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Nabendu Pal
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70504-1010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Publications:

  1. (1987). `Non-random Segregation: Uniformly Most Powerful Test and Related Considerations' (with Majumder, P. P.). Genetic Epidemiology, 4, 277 - 287.
     
  2. (1988). `Decision Theoretic Estimation of Generalized Variance and Generalized Precision'. Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 17, No 12, 4221 - 4230.
     
  3. (1989). `Improved Estimators of Dispersion of an Inverse Gaussian Distribution' (with Sinha, B. K.). In Statistical Data Analysis & Inference, edited by Dodge, Y. (North Holland), 215 - 222.
     
  4. (1989). `Estimation of generalized Variance Under Entropy Losses: Admissibility Results'. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 38, 147 - 156.
     
  5. (1990). `Estimation of Common location of Several Exponentials' (with Sinha, B. K.). Statistics & Decisions, Vol. 8, No 1, 27 - 36.
     
  6. (1990). `Tests of Non-random Segregation Under Linkage for Autosomal Recessive Disease' (with Majumder, P. P.). Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 9, 573 - 582.
     
  7. (1990). `Estimating the Dispersion of an Inverse Gaussian Distribution. Technical Report 90-1, Dept of Statistics, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
     
  8. (1990). `A Note on Estimating the Common Location of Several Normal Populations'. Technical Report 90-3, Dept of Statistics, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
     
  9. (1990). `A Statistical Analysis of Stack Filters with Applications to Designing Robust Image Processing Operators' (with Chu, C. H. and Efe, K.). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision, IEEE Computer Society, Seattle, USA.
     
  10. (1991). `On location and Scale parameters of Exponential Distributions with Censored Observations' (with Elfessi, A.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 20, No 6, 1579 - 1592.
     
  11. (1991). `Estimation of Location Parameters of Several Exponential Distributions' (with Jin, C.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 20, No 12, 3995 - 4003.
     
  12. (1991). `A Note on Location Parameters of Two Exponentials Under Order Restricted Set-up (with Jin, C.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 20, No 10, 3147 - 3158.
     
  13. (1992). `On Order Restricted Location Parameters of two Exponential Distributions' (with Kushary, D.). Statistics & Decisions, Vol. 10, No 1-2, 133 - 152.
     
  14. (1992). `On Invariance and Maximum Likelihood Estimation' (with Berry, C.). The American Statistician, Vol. 46, No 3, 209 - 212.
     
  15. (1992). `Estimation of the Smaller and Larger of Two Exponential Location Parameters' (with Carpenter, M. and Kushary, D.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol21, No 4, 883 - 895.
     
  16. (1992). `Estimation of the Smaller and Larger of Two Uniform Scale Parameters' (with Elfessi, A.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 21, No 10, 2997 - 3015.
     
  17. (1992). `A Note on the trace of a Normal Dispersion matrix' (with Guo, Y. Y.). Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol. 14, No 4, 349 - 353.
     
  18. (1992). `On Common Location of Several Exponentials Under a Class of Convex Loss Functions' (with Jin, C.). Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 42, 191 - 200.
     
  19. (1992). `A Note on the Common Mean of Two Normal Populations with Order Restricted Variances' (with Elfessi, A.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 21, No 11, 3177 - 3184.
     
  20. (1992). `A Sequence of Improvements over the James-Stein Estimator' (with Guo, Y. Y.), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 43, No 2, 302 - 317.
     
  21. (1993). `Estimating the Normal Dispersion Matrix and the Precision Matrix from a Decision Theoretic Point of View: A Review. Statistiche Hefte/Statistical Papers, Vol. 34, 1 - 26.
     
  22. (1993). `Improvements over the James-Stein Estimator: A Risk Analysis' (with Lin, J. J. and Chang, C. H.). Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, Vol. 48, 117 - 126.
     
  23. (1994). `Unbiased Equivariant Estimation of a Common Normal Mean Vector with One Observation from Each Population' (with Krishnamoorthy, K.). Statistics & Probability Letters, 19, 33 - 38.
     
  24. (1994). `A Regression Model for Experimental Data from Temporal 3-Consistency Problem' (with Mitra, D. and Loganantharaj, R.). Work Shop Note, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, USA.
     
  25. (1995). `Estimation of the Smaller and Larger of Two Exponential Location Parameters with a Common Unknown Scale Parameter' (with Carpenter, M.). Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, No 177 - 178, 61 - 72.
     
