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Bootstrap

Hu, F. and Zidek, J.V. "An approach to bootstrapping through estimating equations", Biometrika, 82:263-275, (1995).

 


 

Decision Theory (Wald)

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V.  Combining the data from two normal populations to estimate the mean of one when their mean difference is bounded."  To appear. Jour Mult Anal.

 

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. Combining sample information in estimating ordered normal means. Sanhkya. 51: 277-284 (2001). Correction note: Statist. Probab. Lett. 57 (2002).

 

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. Estimating one of two normal means when their mean difference is bounded. Statist. And Probability Letters, 51: 277-284 , (2001)

 

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. Minimax estimation of a bounded scale parameter for scale-invariant squared-error loss. Statist. and Decisions, Vol. 17, 1-30 (1999).

 

Ruhkin, A.L. and Zidek, J.V. "Estimation of linear parametric functions for several exponential samples."  Statist. and Decision, 3:225-238, (1985).
 

van der Merwe, A. and Zidek, J.V. "Multivariate regression analysis and canonical variates." Can. J. Stat., 8:27-40, (1980).

 

Tsui, K., Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Inadmissibility of the best fully equivariant estimator of the generalized residual variances." Ann. Stat., 8:1156-1159, (1980).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Deriving unbiased risk estimators of multinormal mean and regression coefficient estimators using Zonal polynomials." Ann. Statist, 6:769-782, (1978).

 

Clevenson, M.L. and Zidek, J.V. "Bayes linear estimators of the intensity function of the nonstationary Poisson process." J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 72:112-120, (1977).

 

Shorrock, R.W. and Zidek, J.V. "An improved estimator of the generalized variance." Ann. Statist., 4:629-638, (1976).
 

Clevenson, M.L. and Zidek, J.V. "Simultaneous estimation of the means of independent Poisson laws." Jour. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 70:698-705, (1975).

 

Brewster, J.F. and Zidek, J.V. "Improving on equivariant estimators."  Ann. Statist., 2:1-18, (1974).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Estimating the scale parameter of the exponential distribution with unknown location." Ann. Statist., 1:264-278, (1973).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Inadmissibility of a class of estimators of a normal quantile." Ann. Math. Statist., 42:1444-1477, (1971).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Sufficient conditions for the inadmissibility under squared error loss of formal Bayes estimators." Ann. Math. Statist., 41:446-456, (1970).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Inadmissibility of the best invariant estimator of extreme quantiles of the normal law under squared error loss." Ann. Math. Statist., 40:1801-1808, (1969).

 

Zidek, J.V. "A representation of Bayes invariant procedures in terms of Haar measure."  Ann. Inst. Statist. Math., 21:291-308, (1969).

 

Zidek, J.V. On the admissibility of formal Bayes estimators. Tech. Rpt. 58, Nonr-225(72), Dept. Statistics, Stanford U (1967).

 

Nonrefereed

Zidek, J.V.  A necessary condition for the admissibility under convex loss of equivariant estimators.  Stanford Tech. Rep. No. 113, Dept. of Statistics (1976).

 


Decision Analysis (Bayes)

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. "Group Bayes estimation of the exponential mean: a retrospective view of the Wald theory." Proceedings Fifth Purdue International Symposium on Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics (eds. S.S. Gupta and J.O. Berger), 35-49 (1994).

 

van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. "Group Bayes estimation of the exponential mean: a preposterior analysis." Test. 3:125-143, (1994).

 

Genest, C., Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Conditionalization and likelihood dominance in group belief formation."  Statistics and Decision, 8:183-198, (1990).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Group decision analysis and its application to combining opinions."  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 20:307-325, (1988).

 

Haitovsky, Y. and Zidek, J.V. "Approximating hierarchical normal priors using a vague component." J. Mult. Analysis, 19: 48-66, (1986).

 

Genest, C. and Zidek, J.V. "Combining probability distributions:  a critique and an annotated bibliography." Statistical Sciences, 1:114-148, (1986).

