Curriculum Vitae: Michael Sherman
Office: Blocker 502C
Phone: (979) 845-2992
FAX: (409) 845-3144
E-mail: sherman@stat.tamu.edu
Address: Department of Statistics,Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3143, U.S.A.Research Interests
- Subsampling Methods
- Spatial Statistics
- Survival Analysis
Education
Publications and Papers to Appear
Testing for Spatial Isotropy Under General Designs,
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 42, 1081-1091 (2012),
with Maity, A.
Spatial Statistics and Spatio-Temporal Data: Covariance Functions
and Directional Properties (2011), John Wiley and Sons, LTD, Chichester.
Inferences for the Ratio: Fiellers Interval, Log Ratio, and
Large Sample Based Confidence Intervals, Advances in Statistical
Analysis (2011), with Maity, A. and Wang, S.
Factor Analysis Revisited: How Many Factors Are There?, Communications in Statistics,
39, 1893-1908 (2010), with Parmat, Y. and Schechtman, E.
Spatial Distribution of African Honey Bees in an Urban Landscape,
Urban Landscape and Planning (2010), with Baum, K. et al.
Efficient Experimental Design for Binary Matched Pairs, Statistics in Medicine,
28, 2952-2966 (2009), with Lennox, K.
To what degree does provider performance affect a quality indicator? The
case of nursing homes and ADL change, The Gerontologist, 48, 330-337 (2008), with Phillips, C.D. and Chen, M.
On Adaptive Linear Regression, The Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 1409-1422 (2008), with Maity, A.
On the Asymptotic Distribution of Sample Space-time Covariance Estimators, Bernoulli, 14, 228-248 (2008), with Li, B. and Genton, M.
A Geostatistical method for Texas Nexrad data calibration, Environmetrics, 19, 1-19 (2008), with Li, B., Eriksson, M., Srinivasan, R.
Testing the Covariance Structure of Multivariate Random Fields, Biometrika, 95, 813-829 (2008), with Li, B., Genton, M.
A Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 736-744 (2007), with Li, B. and Genton, M.
On Least Squares Fitting for Stationary Spatial Point Processes, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 69, 31-49 (2007), with Guan, Y.
An Adjustment for Edge Effects Using an Augmented Neighborhood Model inthe Spatial Auto-logistic Model, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 8, 3679-3688 (2007), with Lim, J.
The Two-sample t-test with a Known Ratio of Variances, Statistical Methodology, 4, 508-514 (2007), with E. Schechtman. View online .
On Asymptotic Properties of the Mark Variogram Estimator of a Marked Point Process, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 148-161 (2007), with Guan, Y. and J. Calvin.
The Two Sample t-test with One Variance Unknown, The American Statistician, 60, 163-166 (2006), with Maity, A.
On Estimation in Binary Autologistic Spatial Models, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 76, 167-179 (2006), with T. Apanasovich and R.J. Carroll. See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
A Test for Isotropy for Spatial Point Processes, Biometrics, 62, 119-125 (2006), with Y. Guan and J. Calvin.
Rurality and Nursing Home Quality: Results from a National Sample of Admissions, American Journal of Public Health, 94, 1717-1722 (2004), with C. Phillips, S. Holan, and M. Leyk Williams.
A Nonparametric Test for Spatial Isotropy Using Subsampling, Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., 99, 810-821 (2004), with Y. Guan and J. Calvin.
Confidence Interval With Unknown Rates of Convergence, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 46, 123-139 (2004), with E. Carlstein.
A National Survey of Assisted Living Facilities, Gerontologist,43, 875-882 (2003), with C. Hawes,, C. Phillips and S. Holan.
Effects of Facility Characteristics on Departures From Assisted Living: Results From a National Study, Gerontologist, 43, 690-696 (2003), with C.D.Phillips, Y. Munoz, W. Spector and C. Hawes.
Large-Sample Normality of the Batch Means Variance Estimator, Operations Research Letters, 319-326 (2002), with D.Goldsman.
