Publications by Department Members
2003
Bayesian feature weighting for unsupervised learning, with application to object recognition. In Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI & Statistics' 03). Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics; 2003. .
Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the mean of a population containing many zero values. The Canadian Journal of Statistics/La Revue Canadienne de Statistique. Statistical Society of Canada; 2003;: 53–68. .
Information-theoretic approach for detecting change in the parameters of a normal model. Mathematical methods of statistics. New York: Allerton Press, c1992-; 2003; 12: 116. .
Tests for homogeneity in normal mixtures in the presence of a structural parameter. Statistica Sinica. C/O DR HC HO, INST STATISTICAL SCIENCE, ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIPEI 115, TAIWAN; 2003; 13: 351–366. .
On the single item fill rate for a finite horizon. Operations Research Letters. Elsevier; 2003; 31: 119–123. .
The frequency of complications associated with the use of multiple-dose activated charcoal. Ann Emerg Med. 2003; 41: 370–377. .
Bias in estimates of confidence intervals for health outcome report cards. J Clin Epidemiol. 2003; 56: 553–558. .
A statistical characterization of a simulated Canadian annual maximum rainfall field. TR 2003-17, Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute, RTP, NC. North Carolina: Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; 2003. .
A simple approach to fitting Bayesian survival models. Lifetime data analysis. Springer; 2003; 9: 5–19. .
An extension of the Dirichlet prior for the analysis of longitudinal multinomial data. Journal of Applied Statistics. Taylor & Francis; 2003; 30: 293–310. DOI: 10.1080/0266476022000030075 .
Functional data analysis in evolutionary biology. In: . RECENT ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS. SARA BURGERHARTSTRAAT 25, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV; 2003. pp. 49-60. DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451378-6/50004-1 .
The weighted likelihood. Quality control and applied statistics. Executive Sciences Institute; 2003; 48: 545–546. .
Numerical optimization and surface estimation with imprecise function evaluations. Statistics and Computing. 2003; 13: 277-286. DOI: 10.1023/A:1024226918553 .
Designing networks for monitoring multivariate environmental fields using data with monotone pattern. Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, RTP, NC; 2003. .
Local linear extrapolation. JOURNAL OF NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS. 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD; 2003; 15: 565-578. DOI: 10.1080/10485250310001605432 .
Bereaved Parents' Outcomes 4 to 60 Months After Their Children's Deaths by Accident, Suicide, or Homicide: A Comparative Study Demonstrating Differences. Death Studies [Internet]. 2003; 27: 39–61. DOI: 10.1080/07481180302871 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481180302871 .
On the validity of the likelihood ratio and maximum likelihood methods. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference [Internet]. 2003; 117: 59–81. DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00359-2 URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378375802003592 .
Optimal group sequential designs for the Anscombe-Colton model. In Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance van Eeden. IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series; 2003. pp. 291–315. .
Statistical approaches to assessing the effects of neutralizing antibodies IFNβ-1b in the pivotal trial of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Neurology. AAN Enterprises; 2003; 61:Supplement 5: S35–S37. .
Neutralizing antibodies during treatment of secondary progressive MS with interferon β-1b. Neurology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2003; 60: 37–43. .
Neutralizing antibodies during treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis with interferon β-1b. Neurology. AAN Enterprises; 2003; 60: 37–43. .
Neutralizing antibodies during treatment of secondary progressive MS with interferon β-1b. Neurology. AAN Enterprises; 2003; 60: 37–43. .
Neutralising antibodies to interferon beta during the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 2003; 74: 1162. .
Neutralising antibodies during treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis with interferon beta-1b. Neurology. 2003; 61: 1025. .
A randomized, controlled trial of the use of pulmonary-artery catheters in high-risk surgical patients. N. Engl. J. Med. 2003; 348: 5–14. .
A decision rule for diagnostic testing in obstructive sleep apnea. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2003; 167: 1427–1432. .
A new partitioning around medoids algorithm. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation [Internet]. 2003; 73: 575-584. DOI: 10.1080/0094965031000136012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0094965031000136012 .
Air pollution and daily mortality in a city with low levels of pollution. Environmental health perspectives. National Institute of Environmental Health Science; 2003; 111: 45. .
Air pollution and daily mortality in a city with low levels of pollution. Environmental Health Perspectives. National Institute of Environmental Health Science; 2003; 111: 45-51. .
Derivation of Mixture Distributions and Weighted Likelihood Function. Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; 2003. .
Classification for Ranking in Drug Discovery: Identifying and Aggregating Relevant Subsets of Variables. Proceedings of the ISI Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [Internet]. 2003;: 173–181. URL: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xBll4aQqxKAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA173&dq=info:yaGcD_7a4fgJ:scholar.google.com&ots=uvxgHFyu46&sig=PaTT5DK4PYIZjdia_dlDMsOQCwI .
Empirical Bayes estimation and its superiority for two-way classification model. Statistics & probability letters. Elsevier; 2003; 63: 165–175. .
Exploring the ``Two-Hit hypothesis'' in NF2: Tests of two-hit and three-hit models of vestibular schwannoma development. Genetic Epidemiology. 2003; 24: 265-272. DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10238 .
A new type of discrete self-decomposability and its application to continuous-time Markov processes for modeling count data time series. Stochastic Models. 2003; 19: 235-254. DOI: 10.1081/STM-120020388 .
Designing Networks for Monitoring Multivariate Environmental Fields Using Data with Monotone Pattern. North Carolina: Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; 2003. .
A computational model for estimating personal exposure to air pollutants with application to Londons PM10 in 1997. Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia. 2003. .
A computational model for estimating personal exposure to air pollutants with application to London’s PM10 in 1997. 2003 Technical Report of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. 2003;. .
Uncertainty, entropy, variance and the effect of partial information. Lecture Notes-Monograph Series. 2003;: 155–167. .
A Computational Model for Estimating Personal Exposure to Air Pollutants with Application to London's PM10 in 1997. Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; 2003. .
2002
Globally robust inference. Estadistica. 2002; 54: 162–163. .
Scalable robust covariance and correlation estimates for data mining. In Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM; 2002. pp. 14–23. .
Evaluation of clinical diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis 2. Neurology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2002; 59: 1759-1765. DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000035638.74084.F4 .
Predictors of the risk of mortality in neurofibromatosis 2. American Journal of Human Genetics. Amer Soc Human Genet; 2002; 71: 715-723. DOI: 10.1086/342716 .
Exposure misclassification and threshold concentrations in time series analyses of air pollution health effects. Risk Analysis. Wiley Online Library; 2002; 22: 1183–1193. .
Paired and Unpaired Comparison and Clustering with Gene Expression Data. Statistica Sinica [Internet]. 2002; 12: 87 - 110. URL: http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j12n1/j12n15/j12n15.htm .
Statistical inference on comparing two distribution functions with a possible crossing point. Statistics & probability letters. Elsevier; 2002; 60: 329–341. .
Using empirical likelihood methods to obtain range restricted weights in regression estimators for surveys. Biometrika. Biometrika Trust; 2002; 89: 230–237. .