Recent Publications

Additional information regarding publications and other research interests can be found on the faculty web pages.

Accepted for Publication

Yao, W. (2010). Bayesian mixture labeling and clustering. To appear in Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods.

Cao, J., Yao, W. (2010). Semiparametric mixture of binomial regression with a degenerate component. To appear in Statistica Sinica.

Yao, W. (2011). A Bias Corrected Nonparametric Regression Estimator. To appear in Statistics and Probability Letters.

Yao, W. (2010).Model based labeling for mixture models. To appear in Statistics and Computing.

Song, W.X. Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for density function in errors-in-variables model. To appear in the Journal of Statistical Research.

Koul, H.L., Song, W.X. Bickel-Rosenblatt type goodness-of-fit tests in errors-in-variables model. To appear in the Journal of French Statistics Society.

D. Berardelli, M. Desmond, and L. Murray (2010). Reproductive success of burrowing owls in urban and grassland habitats in southern New Mexico. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 122, To appear March 2010.

A.H. Babcock, D.G. Renter, B.J. White, S.R. Dubnicka, and H.M. Scott (2010). Temporal distributions of respiratory disease events with cohorts of feedlot cattle and associations with cattle health and performance indices. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, in revision.

H. Wang and M. Akritas, M. (2010a). Asymptotically distribution free tests in deteroscedastic unbalanced high dimensional ANOVA. To appear in Statistica Sinica.

A.H. Babcock, D.G. Renter, B.J. White, S.R. Dubnicka, D.U. Thomson, S.E. Ives, and H.M. Scott (2010). Quantifying the effects of common risk factors for combined mortality and culling risk in feedlot cattle populations using a mixed effects count model. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, in review.

K. Zhang and H. Wang (2010). Nonparametric tests for longitudinal array comparative genomic hybridization data. To appear in Statistics and Its Interface.

W.X. Song and H.L. Koul (2009+). Model checking in partial linear regression models with Berkson measurement error. Statistica Sinica (accepted).

A.C. Bathke, S.W. Harrar, H. Wang, K. Zhang, and H. Piepho (2010). Series of randomized complete block experiments with non-normal data. To appear in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

W.X. Song and J. Du (2010). Distribution-Free Lack-of-Fit Tests in Balanced Mixed Models. Accepted by Statistics and Probability Letters.

H. Wang, S. Tolos and S. Wang (2010). A distribution free nonparametric test to detect dependence between a response variable and covariate in presence of heteroscedastic treatment effects. To appear in Canadian Journal of Statistics.

2011

Chen, K., Chan, K. S. and Stenseth, N. R. (2011). Reduced-rank stochastic regression with a sparse singular value decomposition. To appear in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B).

Chen, K., Chan, K. S., Bailey, K., Aydin, K. and Ciannelli, L. (2011). A hybrid cellular automata approach for predator-prey interactions. To appear in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Chen, K. and Chan, K. S. (2011). Subset ARMA model selection via the adaptive Lasso. Statistics and Its Interface, Vol. 4, 197-205.

Xuxia Wu, Amit Patki, Cristina Lara-Castro, Xiangqin Cui, Kui Zhang, R. Grace Walton, Michael V. Osier, Gary L. Gadbury, David B. Allison, Mitchell Martin, and W. Timothy Garvey (2011). Genes and Biochemical Pathways in Human Skeletal Muscle Affecting Resting Energy Expenditure and Fuel Partioning. Journal of Applied Physiology. 110: 746-755.

Song, W.X., Du, J. A note on testing the functional forms for regression functions via nonparametric smoothing. Canadian Journal of Statistics (2011), 39(1), 108-125.

Samarakoon, N., Song, W.X.. Minimum distance conditional variance function checking in heteroscedastic regression models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. (2011) 120(3)579-600.

Li, X., Zhu, C.S., Lin, Z.W., Wu, Y., Zhang, D.B., Bai, G.H., Song, W.X., Ma, J.X., Muehlbauer, G.J., Scanlon, M.J., Zhang, M., Yu, J.M. The pattern and dynamics of genome and chromosome size variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution.(2011) 28(6),1901-1911.

