Steven T. Garren
Professor


Department of Mathematics and Statistics
313 Roop Hall,
MSC 1911
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807

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E-Mail: MyLastName FirstTwoInitials at jmu dot edu


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Math 220

Summer 2008

Recommended homework.

Syllabus.

Formula sheet.

Tables.

Computer labs.

The Learning Center, Roop 200.

Statistics tutors for hire.

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Math 318

Spring 2008

Recommended homework.

Syllabus.

Chapter 1: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 2: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 3: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 4: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 8: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 12: small notes (Math 318).

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Chapter 14: small notes (Math 318).

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Education

UNC-Chapel Hill Ph.D., 1994; Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dissertation: ``Parametric and nonparametric modeling of data using sampling algorithms'' under the direction of Richard L. Smith.

UNC-Chapel Hill M.S., 1992; Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Roanoke College B.S., 1989; Computer Science & Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Roanoke College.


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Employment

JMU Professor, 2006-current; Associate Professor, 2000-2006; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, James Madison University.

NASS-USDA Statistics Consultant, Fall 2007; National Agricultural Statistics Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fairfax, VA.

UVa Assistant Professor, 1994-2000; Department of Statistics, University of Virginia.

NIEHS Mathematical Statistician, 1991-1994; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.


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Publications

Garren, S. T., Hume, E. R., and Leppert, G. R. (2007), ``Improved estimation of the Pareto location parameter under squared error loss," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, volume 36, issue #1, 97-102.

Garren, S. T. (2006), ``Comparing estimators of quartiles under various models," InterStat, February #1, 1-8.

Garren, S. T. (2004), ``Goodness-of-fit testing of the beta-binomial model" in Handbook of Beta Distribution and Its Applications, edited by Arjun K. Gupta and Saralees Nadarajah, Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 237-253.

Giganti, M. J., Johnson, N. A., and Garren, S. T. (2004), ``A comparison of statistical approaches for detecting genes influencing Poisson-distributed traits," InterStat, July #2, 1-10.

Kelley, S., Brevard, P. B., and Garren, S. T. (2004), ``Moderate dietary intake as perceived and practiced by college students," The Virginia Journal, 26 #1, 23-24.

Garren, S. T. (2003), ``Improved estimation of medians subject to order restrictions in unimodal symmetric families," Statistics and Decisions, 21 #4, 367-380.

Garren, S. T., and Chang, T. C. (2002), ``Improved ratio estimation in telephone surveys adjusting for noncoverage,'' Survey Methodology, 28 #1, 63-76.

Garren, S. T., Smith, R. L., and Piegorsch, W. W. (2001), ``Bootstrap goodness-of-fit test for the beta-binomial model,'' Journal of Applied Statistics 28 #5, 561-571.

Garren, S. T. (2000), ``Asymptotic distribution of estimated affinity between multiparameter exponential families,'' Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 52 #3, 426-437.

Garren, S. T. (2000), ``On the improved estimation of location parameters subject to order restrictions in location-scale families,'' Sankhya, Series B, 62 #2, 189-201.

Garren, S. T., and Peddada, S. D. (2000), ``Asymptotic normality in multivariate nonlinear regression and multivariate generalized linear regression models under repeated measurements with missing data,'' Statistics and Probability Letters 48, 293-302.

Garren, S. T., and Smith, R. L. (2000), ``Estimating the second largest eigenvalue of a Markov transition matrix,'' Bernoulli 6 #2, 215-242.

Garren, S. T., Smith, R. L., and Piegorsch, W. W. (2000), ``Reader reaction: On a likelihood-based goodness-of-fit test of the beta-binomial model," Biometrics 56 #3, 947-949.

Garren, S. T. (1998), ``Maximum likelihood estimation of the correlation coefficient in a bivariate normal model with missing data,'' Statistics and Probability Letters 38 #3, 281-288.

Garren, S. T., and Richards, D. S. (1998), ``General conditions for comparing the reliability functions of systems of components sharing a common environment,'' The Journal of Applied Probability 35, 124-135.

Devereux, T. R., Wiseman, R. W., Kaplan, N., Garren, S., Foley, J. F., White, C. M., Anna, C., Watson, M. A., Patel, A., Jarchow, S., Maronpot, R. R., and Anderson, M. W. (1994), ``Assignment of a locus for mouse lung tumor susceptibility to proximal Chromosome 19,'' Mammalian Genome 5, 749-755.


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