Universal Furniture Professor; Professor of Statistics; Chairperson, Statistics Department
Hierarchical Modeling; model uncertainty; shrinkage estimation; treed modeling; variable selection; wavelet regression
Bayesian treed modeling, default priors for model spaces, minimax Bayes model averaging, modeling the customer base of a brand.
(with D.P.Foster)
"Calibration and Empirical Bayes Variable Selection." Biometrika (2000).
(with H. Chipman and R.E. McCulloch)
"Bayesian CART Model Search (with discussion)." Journal of the American Statistical Association (1998).
"Minimax multiple shrinkage estimation." Annals of Statistics (1986).
PhD, Stanford University, 1981; MS, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1976; AB, Cornell University, 1972
Fellow, American Statistical Association, (1997); Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (1995); CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions (1998) and the CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence (1995), The University of Texas at Austin; Excellence in Education Award (2001) and the Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence (1996), The University of Texas at Austin. McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987) and the Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987), The University of Chicago.
Wharton: 2001-present (Chairperson, Statistics Department, 2008-present; named Universal Furniture Professor, 2002). Previous appointment: University of Texas at Austin; University of Chicago. Visiting Appointments: Cambridge University; University of Valencia
Executive Editor, Statistical Science, 2004-2007; Associate Editor, Bayesian Analysis, 2004-present; Associate Editor, Statistical Surveys, 2005-present; President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2003.
