Available materials

Reports, manuscripts, and recent published papers

• Hardy's inequality and its descendants. With Chris Klaassen. Submitted. arXiv:2006.11818.pdf
  
• A sharp multiplier inequality with applications to heavy-tailed regression problems.
  With Qiyang (Roy) Han. arXiv:1706:02410.
  
• Multivariate convex regression: global risk bounds and adaptation.
  With Qiyang Han. arXiv:1601.06844.
  
• A new approach to tests and confidence bands for distribution functions
    With Lutz Dümbgen. arXiv:1402.2918
  
• On the Hermite spline conjecture and its connection to $k$-monontone densities.
  With Fadoua Balabdaoui and Simon Foucart. arXiv:1301.3190
  
• tr598.pdf: Convergence of linear functionals of the Grenander estimator under misspecification.
  With Hanna K. Jankowski.   Technical Report 598, July 2012.  arXiv:1207.6614
  
• Estimation of Mean Residual Life.
  With W. J. Hall. (revised version of an unpublished paper from 1979).
  arXiv.1707.02484
   
• LIS.pdf; On longest increasing subsequences and random Young tableaux:
  experimental results and recent theorems.
  Jon Wellner. Posted 4/5/2002. Data posted 4/5/2002.
• tr344.ps: Special Topics Course 593C: Nonparametric Estimation for Inverse Problems: Algorithms and Asymptotics. Piet Groeneboom, Technical Report 344, December 1998.
  
• tr309.ps: Small Sample Distributions of the Area Statistics A_n^+ and A_n: Some Problems. Antonio E. Gomes and Jon A. Wellner. Technical Report 309, July 1996.
  
• tr308.pdf: Bootstrapping Z - estimators. Jon A. Wellner and Yihui Zhan. Technical Report 308, July 1996.
  

Theses

• Nilanjana Laha (joint with Alex Luedtke): Estimation and testing under shape constraints. Post-doc; Harvard University, Biostatistics.
• Qiyang (Roy) Han (Statistics): Topics on Least Squares Estination
  Ph.D. Thesis, July 2018; Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.
• Finite Sampling Exponential Bounds. Evan Greene (Statistics), Ph.D. Thesis, July 2016.
  Post-doctoral research, FHCRC, Seattle, Washington.
• Weighted likelihood estimation under two-phase sampling. Takumi Saegusa (Biostatistics), Ph.D. Thesis, August 2012.
  [Post-doctoral research, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington.
• Convex analysis methods in shape-constrained estimation. Arseni Seregin (Statistics), Ph.D. Thesis, May 2010. [Vice President, Goldman Sachs, New York]
• Nonparametric estimation of multivariate monotone densities. Marios Pavlides (Statistics), Ph.D. Thesis, June 2008. [Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast]
• Nonparametric estimation for current status data with competing risks. Marloes Maathuis, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2006. [Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, ETH, Zurich.]
• Goodness-of-fit tests via phi-divergences. Leah Jager, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2006. [Currently Assistant Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).]
• Semiparametric marginal mean models for multivariate counting processes. Hao Liu, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2004
• Nonparametric estimation of a k-monontone density: a new asymptotic distribution theory. Fadoua Balabdaoui, Ph. D. Thesis, May 2004. [Currently Assistant Professor of Statistics, Universite Paris-Dauphine.]
• Estimation with bivariate interval-censored data. Shuguang Song, Ph.D. Thesis, December 2001.
• Information bounds and efficient estimates for two-phase designs with lifetime data. Bin Nan, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000. [Currently Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.]
• Likelihood ratio inference in regular and non-regular problems. Moulinath Banerjee, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000. [Currently Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan.]
• A model selection approach to partially linear regression. Florentina Bunea, Ph.D. Thesis, 2000. [Currently Professor of Statistics, Cornell University.]
• Semiparametric inference based on estimating equations in regression models for two phase outcome dependent sampling. Nilajan Chatterjee, Ph.D. Thesis, 1999. (Joint with Norm Breslow). [Currently Chief, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute.]
• Lifetime and disease onset distributions from incomplete observations. Eduardo Gomes, Ph.D. Thesis, 1999. [Currently Professor of Statistics, Departamento de Estatistica, Universidade de Brasilia, 70910-900, Brasilia-DF, Brazil]
• Asymptotic Efficiency in Semiparametric Models with Non-i.i.d. Data. Brad McNeney, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998. [Currently Associate Professor of Statistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.]
• Estimation for Counting Processes with Incomplete Data. Ying Zhang, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998. [Currently Professor of Biostatistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.]
• Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation for semiparametric models. Huilin Hu, Ph.D. Thesis, 1998.
• Bootstrapping Functional M-Estimators, Yihui Zhan, Ph.D. Thesis, 1996. [Rosetta Biosoftware, Seattle, WA; yihui_zhan@rosettabio.com.]
• Estimation in Regression Models with Interval Censoring, Jian Huang, Ph.D. Thesis, 1994. [Currently Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Iowa; huang@stat.uiowa.edu.]
• General-Weights Bootstrap of the Empirical Process, Jens Thomas Praestgaard, Ph.D. Thesis, 1991. [Currently Senior Statistician, Human Genome Sciences]
• Beyond the Cox Model: Extensions of the model and alternative estimators. Peter Sasieni, Ph.D. Thesis, 1989. [Researcher, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories; p.sasieni@icrf.icnet.uk; Professor of Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology, Queen Mary and Westfield College]
• Estimation of Mixing Distributions. Russell Millar, Ph.D. Thesis, 1989. [Currently Associate Professor Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand: millar@stat.auckland.ac.nz ]
• Kullback-Leibler estimation of probability measures with an application to clustering. Anne Sheehy, Ph.D. Thesis, 1987. [Department of Biostatistics, University of Zurich, annes@biostat1.unizh.ch ]