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    Research Interests

    Professor Portnoy works in the areas of robust statistics, asymptotic theory, and statistical application. He is a leader in the development of regression quantile methods, and has collaborated on applying statistical analysis to biological problems as an Adjunct Professor of Ecology.

    R programs for censored regression quantiles:

    The methodology for censored regression quantiles on which these programs are based is described in the following: S. Portnoy (2003), Censored Regression Quantiles, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. , 1001 - 1012; and Tableman and Kim (2004), Survival Analysis Using S, Chapter 8, Chapman-Hall/CRC.

  • R-programs are part of the "quantreg" package available at the Cran-R site: Click Here, then on Contributed extension "packages" and then on "quantreg"

  • For slides: Intro to Regression Quantiles View in PDF"

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    Last Updated 5/8/02

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