Technical Reports

Department of Statistics Technical Reports

Technical Reports with links have abstracts and postscript files available. Technical Reports without links may be requested by emailing the Statistics Department at ruriko.yoshida@uky.edu. Articles written by members of the Department of Statistics but not made into technical reports may be requested by contacting the author. Please note that several faculty members post preprints directly to their webpages (see the department site for infomation) or arxiv.org.

2009

403 Coordinate descent algorithms for nonconvex penalized regression methods Patrick Breheny and Jian Huang.
402 Nonparametric Bayesian Inference for the Spectral Density Function of a Random Field Yanbing Zheng, Jun Zhu, Anindya Roy.

2007

401 Empirical likelihood inference in the framework of parametric likelihood inference. Mi-Ok Kim.
400 Empirical Likelihood Analysis for the Heteroscedastic Accelerated Failure Time Model. Mai Zhou, Arne Bathke, and Mi-Ok Kim.
399 How to Compare Small Multivariate Samples Using Nonparametric Tests. Arne C. Bathke, Solomon W. Harrar, and Laurence V. Madden.

2006

398 Nonparametric Methods for Unbalanced Multivariate Data and Many Factor Levels. Solomon W. Harrar and Arne C. Bathke.
397 Nonparametric Methods in Multivariate Factorial Designs for Large Number of Factor Levels. Arne Bathke and Solomon Harrar.

2004

396 Confidence Interval Methods in a nonparametric analysis of covariance. Won Sun Chen and Arne Bathke.
395 Nonparametric Bayes Estimator of Survival Functions With Right Censored and Left Truncated Data. Mai Zhou and Jingy Luan.
394 Empirical Likelihood in Survival Analysis. Gang Li, R. Li, and Mai Zhou.
393 Empirical Likelihood Analysis of the Buckley-James Estimator. Gang Li and Mai Zhou.
392 Multistate and Scan Start-up Demonstration Tests. Michelle L. DePoy Smith and William S. Griffith.

2003

391 The Analysis and Comparison of Start-up Demonstration Tests. Michelle L. DePoy Smith and William S. Griffith.
390 Start-up Demonstration Tests Based on Consecutive Successes and Total Failures: A General Markov Chain Approach and Some Practical Guidance. Michelle L. DePoy Smith and William S. Griffith.
389 Estimating Compound False Positive Rate and Compound Power: an Alternative Approach to Very Large Scale Multiple-Hypothesis Testing in Microarrays. Xuejun Peng, Arne Bathke, Constance L. Wood, Richard J. Kryscio, and Arnold Stromberg.
388 Title 2. Ziyad Mahfoud.
387 Title 1. Ziyad Mahfoud.

2002

386 Analysis of Variance on Ranks for a Large Number of Treatments. Arne Bathke and Doerte Lankowski. October, 2002.
385 Empirical Likelihood Ratio for Arbitrarily Censored/Truncated Data by EM Algorithm. Mai Zhou. October, 2002.

2000

384 Evaluating Fit Using Dirichlet Processes Kert Viele. July, 2000.
383 The Art of Maximizing Covariance William Rayens. July, 2000.
382 Approximation of Polynomials by a Neural Network Having Rather a Small Number of Units Yoshifusa Ito. July, 2000.
381 Empirical Envelope MLE for a Location Problem Mai Zhou. June, 2000.
380 On Empirical Likelihood Ratio Method with K-Sample Problems Hui Fang and Mai Zhou. June, 2000.
379 Understanding the PH Regression Models with Time Change Covariates Mai Zhou. February, 2000.
378 Nonparametric Bayes Estimator of Survival Functions for Doubly/Interval Censored Data Mai Zhou. January, 2000.

1999

377 Mixtures of Linear Regressions Kert Viele and Barbara Tong. November, 1999. (Revised December 2000)
376 Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals with Doubly Censored Data Mai Zhou and Kun Chen. August, 1999.
375 Robustness of a Sample Size Reestimation Procedure in Clinical Trials Z. Govindarajulu. January, 1999.

1998

374 Regression with Censored Data: The Synthetic Data and Least Squares Approach Mai Zhou. May, 1998.
373 A Simple Test for Departures from Multivariate Normality. Patrick Peterson and Arnold J. Stromberg. March, 1998.
372 Sufficiency and Rao-Blackwell Theorem in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters. Vasant P. Bhapkar. February, 1998.
371 Distinguishing ``Approximately Correct'' from ``Completely Wrong''; a Comparison of Bayesian Methods for Evaluating Fit. Kert Viele. February, 1998.

