David B. Hitchcock: Research Interests and Papers

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Functional Data Analysis
  • Smoothing Methods
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Environmental and Ecological Applications
  • Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods
  • History of Statistics


    • RESEARCH PAPERS

    Statistical Methodology and Theory

    Grego, J. M. and Hitchcock, D. B. (2012), "Limited-Information Modeling of Loggerhead Turtle Population Size," under revision.

    Jang, J. and Hitchcock, D. B. (2012), "Model-based Cluster Analysis of Democracies," Journal of Data Science, 10, 297-319.
    [pdf preprint version] (Journal version available online at JDS web site.)

    Gao, J. and Hitchcock, D. B. (2010), "James-Stein Shrinkage to Improve K-means Cluster Analysis," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54, 2113-2127.
    [pdf preprint version] (Journal version available online at DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.03.018.)

    Ferreira, L. and Hitchcock, D. B. (2009), "A Comparison of Hierarchical Methods for Clustering Functional Data," Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 38, 1925-1949.
    [pdf preprint version] (Journal version available online at DOI: 10.1080/03610910903168603.)

    Hitchcock, D. B. (2009), "Yates and Contingency Tables: 75 Years Later," Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics, 5, No. 2.
    [technical report version (pdf)] (Journal version available online at EJHPS web site.)

    Hitchcock, D. B. and Chen, Z. (2008), "Smoothing Dissimilarities to Cluster Binary Data," Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 4699-4711.
    [pdf manuscript] (Journal version available online at DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.012.)

    Hitchcock, D. B., Booth, J. G., and Casella, G. (2007), "The Effect of Pre-smoothing Functional Data on Cluster Analysis," Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77, 1043-1055.
    [pdf manuscript] (Final journal version available online at DOI: 10.1080/10629360600880684.)

    Hitchcock, D. B. (2007), "Bandwidth-based Nonparametric Inference," Statistical Methodology, 4, 204-216.
    [pdf manuscript]

    Hitchcock, D. B., Casella, G., and Booth, J. G. (2006), "Improved Estimation of Dissimilarities by Presmoothing Functional Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101, 211-222.
    [pdf manuscript]

    Agresti, A. and Hitchcock, D. B. (2005), "Bayesian Inference for Categorical Data Analysis," Statistical Methods and Applications: Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, 14, 297-330.
    [technical report version (pdf)] [pdf manuscript]

    Hitchcock, D. B. (2003), "A History of the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm," The American Statistician, 57, 254-257.
    [pdf manuscript]

    Interdisciplinary Research

    Paxton-Aiken, A. E., Baxter, S. D., Royer, J. A., Hitchcock, D. B., Guinn, C. H. (2012), "Fourth-grade Children’s Body Mass Index and Participation in the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program: Does the Information Source of Participation Matter?" submitted for publication.

    Guinn, C. H., Baxter, S. D., Finney, C. J., Hitchcock, D. B. (2012), "Examining variations in fourth-grade children's participation in school-breakfast and school-lunch programs by weekday, month, socioeconomic status, absenteeism, sex, and school-breakfast location," submitted for publication.

    Baxter, S. D., Hitchcock, D. B., Guinn, C. H., Royer, J. A., Wilson, D. K., Pate, R. R., McIver, K. L., and Dowda, M. (2011), "Results from a Pilot Study Concerning which Interview Content (Dietary Intake Only or both Dietary Intake and Physical Activity) Yields More Accurate Dietary Information from Children," submitted for publication.

    Guinn, C. H., Baxter, S. D., Royer, J. A., Hitchcock, D. B., and Devlin, C. M. (2011), "Explaining the Positive Relationship between Fourth-Grade Children's Body Mass Index and Energy Intake at School-Provided Meals," submitted for publication.

    Suranyi, Zs., Hitchcock, D. B., Hittner, J., Urban, R., and Vargha, A. (2012), “Different types of sensation seeking: A new person-oriented approach in sensation seeking research,” submitted for publication to International Journal of Behavioral Development.

    Singh, C. K., Kumar, A., Hitchcock, D. B., Fan, D., Goodwin, R., LaVoie, H. A., Nagarkatii, P., DiPette, D. J., and Singh, U. S. (2011), "Resveratrol Prevents Embryonic Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis Associated with Diabetic Embryopathy, and Improves Glucose and Lipid Profile of Diabetic Dam," Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 55, 1186-1196.
    (Final journal version available online at DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201000457.)

    Arthington, J. D., Roka, F. M., Mullahey, J. J., Coleman, S. W., Muchovej, R. M., Lollis, L. O., and Hitchcock, D. (2007), "Integrating Ranch Forage Production, Cattle Performance, and Economics in Ranch Management Systems for Southern Florida," Rangeland Ecology & Management, 60, 12-18.

    Invited Articles

    Hitchcock, D. B. (2007), "Smoothing," in the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, (ed: Neil J. Salkind), Sage Publications, Inc.

    ASSORTED LINKS

    Information about R, a statistical computing and graphics language
    Current Index to Statistics (department access)
    Advanced JSTOR Search (department access)
    MathSciNet (department access)
    Google Scholar
    List of Statistics & Probability Journals (from NYU Stern web site)
    Statistical Data Sets