Research Interests

• Multivariate Analysis. Multivariate reduced-rank regression and its relationship to classical multivariate procedures such as principal components
• canonical variates
• and discriminant analysis. Random matrix theory. Random networks
• percolation
• and graphical models. Nonlinear manifold learning. Functional data analysis. Linear spectral models for the analysis of longitudinal data. Analysis of large data sets. Data mining
• machine learning
• and bioinformatics. Time Series. Time-domain and frequency-domain methods. Simultaneous inference for multiple time series. Model selection using information criteria. Detection of “hidden” periodicities. Intervention analysis. Nonparametric Curve Estimation. Nonparametric density estimation. Tests for multimodality. Nonparametric estimation of survival function and hazard rate. Applied Statistics. Statistics
• the law
• and public policy. Statistics and forensic science. Predicting urban juvenile delinquency and recidivism. Scientific fraud. Estimating masonry deterioration in building structures. Welfare quality control. History of Zurich sunspot relative numbers. Birthrate effects due to the 1965 NYC Blackout. The extremal quotient. Designs for life-test experiments. Statistics in the Law and Public Policy. Forensic statistics. Handwriting comparisons and modeling. Federal sentencing guidelines for drug trafficking
• internet pornography
• and trademark infringement. Scientific fraud. Fingerprint identification and comparison. Combinatorics. The monomer-dimer problem in mathematical physics. The theory behind Schoenberg’s twelve-tone row musical compositions.