Welcome to Jesse Frey's home page! 

 

Contact information:

(610) 519-7350

St. Augustine Center for the Liberal Arts, Room 375

 

Fall 2008 Course Websites:

Math 1230 - Introductory Statistics - 8:30 Section

Math 1230 - Introductory Statistics - 10:00 Section

Math 8454 - Sampling Methods

 

Villanova Links:

Counseling Center

Falvey Memorial Library

Mathematical Sciences Department

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Mathematics Learning and Resource Center

Statistical Software via Citrixweb

Writing Center

 

Statistics Journals:

The American Statistician

 

Publications: 

Refereed statistics papers:

19.  Frey, J. (2009). "An exact multinomial test for equivalence", to appear in the Canadian Journal of Statistics.

18.  Frey, J. (2009).  "An algorithm for computing rectangular multinomial probabilities", to appear in the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

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", to appear in the Journal of Automobile Engineering.

 

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:

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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