Professor Emeritus of Statistics

Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, 1969

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Research Interests

• Asymptotic theory

• Quantile processes

• Robust regression methods

Honors and Appointments

• Franqui Visiting Professorship, Université Libre de Bruxelles (January-July 2005)
• Co-Editor, J. American Statistical Association (2005-2008)
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association (1991-2004)
• Fellow, American Statistical Association (1994)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC (1993)
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1984)

Selected Publications

• (with G. Lin) Asymptotics for Censored Regression Quantiles; under review: J. Nonpar. Stat., 2008.
• (with S. Meintanis) A specification Test for Random Effects Models; under review: J. Statist. Planning and Inference, 2009.
• (with G. Lin and X. He) Quantile Regression with Doubly Censored Data; under review: J. Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2009
• (with Neocleous, Tereza) A Partly Linear Model for Censored Regression Quantiles, to appear: Lifetime Data Anal., 2009.
• (with Debruyne, M., Hubert, M. and Vanden Branden, K.) Censored Depth Quantiles, Comp. Stat. and Data Anal., 52, 1604-1614, 2008.
• Discussion on M. Fygenson: Modeling and Predicting Probabilities with Outlooks, Statistica Sinica, 18, 48-55, 2007.
• (with Russo, Sabrian and Augspurger, Carol). Incorporating animal behavior into seed dispersal models: implications for seed shadows, Ecology, 87, 3160-3174, 2006.
• Censored Regression Quantiles, J. Amer. Stat. Assoc., 98, 1001-1012, 2003.
• Did Sir Francis Galton Have a Sense of Humor, letter: Science, 296, 1967, 14 June, 2002.
• (with R. Koenker) The Gaussian Hare and the Laplacian Tortoise: computability of squared-error vs. absolute-error estimators (with discussion), Stat. Science, 12, 279-300, 1997.