2000 to 2004 Preprints

Learning a Hierarchical Deformable Template for Rapid Deformable Object Parsing

Long (Leo) Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, and Alan Yuille

A High Resolution Grammatical Model for Face Representation and Sketching

Zijian Xu, Song-Chun Zhu

On Asymptotic Robustness of NT Methods with Missing Data

Victoria Savalei

Randomized Experiments as the Bronze Standard

Richard A. Berk

Two-Level Nonregular Designs From Quaternary Linear Codes

Hongquan Xu, Alan Wong

A Catalogue of Three-Level Fractional Factorial Designs

Hongquan Xu

AdaBoost Learning for Detecting and Reading Text in City Scenes

Xiangrong Chen, Alan Yuille

Application of ""Case Based Approach"" Along with ""Generative Model of Teaching"" and ""Technical Writing"" to the Teaching of Applied Statistics

Mahtash Esfandiari

Approximating the Distribution of Pareto Sums

I. V. Zaliapin, Y. Y. Kagan, and F. Schoenberg

Are our Assessment Methods of Student Performance in Statistics 10 in Alignment with the New Trends in Statistics Education?

Yung-Ai Alice Chang, Mahtash Esfandiari

Bayesian Hierarchical Model of the Browsing Behavior of World Wide Web Users

Juana Sanchez, Ching-Ti Liu

Bridging the Gap Between Consulting and Teaching: The UCLA Experience

Mahtash Esfandiari, Vivian Lew

Centering in Multilevel Models

Jan de Leeuw

Characterization and Simplification of Non-simple Marked Point Processes

Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Cluster Sampling and Its Applications in Image Analysis

Adrian Barbu, Song-Chun Zhu

Clustering in the Biotechnology Industry

Stuart O. Schweitzer, Judith Connell, and Frederic P. Schoenberg

Comments on Pardoe, Weitner, and Frase: Sentencing Convicted Felons in the United States: A Bayesian Analysis Using Multilevel Covariates

Jan de Leeuw

Data Mining Within a Regression Framework

Richard A. Berk

Developing a Practical Forecasting Screener for Domestic Violence Incidents

Richard A. Berk, Susan B. Sorenson, and Yan He

Developing a Practical Forecasting Screener for Domestic Violence Incidents for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Richard Berk, Yan He, and Susan B. Sorenson

Factor Analyses for Non-normal Variables by Fitting Characteristic Functions

Kees van Montfort, Jan de Leeuw

From Information Scaling of Natural Images to Regimes of Statistical Models

Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu, and Cheng-en Guo

High-dimensional Regression

Jan de Leeuw

Homogeneity Analysis of Pavings

Jan de Leeuw

Human and Ideal Observers for Detecting Image Curves

Alan Yuille, Fang Fang, Paul Schrater, and Daniel Kersten

Linear Multilevel Models

Jan de Leeuw

Maximal Reliability for Unit-weighted Composites

Peter M. Bentler

Minimum Aberration Blocking Schemes for Two-Level and Three-Level Fractional Factorial Designs

Hongquan Xu, Sofia Lau

Mixed Linear Models

Jan de Leeuw

Monotone Regression

Jan de Leeuw

Motion Estimation by Swendsen-Wang Cuts

Adrian Barbu, Allan Yuille

Multidimensional Unfolding

Jan de Leeuw

Multiscale Generative Model of Human Faces

Zijian Xu, Hong Chen, and Song-Chun Zhu

New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence: Deja Vu All Over Again?

