Ian R. Harris
Associate Professor 

Department of Statistical Science 

 


Contact                                           Education

Department of Statistical Science                    B.Sc.,  Mathematics, University of Birmingham,  U.K.,1984
Southern Methodist University                        Ph.D.,  Statistics, University of Birmingham, U.K., 1989
3225 Daniel Avenue
P O Box 750332                                            Curriculum Vitae
Dallas, Texas 75275-0332

Phone:    214-768-2454                                 Personal Home Page
Fax:        214-768-4035
email:      iharris at smu.edu                


      Research Interests                                                Teaching

  • Robust estimation
  • Nonparametric inference
  • Variance component estimation for mixed models.
  • Statistics 2331 -- Introduction to Statistical  Methods
  • Statistics 6377 -- Generalized linear models

Selected Publications

Harris, I. R. and Burch, B. D. (2005). Measuring relative importance of sources of variation without using variance. The American Statistician, 59, 217-222.

Burch, B.D., and Harris, I.R. (2005). Optimal one-way random effects designs for the Intraclass correlation based on confidence intervals. Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 34, Issue 10, 2009-2024.

Minhajuddin, A., Harris, I. R. and Schucany, W. (2004). Simulating multivariate distributions with specific correlations. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 74, 599-607.

Burch, B.D., and Harris, I.R. (2001).  Closed-form approximations to the REML estimator of a variance ratio (or heritability) in a mixed linear model.  Biometrics, 57, 43-51.

Jones, M.C., Hjort, N., Harris, I.R., and Basu, A.P. (2001).  A comparison of related density-based minimum divergence estimators.  Biometrika, 88, 865-873.

Park, C., Basu, A., and Harris, I.R. (2001).  Tests of hypotheses in multiple samples based on penalized disparities.  Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 30, 347-366.


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