H. Joseph Newton

Professor of Statistics
Dean of College of Science
Texas A&M University

Office: 517 Blocker Building.
Phone: (979) 845-8817.
FAX: (979) 845-6077.
E-mail: jnewton@stat.tamu.edu
Address: Statistics Department , Texas A&M University , College Station TX 77845 USA.

Date and Place of Birth: June 16, 1949, Oneida, New York.

Research Interests:

• Time Series Analysis
• Computational Statistics
• Using the Computer in the Classroom

Education:

• 1975 Ph.D., Statistical Science, SUNY/Buffalo. "The Efficient Estimation of Stationary Multiple Time Series Mixed Models: Theory and Algorithms," Emanuel Parzen, advisor.
• 1973 M.S., Statistics, SUNY/Buffalo.
  
• 1971 B.S., Mathematics, Niagara University.

Experience:

• 2002- Dean of College of Science, Texas A&M University.
• 2000-2002 Interim Dean of College of Science, Texas A&M University.
• 1998-2000 Executive Associate Dean of College of Science, Texas A&M University.
• 1990- 1998 Head of Statistics, Texas A&M University.
• 1989-90 Visiting Professor of Statistics, Carnegie--Mellon University
• 1988- Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University
• 1983-88 Associate Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University
• 1978-83 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University
• 1977-78 Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, SUNY/Buffalo
• 1975-77 Research Assistant Professor of Statistical Science and Technical Specialist Department of Surgery, SUNY/Buffalo

Awards and Honors:

• 2004 Association of Former Students Distinguished Administration Award.
• 1995 Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association.
• 1998 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award for College of Science, Texas A&M University
• 1986 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award for College of Science, Texas A&M University

Professional Service:

• American Co-editor of Computational Statistics
• Editor of Stata Technical Bulletin and the Stata Journal 1996--
• Associate Editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 1991--1994
• Editor of ``New Developments in Statistical Computing'' section of American Statistician 1987--
• Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association 1985-1986
• Refereeing for Annals of Statistics, JASA, American Statistician, Science, Communications in Statistics, SIAM Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing, Journal of Econometrics, National Science Foundation, Biometrika, Transactions in Management Science, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Time Series, Statistica Sinica.
• President of the board of the Interface Foundation of North America and host and organizer of 1992 Interface Symposium.
• Member of organizing committee for Multivariate Time Series Conference held June 29 to July 5, 1991 at University of Washington, Seattle.

Publications:

Books

• Newton, H. J. and Harvill, J.L. (1997). StatConcepts: A Visual Tour of Statistical Ideas. Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, California.
• Newton, H. J.(1988). TIMESLAB: A Time Series Analysis Laboratory. Wadsworth \& Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, California.