Moment Estimation for Statistics from Marked Point Processes, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,Series B, 63, 261-275 (2001), with D. Politis. See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
Estimation of Soil Composition in Ponds Journal of Agricultural, Biological,and Environmental Statistics, 5, 115-129 (2000), with G. Ritvo, A.L. Lawrence, T.M. Samocha. Batch Variance Estimators for the Median of Simulation Output, Operations Research Letters, 23, 129-134 (1999).
Inferences for Spatial Statistics and Asymptotic Normality, Far East Journal of Statistics, 3, 275-293 (1999).
Comment on: Prediction of Spatial Cumulative Distribution Functions Using Subsampling by Lahiri, S.N., Kaiser, M.S., Cressie, N., and Hsu, N.J. Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., 94, 86-110 (1999), with E. Carlstein.
Efficiency and Robustness in Subsampling for Dependent Data, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 75, 133-146 (1998). See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
Analysis of Tidal Data Via the Blockwise Bootstrap, Journal of Applied Statistics, 25, 333-340 (1998), with F.M. Speed, Jr. and F.M. Speed. See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
On Databased Choice of Batch Size for Simulation Output Analysis, Simulation, 71, 38-47 (1998). See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
Determining the Bottom Soil Sampling Rate in Shrimp Ponds Using Variograms, Aquacultural Engineering, 17, 273-286 (1998), with G. Ritvo, A.L. Lawrence, T.M. Samocha.
Subseries Methods in Regression, Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., 92, 1041-1048 (1997). Omnibus Confidence Intervals , Technical Report #278, (1997), with E. Carlstein.
Comparing the Sample Mean and the Sample Median: An Exploration in the Exponential Power Family, The American Statistician, 51, 52-54 (1997). See a postscript or pdf version of this manuscript.
A Bootstrap for Correlated Outcomes in Generalized Linear Models, Communication in Statistics, Simulations and Computations , 26, 901-926 (1997), with S. le Cessie.
Variance Estimation for Statistics Computed From Spatial Lattice Data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 58, 509-523 (1996).
Replicate Histograms, Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., 91, 566-576 (1996), with E. Carlstein. (See postscript or pdf Summary in department Newsletter.
Comparison of Maximum Likelihood and Method of Moments: An Explicit Example, International Journal of Mathematical Education inScience and Technology , 27, 141-143 (1996), with E. Carlstein.
Some Permutation Tests for Survival Data, Biometrics, 52, 87-97 (1996), with Y. Sun.
On Batch Means in the Simulation and Statistics Communities, Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, 297-302 (1995). See a postscript version of this manuscript: here.
Patients Older than 40 Years Undergoing Autologous BMT Have Regimen Related Mortality Rates Comparable to Patients Less Than Age 40, Bone Marrow Transplantion , 15, 523-530 (1995), with A. Rapoport et al.
Asymptotic Normality for a General Statistic from a Random Field, Mathematical Methods of Statistics , 3, 326-345 (1994).
Kernel Estimation of the Density of a Statistic, Statistics and Probability Letters, 21, 29-36 (1994).
Nonparametric Estimation of the Moments of a General Statistic Computed from Spatial Data, Journal of the American Statistical Assoc., 89, 496-500 (1994), with E. Carlstein.
Method of Moments and Method of Moments-type Estimators in Image Processing and Statistical Mechanics Models, TechnicalReport, University of Georgia, Dept. of Statistics (1994), with L. Seymour.
Comment on: The Weighted Likelihood Bootstrap by Newton, M. and Raftery, A., Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,Series B, 56, 3-48, (1994), with C. Lui and M. Tanner.
One Hundred Transplants for Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkins Disease and Lymphoma, The Journal of Clinical Oncology , 11, 2351-2361(1993), with A. Rapoport et al. How Many Boxes of Cereal Do You Have to Buy to Get all the Prizes?, Stats , 7, 25 (1992).