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EDSEL E. PENA , PhD Lab


RESEARCH GROUP
Edsel Peña, Ph.D.  - Professor, Statistics Dept., USC
Jonathan Quiton - Graduate Student
Akim Adekpedjou - Student
Laura Taylor - Student
Alexander McLain - Student
Kirby Jackson - Graduate Student & Faculty member at School of Public Health, USC

 

FORMER STUDENTS
Inmaculada Baltazar-Aban, Ph.D., 1995, Bowling Green State University. (Asst. Prof., Dept. Biostatistics, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham)
Marcus Agustin, Ph.D., 1997, Bowling Green State University. (Assoc. Prof., Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville)
Zenia Agustin, Ph.D., 1997, Bowling Green State University. (Assoc. Prof., Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville)
Dawn Garrison, Master’s degree, 2002, University of South Carolina.
Zhiwue (Maggie) Wang, Master’s degree, 2003, University of South Carolina. (Working at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington)
Hang Lai, Master’s degree, 2004, University of South Carolina.
Russell Stocker, Ph.D., 2004. (Asst. Prof., Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University)
Jun Han, Ph.D., 2005. (Asst. Prof., Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Pena, E., Strawderman, R. and Hollander, M. (2000). A Weak Convergence Result Relevant in Recurrent and Renewal Models. Chapter 31 in Recent Advances in Reliability Theory: Methodology, Practice and Inference, edited by N. Limnios and M. Nikulin, Birkhauser: Boston, pp. 493-514.
  • Agustin, Z. and Pena, E. (2001). Goodness-of-fit of the distribution of time-to-first-occurrence in recurrent event models. Lifetime Data Analysis, 7, 287-304.
  • Pena, E., Strawderman, R. and Hollander, M. (2001). Nonparametric estimation with recurrent event data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96, 1299-1315.
  • Pena, E. (2003). Classes of Fixed-Order and Adaptive Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests with Discrete Right-Censored Data. Chapter 31 in Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability: Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics (eds. B. Lindqvist and K. Doksum), 2003, 487-501.
  • Gonzalez, J. and Pena, E. (2003). Bootstrapping median survival with recurrent event data. In Proceedings of the 9th Spanish Conference on Biometrics, pp. 349-352.
  • Padgett, W., Lynch, J. and Pena, E. (2003). ICRSA 2003. Amstat News, July issue, p. 10.
  • Gonzalez, J. and Pena, E. (2004). Estimacion no parametrica de la funcion de supervivencia para datos con eventos recurrentes. Revista Espanola de Salud Publica, 78, 189--199.
  • Pena, E. and Hollander, M. (2004). Models for Recurrent Events in Reliability and Survival Analysis. Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective, edited by T. Mazzuchi, N. Singpurwalla and R. Soyer, 2004, 105--123.
  • Pena, E. and Slate, E. (2004). Dynamic Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis. Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology and Practice. In CD-ROM, Santa Fe, NM, 4 pages.
  • Slate, E. and Pena, E. (2004). Joint Analysis of Longitudinal and Recurrent Event Outcomes. Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology and Practice. In CD-ROM, Santa Fe, NM, 4 pages.
  • Agustin, Z. and Pena, E. (2005). A Basis Approach to Goodness-of-Fit Testing in Recurrent Event Models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 133, 285--303.
  • Dukic, V. and Pena, E. (2005). Variance Estimation in a Model with Gaussian Submodels. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 296--309.
  • Kvam, P. and Pena, E. (2005). Estimating Load-Sharing Properties in a Dynamic Reliability System Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 262--272.
  • Hollander, M. and Pena, E. (2004). Nonparametric Methods in Reliability, Statistical Science, 19, 644--651.
  • Gonzalez, J., Pena, E. and Slate, E. (2005). Modelling intervention effects after cancer relapses. Statistics in Medicine, 24, 3959--3975.
  • Pena, E. and Slate, E. (2005). Dynamic Modelling in Reliability and Survival Analysis. Chapter 5 in Modern Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Reliability, edited by A. Wilson, S. Keller-McNulty, and Y. Armijo on Volume 10 of the Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics, pp. 55--70, World Scientific.
  • Pena, E. and Slate, E. (2006). Global Validation of Linear Model Assumptions. Journal of the American Statistical Association,101, 341—354.
  • Pena, E. (2006). Book review of Nonparametric Statistical Methods for Complete and Censored Data by M. M. Desu and D. Raghavarao. To appear in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, June issue.
  • Pena, E. (2006). Dynamic Modelling and Statistical Analysis of Event Times. Tentatively accepted by Statistical Science.
  • Pena, E., Slate, E. and Gonzalez, J. (2005). Semiparametric Inference for a General Class of Models for Recurrent Events. Revised version currently under review by the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
  • Stocker, R. and Pena, E. (2006). A General Class of Parametric Models for Recurrent Events. A revised version currently under review by Technometrics.
  • Han, J., Slate, E. and Pena, E. (2006). Parametric Latent Class Model for Longitudinal Markers and Recurrent Events. Submitted for publication in Statistics in Medicine.

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