Books
Publications and Working Papers
On sufficiency and ancillarity Sankyha A online (2024). (Memorial issue in honour of D. Basu)
Sir David R. Cox 15 July 1924-- 18 January 2022 Bio. Mem. R. Soc. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0052 (2024)
On some publications of Sir David Cox Scand. J. Statist. , 51 , 1425-1432. (2024)
Distributions for parameters in Handbook of Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist Inference , Berger, J.O., Meng, X.-L., Reid, N. and Xie, M. (eds.) CRC/Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton. 35-57. (2024)
The tangent exponential model (with A.C. Davison). in Handbook of Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist Inference , Berger, J.O., Meng, X.-L., Reid, N. and Xie, M. (eds.) CRC/Chapman and Hall, Boca Raton. 210-237. (2024)
Spatial-extent inference for testing variance components in reliability and heritability studies (with Ruyi Pan, Erin Dickie, Colin Hawco, Aristotle Voineskos and Jun Young Park) Imaging Neuroscience 2 , 1--15. (2024)
A note on information bias and efficiency of composite likelihood. (with Libai Xu and Ximing Xu) Statistica Sinica , 34 , 523--526. (2024)
Laplace and saddlepoint approximations in high dimensions. (with Yanbo Tang) Bernoulli 31 , 1759--1788. (2025)
On partial likelihood. J R Statist Soc A 187 , 567--577. (2024)
Asymptotic behaviour of the modified likelihood root. (with Yanbo Tang) Statistica Sinica , to appear. (2023)
Variability of extra-galactic X-ray jets on kiloparsec scales (with Eileen Meyer, Aamil Shaik, Yanbo Tang, and 9 others) Nature Astronomy
Directional tests in Gaussian graphical models (with Claudia DiCaterina and Nicola Sartori) Statistica Sinica 35 , 361--388. doi:10.5705/ss.202022.0394. (2025)
Sir David Cox: 1924--2922 (with Anthony Davison and Valerie Isham). J. R. Statist. Soc. A 185 , 2295--2306. doi:10.1111/rssa.12964 (2022)
D.A.S. Fraser: From structural inference to asymptotics Canad. J. Statist. 50 1104--1115. (2022)
Obituary: David Cox 1924--2022 (with Heather Battey) IMS Bulletin April 2022
Remembering David Cox Significance 19 , 35. (2022)
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute: 2013--2022 (with Don Estep and Mary Thompson) Canad. J. Statist. 50 1387--1402. (2022)
On inference in high-dimensional linear regression (with Heather Battey) J. R. Statist. Soc. B 85 149--175. (2023)
Modified likelihood root in high dimensions (with Yanbo Tang) J. R. Statist. Soc. B 62 , 1349 -- 1369. (2020) Supplementary material
On specification test for composite likelihood inference (with J. Huang, Y. Ning and Y. Chen) Biometrika 107 , 907 -- 917. (2020) Supplementary material
Simplex regression models with measurement error . (with J. Carrasco) Comm. Statist. Sim. Comp. (2019)doi 10.1080/03610918.2019.1626881
A directional look at F-tests with A. McCormack, N. Sartori and S.-A. Theivendran.(2019) Canad. J. Statis. 47 , 619--627.
Supplementary material
Stephen Elliott Fienberg 1942-2016 with A. Carriquirry and A. Slavkovic. Ann. Rev. Statist. Applic. 6 , 1--18. (2019)
Finite Mixture Modeling, Classification and Statistical Learning with Order Statistics with A. Hatefi, M. Jafari Jozani and O. Ozturk. Statistica Sinica 30 1881--1904.
When should modes of inference disagree? with D.A.S. Fraser. Ann. Appl. Statist. , 12 , 750--770. Important correction on p.756; thanks to Yanbo Tang for alerting me to this.
Combining likelihood and significance functions. with D.A.S. Fraser. Statistica Sinica 30 , 1--15.