 

De Waal, D., Groenewald, P., van Zyl, J.M., and Zidek, J.V. "Multi-Bayesian estimation theory."  Statistics and Decision, 4:1-18, (1986).

 

De Waal, D., Groenewald, P., van Zyl, J.M., and Zidek, J.V. "A randomized solution for multi-Bayes estimates of the multinomial Mean."  Ann. Instit. Statist. Math., 37:481-486, (1985).

 

Genest, C., Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Aggregating opinions through logarithmic pooling." Theory and Decision, 17:61-70, (1984).

 

Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Elements of multi-Bayesian decision theory." Ann. Statist., 11:1032-1046, (1983).

 

Brown, P. and Zidek, J.V. "Multivariate ridge regression with unknown covariance matrix." Skan. J. Statist., 9:209-215, (1982).

 

Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Multi-Bayesian statistical decision theory." J. Roy. Statist. Soc., Ser.A 144:85-93, (1981).

 

Brown, P. and Zidek, J.V. "Adaptive multivariate ridge rules." Ann. Statist., 8:64-74, (1980).

 

Dawid, A.P., Stone, M. and Zidek, J.V. "Marginalization paradoxes in Bayesian and Structural inference." J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B, 35:189-233, (1973).

 

Nonrefereed

Dawid, A.P., Stone, M. and Zidek, J.V. Critiqued E.T. Jaynes's "Paradoxes of Probability Theory." http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stats/research/psfiles/172xzip. Tech.Rep. 172, University College London (1996).

 

Brown, P. J., Le, N. D. and Zidek, J. V. "Inference for a covariance matrix" In Aspects of Uncertainty: A Tribute to D.V. Lindley (eds. P.R. Freeman and A.F.M. Smith) Toronto: Wiley, 77-92 (1994).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Comments on Jaynes' paper "Marginalization and prior probabilities", Chap. 6 of Bayesian Analysis in Econometrics and Statistics (ed. A. Zellner), North-Holland Publishing Co., New York. (1980).

 


Environmental Health Risk

Zidek, J.V., Le, N.D., Wong, H. and Burnett, R.T. Including structural measurement errors in the nonlinear regression analysis of clustered data. Can. Jour. Statist., 26:537-548, (1998).

 

Zidek, J.V., White, R., Le, N.D., Sun, W. and Burnett, R.J. Imputing unmeasured explanatory variables in environmental epidemiology with application to health impact analysis of air pollution. Ecological and Environmental Statist., 5:99-115, (1998).

 

Sun, W., Le, N.D., Zidek, J.V. and Burnett, R. "Assessment of a Bayesian multivariate interpolation approach for health impact studies." Environmetrics, 9:565-586, (1998).
 

Zidek, J.V., Wong, H., Le, N.D., and Burnett, R.T. "Causality, measurement error and multicollinearity in epidemiology, Environmetrics, 7:441-451, (1996).

 

Duddek, C., Le, N.D., Zidek, J.V., and Burnett, R.T. "Multivariate imputation in cross-sectional analysis of health effects associated with air pollution" (with discussion), J. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 2:191-212, (1995).

 

Nonrefereed

Zidek, J.V., Meloche, J. Shaddick, G., Chatfield, C. and White, R. A Computational Model for Estimating Personal  Exposure to Air Pollutants with Application to London's PM10 in 1997. TR 2003-3. Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Instit, (2003)

 

Le, N.D. Sun, L. and Zidek, J.V. "Air Pollution and Cancer. " To appear in a Health Canada publication. (2000).

 

Zidek, J.V., Meloche, J., Le, N.D. and Sun, Li. "Combining statistical and computer models for health risk assessment (exposure analysis). Statistical Modelling, Proceedings fo the 15th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: New Trends in Statistical Modelling. (Eds. V. Núńez-Antón, E. Feffeirra). Bilbao:Universidad del Pais Vasco, 95-106, (2000).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Measuring and Modelling Pollution Exposure for Risk Analysis (with discussion). Proceedings Novartis Foundation #220. 105-121 (1999).

