MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATE
STUDIES COMMITTEE FOR THE MASTER'S IN STATISTICS PROGRAM
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for further information.
Beretvas, S. Natasha
http://edpsych.edb.utexas.edu/people/faculty/details.php?ID_PK=F9827CC4-F2D5-0BA0-AC74C11EE87C9EC0
- Areas of statistical interest:
multilevel modeling and meta-analysis
- Possible areas for supervising
master's reports: Any methodological or simulation study that
fits within the above areas.
Brockett, Patrick L.
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/irom/faculty/profiles/index-vita.asp?addTarget=267
Damien, Paul
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/irom/faculty/profiles/index-vita.asp?addTarget=115980
Greenberg, Betsy S.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~betsyg/
Keitt, Timothy H.
http://www.keittlab.org/
- Areas of interest: Wavelets, scale-invariant phenomena, spatial statistics, time-series
analysis, network models
Koehler, Jonathan J. http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/jonathan.koehler/
- Areas of statistical interest: Psychology of chance;
probabilistic reasoning (Bayesian)
- Possible areas for serving on master's report committees:
Experimental projects related to how people reason with statistics
- Background: Psychology (judgment and decision making)
Leckenby, John http://ciadvertising.org/about/people/leckenby/index.html
- Areas of statistical interest: Applied multivariate analysis in communication, advertising and
marketing; Probability distributions in media audience modeling and related fields.
- Possible areas for serving on master's report committees: Applied statistical methods in any social science discipline.
Meyers, Lauren Ancel http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/MEYERS.HTM
Morrice, Douglas J. http://acsprod.mccombs.utexas.edu/facstaff/displayRecord.aspx?uid=20
Morton, David
P. http://www.me.utexas.edu/~orie/Morton.html
- Possible areas for serving on
master's report committees: Stochastic optimization, simulation,
variance reduction techniques,
bias reduction techniques
- Areas of statistical interest: Bayesian methods and
computing, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Data mining, Financial
time series, Lifetime data analysis.
- Possible areas for supervising master's reports: Markov
Chain Monte Carlo methods applied to financial data, Mixtures
estimation, Bayesian filters for data mining, Simulation
- Possible areas for being a reader for masters reports:
Bayesian statistics,Reliability theory and estimation, Simulation,
Stochastic Processes, Applied Probability
Powers Daniel http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/faculty/dpowers/index.html
- Areas if statistical interest: Event History
Analysis/Survival Modeling, Random Coefficient Models, Models for
Categorical Data Analysis, Structural Equation Models
- Possible areas for supervising master's reports: Event
History Analysis/Survival Modeling, Random Coefficient Models, Models
for Categorical Data Analysis, Structural Equation Models
Pullum, Thomas http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/sociology/faculty/profiles/pullum/thomas_w/
- Areas of Statistical Interest: Analysis of categorical
data; intersection of statistical and demographic methods; non-random
measurement error in surveys
- Possible areas for supervising master's reports: Methods
for analyzing demographic and social survey data, particularly related
to human fertility and mortality
- Possible areas for being a reader for master's reports:
Simulation; capture-recapture methods; multi-level models
Saar-Tsechansky, Maytal http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky
- Areas of Statistical Interest: Machine learning and data mining methods for data-driven business intelligence, intelligent and cost-effective information acquisition policies for decision making, and induction and inference with incomplete/partial information.
Sager, Thomas W.
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/irom/faculty/profiles/index-vita.asp?addTarget=258
- Areas of Statistical Interest: Insurance statistics,
econometrics, ranked set sampling, applied and
theoretical statistics generally, Bayesian statistics, environmental
statistics
- Areas for being reader or
supervising master's reports: Insurance statistics,
econometrics, ranked set sampling, applied and
theoretical statistics generally, Bayesian statistics, environmental
statistics
Shively, Thomas S.
www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Tom.Shively
- Areas of statistical interest: Bayesian statistics,
variable selection, simultaneous equations models, and marketing
research models
Smith, Martha K. (On phased retirement as of September, 2006, but still eligible to serve on master's committees) http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/mks/
- Areas of statistical interest: Environmental statistics,
environmental risk analysis
- Possible areas for supervising master's reports:
Environmental statistics, environmental risk analysis; occasionally
other applications
- Possible areas for being a reader for master's reports:
Environmental statistics; possibly applications to education, social
sciences, science, engineering.
Stolp, Chandler W. http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/faculty/stolp.html
- Areas of statistical interest: Econometrics, Bayesian
theory and applications, Likelihood theory and applications, Spatial
statistics, Hierarchical linear models, Discrete dependent variables
- Possible areas for supervising master's reports: Any of
the above areas
- Possible areas for being a reader for master's reports:
The above areas or other applied topics
Wilke, Claus O. http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/WILKE.HTM
- Areas of statistical interest: multivariate regression, principal component analysis, principal component regression, correlated and collinear predictors
- Possible areas for serving on master's report committees: multivariate analysis of biological data