Song, W.X. Distribution-free test in Tobit mean regression model. (2011) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 141 (8), 2891-2901.

Song, W.X., Yao, W.X., A lack-of-fit test to Tobit errors-in-variables regression model. Statistics and Probability Letters.(2011) 81(12), 1792-1801.

Wang, Q. and Yao, W. (2011). An adaptive estimation of MAVE. Journal of Multivariate Data Analysis, 104, 88-100.

Du, J. and Ma, C.(2011). Spherically Invariant Vector Random Fields in Space and Time. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. forthcoming

Song, W.X. and Du, J. (2011). A Note on Testing the Regression Functions via Nonparametric Smoothing. The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Vol. 39, 108-125.

2010

Chen, K., Jiang, W. and Tanner, M. A. (2010). A note on some algorithms for the Gibbs posterior. Statistics & Probability Letters, 80 (15-16), 1234-1241.

Jumpponen, A., Keating, K., Gadbury, G., Jones K.L., Mattox, J.D. (2010). Multi-element fingerprinting in high throughput sequencing identify multiple elements that affect fungal communities in Quercus macrocarpa foliage. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 5, 1157-1161.

Song, W.X. and Du, J. (2010). Distributional Free Lack-of-Fit Tests in Balanced Mixed Models. Statistics and Probability Letters. Vol. 80, 1378-1387.

A. Al-Lawati, C. Pierce, L. Murray and I. Ray (2010). Combining ability and heterosis for forage yield among elite alfalfa core collection accessions with different fall dormancy responses. Crop Science, 50:1-9.

H. Wang and M. Akritas (2010c). Rank test for heteroscedastic functional data. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101:1791-1805.

G.N. Sun, C.S. Zhu, M.H. Kramer, S.S. Yang, W.X. Song, H.P. Peipho and J. Yu (2010). Variation Explained in Mixed-Model Association Mapping. Heredity, doi:10.1038/hdy.2010.11.

W. Yao (2010). A Profile Likelihood Method for Normal Mixture with Unequal Variance. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140:2089-2098.

W.X. Song and H.L. Koul (2010). Conditional variance model checking. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140(4):1056-1072.

W.X. Song (2010). Moderate deviations for deconvolution kernel density estimators with ordinary smooth measurement errors. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80:169-176.

X. Liu, C.E. Williams, J.A. Nemacheck, H. Wang, S. Subramanyam, C. Zheng and M. Chen 2010). Reactive oxygen species is involved in plant defense against a Gall Midge. Plant Physiology, 152:985-999.

H. Wang, J. Higgins and D. Blasi (2010). Distribution-Free tests for no effect of treatment in heteroscedastic functional data under both weak and long range dependence. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80:390-402.

X. Hu, G.L. Gadbury, Q. Xiang and D.B. Allison (2010). Illustrations on using the distribution of a p-value in high dimensional data analysis. Advances and Applications in Statistical Science, 1:191-213.

H. Wang and M. Akritas (2010b). Inference from heteroscedastic functional data. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22:2, 149-168.

S.R. Dubnicka (2010). Kernel density estimation with missing data: misspecifying the missing data mechanism. In Nonparametric Statistics and Mixture Models: A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P. Hettmansperger, ed. D.R. Hunter, D.St.P. Richards, and J.L. Rosenberger. Word Press, in press.

G.L. Gadbury (2010). Subject – Treatment Interaction. In Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded. Edited by Shein-Chung Chow. Informa Healthcare, London. p. 1316 – 1321.

2009

J. Du, H. Zhang and V. S. Mandrekar (2009). Fixed-domain asymptotic properties of tapered maximum likelihood estimators. The Annals of Statistics, 37(6A):3330-3361.

J. J. Kaplan and J. Du (2009). Question format and representations: do heuristics and biases apply to statistics students? Statistics Education Research Journal, 8(2):56-73.

