William R. Schucany

Professor

Department of Statistical Science


 

Contact Education
Department of Statistical Science     
Southern Methodist University
P O Box 750332
Dallas, TX 75275-0332
Phone:  214-768-2464
Fax: 214-768-4035 
email:    schucany@mail.smu.edu
B.A., Math., 1963, The University of Texas
M.A., Math., 1965, The University of Texas
Ph.D., Stat., 1970, Southern Methodist University
Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised

Research Interests Teaching
  • Data analysis with applications in legal evidence
  • Medical research
  • Survey Sampling of business records
  • Nonparametric curve estimation
  • Local linear and kernels
  • Adaptive bandwidths
  • Resampling Methodology including jackknife and bootstrap
  • Randomization tests
  • STAT 1301 Introduction to Statistics
  • STAT 4370 Survey Sampling
  • STAT 6327/6328  Mathematical Statistics
  • STAT 6385/6386  Nonparametric Statistics
  • STAT 6395 Special Topics in Statistics
  • STAT 7327  Advanced Statistical Inference

 

Selected Publications

  1. Bootstrap Tests for Multivariate Directional Hypotheses, with Minhajuddin, Frawley, and Woodward, J. Statist. Planning and Inference, 137 (2007), 2302-2315.

  2. An Enhanced Sign Test for Dependent Binary Data with Small Numbers of Clusters, with Pat Gerard, Comp. Statist. & Data Analysis, 51 (2007), 4622-4632.

  3. Accounting for Spatial Dependence in the Analysis of SPECT Brain Imaging Data, with Spence, Carmack, Gunst, Woodward, and Haley, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 102 (2007), 464- 473 .

  4. Undercoverage of Wavelet-based Resampling Confidence Intervals, with Tang and Woodward, revised for Communications in Statistics (2007).

  5. Abnormal Brain Response to Cholinergic Challenge in Chronic Encephalopathy from the 1991 Gulf War, Haley, Spence, Carmack, Gunst, Schucany, Petty, Devous, Bonte and Trivedi, revised for Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging (2007).

  6.  Far Casting Cross Validation, with Carmack, Spence, Gunst, Lin, and Haley, revising for J. Comp. Graphical Statist., (2007).

  7.  Testing the Ratio of Two Poisson Rates, with Gu, Ng, and Tang, to appear Biometrical Journal (2007).

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