Richard A. Berk

Object Perception as Bayesian Inference

Daniel Kersten, Pascal Mamassian, and Alan Yuille

On Abandoning Xlisp-Stat

Jan de Leeuw

On the Computation and Application of Prototype Point Patterns

Katherine Tranbarger, Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Perceptual Scaling

Ying Nian Wu, Cheng-En Guo, and Song Chun Zhu

Rescaling Marked Point Processes

David Vere-Jones, Frederic Paik Schoenberg

SCASA Presentations, November 2004

Mahtash Esfandiari

Shape Matching and Recogntion: Using Generative Models and Informative Features

Zhuowen Tu, Alan L. Yuille

Shepard Diagram

Jan de Leeuw

Statistical Difficulties in Determining the Role of Race in Capital Cases: A Re-analysis of Data from the State of Maryland

Richard A. Berk, Azusa Li

Testing for Upper Level Thinking in Lower Division and Upper Division Statistics Classes and the Role of Technology

Mahtash Esfandiari, Susan Phares

The Carroll-Arabie Taxonomy of Scaling Methods

Jan de Leeuw

Unidimensional Scaling

Jan de Leeuw

Variability: One Statistician's View

Robert Gould

A Bayesian Network Framework for Relational Shape Matching

Anand Rangarajan, James Coughlan, and Alan L. Yuille

A Vocabulon Study of E.Coli Regulatory Sites with Feedback to Expression Array Analysis

Chiara Sabatti, Lars Rohlin, Kenneth Lange, and James Liao

An Introduction to Ensemble Methods for Data Analysis (Revised July, 2004)

Richard A. Berk

Analysis and Synthesis of Textured Motion: Particle, Wave and Cartoon Sketch

Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu

Bayesian Models of Object Perception

Daniel Kersten, Alan Yuille

Consistent Parametric Estimation of the Intensity of a Spatial-temporal Point Process

Frederic Paik Schoenberg,

Construction of Optimal Multi-Level Supersaturated Designs

Hongquan Xu, C. F. J. Wu

Data Analysis Activities and Problems for the Computer Science Major in a Post-calculus Introductory Statistics Course

Juana Sanchez

Derivative Free Gradient Projection Algorithms for Rotation

Robert Jennrich,

Ensemble Procedures for Finding High Risk Prison Inmates

Richard A. Berk, Jong-Ho Baek

Estimating Relative Density on a Metric Space

James MacQueen

Final Report to the EPA on Multilevel Models for Generalization

Jan de Leeuw, Richard A. Berk

Homogeneity Analysis Using Absolute Deviations

George Michailidis, Jan de Leeuw

How Do Heuristics Expedite Markov Chain Search? Hitting-time Analysis of the Independence Metropolis Sampler

Romeo Maciuca, Song-Chun Zhu

Implicit Narratives: Textuality in English Historical Demography

Albion Urdank

Internet Data Analysis for the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum

Juana Sanchez, Yan He

Least Squares Optimal Scaling of Partially Observed Linear Systems

Jan de Leeuw

Metric Unfolding Revisited: Straight Answers to Basic Questions

Masao Nakanishi, Lee G. Cooper

Multi-dimensional Point Process Models for Evaluating a Wildfire Hazard Index

Roger Peng, Frederic Paik Schoenberg, and James Woods

Multi-dimensional Residual Analysis of Point Models for Earthquake Occurrences

Frederic Paik Schoenberg,

Multilevel Statistical Models and Ecological Scaling

Richard A. Berk, Jan de Leeuw

Preface to Berk's "Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique"

Jan de Leeuw

Principal Component Analysis of Binary Data. Applications to Roll-Call-Analysis.

Jan de Leeuw

Reconstruction of 3D Shapes and Scenes from a Single Image

Feng Han, Song-Chun Zhu

Review of Joop Hox Multilevel Analysis

Jan de Leeuw

Rotation to Simple Loadings using Component Loss Functions: The Oblique Case

Robert Jennrich

Rotation to Simple Loadings using Component Loss Functions: The Orthogonal Case

Robert Jennrich

Scaling Soil Water Retention Curves using a Correlation Coefficient Maximization Approach

Lakshman Nandagiri, Jan de Leeuw

Separating Interviewer and Sampling-Point Effects

Rainer Schnell, Frauke Kreuter

Sequential Classification on Partially Ordered Sets

Curtis Tatsuoka, Tom Fergson

Some Nonregular Designs From the Nordstrom and Robinson Code and Their Statistical Properties