Others

• [1] Newton, H. J. (1978). The information matrix of the parameters of multiple mixed time series, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 8, 317-323.
• [2] Parzen, E. and Newton, H. J. (1980). Multiple time series modeling-II. Multivariate Analysis V, V. P. R. Krishnaiah, ed., North Holland.
• [3] Newton, H. J. (1980). Efficient estimation of multivariate moving average autocovariances. Biometrika, 67, 227-231.
• [4] Rahe, C. H., Owens, R. E., Fleeger, J. L., Newton, H. J., and Harms, P. G. (1980). Dependence of the pattern of circulating luteinizing hormone upon the period of the estrous cycle. Endocrinology, 107, 498-530.
• [5] Newton, H. J. and Pagano, M. (1981). On the stationarity of multiple autoregressive approximants: theory and algorithms. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 13, 195-208.
• [6] Newton, H. J. (1981). On some numerical properties of ARMA parameter estimation procedures. Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface, W. Eddy, ed., Springer-Verlag, 172-177.
• [7] Newton, H. J. (1982). On using periodic autoregressions for multiple spectral estimation. Technometrics, 24, 109-116.
• [8] Makridakis, S., Andersen, A., Carbone, R., Fildes, R., Hibon, M., Lewandowski, R., Newton, J., Parzen, E., and Winkler, R. (1982). The accuracy of extrapolation (time series) methods: results of a forecasting competition. Journal of Forecasting, 1, 111-153.
• [9] Newton, H. J. and Pagano, M. (1983). Finite memory prediction of covariance stationary time series. SIAM Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing, 4, 330-339.
• [10] Newton, H. J. and Pagano, M. (1983). A method for determing periods in time series. Journal of American Statistical Association, 78, 152-157.
• [11] Spector, P. C. and Newton, H. J. (1983). The bias of the MLE of Box's degrees of freedom correction factor in ANOVA. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 11, 2937-2945.
• [12] Newton, H. J. and Pagano, M. (1983). Computing for autoregressions. Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on the Interface, J. Gentle, ed., North-Holland, 113-118.
• [13] Newton, H. J. (1983). What should your time series analysis program do? Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on the Interface, J. Gentle, ed., North-Holland, 125-130.
• [14] Parzen, E. and Newton, H. J. (1983). How to learn from the M-Competition. Journal of Forecasting, 2, 292-293.
• [15] Newton, H. J. and Parzen, E. (1984). Forecasting and time series model types of economic time series. In ``Major Time Series Methods and Their Relative Accuracy'', by S. Makridakis, et. al., Wiley, 267-287.
• [16] Newton, H. J. and Pagano, M. (1984). Asymptotic confidence bands for autoregressive spectra. Biometrika, 71, 197-202.
• [17] Newton, H. J. (1985). Comment on ``Nonnegative definiteness of the sample autocovariance function,'' American Statistician, 39, 237.
• [18] Cummins, H, Powell, E., Newton, H. J., Stanton, R. J., and Staff, G. (1986). Assessing transportation by the covariance of species with comment on contagious and random distributions. Lethaia, 19, 1-22.
• [19] Newton, H. J. (1986). Behavior of sample means and parametric time series estimation. Proceedings of the 1986 Winter Simulation Conference, 343-350.
• [20] Newton, H. J. (1986). Creating statistical software on Personal Computers. Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association, 73-77.
• [22] Newton, H. J. (1987). TIMESLAB: A time series analysis laboratory. Proceedings of the Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association, 25-32.
• [23] Ensor, K. and Newton, H. J. (1988). The effect of order estimation on estimating the peak frequency of an autoregressive spectral density. Biometrika, 75, 587-589.
• [24] Ensor, K. and Newton, H. J. (1990). A recursive in order algorithm for least squares estimates of an autoregressive process. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 37, 115-126.
• [25] Newton, H. J. (1990). Review of ``Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85, 1178-1179.
• [26] Newton, H. J., North, G. R., and Crowley, T. J. (1991). Forecasting global ice volume. Journal of Time Series, 12, 255-265.
• [27] Newton, H.J. (1991). Review of S-Plus for Unix and DOS, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 11, 255-258.
• [28] Newton, H.J. (1993). Graphics for Time Series Analysis. In Handbook of Statistics, Vol 9., Ed. C.R. Rao, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 803-823.
• [29] Ha, E. and Newton, H.J. (1993). The Bias of Estimators of Causal Spatial Autoregressive Processes, Biometrika, 80, 242-245.
• [30] Harvill, Jane L. and Newton, H. Joseph (1995). Saddlepoint Approximations for the difference of order statistics, Biometrika, 82, 226-231.
• [31] Harvill, J.L. and Newton, H.J. (1995). Using symbolic math to evaluate saddlepoint approximations for the difference of order statistics, Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 24, No. 3.
• [32] Carroll, R.J., Chen, R., George, E., Li, T.H., Newton, H.J., Schmiediche, H., and Wang, N. (1997). Trends in ozone exposure in Harris County, Texas, Journal of American Statistical Association, 92, 392--404.
• [33] Newton, H.J. (1998). Discussion of ``Undergraduate statistics education: what should change?''. American Statistician. In press.
• [34] Hrafnkelsson, B. and Newton, H. J. (2000). Asymptotic simultaneous confidence intervals for vector autoregressive spectra. Biometrika 87, 173--182.

PhD Dissertations Directed:

• 1982: Philip C. Spector, `Analysis of Long Repeated Measures Designs.' Currently applications manager and consultant at the Statistical Computing Facility and lecturer in the department of statistics at University of California, Berkeley.
• 1986: Gary Stevens, `Analysis of Spatial Time Series.' Currently at Sterling Drug, Rensselaer, New York.
• 1986: Kathryn B. Ensor, `Some Results in Autoregressive Modeling.' Currently professor and head of statistics, Rice University.
• 1992: James Hardin, `The Statistical Analysis of Global Climate Change Studies.' Currently Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M.
• 1992: Eunho Ha, `Analysis of Spatial Autoregressive Processes and Rain Rate Estimation.' Currently associate professor of statistics, Yonsei University, Korea.
• 1993: Henrik Schmiediche, `The Visualization of Multiple Time Series Data and Statistics.' Currently Senior Lecturer and Director of Computing Operations, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M.
• 1994: Jane Harvill, `A Bispectral-Based Test for Gaussianity and Linearity of a Time Series.'' Currently associate professor of statistics, Baylor University.
• 1995: David Whiting, Currently associate professor of statistics, Brigham Young University.
• 1998: Sug-Jae Kim, Currently associate professor in Korea.
• 1999: Birgir Hrafnkelsson, currently professor in Iceland.