  26. (1995). `Admissibility of Estimators with Unbounded Precision' (with Anderson, C.). Annals of Statistics, Vol. 23, No 2, 593 - 597.
     
  27. (1995). `Estimation of a Multivariate Normal Mean vector and Local Improvements' (with Sinha, B. K., Choudhury, G. and Chang, C. H.). Statistics, 26, 1 - 17.
     
  28. (1995). `Improved Minimax Estimation of Powers of the Variance of a Multivariate Normal Distribution Under Entropy Loss Function' (with Ling, C.). Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol. 24, 205 - 211.
     
  29. (1995). `Improved Estimation of a Multivariate Normal mean vector and the Dispersion Matrix: How One Affects the Other' (with Elfessi, A.). Sankhya, Series A, Vol. 57, Part 2, 267 - 286.
     
  30. (1996). `Estimation of a Normal Scale Parameter Under a Balanced Loss Function' (with Ling, C.). Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Vol. 34, No 1, 21 - 38.
     
  31. (1996). `Risk Analysis and Robustness of Four Shrinkage Estimators' (with Chang, C. H.). Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 46, No 181 & 182, 35 - 59.
     
  32. (1996). `Estimation of a Common Mean of Several Normal Populations: A Review' (with Sinha, B. K.). Far Eastern Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Special Volume, Part I, 97 - 110.
     
  33. (1997). `Applications of Improved variance Estimation in a Multivariate Normal Mean Vector Estimation' (with Lin, J. J. and Chang, C. H.). Statistics, 30, 99 - 125.
     
  34. (1997). `A Note on Second Order Admissibility of the Graybill-Deal Estimator of a Common Mean of Several Normal Populations' (with Lim, W. K.). Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 63, 71 - 78.
     
  35. (1997). `An Improved Method of Predicting the Future: A Result on Improving the Stein-Rule Shrinkage Estimators of Regression Coefficients' (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 1, No.2, 51 - 62.
     
  36. (1998). `Estimators which are Uniformly better than the James-Stein Estimator for Completely Unknown Dispersion Matrix' (with Lin, J. J.). Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 47, Nos. 187 - 188, 167 - 180.
     
  37. (1998). `Sequential Estimation of the Guarantee times for Systems of Several Exponential Components' (with Carpenter, D. M.). American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 3-4, 327 - 341.
     
  38. (1998). `Estimation of a Normal Variance: A Critical Review' (with Lin, J. J. and Ling, C. H.). Statistical Papers, Vol. 39, 389 - 404.
     
  39. (1998). `Estimation of the Coefficient of Multiple Determination' (with Lim, W. K.). The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol. 50, No. 4, 773 - 788.
     
  40. (1998). `Estimation of the Reliability Function of a Series System: Some Decision Theoretic Results' (with Sarkar, J. and Chaudhuri, G.). Statistics, Vol. 32, 59 - 74.
     
  41. (1998). `On the Coefficient of Multiple Determination in a Linear Regression Model' (with Lim, W. K.). Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, 129 - 157.
     
  42. (1999). `Shrinkage Estimation of A Correlation Coefficient and Two Examples with Real Life Data sets' (with Lim, W. K.), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 62, 357 - 373.
     
  43. (1999). `Second Order Admissibility of the Sample Intraclass Correlation Coefficient in a Symmetric Normal Distribution' (with Lim, W. K.). The Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 27, No 1, 163 - 172.
     
  44. (1999). `Complexity Studies of a Temporal Constraint Propagation Algorithm: A Statistical Analysis' (with Mitra, D.). Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, 155 - 183.
     
  45. (2000). `Estimation of a Correlation Coefficient: Some Second Order Results' (with Lim, W. K.). Statistics and Decisions, Vol. 18, 185 - 203.
     
  46. (2000). `Estimation of the support of a discrete distribution' (with Shen, W. H. and Sinha, B. K.). Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol. 48, 287 - 292.
     
  47. (2001). `A Note on Admissibility for a Multivariate Normal Mean Estimation'(with Lin, J. J.). Tamsui Oxford Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 17, No. 1, 23 - 33.
     
  48. (2002). `Estimation of the Smaller and Larger of Two Exponential Scale Parameters' (with Arazyan, A. Y. and Shen, W-H). Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, 157 - 172.
     
  49. (2003). `Estimation of a Normal Mean with Known Coefficient of Variation (with Guo, H.). Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 213-214, 17 - 30.
     
  50. (2003). `On the Reliability of a Two Component Series System' (with Arazyan, A. Y.). Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Vol. 41, 47-71.
     