Hongquan Xu

Stochastic Graph Partition: Generalizing the Swendsen-Wang Method

Adrian Barbu, Song-Chun Zhu

Testing Separability in Multi-dimensional Point Processes

Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Water Resource Dynamics in Asian Pacific Cities

Richard A. Berk, Sarah Rothenberg

Weber Correspondence Analysis: The One-dimensional Case

Jan de Leeuw, George Michailides

A Comparison of Maximum-Likelihood and Asymptotically Distribution-Free Methods of Treating Incomplete Non-Normal Data

Michael S. Gold, Peter M. Bentler, and Kevin H. Kim

A Generative Method for Textured Motion: Analysis and Synthesis

Yizhou Wang, Song-Chun Zhu

A Null-space Algorithm for Overcomplete Independent Component Analysis

Ray-Bing Chen, Ying-Nian Wu

A Predictive Density Approach to Predicting a Future Observable in Multivariate Models

David Afshartous, Jan de Leeuw

A Randomized Experiment Testing inmate Classification Systems

Richard A. Berk, Heather Ladd, and Heidi Graziano

An Application of Multilevel Model Prediction to NELS:88

David Afshartous, Jan de Leeuw

Comparison of Two Multiple Imputation Procedures in a Cancer Screening Survey

Coen A. Bernaards, Melissa M. Farmer, Karen Qi, Gareth S. Dulai, Patricia A. Ganz, and Katherine L. Kahn

Decomposition of Prediction Error in Multilevel Models

David Afshartous, Afshartous

Design, Search and Implementation of High-dimension, Efficient, Long-cycle and Portable Uniform Random Variate Generator

Lih-Yuan Deng, Hongquan Xu

Estimation of the Fire Interval Distribution for Los Angeles County, California

Roger D. Peng, Frederic Paik Schoenberg

False Discovery Rate and Correction for Multiple Comparisons in Linkage Disequilibrium Genome Screens

Chiari Sabatti, Susan Service, and Nelson Freimer

Finding the Findings Behind the News

Christopher Paul

General Growth Mixture Modeling for Randomized Preventive interventions

Bengt Muthen, C. Hendricks Brown, Katherine Masyn, et. al.

Genomewide Motif Identification Using a Dictionary Model

Chiara Sabatti, Kenneth Lange

High Risk and Competitive Investment Models

Thomas Ferguson, F. Thomas Bruss

Legalized Abortion and the Homicide of Young Children: An Empirical Investigation

Susan B. Sorenson, Douglas J. Wiebe, and Richard A. Berk

Modeling Visual Patterns by Intergrating Descriptive and Generative Methods

Cheng-en Guo, Song-Chun Zhu, and Ying Nian Wu

Moment Aberration Projection for Nonregular Fractional Factorial Designs

Hongquan Xu, Lih-Yuan Deng

Multi-dimensional Point Process Models in R

Roger D. Peng

On a Rao-Shanbhag Characterization of the Exponential/Geometric Distribution

Tom Ferguson

Optimal Projective Three-Level Designs for Factor Screening and Interaction Detection

H. Xu, S.W. Cheng, and C. F. J. Wu

Parsing Images into Region and Curve Processes

Zhuowen Tu, Song-Chun Zhu

Prediction in Multilevel Models

David Afshartous, Jan de Leeuw

Quatitative Comparison and Analysis of Brain Image Registration Using Frequency-Adaptive Wavelet Shrinkage

Dinov, Mega, Thompson, Woods, Sumners, Sowell, and Toga

Statistical Modeling of Texture Sketch

Ying Nian Wu, Song Chun Zhu, and Cheng-en Guo

Toetjes na

Thomas Ferguson, Christian Genest

What are Textons?

Song-Chun Zhu, Cheng-en Guo, Yingnian Wu, and Yizhou Wang

A Smooth Response Surface Algorithm for Constructing Gene Regulatory Network

Xu, H., Wu, P., Wu, C. F. J., Tidwell, C., and Wang, Y.

Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach

J.Y. Halpern, Judea Pearl

Estimation of Wildfire Hazard using Spatial-Temporal Fire History Data

Roger Peng, Frederic Schoenberg

Estimation of the Upper Cutoff Parameter for the Tapered Pareto Distribution

Yan Kagan, Frederic Schoenber

Feature Extraction And Normalization Algorithms For High-Density Oligonucleotid e Gene Expression Array Data

Eric E. Schadt, Cheng Li, Byron Ellis, and Wing H. Wong

Minimum Moment Aberration for Nonregular Designs and Supersaturated Designs

H. Xu

On Two Pseudo-paradoxes in Bayesian Analysis

Judea Pearl

Quantitative Analysis of Literary Styles

Roger Peng, Nicolas Hengartner

Reproducible Research. The Bottom Line

Jan de Leeuw

Selection by Committee

Thomas Ferguson

Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments

Richard A. Berk, David A. Freedman

Statistical Modeling and Conceptualization of Visual Patterns

Song-Chun Zhu

Tessellations

Frederic Schoenberg

Thresholding Rules for Recovering a Sparse Signal from Microarray Experiments

Chiara Sabatti, Stanislav L. Karsten, and Daniel Geschwind

Workshop on Statistical Approaches for the Evaluation of Complex Computer Models

Richard A. Berk, Peter Bickel, Katherine Campbell, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Elizabeth Kelly, and Jerome Sacks

A General Nonparametric Test for Lattice-Ordered Means

Matthew Strand

A Naturally Arising Self-Correcting Point Process

Frederic Schoenberg

A Unified Approach to Multi-Group Structural Equation Modeling with Nonstandard Samples

K. H. Yuan, P. M. Bentler

An Algorithm for Constructing Orthogonal and Nearly Orthogonal Arrays with Mixed Levels and Small Runs

Hongquan Xu

Approximation and Inversion of a Complex Meteorological System via Local Linear Filters

Frederic Schoenberg, Richard Berk, Robert Fovell, Cheng Li, Rong Lu, and Robert Weiss

Bayesian Networks v.2

Judea Pearl

Data Visualization Through Graph Drawing

George Michailides, Jan de Leeuw

Direct and Indirect Effects

Judea Pearl

Discussion of ""The Art of Data Augmentation"" by van Dyk D and Meng XL

Ying Nian Wu, Song Chun Zhu

Dynamic Textures

Gianfranco Doretto, Prabhakar Pundir, Yingnian Wu, and Stefano Soatto

Earthquake Model Evaluation

Frederic Schoenberg

Exogeneity and Superexogeneity: A No-tear Perspective

Judea Pearl

Exploratory Analysis of Los Angeles County Wildfire Data

Frederic Schoenberg, Roger Peng, Zhijun Huang, and Philip Rundel

Multidimensional Scaling

Jan de Leeuw

Parameter Identification: A New Perspective

Judea Pearl

Probabilities of Causation: Bounds and Identification

Jin Tian, Judea Pearl

Probabilities of Causation: Three Counterfactual Interpretations and Their Identification

Judea Pearl

Reasoning with Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl

Regularization of Wavelets Approximations

Anestis Antoniadis, Jianqing Fan

Short-term Exciting, Long-term Correcting Models for Earthquake Catalogs

Frederic Schoenberg, Bruce Bolt

Simpson's Paradox: An Anatomy

Judea Pearl

Some Statistical Tools for Evaluating Computer Simulations: A Data Analysis Approach

Richard A. Berk, Robert G. Fovell, Frederic Schoenberg, and Robert E. Weiss

Spatial Regression Models Using Inter-Region Distances in a Non-Random Context

Nicolas Christou, Gary Simon

The Logic of Counterfactuals in Causal Inference

Judea Pearl

Visual Learning by Integrating Descriptive and Generative Methods

Cheng-en Guo, Song Chun Zhu, and Ying Nian Wu