A number of papers, technical reports and theses which have been published by the University of Minnesota School of Statistics are available online. Select the report to see the author and abstract information. You can download the full PostScript document if you want the paper.

• Technical Reports

• Preprints

• Theses

Technical Reports

Papers and Revisions Dated 2001:

• User's Manual for 'bmmp' S-PLUS/R Software
  Technical Report No. 639
  by Iain Pardoe (June 8, 2001)

Papers and Revisions Dated 2000:

• Problems in Mathematical Statistics
  Technical Report No. 638
  by Maurizio Tiso (December 15, 2000)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1999:

• Ordering MonteCarlo Markov Chains
  Technical Report No. 632
  by Antonietta Mira and Charles J. Geyer (April 6, 1999)
• An Introduction to Bootstrap Methods using Arc
  Technical Report No. 631
  by Iain Pardoe (April 5, 1999)
• Some issues in resolution using an imperfect gold standard
  Technical Report No. 628
  by Douglas M. Hawkins, James A. Garrett and Betty Stephenson (March 16, 1999)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1997:

• New Autoload System for XLISP-STAT
  Technical Report No. 623
  by Luke Tierney (December 29, 1997)
• Optimal Bayesian Design for a Logistic Regression Model: Geometric and Algebraic Approaches
  Technical Report No. 622
  by Marilyn Agin and Kathryn Chaloner (August, 1997)
• On Foundations of Regression Graphics
  Technical Report No. 616
  by Francesca Chiaromonte and R. Dennis Cook (February 6, 1997)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1996:

• Bayesian approach to outlier detection in multivariate normal samples and linear models
  Technical Report No. 614
  by Alexandre Varbanov (June 26, 1996)
• Bias Corrected Bootstrap Bandwidth Selection
  Technical Report No. 611
  by Birgit Grund and Jorg Polzehl (January, 1996)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1995:

• Likelihood Ratio Tests and Inequality Constraints
  Technical Report No. 610
  by Charles J. Geyer (December 18, 1995)
• Recent Developments and Future Directions in Lisp-Stat
  Technical Report No. 608
  by Luke Tierney (August 7, 1995)
• Bayesian Experimental Design: A Review
  Technical Report No. 607
  by Kathryn Chaloner and Isabella Verdinelli (July 28, 1995)
• A Note on Metropolis-Hastings Kernels for General State Spaces
  Technical Report No. 606
  by Luke Tierney (June 23, 1995)
• Some Uses of Order Statistics in Bayesian Analysis
  Technical Report No. 604
  by Seymour Geisser (February, 1995)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1994:

• Annealing Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Applications to Ancestral Inference
  Technical Report No. 589 (REVISION)
  by Charles J. Geyer and Elizabeth A. Thompson (February 7, 1994)
  The original paper that came out on July 1, 1993 could be found here
• Regeneration in Markov Chain Samplers
  Technical Report No. 585 (REVISION)
  by Per Mykland, Luke Tierney and Bin Yu (May 17, 1994)
  The original paper that came out on March 15, 1994 could be found here
• Estimating Normalizing Constants and Reweighting Mixtures in
  Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  Technical Report No. 568 (REVISION)
  by Charles J. Geyer (Revised July 9, 1994)
  The original paper that came out on December 6, 1991 could be found here
• Discussion of Technical Report No. 560
  Discussion of the paper "Markov Chains for Exploring Posterior Distributions" by Luke Tierney (Technical Report #560)
  by Kung Sik Chan and Charles J. Geyer
• Markov Chains for Exploring Posterior Distributions
  Technical Report No. 560
  by Luke Tierney (March 15, 1994)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1993:

• Monte Carlo Minimization for Sequential Control
  Technical Report No. 591
  by Li-Shya Chen, Seymour Geisser, Charles J. Geyer (August, 1993)
• Testing Independence When the Form of the Bivariate Distribution is Unspecified
  Technical Report No. 590
  by Seymour Geisser and Wesley Johnson (October, 1993)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1992:

• Sample Size Consideration in Multivariate Normal Classification
  Technical Report No. 580
  by Seymour Geisser and Wesley Johnson (July, 1992)
• On the Convergence of Monte Carlo Approximations to the Posterior Density
  Technical Report No. 579
  by Charles J. Geyer and Luke Tierney (June 1, 1992)
• Interim Analysis For Normally Distributed Observables
  Technical Report No. 576
  by Seymour Geisser and Wesley Johnson (May, 1992)
• On the Convergence of Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood Calculations
  Technical Report No. 571
  by Charles J. Geyer (Revised September 24, 1992)
• Testing Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium on Allelic Data from VNTR Loci
  Technical Report No. 569
  by Seymour Geisser and Wesley Johnson (December, 1992)

Papers and Revisions Dated 1991:

• Some Statistical Issues in Medicine and Forensics
  Technical Report No. 564
  by Seymour Geisser (October, 1991)
  
• Bayesian Interim Analysis of Censored Exponential Observations
  Technical Report No. 563
  by Seymour Geisser (October, 1991)
  

PREPRINTS

Select the paper to see the author and abstract information. You can download the full PostScript document if you want the paper.

• Selecting the Number of Bins in a Histogram: A Decision Theoretic Approach
  by Kun He and Glen Meeden
• Likelihood Inference for Spatial Point Processes
  by Charles J. Geyer
• On the Asymptotics of Convex Stochastic Optimization
  by Charles J. Geyer
• Estimation and testing in constrained covariance component models
  by Frank H. Shaw and Charles J. Geyer

THESES

• A Bayesian Approach to Quality Control Problems
  by Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, August 31, 2000
• Consistency and Strong Inconsistency of Inferences
  by Garrick Lee Wallstrom, June 25, 1997

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