Nabendu Pal
Professor

Contact:
Office: 443 Maxim Doucet
Phone: 337-482-5279
E-mail: nxp3695@louisiana.edu
Home page: not available

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 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.
• Estimation of a correlation coefficient: some second order results (with W.K. Lim), Statistics and Decisions, 18 (2000), 185-203.
• Second Order Admissibility of the Sample Intraclass Correlation Coefficient in a Symmetric Normal Distribution (with W.K. Lim), The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 27 (1999), 163-172.
• Shrinkage Estimation of A Correlation Coefficient and two examples with real life datasets (with W.K. Lim), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 62 (1999), 357-373.
• Estimation of the Reliability Function of a Series System: Some Decision Theoretic Results (with J. Sarkar and G. Chaudhuri), Statistics, 32 (1998), 59-74.
• Estimation of the Coefficient of Multiple Determination (with W.K. Lim), The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 50 (1998),773-788.
• Applications of Improved variance Estimation in a Multivariate Normal mean vector estimation (with J.J. Lin and C.H. Chang), Statistics30 (1997), 99-125.
• A Note on Second Order Admissibility of the Graybill-Deal Estimator of a Common Mean of Several Normal Normal Populations (with W.K. Lim), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 63 (1997), 71-78.
• Risk Analysis and Robustness of Four Shrinkage Estimators (with C.H. Chang), Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 46 (1996), 35-59.
• Estimation of a Normal Scale Parameter Under a Balanced Loss Function (with C. Ling), Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, 34 (1996), 21-38.
• Admissibility of Estimators with Unbounded Precision (with C. Anderson), Annals of Statistics, 23 (1995), 593-597.
• Improved Estimation of a Multivariate Normal mean vector and the Dispersion Matrix: How One Affects the Other (with A. Elfessi), Sankhya, Series A, 57 (1995), 267-286.
• Unbiased Equivariant Estimation of a Common Normal Mean Vector with One Observation from Each population (with K. Krishnamoorthy), Statistics and Probability Letters, 19 (1994), 33-38.
• Estimating the Normal Dispersion Matrix and the Precision matrix from a Decision Theoretic Point of View: A Review, Statistiche Hefte/Statistical Papers, 34 (1993), 1-26.
• A Sequence of Improvements over the James-Stein Estimator (with Y.Y. Guo), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 43 (1992), 302-317.
• Estimation of Location Parameters of Several Exponential Distributions (with C. Jin), Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 20 (1992), 3995-4003.
• Estimation of Common location of Several Exponentials (with B.K. Sinha), Statistics and Decisions, 8 (1990), 27-36.