Welcome to Jesse Frey's home page! 

 

Contact information:

(610) 519-7350

St. Augustine Center for the Liberal Arts, Room 375

 

Spring 2010 Course Websites:

MAT 1235 - Introduction to Statistics II

MAT 8412 - Linear Models

 

Fall 2009 Course Websites:

MAT 1230 - Introduction to Statistics - 8:30 Section

MAT 1230 - Introduction to Statistics - 1:00 Section

MAT 8444 - Time Series Methods

 

Villanova Links:

Counseling Center

Falvey Memorial Library

Mathematical Sciences Department

Mathematical Sciences Department Faculty Homepages

Mathematics Learning and Resource Center

Statistical Software via Citrixweb

Writing Center

 

Statistics Journals:

The American Statistician

 

Publications: 

Refereed statistics papers:

23.  Frey, J. and Ozturk, O. (2010).  "Constrained estimation using judgment post-stratification", to appear in the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.  

22.  Frey, J. (2010).  "Data-driven nonparametric tolerance sets",  Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22: 169-180.  

21.  Frey, J. (2009).  "An algorithm for computing rectangular multinomial probabilities"Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 79: 1483-1489.

20.  Frey, J. (2009).  "Confidence bands for the CDF when sampling from a finite population"Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53: 4126-4132.

19.  Frey, J. (2009).  "Unbiased goodness-of-fit tests"Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139: 3690-3697.

18.  Frey, J. (2009).  "An exact multinomial test for equivalence"Canadian Journal of Statistics, 37: 47-59. 

17.  Frey, J., Marrero, O., and Norton, D. (2009). "Minimum-area confidence sets for a normal distribution"Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139: 1023-1032.

16.  Frey, J. (2008).  "An exact distribution-free one-sample test for equivalence",  Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 20: 739-750.

15.  Frey, J. (2008).  "Optimal distribution-free confidence bands for a distribution function"Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138: 3086-3098.

14.  Frey, J. and Marrero, O. (2008).  "A surprising MLE for interval-censored binomial data",  The American Statistician, 62: 135-137.

13.  Frey, J. (2007).  "Distribution-free statistical intervals via ranked-set sampling",  Canadian Journal of Statistics, 35: 585-596.

12.  Frey, J. (2007).  "A note on a probability involving independent order statistics",  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77: 969-975.

11.  Husby, C., Stasny, E. A., Wolfe, D. A., and Frey, J. (2007).  "Cautionary note on unbalanced ranked-set sampling",  Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 77: 869-878. 

10.  Frey, J. (2007).  "Bayesian inference on a proportion believed to be a simple fraction",  The American Statistician, 61: 201-206.

9.  Frey, J., Ozturk, O., and Deshpande, J. V. (2007).  "Nonparametric tests for perfect judgment rankings"Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102: 708-717. 

8.  Frey, J. (2007).  "Is an .833 hitter better than a .338 hitter?",  The American Statistician, 61: 105-111. 

7.  Frey, J. (2007).  "Intentionally representative sampling for estimating a population mean"Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 5: 103-112.

6.  Frey, J. (2007).  "New imperfect rankings models for ranked set sampling",  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137: 1433-1445.

5.  Cressie, N., Frey, J., Harch, B., and Smith, M. (2006).  "Spatial prediction on a river network"Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 11: 127-150.

4.  Deshpande, J. V., Frey, J., and Ozturk, O. (2006).  "Nonparametric ranked-set sampling confidence intervals for quantiles of a finite population",  Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 13: 25-40.

3.  Frey, J. (2005).  "A ranking method based on minimizing the number of in-sample errors",  The American Statistician, 59: 207-216.

2.  Deshpande, J. V., Frey, J., and Ozturk, O. (2004).  "Inference regarding the constant of proportionality in the Cox hazards model", 147-163 in de Silva, B. M. and Mukhopadhyay, N. (eds.).  Proceedings of the International Sri Lankan Statistical Conference: Visions of Futuristic Methodologies, Melbourne: RMIT University.

1.  Frey, J. and Cressie, N. (2003).  "Some results on constrained Bayes estimators"Statistics and Probability Letters, 65: 389-399.

 

Other refereed papers:

1.  Muske, K., Peyton Jones, J., Kirschman, J., Frey, J., Makki, I., Uhrich, M., and Howse, J. (2008).  "Probability density diagnostic metric for an integrated three-way catalyst controller and monitor", Journal of Automobile Engineering, 222: 2185-2194. 

 

Non-refereed publications:

4.  Frey, J. (2008).  "Review of J. Kowalski and X. M. Tu's Modern Applied U-Statistics", Biometrics, 64: 994-995.

3.  Westfall, P., Desmone, R., Frey, J., and Stefanski, L. (2007).  "ASA tries out promotions strategy on two May articles", Amstat News, May 2007, 20-21.

2.  Frey, J. (2005).  "Advice from the 2004 Stat Bowl champion", Stats, Winter 2005, 16.

1.  Frey, J. (2004).  "Review of James Spall’s Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization: Estimation, Simulation, and Control", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99: 1204-1205.

 

Software:

2.  R functions for finding confidence bands for the CDF when sampling from a finite population.

1.  FORTRAN subroutines for using ranked-set sampling to find confidence intervals for quantiles of a finite population.

 

Technical Reports:

2.  Frey, J. (2007).  "Optimal distribution-free confidence bands for a distribution function".

1.  Frey, J. (2006).  "New imperfect rankings models for ranked set sampling".

 

Statistics Co-authors:

Noel Cressie

Jayant Deshpande

Bronwyn Harch

Chad Husby

Osvaldo Marrero

Douglas Norton

Omer Ozturk

Mick Smith

Elizabeth Stasny

Douglas Wolfe

 

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