STATISTICS FACULTY AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Jim Albert received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1979 and joined the Department in the same year. His areas of research interest include Bayesian modeling of discrete response data, Bayesian model selection, and item response theory. In addition, he is developing curriculum materials for the teaching of probability and statistics and has a keen interest in the applications of statistics to sports. He has supervised three doctoral students and is an associate editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association and Communications in Statistics. Representative publications:

Hanfeng Chen joined the Department in 1990, having obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1990 under the direction of Professor W.Y. Loh. His research interests include empirical likelihood methods, finite mixture models, large sample theory, statistical quality control, and transformation analysis. Selected publications:

Arjun K. Gupta joined the Department in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His areas of research are primarily multivariate statistical analysis, analysis of categorical data, and applied statistics. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Statisticians and the Royal Statistical Society of England. He is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has supervised 16 doctoral students. He was named Distinguished University Professor in 1995 and is the recipient of the Olscamp Research Award in 1990. He is an associate editor of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Communications in Statistics, and Random Operators and Stochastic Equations. Recent publications:

Truc T. Nguyen joined the Department in 1982, the same year he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under A. R. Sampson. His research fields are contingency tables, characterization problems in statistics and goodness-of-fit tests, and order-restricted inference in statistics. Selected publications:

Edsel A. Peña joined the Department in 1986, having obtained his Ph.D. from Florida State University in the same year under the direction of Professor Myles Hollander. He works primarily in the development, as well as the examination of the mathematical and probabilistic properties, of statistical methods appropriate for the analysis of failure time data arising in medical/clinical, reliability, and engineering studies, especially those that involve censoring and truncation. He also has interests in nonparametric and semiparametric inference and smooth goodness-of-fit procedures. Since 1993 he has been serving as associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has supervised three doctoral students. Some representative publications are:

Gábor J. Székely joined the Department in 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Eotvos L. University, Budapest in 1971 under the direction of Alfred Renyi. He works primarily in algebraic probability, stochastic optimization, and statistics. He received his D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1986. He is the recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize, University of Cambridge, 1988. Between 1989 and 1995 he was the chair of the Department of Stochastics at the Budapest Institute of Technology. He was visiting professor at Yale in 1989 and Distinguished Lukacs Professor in 1990-91. He has had eight Ph.D. students. Representative publications include:

Craig Zirbel joined the Department in 1996. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993 under the direction of Erhan Çinlar. He works primarily in stochastic processes, random flow models of complex fluid flows, and statistical mechanics for nonlinear partial differential equations. Representative publications and works in progress:

Retired faculty members

Eugene Lukacs moved the Statistical Laboratory at Catholic University to BGSU in 1972, and retired in 1976. He died in Washington D.C. in 1987. His primary interest was in the theory of characteristic functions.

Vijay Rohatgi came in 1972 with Lukacs. He was student of C. C. Heyde at Michigan State in 1967. He retired in 1997, and now resides in Washington D.C.

Radha Laha, a student of C. R. Rao at Calcutta University in 1957, also came to the department in 1972 from Catholic University. He retired in 1996 and still teaches courses at BGSU.

Thomas Hern, a student of Jesse Shapiro at Ohio State, joined the department in 1969 and retires in 1998. His work was in infinitely divisible and stable laws.

Richard Eakin left the department to eventually become Chancellor of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington State in combinatorics in 1964.

Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research

Nancy S. Boudreau joined the Department in 1980, having obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Florida under the direction of Professor John Saw. She has been the Director of the Statistical Consulting Center on campus since 1986. Her interests include categorical data analysis, regression analysis, and design of experiments. Selected publications include:

Jane Harvill joined the Department in 1994, having obtained her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Professor H. J. Newton acted as her major advisor. Her research interests include time series analysis, saddlepoint approximations, process capability analysis, order statistics, EDF tests for goodness of fit, and statistical education. Some recent publications:

Grace Montepiedra joined the Department in 1993, having obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 1994 under the direction of Professor Valerii V. Fedorov. She works primarily in optimal experimental design. Representative publications include:

Jim Sullivan joined the Department in 1971, having obtained his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1970 under the direction of Jagdish Rustagi. He has been the Dean of the College of Business Administration since 1995. His research interests include design of experiments, regression analysis, and analysis of categorical and multivariate data. Representative publications:

Arthur Yeh joined the Department in 1993, having obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1993 under the direction of Professor Kesar Singh. His research interests include bootstrap, data depth, optimal experimental designs, statistical process control, and statistical computing. Selected publications:

Retired faculty members

Ralph St. John received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1973 and joined the Department in the same year. His main areas of work are industrial statistics, experiments with mixtures, and optimal designs of regression. He retired in 1997.

Charles Mott joined the Department in 1965, having received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He retired in 1993.

Robert Patton joined the Department in 1966, having received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He served as Dean of the College of Business Administration from 1982 to 1989. He retired in 1991.


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