Selected Publications

• On the estimation of the extremal index based on scaling and resampling, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2008), (joint with Kam Hamidieh and Stilian Stoev)
• Distributed Multilevel Modeling, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2007), 16, 901-924 (joint with David Afshartous)
• Sequential Experiment Design for Contour Estimation from Complex Computer Codes, Technometrics (2007) (joint with Pritam Ranjan and Derek Bingham)
• ada: an R Package for Stochastic Boosting, Journal of Statistical Software(2006), 16 (joint with Mark Culp and Kjell Johnson)
• LASS: a tool for the local analysis of self-similarity, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (2006), 50, 2447-2471 (joint with Stilian Stoev, Murad Taqqu, Steve Marron and Cheolwoo Park)
• A Diagnostic Plot for Estimating the Tail Index of a Distribution, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2004), 13, 974-1001 (joint with Bruno Sousa)