansing (1971), The Density of the t-Statistic for Non-Normal Distributions (D. B. Owen)
William R. Schucany (1970), The Reduction of Bias in Parametric Estimation (D. B. Owen)
Burton Seibert (1970), Estimation and Confidence Intervals for Quantal Response or Sensitivity Data (D. B. Owen)
Shuyi Shen (2004), (Ian Harris)
J. C. Shyu (1984), Tolerance Intervals for the Double Exponential Distribution (D. B. Owen)
Mark Smith (1969), An Optimum Discrete Space Sequential Search Procedure which Considers False Alarm and False Dismissal Instrument Errors (John E. Walsh)
Jeff Spence (2004), A Spatial Analysis of SPECT Brain Imaging Data: Optimal Predictions in Regions of Interest (Richard F. Gunst)
John Sommers (1972), Improved Density Estimation (William R. Schucany)
David Stevenson (1973), Bayesian Multiple Comparisons of Normal Population Without the Assumption of Equal Variances (R. P. Bland)
Jerrell Stracener (1973), An Investigation of the Doubly Folded Bivariate Normal Distribution (D. B. Owen)
Don Strickert (1988), Estimating Consumer Acceptance Limits (D. B. Owen)

T

Liansheng Tang (2005), Undercoverage of Wavelet-based Resampling Confidence Intervals and a Parameteric Saptial Bootstrap (William Schucany & Wayne Woodward)
Liang-Jun Tang (1997), Censored Data: A Large Sample Study of CDF Estimates Under Constraints (Yuly Koshevnik)
Lori Thombs (1985), Bootstrap Prediction Intervals for Autoregressive Processes (William R. Schucany)

U

Gary Ulrich (1980), A Generalization of the Linear Rank Statistic and Its Properties (William R. Schucany)

V

Chu-Ping Vijverberg (2002),

W

Ying Wan (1996), Significance Testing for the Robust Sib Pair Linkage Method (Rudy Guerra)
Eugene Y. Wang (1995), Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Generalized Gamma Distribution (C. H. Kapadia)
Jinping Wang (1996), Design and Analysis of Serial Dilution Assays (Sabyasachi Basu)
Zhu Wang (2004), The Application of the Kalman Filter to Nonstationary Time Series Through Time Deformation (Henry L. Gray)
William F. Webber (1971), On the Statistical Analysis of Random Surfaces (John E. Walsh)
Joyce Wellman (1991), Influence Diagnostics for Measurement Error Models (Richard F. Gunst)
Don Wheeler (1970), An Alternative for an F-test on Variances , (J. T. Webster)
John White (1976), Inference Procedures for Latent Root Regression Analysis (J. T. Webster)
Stephen Wiechecki Vergara (1998), Semiparametric Estimation for Long Memory parameters Via Wavelet Packets (Henry L. Gray)
Robert Wysocki (1969), Some Useful Generalizations in Markov Renewal Processes, (A. M. Kshirsagar)

X

Y

Hon Yeh (1981), Statistical Inference related to the Means of Two Normal Populations with Unequal Variances (D. B. Owen)
John Young (1971), Some Inference Problems Associated with the Complex Multivariate Normal Distribution (Kshirsagar)

Z

Yan Zhong (2004), Analysis of Time-Varying Frequency Exponential Chirp Process Through Exponential Time Transformation (W. Woodward and H. Gray)