PRABIR BURMAN
Professor
University of California, Davis
Degrees:
Ph.D. in Statistics - 1982 - University of California, Berkeley
M.S. in Statistics - 1977 - Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Categorical data analysis; Nonparametric curve estimation; Model selection techniques.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Burman, P. (1990) Estimation of generalized additive models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 32 (2): 230-255.
- Burman, P. (1991) Rates of convergence for the estimates of the optimal transformations of variables. The Annals of Statistics 19 (2): 702-723.
- Burman, P. (1991) Regression function estimation from dependent observations. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 36 (2): 263-279.
- Burman, P. and D. Nolan (1991) Some issues in cross-validation. Nonparametric Functional Estimation and Related Topics, G. Roussas (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 335: 603-612.
- Burman, P. and D. Nolan (1992) Data dependent estimation of prediction functions. Journal of Time Series Analysis 13: 198-208.
- Burman, P. and D. Nolan (1992) Location-adaptive density estimation and nearest neighbor distance. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 40: 132-157.
- Burman, P., E. Chow and D. Nolan (1994) A cross validatory method for dependent data. Biometrika 81 (2): 351-358.
- Burman, P. and D. Nolan. (1995) A general Akaike-type criterion for model selection in robust regression. Biometrika, December issue.
AWARDS:
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship - Summer 1986
- Rutgers University Research Fellowship - Summer 1985
- U.C. Berkeley University Fellowship - 1980/81 Mary Anna Wheeler Fellowship
- U.C. Berkeley University Fellowship - 1979/80 Class of 1983 Fellowship
- National Scholar - 1972 - India
e-mail:pburman@ucdavis.edu
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