W.X. Song, H. Wang and W. Yao (2009). On the adaptive robust modal local polynomial regression. International Journal of Statistical Sciences, 9:217-231.

H. Wang and M. Akritas (2009b). Rank tests in heteroscedastic multi-way HANOVA. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 21(6):663-681.

G. von Borries and H. Wang (2009). Partition clustering of high dimensional low sample size data based on p-values. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53:3987-3998.

M.S. Chen, E. Echegaray, R.J. Whitworth, H. Wang, P.E. Sloderbeck, A. Knutson, K.L. Giles and T.A. Royer (2009). Virulence analysis of Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) populations from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Journal of Economic Entomology, 102(2): 74-780.

M.S. Chen, X.M. Liu, H. Wang and M. El Bouhssini (2009). Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) interactions with barley, rice, and wheat seedlings. Journal of Economic Entomology, 102(4):1663-1672.

G.L.Gadbury, K.G. Garrett and D.B. Allison (2009). Challenges and Approaches to Statistical Design and Inference in High Dimensional Investigations. Plant Systems Biology. Series in Methods in Molecular Biology, Belostotsky D (ed). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press Inc., 181-206.

M. May, M. Quinn, C. Reinhardt, L. Murray, M. Gibson, K. Karges, and J. Drouillard, J. (2009). Effects of dry-rolled or steam-flaked corn finishing diets with or without twenty-five percent dried distiller's grains on ruminal fermentation and apparent total tract digestion. Journal of Animal Science, 87:3630-3638.

C. Fiore, J. Schroeder, L. Murray, S. Thomas and I. Ray. (2009). Root-knot nematode-resistant alfalfa suppresses subsequent crop damage from the nutsedge-nematode pest complex. Journal of Agronomy, 101(4):754-763.

M.P. Anderson and S.R. Dubnicka (2009). Sequential Bayesian classification: DNA barcodes. Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture [CD-ROM], Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

S.R. Dubnicka (2009). Kernel density estimation with missing data and auxiliary variables. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 51:247-270.

W. Yao and B.G. Lindsay (2009). Bayesian Mixture Labeling by Highest Posterior Density. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104:758-767

W.X. Song (2009). Relative potency estimation in direct bioassy with measurement errors, The 2009 Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture.

Q. Kang and P.I. Nelson (2009). Permutation tests from biased samples for the equality of two distributions. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 21(3):305-319.

W.X. Song (2009). Lack-of-fit testing in errors-in-variable model with validation data. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79:765-773.

Q. Kang and P.I. Nelson (2009). Permutation tests from biased samples for the equality of two distributions. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 21(3):305-319.

W.X. Song and H. Liang (2009). Improved estimation in multiple linear regression models with measurement error and general constraint. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100:726-741.

W.X. Song and H.L. Koul (2009). Minimum distance regression model checking with Berkson error. Annals of Statistics, 37(1):132-156.

2008

F.R. Miller and J.W. Neill (2008). General Lack of Fit Tests Based on Families of Groupings. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138:2433-2449.

H. Wang, J.W. Neill and F.R. Miller (2008). Nonparametric clustering of functional data. Statistics and Its Interface, 1:47-62.

G.L. Gadbury, X. Qinfang, L. Yang, S. Barnes, G.P. Page and D.B. Allison (2008). Evaluating statistical methods using plasmode data sets in the age of massive public databases: An illustration using false discovery rates. Plos Genetics, 4(6): e1000098.

H. Zhang and J. Du (2008). Covariance Tapering in Spatial Statistics. In Positive definite functions: From Schoenberg to space-time challenges, (eds) J. Mateu and E. Porcu. Gráficas Castañ, Spain. (ISBN: 978-84-612-8282-1)

G.L. Gadbury, T. Supapakorn, C.S. Coffey, S.W. Keith and D.B. Allison (2008). Application of potential outcomes to an intentional weight loss latent variable problem. Statistics and Its Interface, 1:87-98.

