J. Calvin Berry
Associate Professor

Contact:
Office: 441 Maxim Doucet
Phone: 337-482-5294
E-mail: cberry@louisiana.edu
Home page: not available

Degrees:
Ph.D. 1985 Cornell University
M.A. 1980 University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.S. 1978 University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Statistics Book:
Statistics book

Statement:
My main research interests are in the areas of decision theory, Bayesian statistics, linear models, and multivariate analysis.

Selected research publications:

• On the existence of a most probable category, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 99 (2001), 175-182.
• Improving the James-Stein Estimator Using the Stein Variance Estimator, Statistics and Probability Letters, 20 (1994), 241-245.
• Minimax Estimation of a Restricted Exponential Location Parameter, Statistics and Decisions, 11 (1993) 307-316.
• Equivariant Estimation of a Normal Mean Vector Using a Normal Concomitant Vector for Covariance Adjustment (with Chun Jin), Communications in Statistics, 22 (1993) 335-346.
• On Invariance and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (with Nabendu Pal), The American Statistician, 46 (1992), 209-212.
• Minimax Estimation of a Bounded Multivariate Normal Mean Vector, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 35 (1990), 130-139.
• Bayes Minimax Estimation of a Bernoulli p in a Restricted Parameter Space, Communications in Statistics, 18 (1989), 4607-4616.
• Equivariant Estimation of a Normal Mean Using a Normal Concomitant Variable for Covariance Adjustment, The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 15 (1987), 177-183.