Statistical science in the world of big data. , Statistics and Probability Letters 136 , 42--45.
A class of weighted estimating equations for semiparametric transformation models with missing covariates. with Yang Ning and Grace Yi, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics , 45 87 -- 109. doi: 10.1111/sjos.12289.
Accurate directional inference for vector parameters . with D.A.S. Fraser and N. Sartori, Biometrika 103 , 625-639.
Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice. with R.E. Kass, B.S. Caffo, M. Davidian, X.-L. Meng, B. Yu. PLoS Computational Biology 12(6): e1004961. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004961.
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Crisis in Science? or Crisis in Statistics! Mixed messages in statistics with impact on science . with D. Fraser. J. Statist. Research 47 , 107--115.
Statistical inference, learning and models in big data , with B. Franke, J.-F. Plante and 11 others. International Statistical Review 84 , 371-389. Selected for the I S Review session at the World Statistics Congress, Marrakech, 2017. Slides .
Approximate Likelihoods in Proceeding of the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics , eds L. Guo, Z.-M. Ma. Higher Education Press: Beijing.
Principles of statistical inference with David Cox. 2015 International Statistical Review 83 , 298 – 308. Online .
Signficance, Tests of.
in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences , 2nd ed., Volume 21, 957 – 962.
Statistical Sufficiency. in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences , 2nd ed., Vol ume 3, 418 – 422.
Approximations to ratios of moments of cumulative sums. with Xiaoping Shi and Yuehua Wu. 2014 Canad. J. Statist. 42 , 325 – 336.
Reducing the sensitivity to nuisance parameters in pseudo-likelihood functions. with Yang Ning and Kung-Yee Liang. Canad. J. Statist. 42 , 544 – 562.
Approximate Bayesian computation with modified log-likelihood ratios. with Laura Ventura. 2014 Metron 72 , 231 – 245.
Saddlepoint approximation of nonlinear moments. with Xiaoping Shi and Xiang-Sheng Wang. 2014 Statistica Sinica 94 , 1597 – 1611.
"The whole women thing" in Past, Present and Future of Statistics , X. Lin et al., eds. Chapman and Hall/CRC, pp 217 – 225.
Accurate directional inference for vector parameters in linear exponential families. with Anthony Davison, Don Fraser, Nicola Sartori. 2014 JASA 109 , 302 – 314.
Aspects of likelihood inference. 2013 Bernoulli , 19 , 1404 – 1418. Also at http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7816 .
Likelihood inference for complex settings. 2012 Canad. J. Statist. 40 , 731 – 744.
Testing the structure of the covariance matrix with fewer observations than the dimension. with Muni Srivastava. 2012 J. Multiv. Anal. 112 , 156 – 171.
On default priors and approximate location models , with Don Fraser. 2011 Brazilian Journal of Statistics 25 , 353 – 361.
"Statistics in the News" , with Jean-François Plante. 2011 American Statistician 65 , 80 – 88.
Poster
On the robustness of maximum composite likelihood estimate , with Ximing Xu. 2011 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , 141 , 3047 – 3054.
An overview of composite likelihood methods . with Cristiano Varin and David Firth. 2011 Statistica Sinica , 21 , 5 – 42.
Likelihood inference. 2010. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Computational Statistics , 5 , 517 – 525.
Mean loglikelihood and higher order approximations . with Don Fraser. 2010. Biometrika 97 , 159 – 170.
A note on misspecified estimating functions with Grace Yun Yi. 2010. Statistica Sinica 20 , 1749 – 1769.
Default priors for Bayesian and frequentist inference with Don Fraser, Elisabeta Marras, Grace Yun Yi. March, 2010. JRSS B , 72 , 631 – 654.
Ancillary Statistics: a Review . with Malay Ghosh and Don Fraser. 2010. Statistica Sinica 20 , 1309 – 1332.
