Available materials
Reports, manuscripts, and recent published papers
(This material is based upon work supported in part by the
National Science Foundation
under Grants DMS-9532039, DMS-0203320, and
DMS-0503822 .)
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Nemirovski's inequalities revisited.
With Lutz Duembgen and Sara van de Geer. July 2008.
arXiv:math.ST/0807.2245,
Newton Institute Technical Report 2009.004
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Limit distribution theory for maximum likelihood estimation of a log-concave density
With Fadoua Balabdaoui and Kaspar Rufibach. January 2008.
arXiv:math.ST/0708.3400
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tr521.pdf:
Nonparametric estimation of a convex bathtub-shaped hazard function
With Hanna Jankowski. October 2007.
arXiv:math.ST/0801.0712
Technical Report 521, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
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tr507.pdf:
A Kiefer-Wolfowitz theorem for convex densities
With Fadoua Balabdaoui. January 2007.
Technical Report 507, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
arXiv:math.ST/0701179
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tr503.pdf:
Estimation of a k-monotone density: limiting distribution theory and the spline connection, with
complete proofs.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui. September 2006.
Technical Report 503, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
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tr501.pdf:
Current status data with competing risks: limiting distribution of the MLE.
With Marloes Maathuis and Piet Groeneboom. September 2006.
Technical Report 501, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
arXiv:math.ST/0609020
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tr500.pdf:
Current status data with competing risks: consistency and rates of convergence of the MLE.
With Marloes Maathuis and Piet Groeneboom. September 2006.
Technical Report 500, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
arXiv:math.ST/0609021
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tr480.pdf:
Conjecture of error boundedness in a new Hermite interpolation problem via
splines of odd-degree.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui,
April, 2005.
Technical Report 480, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
- tr459.pdf:
Estimation of a k-monotone density, part 1:
characterizations, consistency, and minimax lower bounds.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui,
September, 2004.
Technical Report 459, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
arXiv:math.ST/0509080
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Estimation of a k-monotone density, part 2:
algorithms for computation and numerical results.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui,
September, 2004.
Technical Report 460, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
- tr461.pdf:
Estimation of a k-monotone density, part 3:
limiting Gaussian versions of the problem; invelopes and envelopes.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui,
September, 2004.
Technical Report 461, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
- tr462.pdf:
Estimation of a k-monotone density, part 4:
limit distribution theory and the spline connection.
With Fadoua Balabdaoui,
September, 2004.
Technical Report 462, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
arXiv:math.ST/0509081
- On the ``Poisson boundaries'' of the family of weighted
Kolmogorov statistics.
With Leah Jager.
In A Festschrift for Herman Rubin.
IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series 45 (2004),
319 - 331. IMS, Beachwood, Ohio.
- tr443.ps:
A new goodness of fit test: the reversed Berk-Jones statistic.
With Leah Jager.
January, 2004.
Technical Report 443, Department of Statistics, University
of Washington.
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A note on the asymptotic distribution of Berk-Jones type
statistics under the null hypothesis.
With Vladimir Koltchinskii.
April, 2003.
High Dimensional Probability III,
Birkhäuser, Boston; (2003), 321-332.
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Ratio limit theorems for empirical processes.
With Evarist Giné and Vladimir Koltchinskii.
April, 2003.
In Stochastic Inequalities and Applications,
Proceedings of the Euro-Conference
on Stochastic Inequalities
held at Barcelona, June 18-22, 2002, 249-278.
Evarist Giné, Christian Houdré, and David Nualart, eds.
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VU Tech. Report 2002-13,
The support reduction algorithm for computing
nonparametric function estimates in mixture models.
Piet Groeneboom, Geurt Jongbloed, and Jon A. Wellner.
arXiv:math.ST/0405511
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Confidence intervals for current status data.
Moulinath Banerjee, and Jon A. Wellner. October 2002.
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 32, 404 - 425.
Revised paper.
- tr409.ps; pdf form
tr409.pdf:
Likelihood ratio, score, and Wald statistics in models with monotone
functions.
Moulinath Banerjee and Jon A. Wellner.
Technical Report 409.
Revised version.
International Journal of Biostatistics
1, article 3.
