Edsel A. Peńa

Published Research Papers and Technical Reports

 

1.    PhD Dissertation: Nonparametric Tests for Biased Coin Designs (1986). Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (Major Adviser: Professor Myles Hollander)

2.    Estimation of Parameters under a Random Censorship Model (with V. Rohatgi), Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 17(1988), 2819-2829.

3.    Nonparametric Tests under Restricted Treatment Assignment Rules (with M. Hollander), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83(1988), 1144-1151.

4.    Survival Function Estimation for a Generalized Proportional Hazards Model of Random Censorship (with V. Rohatgi), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 22(1989), 371-389.

5.    Families of Confidence Bands for the Survival Function (with M. Hollander), Canadian Journal of Statistics, 17(1989), 59-74.

6.    Bayes Estimation for the Marshall-Olkin Exponential Distribution (with A. Gupta), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 52(1990), 379-389.

7.    Improved Estimation for a Model Arising in Reliability and Competing Risks, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 36(1991), 18-34.

8.    A Simple Motivation for the James-Stein Estimator (with A. Gupta), Statistics and Probability Letters, 12(1991), 337-340.

9.    A Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test for Randomly Censored Data (with M. Hollander). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87(1992), 458-463.

10.          Classes of Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Censored Data: Simple Null Hypothesis Case (with M. Hollander). In Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics (1992), pp. 97-120, (edited by A.K.Md.E.Saleh), North-Holland: Amsterdam.

11.          On the Non-Existence of Ancillary Statistics (with V. Rohatgi and G. SzÉkely). Statistics and Probability Letters, 15(1992), 357-360.

12.          Small Sample and Efficiency Results for the Nelson-Aalen Estimator (with V. Rohatgi). Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 37(1993), 193-202.

13.          Some Comments About Sufficiency and Unbiased Estimation (with V. Rohatgi). American Statistician, 48(1994), 242-243.

14.          Properties of Hazard-Based Residuals and Implications in Model Diagnostics (with I. Baltazar-Aban). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90(1995), 185-197.

15.          Residuals from Type II Censored Samples. Chapter 28 in Recent Advances in Reliability and Life-Testing, (ed., N. Balakrishnan), (1995), pp. 523-543, CRC Press: Boca Raton.

16.          Inference for a general Type II censorship model (with V. Rohatgi and G. Szekely). Statistics, 26(1995), 241-252.

17.          Dynamic Reliability Models With Conditional Proportional Hazards (with M. Hollander), Lifetime Data Analysis, 1(1995), 377-401.

18.          Dynamic Reliability Models (with M. Hollander), Lifetime Data Models in Reliability & Survival Analysis, (edited by N. P. Jewell, A. C. Kimber, M. L. T. Lee, and G. A. Whitmore) (1996), 131-140.

19.          Reliability Models and Inference for Systems Operating in Different Environments (with M. Hollander), Naval Research Logistics, 43(1996), 1079-1108.

20.          Most Powerful Tests (with V. Rohatgi). Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, (eds. P. Armitage and T. Colton), 4(1998), 2703-2706.

21.          Locally Most Powerful Tests (with V. Rohatgi). Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, (eds. P. Armitage and T. Colton), 3(1998), 2306-2308.

22.          Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Baseline Hazard in Cox's Proportional Hazards Model. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93(1998), 673-692.

23.          Ancillarity Properties of Generalized Residuals with Applications in Failure Time Models (with I. Baltazar-Aban) (1998), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 74(1998), 31-49.

24.          Properties of Test Statistics Applied to Residuals in Failure Time Models (with I. Baltazar-Aban), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 75(1999), 181-209.

25.          Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Composite Hypothesis in Hazard-Based Models, The Annals of Statistics, 26(1998), 1935-1971.

26.          Order Statistic Properties, Random Generation, and Goodness-of-Fit Testing for a Minimal Repair Model (with Z. Agustin), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94(1999), 265-272.

27.          Applications of a Formula for the Variance Function of a Stochastic Process (with R. Fan and K. Lange). Statistics and Probability Letters, 43(1999), 123-130.

28.          A Dynamic Competing Risks Model (with M. Agustin), Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 13(1999), 333-358.

29.          Comment on Model Selection and Semiparametric Inference for Bivariate Failure-Time Data by W. Wang and M. Wells. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(2000), 73--75.

30.          A Weak Convergence Result Relevant in Recurrent and Renewal Models (with R. Strawderman and M. Hollander). Chapter 31 in Recent Advances in Reliability Theory: Methodology, Practice and Inference (eds. N. Limnios and M. Nikulin), (2000), Birkhauser: Boston, pp. 493-514.

31.          Testing Whether the Distribution of Time to First Event Occurrence in a Repairable System is in a Specified Family (with Z. Agustin). Abstracts Book, Vol. 1, MMR 2000, Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology, Practice and Inference, (eds. M. Nikulin and N. Limnios), Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, pp. 47-50.

32.          Goodness-of-Fit of the Distribution of Time-to-First-Occurrence in Recurrent Event Models (with Z. Agustin). Lifetime Data Analysis, 7(2001), 287-304.

33.          Nonparametric Estimation with Recurrent Data (with R. Strawderman and M. Hollander). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96(2001), 1299-1315.

34.          Models for Recurrent Phenomena in Survival Analysis and Reliability. (With M. Hollander). Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective, edited by T. Mazzuchi, N. Singpurwalla and R. Soyer, 2004, pp. 105-123.

35.          A Basis Approach to Goodness-of-Fit Testing in Recurrent Event Models (with Z. Agustin). To appear in JSPI (2004).

36.          Global Validation of Linear Model Assumptions (with Elizabeth Slate). Submitted for publication (2004).

37.          Intensity-Based Approach to Goodness-of-Fit Testing with Discrete Right-Censored Data. Under revision.

38.          Estimating Load-Sharing Properties in a Dynamic Reliability System (with Paul Kvam). Submitted for publication (2004).

39.          Classes of Fixed-Order and Adaptive Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests with Discrete Right-Censored Data. Chapter 31 in Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability: Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics (eds. B. Lindqvist and K. Doksum), 2003, 487-501.

40.          Bootstrapping median survival with recurrent event data (with Juan Ramon Gonzalez). In Proceedings of the 9th Spanish Conference on Biometrics, 2003, pp. 349-352.

41.          Variance Estimation in a Model with Gaussian Sub-Models (with Vanja Dukic). Submitted for publication (2004).

42.          Semiparametric Inference for a General Class of Models for Recurrent Events (with Elizabeth Slate and Juan Ramon Gonzalez). Submitted for publication (2004).

43.          ICRSA 2003 (with W. Padgett and J. Lynch). Amstat News, 2003, July issue, p. 10.

44.          Goodness-of-Fit Tests with Right-Censored Discrete Data (with Dawn Garrison). In Abstracts Book, Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology and Practice, 2002, pp. 517-521.

45.          Estimacion no parametrica de la funcion de supervivencia para datos con eventos recurrentes (with Juan Ramon Gonzalez). To appear in Revista Espanola de Salud Publica, 2004, XX, XXX-XXX.

46.          Nonparametric Methods in Reliability (with Myles Hollander). December 2003. Submitted for publication.

47.          Sample Size Determination for Comparing Two Poisson Rates (with Hang Lai). December 2003. To be revised.

48.          A General Class of Parametric Models with Recurrent Event Data (with Russ Stocker IV). December 2003. Under preparation for submission.

49.          Confidence Intervals for Median Survival with Recurrent Event Data (with Juan Ramon Gonzalez). April 2003. Currently under revision.