Nabendu Pal
Professor

Contact:
Office: 443 Maxim Doucet
Phone: 337-482-5279
E-mail: nxp3695@louisiana.edu
Home page: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~nxp3695/

Degrees:
Ph.D. 1989 University of Maryland Baltimore County
M.S. 1986 Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
B.S. 1984 Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

Statement:
My research interests are in decision theory, reliability and life testing, multivariate analysis, and biostatistics.

Selected research publications:

• A Case Study of Green Tree Frog Population Size Estimation by Repeated Capture-Mark-Recapture Method with Individual Tagging: A Parametric Bootstrap Method vs. Jolly-Seber Method (with Yang, X., Ackleh, A. and Carter, J.), Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, (2010), to appear.
• Testing the Equality of Several Gamma Means: A Parametric Bootstrap Method Applications (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.), Computational Statistics, (2010), to appear.
• On Comparing Several Poisson Means (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.), Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, 39 (2010), 1605 - 1627.
• Comparing Several Population Means: A Computational Approach Test, and Its Comparison with One Way ANOVA F-Test As Well As ANOM(with Chang, C. H., Lim, W. K. and Lin, J. J.), Computational Statistics, 25 (2010), 71--95.
• Estimation of a Population Size Through Capture-Mark-Recapture Method: A Comparison of Various Point and Interval Estimators (with Yang, X.), Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, 80 (2010), 335--354.
• Letter to the Editor (in response to the letter by Miguel A. Garcia-Perez, The American Statistician, 62, 167--170). The American Statistician, 63 (2009), 102.
• Discussion on Skew-Normal Approximation of a Binomial Distribution (with Chang, C. H., Lin, J. J. and Chiang, M. C.), InterStat, Oct. (2008) (online journal http://interstat.statjournals.net/INDEX/Oct08.html).
• Exact Test Critical Values for Correlation Testing with Applications (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.), WSEAS Transaction on Mathematics, 7 (2008), No. 6, 363--381.
• An Identity for Skew-Normal Distribution (with Chang, C. H. and Lin, J. J.), Journal of Applied Probability & Statistics, 3 (2008), 305--309.
• Testing the Common mean of Several Normal Distributions (with Chang, C. H.), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53 (2008), 321--333.
• A Note on Improved Approximation of the Binomial Distribution by the Skew-Normal Distribution (with Chang, C. H., Lin, J. J. and Miao, C. C.), The American Statistician, 62 (2008), 167--170.
• A Computational Approach to One-way ANOVA and its Model Robustness (with Chang, C. H.), Far Eastern Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 25 (2008), No. 1, 111--134.
• A Revisit to the Behrens-Fisher Problem: Comparison of Five Test Methods (with Chang, C. H.), Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, 37 (2008), 1064--1085.
• Estimation of a Normal Dispersion Matrix Using Shrinkage Correlation Estimators (with Lim, W. K.), Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, 45 (2008), 181--203
• A revisit to the common mean problem: comparing the maximum likelihood estimator with the Graybill-Deal estimator (with J.J. Lin, C.H. Chang, and S. Kumar), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51 (2007), 5673--5681.
• On the reliability of a multi-component series system (with A.Y. Arazyan), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 76 (2006), 1--20.
• Comparison of normal variance estimators under multiple criteria and towards a compromise estimator (with J.J. Lin), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 75 (2005), 645--666.
• Estimation of circular probable error and measuring the accuracy of a missile system (with W.K. Lim), Statistical Methods, 5 (2003), 97--120.
• Estimation of the Smaller and Larger of Two Exponential Scale Parameters (with A.Y. Arazyan and W.H. Shen), Journal of Applied Statistical Science, 11 (2000), 159--173.
• Estimation of the support of a discrete distribution (with W.H. Shen and B.K. Sinha), Statistics and Probability Letters, 48 (2000), 287--292.