 

Le, N.D., White, R. and Zidek, J.V. "Using spatial data in assessing the association between air pollution episodes and respiratory health." Statistics for the Environment 4: Statistical Aspects of Health and the Environment, 117-136, (1999).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Interpolating air pollution for health impact assessment." Statistics for the Environment 3: Pollution Assessment and Control (ed. V. Barnett and K.F. Turkman). New York: Wiley, 251-268 (1997).

 

Brauer, M., Chatfield, C., Le, N.D., Zhang, H., and Zidek, J.V. (P.I.) "Generalised space-time models for pollution exposures of populations whose members interact with their environment." Contract Report: Health Canada, 55 pp. (1996).

 

Brauer, M., Duddek, C., Hornby, S, Le, N.D., Stevens, J., Sun, W., White, R, Zhang, H., and Zidek J.V. (P.I.). "An assessment of pNEM: a computer package for assessing population level exposures to air pollution." Contract Report: Health Canada, 172 pp. (1995).

 


Environmetrics

Sun, Li, Zidek, J.V., Le, N.D. and Ozaynak, H. Interpolating Vancouver's daily ambient PM10 field. Environmetrics, 11:651-663, (2000).

 

Li, K., Le, N.D., Sun, Li and Zidek, J.V. Spatial-temporal models for ambient hourly Pm10 in Vancouver. Environmetrics, 10, 321-338 (1999).

 

Zidek, J.V., Sun, L., Le, N.D. and Özkaynak, H. Contending with Space-time interaction in the spatial prediction of pollution: Vancouver's hourly ambient PM2.5  field. Environmetrics. 13:595-613 (2002).

 

Nonrefereed

Wu, S. and Zidek, J.V. Recent trends in the chemistry of precipitation in the United States: Part 1. Concentrations of hydrogen ions. SIMS Tech Report No. 129, Dept. of Statistics, University of British Columbia (1989).

 

Wu, S. and Zidek, J.V.. Recent trends in the chemistry of precipitation in the United States: Part 2. Concentrations of sulfate. SIMS Tech Report No. 130, Dept. of Statistics, University of British Columbia (1989).

 

Wu, S and Zidek, J.V. . Recent trends in the chemistry of precipitation in the United States: Part 3. Concentrations of nitrate. SIMS Tech Report No. 135, Dept. of Statistics, University of British Columbia (1989).

 


Highway Bridge Design

Buckland, P.G., Navin, F.D.P., Zidek, J.V., and McBride, J.P. "Proposed vehicle loading for long span bridges." Proc. Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers, ST4:915-932, (1979).

 

Navin, F.D.P., Zidek, J.V. and McBride, J.P. "Traffic loading of long span bridges." Transportation Research Record, 665:146-154, (1978).

 

Buckland, P.G., Navin, F.D.P., Zidek, J.V.,and Fisk, C. "Design traffic loads on the Lion's Gate bridge." Transportation Research Record, 607:19-24, (1976).

 

Buckland, P.G., Navin, F.P.D. and Zidek, J.V. "Bridge Traffic Loads - Are We Overdesigning?" Proc. of Annual Conference of the Roads and Transportation Association of Canada, (1975).

 

Zidek, J.V., Navin, F.D.P., and Lockhart, R. "Statistics of extremes: an alternate method with application to bridge design codes."  Technometrics, 8:185-191, (1979).

 

Nonrefereed

Navin, F.F.D. , Buckland, P. and Zidek, J.V.  Vehicle loading on long span bridges.  Read at the 1979 Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers Conf. on Prob. Mech. and Struct. Reliability (1979).

 

Buckland, P.G., Navin, F.P.D., McBryde, J., and Zidek, J.V. Proposed vehicle loading of long span bridges.  Read at the 1978 convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1978).

 

Buckland, P., Navin, F. and Zidek, J.V. Traffic Loading and the Effects of Weight Restrictions, Lion's Gate Bridge Study Report No. 5, Buckland and Taylor Ltd: Vancouver (1975).