- LIS.pdf;
On longest increasing subsequences and random Young tableaux:
experimental results and recent theorems.
Jon Wellner. Posted 4/5/2002.
Data posted 4/5/2002.
- tr406.ps:
An upper bound for uniform entropy numbers.
Shuguang Song and Jon A. Wellner. January 2002.
- surv-sacrifice.pdf.
Nonparametric estimation of the lifetime and disease
onset distributions for a survival - sacrifice model.
Eduardo Gomes, Piet Groeneboom, and Jon A. Wellner.
Posted August 27, 2001.
- tr344.ps:
Special Topics Course 593C: Nonparametric Estimation
for Inverse Problems:
Algorithms and Asymptotics. Piet Groeneboom, Technical Report 344,
December 1998.
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tr309.ps:
Small Sample Distributions
of the Area Statistics A_n^+ and A_n: Some Problems.
Antonio E. Gomes and Jon A. Wellner.
Technical Report 309, July 1996.
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tr308.ps:
Bootstrapping Z - estimators.
Jon A. Wellner and Yihui Zhan.
Technical Report 308, July 1996.
Theses
- Nonparametric estimation of multivariate monotone densities.
Marios Pavlides, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2008.
- Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks.
Marloes Maathuis, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2006.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, ETH, Zurich.]
- Goodness-of-fit tests via phi-divergences.
Leah Jager, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2006.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.]
- Semiparametric marginal mean models for nultivariate counting processes.
Hao Liu, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2004
- Nonparametric estimation of a k-monontone density: a new asymptotic
distribution theory.
Fadoua Balabdaoui,
Ph. D. Thesis, May 2004. [Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, Universite Paris-Dauphine.]
- Estimation with bivariate interval-censored data.
Shuguang Song, Ph.D. Thesis, December 2001.
- Information bounds and efficient estimates for two-phase designs
with lifetime data.
Bin Nan, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.]
- Likelihood ratio inference in regular and non-regular problems.
Moulinath Banerjee, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan.]
- A model selection approach to partially linear regression.
Florentina Bunea, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, Florida State University.]
- Semiparametric inference based on estimating equations in regression
models for two phase outcome dependent sampling.
Nilajan Chatterjee, Ph.D. Thesis, 1999.
(Joint with Norm Breslow).
[Currently at Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute.]
- Lifetime and disease onset distributions from incomplete observations.
Eduardo Gomes, Ph.D. Thesis, 1999.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics,
Federal University
of Minas Gerais, Brazil.]
- Asymptotic Efficiency in Semiparametric Models with Non-i.i.d. Data.
Brad McNeney, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998.
[Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, British Columbia.]
- Estimation for Counting Processes with Incomplete Data.
Ying Zhang, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998.
[Currently Associate Professor of Biostatistics,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.]
- Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation for semiparametric models.
Huilin Hu, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998.
- Bootstrapping Functional M-Estimators,
Yihui Zhan, Ph.D. Thesis, 1996.
[Rosetta Biosoftware, Seattle, WA; yihui_zhan@rosettabio.com.]
- Estimation in Regression Models with Interval Censoring,
Jian Huang, Ph.D. Thesis, 1994.
[Currently Professor,
Department of Statistics,
University of Iowa; huang@stat.uiowa.edu.]
- General-Weights Bootstrap of the Empirical Process,
Jens Thomas Praestgaard, Ph.D. Thesis, 1991.
[Currently Senior Statistician, Abbott Laboratories,
JensPraestgaard@ln.ssw.abbott.com]
- Beyond the Cox Model: Extensions of the model and alternative estimators.
Peter Sasieni, Ph.D. Thesis, 1989.
[Researcher, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Laboratories; p.sasieni@icrf.icnet.uk;
Professor of Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology, Queen Mary and Westfield College]
- Estimation of Mixing Distributions.
Russell Millar, Ph.D. Thesis, 1989.
[Currently Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand:
millar@stat.auckland.ac.nz ]
- Kullback-Leibler estimation of probability measures
with an application to clustering.
Anne Sheehy, Ph.D. Thesis, 1987.
[Department of Biostatistics, University of Zurich,
annes@biostat1.unizh.ch ]
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