Hon Keung  Tony Ng
Assistant Professor 

Department of Statistical Science 

 

Contact                                           Education

Department of Statistical Science                    B.Sc.,  Statistics, The Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, 1997
Southern Methodist University                        M.Phil.,  Statistics, The Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, 1999
3225 Daniel Avenue                                       M.Sc.,   Statistics, McMaster University, Canada, 2000
P O Box 750332                                            Ph.D.,  Statistics, McMaster University, Canada, 2002
Dallas, Texas 75275-0332                           

Phone:    214-768-2465                                HOME PAGE
Fax:        214-768-4035
email:       ngh@mail.smu.edu       

      Research Interests

Teaching
  • Reliability theory
  • Life-testing procedures
  • Statistical Inference
  • Censored Data Analysis
  • Nonparametric Procedures
Stat 6304 Computational Statistics
Stat 6350  Analysis of Lifetime Data
 
Stat 2331 Introduction to Statistical Methods

Selected Publications

Balakrishnan, N. and Ng, H. K. T. (2001), Improved Estimation of the Correlation Coefficient in a Bivariate Exponential Distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 68 , 173-184.

Balakrishnan, N. and Ng, H. K. T. (2001).  On Estimation of the Correlation Coefficient in Moran-Downton Multivariate Exponential Distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 71 , 41-58.

Lam, Y. and Ng, H. K. T. (2001), A General Model for Consecutive-k-out-n: F repairable system with exponential distribution and (k-1)-step Markov dependence, European Journal of Operational Research, 129 , 663-682.

Balakrishnan, N. and Ng. H. K. T. (2001). A General Maximal Precedence Test, in System and Bayesian Relability (Y. Hayakawa, T. Irony and M. Xie, eds.), pp. 105-122.  Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Ng, H. K. T., Chan, P. S. and Balakrishnan, N. (2002). Estimation of Parameters From Progressively Censored Data Using EM Algorithm, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 39 , 371-386.

Balakrishnan, N., Ng, H. K. T. and Kannan, N. (2002). A Test of Exponentiality Based on Spacings for Progressively Type-II Censored Data, in Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Model Validity (C. Huber-Carol et al., eds.), pp. 89-110. Birkhäuser, Boston.

Ng, H. K. T. and Balakrishnan, N. (2002). Wilcoxon-type Rank-sum Precedence Tests: Large-sample approximation and evaluation, to appear in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry.

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