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Reports, manuscripts, and recent published papers

• tr562.pdf:   Nonparametric estimation of multivariate convex-transformed densities
  With Arseni Seregin. November 2009. arXiv:0911.4151
• How many Laplace transforms of probability measures are there?
  With Fuchang Gao and Wenbo V. Li. September 2009. arXiv:1001.0200
• tr561.pdf:   Estimation of a discrete monotone distribution
  With Hanna K. Jankowski. October 2009. arXiv:0910.3221
• An excursion approach to maxima of the Brownian bridge.
  With Mihael Perman. April 2009. arXiv:math.PR/0904.3473
• tr554.pdf:   On the Grenander estimator at zero
  With Fadoua Balabdaoui, Hanna K. Jankowski, Marios Pavlides, and Arseni Seregin. February 2009; revised September 2009.
• tr542.pdf:   Computation of Nonparametric Convex Hazard Estimators via Profile Methods
  With Hanna Jankowski. September 2008.
  Technical Report 542, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
• 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.   To appear, American Mathematical Monthly.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• tr460.pdf:   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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• tr419.ps; 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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 (Statistics), 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 ]