  51. (2003). `Estimation of Circular Probable Error and Measuring the Accuracy of a Missile System' (with Lim, W. K.). Statistical Methods, Vol. 5, No. 2, 97 - 120.
     
  52. (2004). `On Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Estimation' (with Lim, W. K.). Statistical Papers, Vol. 45, No. 3, 369 - 392.
     
  53. (2005). `Comparison of Normal Variance Estimators Under Multiple Criteria and Towards a Compromise Estimator' (with Lin, J. J.) Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 75, No. 8, 645 - 666.
     
  54. (2005). `A Note on Robustness of Normal Variance Estimators Under t-distributions' (with Lin, J. J.). Communications in Statistics, Theory & Methods, Vol. 34, No. 7, 1117 - 1126.
     
  55. (2005). 'A Brief Review of Shrinkage Estimation of a Multivariate Normal Mean with Extension to Multiple Linear Regression' (with Lin, J. J. and Chang, C. H.) Advances and Applications in Statistics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 371 - 399.
     
  56. (2006). `On the Reliability of a Multi-Component Series System' (with Arazyan, A. Y.) Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 76, No. 1, 1 - 20.
     
  57. (2007). `Population Estimates of Hyla Cinerea via VIE Tagging and Mark-Recapture Analysis ' (with Pham, L., Boudreaux, S., Karhbet, S., Price, B., Ackleh, A. S. and Carter, J.). Southeastern Naturalist, Vol. 6, No. 2, 203 - 216.
     
  58. (2007). 'A Computational Approach to Statistical Inferences' (with Lim, W. K. and Ling, C. H.). Journal of Applied Probability & Statistics, Vol.1, No.2, 13 - 35.
     
  59. (2007). 'A Revisit to the Common Mean Problem: Comparing the Maximum Likelihood Estimator with the Graybill-Deal Estimator' (with Lin, J. J., Chang, C.H. and Kumar, S.). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol. 51, 5673 - 5681.
     
  60. (2007). 'Correlation Coefficient: Tables for Exact Test and Other Related Considerations' (with Lin, J. J. and Chang, C. H.). InterStat, Sept. 2007 (online journal: http://interstat.statjournals.net/YEAR/2007/abstracts/0709002.php).
     
  61. (2008). 'Estimation of a Normal Dispersion Matrix Using Shrinkage Correlation Estimators' (with Lim, W. K.). Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Vol. 45, No.2, 181 - 203.
     
  62. (2008) 'A Revisit to the Behrens-Fisher Problem: Comparison of Five Test Methods' (with Chang, C. H.). Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, Vol. 37, 1064 - 1085.
     
  63. (2008). 'A Computational Approach to One-way ANOVA and its Model Robustness' (with Chang, C. H.). Far Eastern Journal of Theoretical Statistics, Vol. 25, No. 1, 111 - 134.
     
  64. (2008). 'A Note on Improved Approximation of the Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal Distribution' (with Chang, C. H., Lin, J. J. and Miao, C. C.). The American Statistician, Vol. 62, No. 2, 167 - 170.
     
  65. (2008). 'Testing the Common mean of Several Normal Distributions' (with Chang, C. H.). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Vol. 53, 321 - 333.
     
  66. (2008). 'An Identity for Skew-Normal Distribution' (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). Journal of Applied Probability & Statistics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 305 - 309.
     
  67. (2008). 'Exact Test Critical Values for Correlation Testing with Applications' (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). WSEAS Transaction on Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 6, 363 - 381.
     
  68. (2008). 'Discussion on Skew-Normal Approximation of a Binomial Distribution' (with Chang, C. H., Lin, J. J. and Chiang, M. C.), InterStat Oct. 2008 (online journal http://interstat.statjournals.net/INDEX/Oct08.html).
     
  69. (2009). Letter to the Editor (in response to the letter by Miguel A. Garcia-Perez, The American Statistician, 62, 167 - 170). The American Statistician, Vol. 63, No. 1, 102.
     
  70. (2010). 'Estimation of a Population Size Through Capture-Mark-Recapture Method: A Comparison of Various Point and Interval Estimators' (with Yang, X.). Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, Vol. 80, No. 3, 335 - 354.
     
  71. (2010). 'Comparing Several Population Means: A Computational Approach Test, and Its Comparison with One Way ANOVA F-Test As Well As ANOM'(with Chang, C. H., Lim, W. K. and Lin, J. J.). Computational Statistics, Vol. 25, 71 - 95.
     
  72. (2010). 'On Comparing Several Poisson Means' (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, 39, 1605 - 1627.
     
