Dan Spitzner
Assistant Professor, 2001
Office: 413-B Hutcheson Hall
Phone: (540) 231-5441
Fax: (540)231-3863
Email: dan.spitzner@vt.edu
Office Hours:
Link to syllabi for all courses.
Research areas:
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High-dimensional inference
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Functional data analysis
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Regularization by dimension reduction
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Decision theory for non-normal models
Representative Publications:
Spitzner, D. (2005), "Risk-Reducing Shrinkage Estimation for Generalized Linear Models", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 67, 1-14.
Spitzner, D. (2004), "Use of goodness-of-fit-procedures in high dimensional testing", Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. To appear.
Spitzner, D. J., Marron, J. S., and Essick, G. K. (2003). "Mixed-model functional ANOVA for studying human tactile perception." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98(462):263-272.
Smith, R. L., Kim, Y., Fuentes, M., and Spitzner, D. (2000). "Threshold dependence of mortality effects for fine and course particles in Pheonix, Arizona." Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 50:1367-1379.
Courses taught:
STAT 5615-5616, Statistics in Research
STAT 3504, Nonparametric Statistics
STAT 4524, Sample Survey Methods
Professional Memberships:
Institute of Mathematical Statistics