Table of Contents of Springer Text in Probability (In Press; Due March 1, 2010)

Anirban DasGupta

Table of Contents of Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability (Published, March 2008)

Professor of Statistics

dasgupta@stat.purdue.edu
Stat 417 Practice Midterm
Stat 417 Fall 2009 2nd Midterm Practice Test
  1. Exact Percentiles and Distribution of the Multinomial Maximum for Practical Use
  2. An Improved Version of an Inequality of Gabor Lugosi
  3. Statistical Models and Inference for Fractional Data

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Education and Professional Experience

Ph.D., Indian Statistical Institute, 1984.
Professor, Purdue University, 1994 - Present
Visiting Scholar, MSRI, Berkeley, 1991
Visiting Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1991
Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1995
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1997
Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, 2000
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, 2003

Professional Honors and Societies

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected 1993
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
American Mathematical Society
Bernoulli Society for Probability and Statistics
IMS Council
Chairman, First Midwest Statistical Research Colloquium

Journal Editorships

Editor, Lecture Notes and Monograph Series, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Editor, Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections and Volumes Series
Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics
Associate Editor, Statistics Surveys of the IMS and the Bernoulli Society
Associate Editor, Metrika

Past Editorial Work

Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association, 1996-1999
Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 1996-2003
Associate Editor, International Statistical Review, 1995-1997
Associate Editor, Sankhya, 1997-2005

Volume Editorships

Editor, The Herman Rubin Festschrift, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Editor, Basu Memorial Issue of Sankhya, Parts I and II

Books and Lecture Notes

Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability, Springer Verlag, New York, March 2008 (Forthcoming)
A Sourcebook on Probability
Lecture Notes on Mathematical Statistics
Lecture Notes on Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes

Areas of Recent Research

Asymptotic theory and expansions, False discovery, Bayes theory, Classical inference, Foundations, Probability inequalities, Statistical issues in astronomy

Some Selected Publications

  1. On the breast cancer screening controversy: when, and how often, with D. Berry. [pdf]
  2. A general theorem on decision theory for nonnegative functionals, Ann. Stat., 1989, 1360-1374. [pdf]
  3. Robust estimates of locations in contamination families, JSPI, 1994, 73-93. [pdf]
  4. Bayes design for clinical trials with a constraint on the available dose, with M. M. Zen, Sankhya, Ser. A, 1998, 492-506. [pdf]
  5. Statistical tests for multivariate bioequivalence, with J.T. Hwang and W. Wang, Biometrika, 1999, 395-402. [pdf]
  6. Sample size problems in ANOVA: Bayesian point of view, with B. Vidakovic, JSPI, 1997, 335-347. [pdf]
  7. A unified method to sum infinite series: Ninety five exact formulas, CSA Bull., 2003, 1-16. [pdf]
  8. Asymptotic expansions for the correlation between different measures of spread, with L. Haff, JSPI, 2006, 2197-2212. [pdf]
  9. Basu's theorem, factorizations, and infinite divisibility, JSPI, 2007, 945-952. [pdf]
  10. A surprisingly accurate new formula for primes, with examples. [pdf]
  11. On the False Discovery Rates of a Frequentist : Asymptotic Expansions, with Tonglin Zhang, 2006, IMS LNMS, 50, 190-212. [pdf]
  12. Stein's Identity, Fisher Information, and Projection Pursuit : A Triangulation, To appear in Centennial Volume on Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, 2007. [pdf]
  13. A Contemporary Review and Bibliography of Infinitely Divisible Distributions, 2002, with A. Bose and H. Rubin, Sankhya Ser. A, 3, 763-819. [pdf]
  14. The Heat Equation and Stein's Identity : Connections, Applications, 2006, with L. Brown, L.R. Haff, and W.E. Strawderman, JSPI, 7, 2254 - 2278. [pdf]
  15. Review of Inference Problems for Discrete Data, 2006, with Tonglin Zhang, Encyclopedia of Statistics, John Wiley and Sons. [pdf]
  16. Confidence Intervals for a Binomial Proportion and Asymptotic Expansions, 2002, with L. Brown and T. Cai, Ann. Stat., 30, 160-201. [pdf]
  17. Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion, with Comments and Rejoinder, 2001, with L. Brown and T. Cai, Statist. Sc., 16, 101-133. [pdf]
  18. Interval Estimation in Exponential Families, 2003, with L. Brown and T. Cai, Statist. Sinica, 13, 19-49. [pdf]
  19. The Matching, Birthday, and the Strong Birthday Problem : A Contemporary Review, 2005, JSPI, 1-2, 377-389. [pdf]
  20. A New Approach to Default Priors and Robust Bayes Methodology, 2001, with G. Casella, M. Delampady, H. Rubin, and W.E. strawderman, Canad. J. Stat., 3, 437-450. [pdf]
  21. All estimates with a Given Risk, Riccati Differential Equations, and a New Proof of a Theorem of Brown, 1997, with W.Strawderman, Ann. Stat., 25, 1208-1221. [pdf]
  22. The Mean, Median, and Mode of Unimodal Distributions : A Characterization, 1996, with S. Basu, Theor. Prob. and Appls., 2, 336-352. [pdf]
  23. Review of Optimal Bayes Designs, 1996, Handbook of Statistics, 13, 1099-1144. [pdf]
  24. A New General Method for Constructing Confidence Sets in Arbitrary Dimensions, with Applications, 1995, with J. K. Ghosh and M. M. Zen, Ann. Stat., 23, 1408-1432. [pdf]
  25. Robustness of Standard Confidence Intervals for Location Parameters under Departure from Normality, 1995, with S. Basu, Ann. Stat., 23, 1433-1442. [pdf]
  26. Robust Bayesian Analysis with Distribution Bands, 1995, with S. Basu, Stat. and Decisions, 13, 333-349. [pdf]
  27. Diameter and Volume Minimizing Confidence Sets in Bayes and Classical Problems, 1991, Ann. Stat., 19, 1225-1243. [pdf]
  28. Robust Bayes Experimental Designs in Normal Linear Models, 1991, with W. J. Studden, Ann. Stat., 19, 1244-1256. [pdf]
  29. Estimation of Binomial Parameters when Both n,p are Unknown, 2005, with H. Rubin, JSPI, 130, 391-404. [pdf]
  30. Chebyshev Polynomials and G-distributed Functions of F-distributed random variables, 2004, with L. Shepp, IMS LNMS, 45, 153-163. [pdf]