Javier Rojo
Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Rice University
    Houston, TX 77005
jrojo@rice.edu
Tel: 713-348-2797

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  Rice University Summer Institute of Statistics  -- (click here for information) RUSIS-08
            An REU site Funded by NSF and NSA   


Deadline for applications  February 29th, 2008

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The 3rd Erich L. Lehmann Symposium (click here)

May 16th - May 19th, 2007
Rice University

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SURVIVAL COURSE DOCUMENT -- click here
 

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Plots comparing the Mean Squared Error and the Bias of a new Restricted estimator of the
Bivariate Mean Residual Life Function

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Plots of ratios of Mean Squared Errors for estimators under a restriction of Peakedness

-- Supplement to the manuscript: Inference Under Peakedness Restrictions
 


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   Early registration -- March 31st, 2004
                Deadline for contributed papers -- March 15th, 2004

Courses Spring 2006:   Statistics 310 (Course Information)                           

                            Homework assignments
                            Sample first exam
                            Reading assignments
                                   Homework Solutions

   
                            FINAL EXAM  -- Available now for download. Graduating seniors must
                                                         return the exams by May 4th @ 5:00 pm; All others
                                                        the exam is due by May 10th @ 5:00 pm -- No exceptions
 

                 Statistics 639 -- Extreme Value Theory

Education:

        Ph.D.          Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
        M.S.            Statistics, Stanford University
        M.S.            Mathematics, University of Texas at El Paso
        B.S.             Mathematics, University of Texas at El Paso

Honors:

                Elected Distinguished Lecturer, 2008-2010 -- SIGMA XI, The Scientific Research Society
                Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
                Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association
                Elected Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
                Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
                Elected Member, International Statistical Institiute
                Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee, 2001-2004
                Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee, Institute of Medicine, 2005-2007
                Member, Committee on Fellows, American Statistical Association, 2002-2004
                Chair, Committee on Fellows, American Statistical Association, 2004
                Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Human Resources Advisory
                      Committee, 2003-2006
                Member, Nominations Committee, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2001

Professional Appointments:

                The National Science Foundation
                        Statistics Program Director 1997-1999
                Southern Methodist University
                        Visiting Professor of Statistics, 1998-1999
                University of Texas at El Paso
                        Professor Mathematical Sciences Department, 1984-2001

Some publications:

        [pdf]  Estimation of Distribution Functions Under Second Order Stochastic Dominance
                                  (2003) Statistica Sinica Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 903-926
 

Some of my publications through MathSciNet