L.D. Hunter, G.L. Gadbury and Y. Huang (2008). Atrazine exposure and breast cancer incidence: An ecological study of Missouri counties. Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, 90:367-376.

Z. Ou, L. Murray, S. Thomas, J. Schroeder and J. Libbin (2008). Nutsedge counts predict Meloidogyne inconita juvenile counts in an integrated management system. Journal of Nematology, 40(2):99-108.

Q. Kang and P.I. Nelson (2008). Nonparametric tests for the median from a size-biased sample. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 20(1):19-37.

M.S. Agudelo, M. Desmond, and L. Murray (2008). Influence of desertification on site occupancy by grassland and shrubland birds during the non-breeding season in the northern Chihuahuan desert. Studies in Avian Biology, 37:101-112.

W. Lindemann, M. Tahboub, and L. Murray (2008). Chemical and physical properties of soil amended with pecan wood chips. Horicultural Science, 43(3):891-896.

M. Tahboub, S. Sanogo, P. Bosland, and L. Murray (2008). Heat level in chile pepper in relation to root and fruit infection by Phytophthora capsici. Horticultural Science, 43(6):1846-1851.

W.X. Song and H.L. Koul (2008). Model checking with Berkson measurement error. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138:1615-1628.

W.X. Song (2008). Model checking in errors-in-variables regression. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99:2406-2433.

2007

S.R. Dubnicka (2007). A confidence interval for the median of a finite population under unequal probability sampling: a model-assisted approach. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137:2429-2438.

S. Bird, J. Herrick, M. Wander, and L. Murray (2007). Multi-scale variability in soil aggregate stability: implications for understanding semi-arid grassland degradation. Geoderma, 140:106-118.

J. Norsworthy, J. Schroeder, S. Thomas, and L. Murray (2007). Purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) management in direct-seeded chile pepper using halosulfuron and cultivation. Weed Technology, 21: 636-641.

M. Tahboub, W. Lindemann, and L. Murray (2007). Nutrient availability in soil amended with pecan wood chips. Horticultural Science, 42(2):339-343.

H. Bhandari, C. Pierce, L. Murray, and I. Ray (2007). Combining abilities and heterosis for forage yield among high-yielding accessions of the alfalfa core collection. Crop Science, 47:663-671.

C. Steinfield, R. LaRose, and J. Du (2007). Connecting Upper Lower Michigan: Final Technical Report. East Lansing, MI: Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media.

M. Valenzuela-Vázquez, G. Picchioni, L. Murray, and W. McKay (2007). Beneficial role of 1-methylcyclopropene for cut Lupinus havardii racemes exposed to ethephon. HortScience, 42(1):113-119.

2006

Q. Xiang, J. Edwards and G.L. Gadbury (2006). Interval estimation in a finite mixture model: Modeling P-values in multiple testing applications. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51:570-586.

J. Zhi, D.C. Margolies, J.R. Nechols and J.E. Boyer (2006). Host-Plant-Mediated Interaction between Populations of a True Omnivore and its Herbivorous Prey. Entomolgica Experimentalis et Applicata, 121:59-66.

H. Wang (2006). Book review for “Extending the Linear Model with R: Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models Edited by Faraway J. J.”. Biometrics, 62(4):1278.

S.R. Dubnicka (2006). Confidence intervals for the median of a finite population based on the sign test. Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods, 35:551-569.

T.S. Mehta, S.O. Zakharkin, G.L. Gadbury and D.B. Allison (2006). Epistemological Issues in Omics and High-Dimensional Biology: Give the People What They Want. Physiological Genomics, 28:24-32.

S. Barnes, D.B. Allison, G.P. Page, M. Carpenter, G.L. Gadbury, S. Meleth, P. Horn-Ross, H. Kim and C.A. Lamartinere (2006). Genistein and polyphenols in the study of cancer prevention: Chemistry, biology, statistics, and experimental design. In Nutritional Genomics, Discovering the Path to Personalized Nutrition. Edited by J. Kaput and R.L. Rodriguez. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

G.P. Page, J.W. Edwards, G.L. Gadbury, P. Yelisetti, J. Wang, P. Trivedi and D.B. Allison (2006). The PowerAtlas: a power and sample size atlas for microarray experimental design and research. BMC Bioinformatics, 7:84.