  73. (2011). 'Testing the Equality of Several Gamma Means: A Parametric Bootstrap Method Applications' (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). Computational Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 1, 55 - 76.
     
  74. (2011). 'A Case Study of Green Tree Frog Population Size Estimation by Repeated Capture-Mark-Recapture Method with Individual Tagging: A Parametric Bootstrap Method vs. Jolly-Seber Method' (with Yang, X., Ackleh, A. and Carter, J.). Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, Vol. 81, No. 12, 1879 – 1895.
  75. (2011). ‘Inferences on Parameters of a Generalized Exponential Distribution’ (with Healy, M., Zhang, H. and Lio, Y. L.). Journal of the Indian Statistical Association,Vol. 49, No. 2, 177 – 198.
  76. (2012). ‘Assessing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact on marine mammal population through acoustics: endangered sperm whales’ (with Ackleh, A., Ioup, G., Ioup, J., Ma, B., Newcomb, J., Sidorovskaia, N., and Tiemann, C.). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, No. 3, 2306 – 2314.
  77. (2012). ‘Fitting a Structured Juvenile-Adult Model for Green Tree Frogs to Population Estimates from Capture-Mark-Recapture Field Data’ (with Ackleh, A., Carter, J., Deng, K., Yang, X., Huang, Q.). Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 74, No. 3, 641 – 665.
  78. (2012). ‘Inferences on the Standard Skew-Normal Distribution’ (with Thongteeraparp, A. and Lim, W. K.). Thailand Statistician (Journal of the Thai Statistical Association). Vol. 10, No. 2, 225 – 246.
  79. (2013). ‘Demographic Analysis of Sperm Whales Using Matrix Population Models’ (with Ackleh, A., Chiquet, R. and Ma, B.) Ecological Modelling, 248, 71 – 79.
  80. (2013). ‘Hypothesis Testing on the Common Location Parameter of Several Shifted Exponential Distributions: A Note’ (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.). Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, Vol. 42, No. 1, 51 – 59.
  81. (2013). ‘A Note on Interval Estimation of the Standard Deviation of a Gamma Population with Applications to Statistical Quality Control’ (with Frost, J., Keller, K., Lowe, J., Skeete, T., Walton, S. and Castille, J.). Applied Mathematical Modelling, 37, 2580 - 2587.
  82. (2013). ‘Estimating Common Standard Deviation of Two Normal Populations with Ordered Means’ (with Tripathy, M. R. and Kumar, S.). Statistical Methods & Applications (Journal of the Italian Statistical Society), Vol. 22, No. 3, 305 – 318.
  83. (2014). ‘A Note on Parameter Estimation Under a t-Model’ (with Gonzalez-Arevalo, B.). Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B, Vol. 76, No. 1, 103-119.
  84. (2014). ‘Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) Distribution: Parameter Estimation and Applications to Model Data from Natural Calamities’ (with Beckett, S., Jee, J., Ncube, T., Pompilus, S., Washington, Q., Singh, A.). Involve – A Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 6, 751 – 767.
  85. (2014). ‘A Generalized Inflated Poisson Distribution with Application to Modeling Fertility Data’ (with Begum, M. and Mallick, A.) Thailand Statistician (Journal of the Thai Statistical Association) Vol. 12, No. 2, 135 - 159.
  86. (2014). ‘A Computational Study of Gamma Parameter Estimates’ (with Alexander, R., Jones, D., Touch, B., Wallace, J., Wilson, T. and Tsai, G. H.) Far-East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1 – 17.
  87. (2015). ‘On Improved Estimation of a Gamma Shape Parameter’ (with Tanaka, H. and Lim, W. K.). Statistics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331888.2014.915842
  88. (2015). ‘A Note on Estimation of a Distribution Function in a Nonparametric Set-up Using Stein’s Shrinkage Estimation Technique’ (with Tripathy, M. R.). Communications in Statistics – Simulation & Computation (to appear).
  89. (2015). ‘A Revisit to Contingency Table and Tests of Independence: Bootstrap is Preferred to Chi-square Approximations as well as Fisher’s Exact Test’. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (to appear).
  90. (2015). ‘Small Sample Inferences on Sharpe Ratio’ (with Unhapipat, S. and Chen, J. Y) American Journal of Mathematical & Management Sciences (to appear).
  91. (2015). ‘A revisit to testing the equality of several Poisson parameters’ (with Unhapipat, S. and Tiensuwan, M.) Model Assisted Statistics & Applications (to appear).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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