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Graduation Year
Student
Dissertation
Advisor
Committee Members

Second Order Corrections for Brownian Motion Approximations

Siegmund

Siegmund, Steele, Fill

An Adaptive Choice of the Scale Parameter for M-Estimators

Johns

Johns, Switzer, Miller

Significance Test for Prior Distributions: The Modified Efficient Score Test and Its Asymptotic Theory

Efron

Efron, Switzer, Stein

Probability Modeling and Estimation for Hourly Variation of Air Pollution Concentrations

Switzer

Switzer, Faith, Sager

A Parametric Analysis of Structured and Unstructured $Q$-Sort Data

Solomon

Solomon, Olkin, Johns

Nonparametric Estimation from Censored Bivariate Observations

Brown

Brown, Miller, Efron

Tests of Symmetry and Confidence Intervals for Treatment Effects in the Paired Comparison Model

Switzer

Switzer, Johns, Solomon

Design for Low Dose Extrapolation of Carcinogenicity Data

Moses

Moses, Brown, Switzer

Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Autoregressive Coefficients and Moving Average Covariances of Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models

Anderson

Anderson, Faith, Stein

Estimation of Random Fields from Network Observations

Switzer

Switzer, Olkin, Faith

Multivariate Distribution with Specified Marginals

Olkin

Olkin, Efron, Lieberman

Power Transformations to Achieve Symmetry in Quantal Bioassay

Brown

Brown, Miller, Efron

Consistent Nonparametric Estimation of Best Linear Classification Rules/Solving Inconsistent Systems of Linear Inequalities

Diaconis

Diaconis, Cover, Faith

Confidence Intervals for the Survival Function Using Cox's Proportional Hazard Model with Covariates

Miller

Miller, Brown, Efron

Properties of Isotonic Estimators of Mean Lifetime in a Simple Prototype Development Model

Lieberman

Lieberman, Olkin, Singpurwalla

Influence Functions for Censored Data

Miller

Miller, Johns, Efron

Verifying Mixing Conditions and Obtaining Limit Theorems for Maxima of Some Strictly Stationary Processes

Faith

Faith, Switzer, Jacobs

Classification Errors in Contingency Tables Analyzed with Hierarchical Log Linear Models

Switzer

Switzer, Whittemore, Olkin

Asymptotic Distribution Theory in Generalized Isotonic Regression

Sager

Sager, Siegmund, Miller

Weak and Strong Laws for the Maxima of Stationary Gaussian Processes

Mittal

Mittal, Siegmund, Switzer

On the Asymptotic Expansions for the Moments and the Limiting Distributions of Some Additive Arithmetic Functions

Diaconis

Diaconis, Stein, Siegmund

Some Nonparametric Near-Neighbor Techniques

Cover

Cover, Efron, Olkin

Some Contributions to the Theory of Robust Estimation in Regression

Johns

Johns, Miller, Switzer

Testing for the Effect of the Covariance on the Point Process

Brown

Brown, Miller, Efron

On Records: Scheduled Maxima Sequences and Longest Common Subsequences

Resnick

Resnick, Switzer, Diaconis

Inference from Stopped Bernoulli Trials

Switzer

Switzer, Brown, Sager

Life Testing with Incomplete Observations

Miller

Miller, Brown, Efron

Empty Confidence Sets in Nonparametric Problems

Switzer

Switzer, Solomon, Johns

Random Space Filling and Moments of Coverage in Geometrical Probability

Solomon

Solomon, Efron, Diaconis

Ridge Regression, Minimax Estimation, and Empirical Bayes Methods

Efron

Efron, Stein, Johns

Joint Distribution of the Roots of Certain Matrices in Multivariate Analysis Under the Rank One Alternative with Power Studies of the Largest Root Test

Sitgreaves

Sitgreaves, Olkin, Stein

Asymptotic Properties of Some Estimators in Moving Average Models

Anderson

Anderson, Efron, Olshen

Efficiency Calculations in Discriminant Analysis

Efron

Efron, Miller, Mittal

Nonparametric Estimation in the Competing Risks Problem

Efron

Efron, Miller, Brown

Simultaneous Estimation of the Parameters of Independent Poisson Distributions

Stein

Stein, Efron, Diaconis

Test and Estimating of Multivariate Normal Mean and Covariance Structures which are Compound Symmetric in Blocks

Olkin

Olkin, Young, Sitgreaves

Inequalities for Functionals of Distributions with Given Marginals

Cover

Cover, Stein, Resnick

Bioassay: Estimating the Mean of the Tolerance Distribution

Brown

Brown, Miller, Efron

Confidence Intervals Based on Rank Tests

Switzer

Switzer, Johns, Chernoff

Some Properties of Spearman Type Estimators of the Variance and Percentiles in Bioassay

Brown

Brown, Miller, Efron

Statistical Methods for Establishing Comparable Scores in Successive Generations of a Testing Program

Moses

Moses, Olkin, Brown

Invariance Principle for Linear Combinations of Order Statistics

Miller

Miller, Johns, Resnick

Composition Rules for Probabilities from Paired Comparisons

Cover

Cover, Efron, Switzer

Sequential Medical Trials for Comparing an Experimental with a Standard Treatment

Chernoff

Chernoff, Solomon, Switzer

Asymptotic Properties for Estimators Derived from the Kaplan-Meier Estimator

Miller

Miller, Efron, Brown

Applications of Weak Convergence to Sequential Nonparametric Statistics

Chernoff

Chernoff, Gordon, Resnick

Inferences for a Gamma Distributed Random Variable with Both Parameters Unknown, with Applications to Reliability

Lieberman

Lieberman, Olkin, Resnick

Empirical Bayes Estimation

Moses

Moses, Brown, Stein, Efron

Admissible Decision Rules for the Compound Decision Problem

Johns

Johns, Solomon, Gordon

A Method for the Selection of Variables for Classification of High-Dimensional Data

Switzer

Switzer, Suppes, Chernoff