D. Peters, I. Mariotto, K. Havstad, and L. Murray (2006). Spatial variation in remnant grasses after a grassland-to-shrubland state change: implications for restoration. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 59(4):343-350.

Y. Zuo and J. Du (2006). On an L-estimator with data-dependent coefficients. International Journal of Statistics and Management System, 1:24-47.

A. Jacobson, D. Thompson, and L. Murray (2006). Establishing guidelines to improve identification of the fires ants, Solenopsis xyloni and S. invicta. Journal of Economic Entomology, 99:313-322.

K.E. Kemp and P.I. Nelson (2006). Performance based Bayesian inference for distance models on partial rankings. Journal of Statistics and Applications, 1(1):91-111.

A. Serna-Perez, C. Monger, J. Herrick, and L. Murray (2006). CO2 emissions from exhumed petrocalcic horizons (calcrete). Soil Science Society of America Journal, 70:795-805.

J. Ray, J. Schroeder, R. Creamer, and L. Murray (2006). Planting date affects phenology of London Rocket (Sisymbrium irio) and interaction with beet leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus). Weed Science, 54:127-132.

2005

C.-Y.C. Cochrane, S.R. Dubnicka, and T.M. Loughin (2005). Comparison of methods for analyzing replicated preference tests. Journal of Sensory Studies, 20:484-502.

S.R. Dubnicka (2005). Rank-based regression with clustered data. Kansas State University Department of Statistics Technical Report II-05-1.

J. Norsworthy, J. Schroeder, S. Thomas, and L. Murray (2005). Southern root-knot nematode effect on purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) and chile pepper response to halosulfuron. Weed Technology, 19:1004-1011.

J. Schroeder, S. Thomas, and L. Murray (2005). Impacts of crop pests on weeds. Weed Science, 53:918-922. Paper based on Feb 2003 Invited Symposium presentation.

S. Thomas, J. Schroeder, and L. Murray (2005). The role of weeds in nematode management. Weed Science, 53:923-928. Paper based on Feb 2003 Invited Symposium presentation.

J. Ray, R. Creamer, J. Schroeder, and L. Murray (2005). Moisture and temperature requirements for London Rocket (Sisymbrium irio) emergence. Weed Science, 53:187-192.

N. Puppala, J. Fowler, T. Jones, V. Gutschick, and L. Murray (2005). Evapotranspiration, yield and water-use efficiency of Lesquerella fendleri at different growth stages. Industrial Crops and Products, 21:33-47.

J.M. Albert, G.L. Gadbury and E.J. Mascha (2005). Assessing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Clinical Trials with Blocked Binary Outcomes. Biometrical Journal, 47: 662-673.

G.L. Gadbury, Q. Xiang, J. Edwards, G.P. Page and D.B. Allison (2005). The role of sample size on measures of uncertainty and power. In DNA Microarrays and Related Genomics Techniques. Edited by Allison, Page, Beasley, Edwards. Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton.

P. Trivedi, J.W. Edwards, J. Wang, G.L. Gadbury, V. Srinivasasainagendra, S.O. Zakharkin, K. Kim, T. Mehta, J.P.L. Brand, A. Patki, G.P. Page and D.B. Allison (2005). HDBStat!: A platform-independent software suite for statistical analysis of high dimensional biology data. BMC Bioinformatics, 6:86.

J.W. Edwards, G.P. Page, G.L. Gadbury, M. Heo , T. Kayo, R. Weindruch, and D.B. Allison (2005). Empirical Bayes Estimation of Gene-Specific Effects In Microarray Research. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 5:32-39.

C.S. Coffey, G.L. Gadbury, K.R. Fontaine, C. Wang, R. Weindruch and D.B. Allison (2005). The effects of weight loss as a latent variable problem. Statistics in Medicine, 24:941-954.