Publications

Garren, S. T. (2009), ``Improved estimation of the exponential mean under an order restriction," Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, volume 7, issue #2, 105-111.

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, The Indian Journal of Statistics, 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.