 


Miscellaneous

Liu, J., Wu, S. and Zidek, J.V. "On segmented multivariate regression." Statistica Sinica, 7:497-525, (1997).

 

McCullagh, P. and Zidek, J.V. "Regression methods and performance criteria for small-area populations estimation."  Small Area Statistics:  An International Symposium (eds. Platek, R., Rao, J.N.K., Sarndal, C.E. and Singh, M.P.), 62-74 (1986).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Maximal Simpson disaggregations of 2x2 tables."  Biometrika, 71:187-190, (1984).

 

Hwang, J. and Zidek, J.V. "Limit theorems for out-guesses with mean-guided second guessing." J. Applied Prob., 9:209-215, (1982).

 

Olkin, I., Petkau, A.J. and Zidek, J.V. "A comparison of n-estimators for the binomial distribution." J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 76:637-642, (1981).

 

Steele, J.M. and Zidek, J.V. "Optimal strategies for second guessers." J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 75:596-601, (1980).

 

Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "A characterization of the general mean." Canadian J. of Statist., 7:83-90, (1979).

 

Hakstian, A.R., Zidek, J.V., and McDonald, R.M. "Best univocal estimates of orthogonal common factors." Psychometrika, 42:627-630, (1978).

 

Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Generalized Nash products for bargaining games with incomplete information." Indian Economic Journal. (To appear).

 

Narayana, T.V. and Zidek, J.V. "Contributions to the theory of Tournaments:  part I, The combinatorics of knock-out tournaments, Cahier du Bureau Universitaire de Recherche Operationelle, Cahier no. 13:3-18, (1969).

 

Narayana, T.V. and Zidek, J.V. "Contributions to the theory of tournaments: part II, Statistical inference in random tournaments."  Rev. Roumaine Math. Pures Appl.,10:1563-1676, (1969).

 

McGregor, J.R. and Zidek, J.V. "Limiting distributions of response probabilities."  Ann. Math. Statist., 36:706-707, (1965).

 

McGregor, J.R. and Zidek, J.V. "A sequence of limiting distributions of response probabilities." Psychometrika, 30:491-497, (1965).

 

                      

Nonrefereed

Zidek, J.V. "Statistication: the quest for a curriculum."  Proc. Int. Conf. on Teaching Statist. II., 1-17 (1988).

 

Rubin, H and Zidek, J.V. Approximations to the distribution function of sums of independent chi-random variables. Tech. Rpt. 106, Nonr-225(52), Dept. Statistics, Stanford U (1965).

 

Rubin, H and Zidek, J.V. A waiting time distribution arising from the coupon collector's problem. Tech. Rpt. 107, Nonr-225(52), Dept. Statistics, Stanford U (1965).

 

Rubin, H and Zidek, J.V. Calculation of upper tail percentiles for the chi-square distribution. Tech. Rpt. 102, Nonr-225(52), Dept. of Statistics, Stanford U (1964).

 

Levy, J and Zidek, J.V. A comparative study of the success rates of male and female applicants for admission to graduate studies at UBC, 1973-74.  A report to the President's Committee on the Status of Women (1974).

 

Zidek, J.V. A review of Methods for estimating the populations of local areas. Tech. Rep. 82-4. Inst. Applied Maths. Statist., U. of British Columbia (1982).

 


 Network Design

Zidek, J.V., Sun, W. and Le, N.D. Designing and integrating composite networks for monitoring multivariate Gaussian pollution fields. Applied Statist.,  49:63-79, (2000).

 

Le, N.D. and Zidek, J.V.  Network designs for monitoring multivariate random spatial fields. In Recent Advances in Statistics and Probability (eds. Madan L. Puri and J.P. Vilaplena). 191-206 (1994).

 

Schumacher, P. and Zidek, J.V. "Using prior information in designing intervention detection experiments." Ann. Statistics., 21:447-463, (1993).

