YUE-POK MACK

Professor

Division of Statistics

University of California, Davis

Degrees:   Ph.D. in Mathematics - 1978, University of California, San Diego; M.A. in Mathematics - 1972, University of Utah; B.A. in Mathematics - 1970, University of California, Los Angeles (Regents Scholar).

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Nonparametric function estimation and applications to biology, economics, environmental science and medicine.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"Weak and strong uniform consistency of kernel regression estimates", 1982, (with B.W. Silverman). Z. Wahr. Verw. Geb. 61: 405-415.

"Weak convergence of k-NN density and regression estimators with varying k and applications:, 1987, (with P.K. Bhattacharya). Annals of Statistics 15: 976-994.

"Adaptive nonparametric estimation of a multivariate regression function", 1987, (with H.-G. Mueller). Journal of Multivariate Analysis 23, No. 2: 169-182.

"Density and hazard rate estimation for censored data via strong representation of the Kaplan-Meier estimator", 1989, (with S.H. Lo and J.-L. Wang). Probability Theory and Related Fields (formerly Z. Wahr. Verw. Geb.) 80: 461-473.

"Estimating a mixing distribution in a multiple observation setting", 1990, (with N.S. Matloff). Statistics and Probability Letters 10: 369-376.

"Kernel methods in line and point transect samplings" (1997), (with P.X. Quang). Technical Report #272, UCD, Division of Statistics. To appear in Biometrics.

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Elected Member - International Statistical Institute
• Member - American Statistical Association
• Member - Institute of Mathematical Statistics

e-mail: ypmack@ucdavis.edu