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Education
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- Ph.D., Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1968
- B.Sc., Mathematics, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1961
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Research Interests
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- Multivariate Statistical Analysis
- Estimation of a Multivariate Density Function and its Applications
- Empirical Bayes Methods
- Nonparametric Regression Methods
- Measure of Association Between Vectors
- Statistical Analysis of Chemistry Laboratory Data
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Select Publications
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- Estimation Procedures for Difference of Means with Missing Data. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 66 (1971), 634-636.
- Some Characterizations of the Multivariate t Distribution. J. Mult. Anal. 2 (1972), 339-344.
- Generalized Bayes Minimax Estimators of the Multivariate Normal Mean with Unknown Covariance Matrix. (With H.L. Tsai) Ann. Statist. 1 (1973), 142-154.
- Procedures for Testing the Difference of Means with Incomplete Data. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 68 (1973), 699-703.
- Robustness of the Wilcoxon Test to A Certain Dependency Between Samples. (With M. Hollander and G. Pledger.) Ann. Statist. 2 ( 1974),177-181.
- On Difference of Means with Incomplete Data. (With L. Stivers.) Biometrika 61 (1974), 325-334.
- Rates of Convergence in Empirical Bayes Estimation Problems. Continuous Case. Ann. Statist. 3 (1975), 155-164.
- A Class of Generalized Bayes Minimax Estimators of A Multiple Regression Coefficient Vector. (With E.P. Bodo.) Br. J. Math. Psychol. 28 (1975), 157-166.
- A Nonparametric Estimation of the Entropy for Absolutely Continuous Distributions. (With I. Ahmad.) IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. IT-22 (1976), 372-375.
- Nonparametric Estimation of A Vector-Valued Bivariate Failure Rate. (With I. Ahmad.) Ann. Statist. 5 (1977), 1027-1038.
- On the Chernoff-Savage Theorem for Dependent Sequences. (With I. Ahmad.) Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 32 (1980), 211-222.
- Non parametric Estimation of A Regression Function. (With K.F. Cheng.) Z. Wahrs. Verw. Gebiete. 57 (1981), 222-233.
- Fitting A Multiple Regression Function. (With I. Ahmad.) J. Statist. Planning Inf. 9 (1984), 163-176.
- Stein-Type Multivariate Estimation. (Co-Edited with M. Ghosh.) Commun. Statist.-Theor. Meth. 15(7) (1986).
- Measures of Association Between Vectors. Commun. Statist.-Theor. Meth 16 (2) (1987), 321-338.
- Statistics Days at FSU (Co-Edited with D. Meeter and J. Sethuraman.) Commun. Statist.-Theor. Meth. 19(12) (1990).
- A Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the International Chinese Statistical Association. (Co-Edited with James Chen.) Commun. Statist.- Theor. Meth. 27(6) (1998).
- Statistical Analysis of Environmental Laboratory Data. (With X.F. Niu.) Technical Report Submitted to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. May 1998.
- A Nonparametric Procedure for Listing and Delisting Impaired Waters Based on Threshold Exceedances. (With D. Meeter and X.F. Niu) 2000.
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Employment Summary
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- Statistical Consultant, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, Summer 1967
- Statistical Consultant, Columbia University Medical Center, 1967 - 1968
- Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 1968 - 1974
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University, Spring, 1971
- Associate Professor, Florida State University, 1974 - 1981
- Visiting Professor, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, September 1976 - June 1977
- Professor, Florida State University, 1981 - August 2003
- Statistical Consultant, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 1990 (Invited by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
- Statistical Consultant, Florida Department of Transportation (Traffic Engineering), April - August 1996 and May 2002 - August 2003
- Statistical Consultant, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, May 1998 - August 2002
- Retired, September 2003
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