PhD Alumni 1970-1979

Karl Kuen-Feng Lin
Dissertation: Regression Estimation Under Ill-Conditioned Data Structure

Paul Sampson
Dissertation: Statistical Analysis of Shape with Conic Sections and Elliptical Distributions on a Hypersphere

Wen-Chen Chen
Advisor: Bruce Hill
Dissertation: On Zipf's Law

John McKenzie
Dissertation: Analysis of Paired-Comparison Data by Two Models Involving Ties and by Generalized Rank Correlation Coefficients

Tony Chak-Leung Tai
Dissertation: Optimal and Adaptive Stopping for a Generalized Ehrenfest Urn Model

Fred Bookstein
Dissertation: The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

Ronald Butler
Dissertation: Cross-Validatory Predictive Intervals, the Bayes Character of Subset Selection Techniques, and Robust Adaptive Prediction

Edrisa Bangura
Dissertation: A Design Problem in the Bayesian Estimation of the Treatment Effects in the One-Way Balanced Fixed Effects Model

Shelley Lynn Rasmussen Bartold
Dissertation: A Bayesian Approach to a Problem in Sequential Estimation

Lih-Wen Huang
Dissertation: Asymptotic Distribution and Applications of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Independent Not Identically Distributed Case

Olajide Abe
Dissertation: Stochastic Models for Chemical Kinetics and Related Processes

Ray Faith
Dissertation: Minimax Bayes Set and Point Estimators of a Multivariate Normal Mean

Robert Fortus
Dissertation: Approximations to Bayesian Sequential Tests of Composite Hypotheses

Romulo Virola
Dissertation: Discounted Optimal Stopping for a Weighted Process with Compound Poisson and Diffusion Components

Albert Liebetrau
Dissertation: Estimation of the Second-Order Properties of a Weakly-Stationary Point-Process and Related Tests of Randomness

Robert Wardrop
Dissertation: Optimal Stopping Based on Catch Times: The Increasing Failure Rate Case

Howard Fetell
Dissertation: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation in Censored Samples in a Non-Regular Case

Martin Weinrich
Dissertation: Linear-Regression, Generalized Exchangeability and Bayesian Optimal Stratified Sampling Design

Connie Shapiro
Dissertation: Bayesian Classification