 

Guttorp, P., Le, N.D., Sampson, P.D. and Zidek, J.V.  "Using Entropy in the redesign of an environmental monitoring network." In Multivariate Environmental Statistics (eds. G.P. Patil and C.R. Rao) New York: North Holland, 175-202, (1993).

 

Wu, S. and Zidek J.V. "An entropy based review of selected NADP/NTN network sites." Atmospheric Environment, 2089-2103, (1992).

 

Caselton, W.F., Kan, L. and Zidek, J.V. "Quality data networks that minimize entropy."  In Statistics in the Environmental and Earth Sciences (eds. A.T. Walden and P. Guttorp), 10-38 (1992).

 

Caselton, W.F. and Zidek, J.V. "Optimal monitoring network designs  Statistics and Probability Letters, 2:223-227, (1984).

 

Zidek, J.V. "Detailed statistical approach to sediment chemistry monitoring."  Appendix B of Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program Workshop Synthesis and Sampling Design Recommendations, Report to Nat. Oceanic and Atmos. Administration, Nat. Ocean Systems, Juneau, AK, by Dames and Moore, SEAMOcean, Inc., and Dept. of Statist., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, 97-111, (1984).

 

Nonrefereed

Caselton, W.F., Kan, L. and Zidek, J.V. "Quality data networks that minimize entropy."  In Statistics in the Environmental and Earth Sciences (eds. Walden and Guttorp), 10-38 (1992).

 


Smoothing

Zidek, J.V. and Weerahandi, S. "Bayesian predictive inference for samples from smooth processes." Proceedings of the Fourth Valencia Meeting on Bayesian Statistics (eds., Berger, J.O., Bernardo, J.M., Dawid, A.P. and Smith, A.F.M.), 547-563 (1992).

 

Weerahandi, S. and Zidek, J.V. "Bayesian nonparametric smoothers."  Canadian Journal of Statistics, 16:61-74, (1988).

 

Delampady, M., Yee, I. and Zidek, J.V. "Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of a discrete time series of poisson counts."  Statistics and Computing 3:7-15, (1992).

 


Spatial Interpolation

Le, N.D., Sun, L. and Zidek, J.V. Spatial Prediction and Temporal Backcasting for Environmental Fields having monotone data patterns. Can Jour Statist, 29: 515-690.. (2002)

 

Kibria, G., Sun, L., Zidek, J.V. and Le, N.D. A Bayesian approach to backcasting and spatially predicting unmeasured multivariate random space-time fields with application to PM2.5 . JASA, 97:112-124. (2002)

 

Le, N.D., Sun, L. and Zidek, J.V. A note on the EM algorithm for Gaussian-Inverted Wishart Models. Statist. and Prob. Letters, 40:133-137, (1998).

 

Le, N.D., Sun, W., and Zidek, J.V. "Bayesian multivariate spatial interpolation with data missing-by-design", JRSS, Series B, 59:501-510, (1997).

 

Brown, P.J., Le, N.D. and Zidek, J.V. "Multivariate spatial interpolation and exposure to air pollutants". Can. Jour. Statist. 22:489-509, (1994).

 

Le, N.D. and Zidek, J.V. "Interpolation with uncertain spatial covariances: a Bayesian alternative to Kriging." Journal Multivariate Analysis, 43:351-374, (1992).

 


Weighted Likelihood

Hu, F and Zidek, J.V.  The weighted likelihood. Can. J. of Statist. 30: 347-371 (2002).

 

Hu, F and Zidek, J.V. The relevance weighted likelihood with applications. Empirical Bayes and Likelihood Inference. (Eds S.E. Ahmed and N. Reid.), New York: Springer Verlag (2001).

 

Hu, F., Rosenberger, W. and Zidek, J.V. The relevance weighted likelihood for dependent data. Metrika. 51:223-243. (2000).

 

Wang, X., van Eeden, C. and Zidek, J.V. Asymptotic properties of maximum weighted likelihood estimators.

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