Wolfgang Polonik

    Professor and Chair

    Department of Statistics
    University of California at Davis
    One Shields Ave.
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-7612
    email: polonik at wald dot ucdavis dot edu

    Research Interests

    • Mathematical Statistics, Nonparametric Statistics, Shape Constraints, Modality,
      Nonstationary Time Series, Empirical Process Theory

    Membership in scientific societies

    • Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    • American Statistical Association
    • Bernoulli

    Editorial service

    • since 2003: Associate Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis
    • since 2004: Associate Editor: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
    • since 2007: Associate Editor: The Annals of Statistics

    Recent Manuscripts/Publications

    • Asymptotic normality of plug-in level set estimates (joint with D. Mason; submitted)

    • Empirical spectral processes for locally stationary time series (joint with R. Dahlhaus; submitted)

    • Mode hunting in multi dimensions: Data analytic tools with measures of significance (joint with P. Burman; submitted)

    • Testing for multivariate volatility functions using minimum volume sets and inverse regression (joint with Q. Yao; extended version of a submitted manuscript )

    • PRIM Analysis (joint with Z. Wang; submitted)

    • Nonparametric quasi maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian locally stationary processes (joint with R. Dahlhaus; Ann. Statist., 34, No.6, 2790 - 2824, 2006)

    • Discrimination of locally stationary processes based on the excess mass functional (joint with G. Chandler; J. Amer. Statist. Assoc., Vol. 101, 240 - 253, 2006)