PAC Chair; Professor, Statistics
Year Started at JMU: 2000
garrenst@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website: https://educ.jmu.edu/~garrenst
Research Description
- Nonparametric statistics
- Sample surveys
- Order restricted inference
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Statistical computing
Education
- PhD in Statistics, 1994, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- MS in Statistics, 1992, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- BS in Physics/Computer Science & Statistics/Mathematics, 1989, Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Select Publications
- Garren, S. T., and Kott, P. S. (2014), Evaluating the effective degrees of freedom of the delete-a-group jackknife, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 43, #10, 2649-2660.
- Kott, P. S., and Garren, S. T. (2011), Evaluating the small-sample bias of the delete-a-group jackknife for model analyses, Journal of Official Statistics, 27, #1, 121-13.
- Garren, S. T. (2009), Improved estimation of the exponential location parameter under an order restriction, Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, 7, #2, 105-111.
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Student and class concerns:
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540-568-6408
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wilkinbs@jmu.edu
540-568-6408
Finance and office matters:
ellis6ja@jmu.edu
540-568-6184
