PhD Alumni 1980-1989

Chienming Chang

Advisor: Bruce Hill

Dissertation: Bayesian Nonparametric Prediction Based on Censored Data

Last Known Position: Unknown

Zen-Yi Chen

Advisors: Robb Muirhead and Brian Thelen

Dissertation: Robust Linear Discriminant Procedures Using Projection Pursuit Methods

Last Known Position: Unknown

Brenda Gunderson

Advisor: Robb Muirhead

Dissertation: Estimating the Dimensionality in Canonical Correlation Analysis

Last Known Position: Lecturer IV Emerita, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Ki-Heon Choi

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: An Adaptive Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Autoregressive Process

Last Known Position: Professor, Department of Statistics, Duksung Women's University

Wai Fong

Advisor: William Ericson

Dissertation: A Bayesian Approach to Successive Sampling with Partial Replacement of Units on Two Occasions

Last Known Position: Unknown

Kamel Rekab

Advisors: Robert Keener and Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Asymptotic Efficiency in Sequential Designs for Estimation

Last Known Position: Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Taoufik Zoubeidi

Advisors: Robert Keener and Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Sequential Tests for Clinical Trails of Two Treatments with Bounded Deficiency

Last Known Position: Adjunct Professor of Statistics, University of Ottawa

Djamel Bellout

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Order Restricted Estimation of Distributions with Censored Data and Application to a Stopping Problem

Last Known Position: Professional Standards and Qualifications Development Expert, National Qualifications Centre, Ministry of Education - UAE

Abdelhakim Meslem

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Asymptotic Expansions for Confidence Intervals with Fixed Proportional Accuracy

Last Known Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Science, University of Sharjah

Mohamed Tahir

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Asymptotically Optimal Bayesian and Minimax Sequential Point Estimation

Last Known Position: Former Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Sharjah

Martha Aliaga

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: A Problem in Sequential Analysis (Stopping Time, Significance Level, Backward Induction)

Last Known Position: Director of Education, American Statistical Association

Pui Lam Leung

Advisor: Robb Muirhead

Dissertation: Estimation of Parameter Matrices and their Eigenvalues in Multivariate Analysis (Decision Theoretic Estimation, Noncentral Wishart)

Last Known Position: Retired Professor, Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

David Bednarz

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe, Robert Keener (Co-Advisor)

Dissertation: Open Ended Tests of Invariant Hypothesis (Sequential Analysis)

Last Known Position: Unknown

Mary Coffey

Advisor: J. Richard Landis (University of Pennsylvania), J. E. Keith Smith (Psych & Stats) - Co-Advisor

Dissertation: A Categorical Model with Random Effects and its Estimation by Integrated Maximum Likelihood (Case-Control)

Last Known Position: Retired; Senior Biostatistician, William Beaumont Hospital

Mohamed Daghel

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Asymptotic Minimax Point Estimators with Compact Parameter Space

Last Known Position: Unknown

Lorraine Denby

Advisor: Edward Rothman

Dissertation: Smooth Regression Functions (Partial Residual Plots)

Last Known Position: Retired; Consulting Research Scientist, Data Analysis & Multimedia Research Department, Avaya

Jai Young Kim

Advisor: J. E. Keith Smith (Psych & Stats)

Dissertation: Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Poisson Parameters Under Weighted Squared Error Loss

Last Known Position: Unknown

Peter Lenk

Advisor: Bruce Hill

Dissertation: Bayesian Nonparametric Predictive Distributions (Density, Estimation, Simplex)

Last Known Position: Professor Emeritus, Technology, Operations, & Marketing, Stephen M. Ross School of Business - University of Michigan 

Morrey Kramer

Advisor: Norman Starr

Dissertation: Stopping a Size Dependent Exploration Process

Last Known Position: Retired; Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance, & Information Systems, Eastern Michigan University

Mohamed-el-Hadi Rehailia

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: L(,P) Expansions for Posterior Moments with Applications in Sequential Analysis

Last Known Position: Unknown

Vincent Ying Yin Tsang

Advisor: Michael Woodroofe

Dissertation: Density Estimation for Censored Data

Last Known Position: Unknown

Theeraporn Verathaworn

Advisor: Robb Muirhead

Dissertation: Decision Theoretic Approaches to Estimating Covariance Matrices in the Multivariate Normal One-Sample and Two-Sample Problems

Last Known Position: Independent Director & Board Member, Kingsmen C.M.T.I. Public Co. Ltd.

Sadreddin Khalessi

Advisor: Norman Starr

Dissertation: Sequential Analysis of Urn Models

Last Known Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University