Reports Listed By Areas

1. Large-scale Multipe Testing and Applications to Genomics

• Higher Criticism for Detecting Sparse Heterogeneous Mixtures.
  With David Donoho, Ann. Statist., Vol 32, No.3, 962-994.

• Detecting A Target in Very Noisy Data From Multiple Looks.
  IMS Monograph, No. 45, 255-286.

• Asymptotic Minimaxity of FDR for Sparse Exponential Model.
  With D.L.Donoho, Ann. Statist., Vol 34, No. 6, 2980-3018.

• Estimation and Confidence Sets For Sparse Normal Mixtures.
  With T. Cai and M. G. Low. In press, Ann. Statist.

• Estimating the Null and the Proportion of non-Null Effects in Large-Scale Multiple Comparisons.
  With T. Cai. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Vol 102, 495-506.
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• Properties of higer criticism under long-range dependence.
  With Peter Hall, to appear in Ann. Statist.

• Proportion of nonzero normal means: oracle equivalence and uniformly consistent estimators.
  To appear in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS), Series B.

2. Cosmology and Astronomy

• Cosmological non-Gaussian Signature Detection: Comparing Performance of Different Statistical Tests.
  With J.-L Starck, D.L. Donoho, N. Aghanim and O. Forni, Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 15, 2470-2485.

• Higher Criticism Statsistic: Detecting and Identifying Non-Gaussianity in the WMAP First Year Data.
  With L.Cayon and A. Treaster, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 362, 826-832.

• Higher Criticism Statistic: Theory and Applications in nonGaussian detection.
  Proceeding of PHYSTAT 2005, Oxford.

• No Higher Criticism of the Bianchi Corrected WMAP Data.
  With L. Cayon, A.J. Banday, T. Jaffe, H.K. Eriksen, F.K. Hansen and K.M. Gorski, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. Vol. 369, Issue 2, 598-602.

• The Non-Gaussian Cold Spot in the 3-Year WMAP Data,
  With M. Cruz, L. Cayon, E. Martinez-Gonzalez, and P. Vielva, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 655, 11.

3. Biology and Nanotechnology

• Counting of six pRNAs of phi29 DNA-packaging motor with customized single-molecule dual-view system.
  With Dan Shu, Hui Zhang, and Peixuan Guo. In press, The Embo journal.
  See abstract and related information in Purdue News.

• When do Data Mining Results Violate Privacy?
  With Murat Kantarcioglu and Chris Clifton. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (2004).