1997

370 Combining the EID and FSA for Computing the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid. Steven Grambow and Arnold Stromberg. November, 1997.
369 Posterior Simulation with Priors Specified on Functionals Kert Viele. November, 1997. (revised October 1999)
368 Smooth Estimates of Normal Mixtures Barbara Tong and Kert Viele. November, 1997. (revised February 1999).
367 A Note on Two-State and Sequential Fixed-Width Intervals for the Parameter in the Uniform Density. Z. Govindarajulu. October 1997.
366 A Class of Asymptotically Distribution-Free Tests for Equality of Marginals in Multivariate Populations. Z. Govindarajulu. October 1997.
365 The Least Trimmed Squares Estimate in Nonlinear Eegression. Yeh-ling Chen, Arnold Stromberg, and Mai Zhou. September, 1997.
364 Influence Measures for Cluster Analysis. Onecia Gibson and Arnold Stromberg. September, 1997.
363 A Multivariate Chernoff-Savage Theorem with Applications to Rank Order Statistics from Multivariate Populations. Z. Govindarajulu. September 1997.
362 Parsimonious Estimation of Multiplicative Interaction in Analysis of Variance using Kullback-Leibler Information. Kert Viele and Cidambi Srinivasan. August, 1997. (revised July 1999)
361 Empirical Likelihood in terms of Cumulative Hazard Function for Censored Data. Xiao-rong Pan and Mai Zhou. July, 1997.
360 Empirical Likelihood Ratio, One Parameter Sub-family of Distribution Functions and Censored Data. Xiao-rong Pan and Mai Zhou. July, 1997.
359 A Bayesian Method for Evaluating Fit of Discrete Distributions. Kert Viele. January, 1997.

1996

358 Evaluating Fit in Functional Data Analysis Using Model Embeddings Kert Viele. September, 1996. (revised January 1999)
357 On empirical likelihood and non-parametric Pearson's chi-square statistics. Mai Zhou and Weiren Wang. August 1996.
356 Estimating the error distribution function from a binary regression model. Mai Zhou and Weiren Wang. August 1996.
355 On the Optimality of P-Sufficient Statistics. Vasant P. Bhapkar. July, 1996.
354 Estimating Functions, Partial Sufficiency and Q-Sufficiency in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters. Vasant P. Bhapkar. January, 1996.

1995

353 Conditional Algorithmic Complexity and Restricted Exponential Instability in Dynamical Systems. Homer White. June, 1995.
352 Shrinkage Estimators of Multiplicative Models For Crop Cultivar Trials. Paul L. Cornelius and J. Crossa. January, 1995.

1994

351 Easy employmentation of writing in non-calculus statistics courses. Arnold Stromberg and Subathra Ramanathan. ????
350 Semiparametric mehtods for detecting neural connectivity. Klaus Utikal. March, 1994
349 Nonparametric methods for detecting neural connectivity. Klaus Utikal. March, 1994.
348 Markovian interval process II: Analysis of neuronal spike trains. Klaus Utikal. March, 1994
347 Markovian interval process I: Nonparametric inference. Klaus Utikal. March, 1994.

1993

346 Iterative Least Squares Estimation of Binary Choice Models: A Semi-Parametric Approach. Weiren Wang and Mai Zhou. November, 1993
345 Resampling on Censored Regression. Yuan Zhang and Mai Zhou. November, 1993
344 NPMLE via Empirical Distribution Functions. Mai Zhou. November, 1993
343 On Fisher Information Inequalities in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters. Vasant P. Bhapkar and Cidambi Srinivasan. August, 1993.
342 Approximate F-tests of Multiple Degree of Freedom Hypotheses in Generalized Least Squares Analyses of Unbalanced Split-Plot Experiments. Alex H. T. Fai and Paul L. Cornelius. July, 1993
341 Approximations to Optimal Stopping Rules for Finite Sequences. Klaus Utikal. May, 1993.
340 Least Squares Estimation of Binary Choice Models: A Semi-Parametric Approach. Mai Zhou and Weiren Wang. April, 1993.