People

Faculty

• Jon A. Wellner

Graduate students, postdocs, and current visitors

• Arseni Seregin; NSF.

Ph.D. Students and Dissertation Titles

• Marios Pavlides (Statistics):
  Nonparametric estimation of multivariate monotone densities.
  (Finished June 2008).
• Marloes Maathuis (Statistics; joint with Piet Groeneboom, Delft):
  Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks.
  (Finished June 2006; Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich).
• Leah Jager (Statistics): Goodness-of-fit statistics based on phi-divergences.
  (Finished June, 2006; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy, Anapolis).
• Hao Liu (Biostatistics): Semiparametric marginal mean models for multivariate counting processes.
  (Finished August 2004). Assistant Professor, University of California Davis, Biostatistics.
• Fadoua Balabdaoui (Statistics): Nonparametric estimation of a k-monotone density: a new asymptotic distribution theory.
  (Finished May 2004). Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Paris - Dauphine.
• Shuguang Song (Statistics): Estimation with bivariate interval-censored data.
  (Finished December 2001).
• Bin Nan (Biostatistics): Information bounds and efficient estimates for two-phase designs with lifetime data.
  (Finished July 2001). Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Biostatistics.
• Moulinath Banerjee (Statistics): Likelihood Ratio Tests in Some Semiparametric and Nonparametric Models
  (Finished November 2000). Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Statistics.
• Florentina Bunea (Statistics): A Model Selection Approach to Partially Linear Regression.
  (Finished July 2000). Associate Professor, Florida State University, Statistics.
• Nilanjan Chatterjee (joint with Norman Breslow, Biostatistics): (currently at Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute).
  Semiparametric Inference Based on Estimating Equations in Regression Models for Two Phase Outcome Dependent Sampling.
  (Finished March, 1999).
• Eduardo Gomes (Statistics): Lifetime and Disease Onset Distributions from Incomplete Observations.
  (Finished February, 1999). Professor of Statistics, Universidade de Brasilia.
• Brad McNeney (Biostatistics): Asymptotic Efficiency in Semiparametric Models with non-i.i.d. Data.
  (Finished August, 1998). Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Statistics.
• Ying Zhang (Statistics): Estimation for Counting Processes with Incomplete Data.
  (Finished June, 1998). Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Biostatistics.
• Huilin Hu: Large sample theory for Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Semiparametric Models.
  (Finished February, 1998). Currently at Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.
• Yihui Zhan: Bootstrapping functional M-estimators (Finished March, 1996). Currently at Rosetta.
• Jian Huang: Estimation in Regression Models with Interval Censoring.
  (Finished 1994). Professor of Statistics, University of Iowa, Statistics.
• Jens Praestgaard: General-Weights Bootstrap of the Empirical Process.
  (Finished 1991). Currently at Human Genome Sciences, Rockville Maryland; ajpraestgaard@earthlink.net.
• Luc Watelet: Nonparametric Estimation of Component Life Distributions in Meilijson's Competing Risks Model. (Finished 1990).
• Peter D. Sasieni: Beyond the Cox Model: Extensions of the Model and Alternative Estimators.
  (Finished 1989). Professor, Cancer Research UK Department of Epidemiology, Mathematics, and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.
• Russell Millar: Estimation of Mixing and Mixed Distributions.
  (Finished 1989). Currently Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Anne Sheehy: Kullback-Leibler Estimation of Probability Measures with an Application to Clustering.
  (Finished 1987). Currently in Biostatistics Group, University of Zurich.
• Gangaji Maguluri: Inference for a Bivariate Survival Function.
  (Finished 1986, University of Rochester).
• Melinda Hungerford Harder: Effects of Censoring on Robustness.
  (Finished 1985, University of Rochester). Lecturer, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.
• Wei-Min Huang (joint with W. J. Hall): Parameter estimation when there are nuisance functions.
  (Finished 1982, University of Rochester). Professor of Mathematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Janet Begun: Estimation of Relative Risk in a Proportional Hazards Model.
  (Finished 1980, University of Rochester).

Mathematical Genealogy

Visitors and Post-docs

• H.P. (Rik) Lopuhaä; Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM), Delft University, The Netherlands, (6/91 - 12/91)
• Lars Korsholm; University of Southern Denmark, (1/96 - 6/96)
• Marian Hristache; Paris, France (6/96)
• Erik Parner; Aarhus, Denmark (June 1 - October 1, 1996).
• Piet Groeneboom; Delft, The Netherlands (March 21 - September 1, 1997; March 24 - September 1, 1998;
  March 29 - June 30, 1999; March 27 - June 25, 2006).
• Aad van der Vaart; Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (June 7 - August 21, 1993; August 9 - August 16, 1994; June 10 - July 15, 1997; July 19 - August 18, 2002; August 22 - August 30, 2008).
• Eric Cator; Delft, (March 29 - August 31, 1999).
• Erik van Zwet; Utrecht, (June 1 - August 31, 1999).
• Marten Wegkamp; Statistics, Yale (Spring quarter, 2000).
• Thomas Gerds; Freiburg, Germany, (April 2 - 30, 2001).
• Shanti Gomatam, NISS and University of Southern Florida, Tampa, (May 13 - 26, 2002).
• Sandra Freitag, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik und Statistik, Universitatsklinikums Kiel, (September 1 - 27, 2002).
• Tom Ketelaars, Mathematics Department, Delft University of Technology,   Delft, The Netherlands (January 6 - May 28, 2004).
• Lutz Duembgen, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Acturial Science, University of Bern, Switzerland (February 27 - March 4, 2006).
• Gabriella Mostallino, Institute for Quantitative Methods, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
  September 2005 - August 2006
• Masoud Asgharian, Mathematics Department, McGill University,   Canada (October 22 - November 3, 2007).
• Hanna Jankowski; NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2006 - January 2008; August 12 - 22, 2008.
• Felix von Mueller, student, University of Duesseldorf, Germany, January 2008 - March 2008.