Assessing sensitivity to priors using higher order approximations . with Ye Sun. March, 2009. Communications in Statistics , 39 , 1373 – 1386.
On probability matching priors
with Ana-Maria Staicu. Canadian Journal of Statistics , 36 , 613 – 622. (2008)
Applied Asymptotics
Statistical issues arising in
PhyStat2005. in Statistical Problems in Particle Physics,
Astrophysics and Cosmology , L. Lyons and M. Unel, Eds. World Scientific, London. (2006)
Improved likelihood inference for discrete data . (2006)
with Anthony Davison and Don Fraser, JRSS B 68 , 495 – 508.
Theoretical statistics and asymptotics .
Based on talk given at Neuchatel, July 2004.
Appeared in A Celebration of Statistics: Papers in Honour of D.R. Cox ,
eds. A.C. Davison, Y.Dodge, N. Wermuth, pp. 73 – 85 OUP 2005.
Assessing a vector parameter . joint with Don Fraser. in Student
5 , 247 – 256 (2006).
A
note on pseudolikelihood constructed from marginal densities. with David
Cox. Biometrika 91 ,729--737 in 2004.Likelihood
inference with nuisance parameters. based on talk given at PhyStat
2003 . with Don Fraser Proc. PHYSTAT2003 , L.Lyons, R. Mount, R. Reitmeyer, eds. SLAC e-Conf C030908, 265--271.Inference
for bounded parameters. with Augustine Wong and Don Fraser.
Phys. Rev. D 69 , 033002.
Asymptotics
and the theory of inference. Annals of Statistics , 31 , 1695--1731.Some
aspects of matching priors. with Rahul Mukerjee and Don Fraser. in Mathematical
Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for C. VanEeden (M. Moore, S.
Froda, C. L\'eger, eds.) 31--44. Lecture Notes Monograph Series 42,
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward.Approximate
posterior quantiles of parametric function with application to Bayesian
tolerance limits . with Rahul Mukerjee. Final version Biometrika ,
88 587-592.On
the Bayesian approach for frequentist computations . with Rahul Mukerjee.
Braz. J. Statist. 14 , 159--166.Likelihood .
JASA Vol. 95, 1335-1340 in a series of vignettes on
theory and methods.Strong
matching of frequentist and Bayesian inference . with Don Fraser (1999).
presented by Don at the International Workshop on Objective Bayesian
Methodology in Valencia, June 9-11, 1999. Appeared in J. Statist. Plann.
Infer. (2002; 103 (1-2), 263--285). published
version On
a property of matching priors: matching the alternative coverage
probabilities . with Rahul Mukerjee (1997). Appeared in Biometrika ,
June, 1999.On
confidence intervals associated with the usual and adjusted likelihoods.
with Rahul Mukerjee (1997). (compressed postscript) JRSSB ,
December, 1999 Comparison
of test statistics via expected lengths of confidence intervals . with
Rahul Mukerjee (1996). Appeared in J. Statist. Planning Infer. (2001,
141--151).
A simple general formula for tail probabilities for frequentist and Bayesian
inference . with Don Fraser and Jian Rong Wu. Biometrika , 86 , 249 -- 264.
June, 1999.Estimating
functions and higher order significance . with Don Fraser (1996). in Selected
Proceedings of the Symposium on Estimating Functions , I.V. Basawa, V.P.
Godambe and R.L. Taylor, eds. 105--114. held in Athens, Georgia, March 1996.Local
Lyapunov exponents . with Yodit Seifu (1996). Canad. J. Statist. ,
December 1997.Higher
order results on the likelihood ratio statistic under model misspecification .
with Kalyanee Viraswami (1996). Canad. J. Statist. , January, 1998.Asymptotic theory and the foundations of statistics. (1995) Title
page : Paper .
This is the Krieger-Nelson lecture and 1997 in the Canadian
Math. Bulletin .
Asymptotic
expansions . (1996) pdf
version . Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (Update Volume).
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