Quaecumque VeraDepartment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
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Rohana Karunamuni
Rohana Karunamuni
Professor
Ph.D. (Michigan State)

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Phone: (780) 492-5812
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Research Interests
My current research interests are mainly in the areas of minimum distance estimation, nonparametric functional estimation, decision theory and the application of these techniques to statistical inference problems.

Selected Publications

1. R.J. Karunamuni and J. Wu (2011). One-step minimum Hellinger distance estimation. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55, 3148-3164.

2. J. Wu, R.J. Karunamuni and B. Zhang (2010). Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a two-sample semiparametric model. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 1102-1122.

3. S. Zhang and R.J. Karunamuni (2010). Boundary performance of the beta-kernel estimator. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22, 81-104.

4. J. Wu and R.J. Karunamuni (2009). On minimum Hellinger distance estimation. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 37, 514-533.

5. R.J. Karunamuni and J. Wu (2009). Minimum Hellinger distance estimation in a nonparametric mixture model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1118-1133.

6. R.J. Karunamuni, J. Li and J. Wu (2009). Robust empirical Bayes tests for continuous distributions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 268-282.

7. S. Zhang and R.J. Karunamuni (2009). Deconvolution boundary kernel method in nonparametric density estimation. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 2269-2283.

8. R.J. Karunamuni and S. Zhang (2008). Some improvements on a boundary corrected kernel density estimator. Statistics and Probability Letters, 78, 499-507.

9. R.J. Karunamuni, J. Wu and T. Liang (2008). Robust empirical Bayes tests for discrete distributions. J. Nonparametric Statistics, 20, 101-113.

10. L.-C. Hwang and R.J. Karunamuni (2008). Asymptotically pointwise optimal allocation rules in Bayes sequential estimation. Statistics and Probability Letters, 78, 2490-2495.

11. J. T. Ding and R. J. Karunamuni (2008). Modeling information sharing to improve just-in-time purchasing vendor evaluation. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 13, 30-54.

12. R.J. Karunamuni, T.N. Sriram and J. Wu (2006). Rates of Convergence of an adaptive kernel density estimator for finite mixture models. Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 221-230.

13. R.J. Karunamuni, T.N. Sriram and J. Wu (2006). Asymptotic normalilty of an adaptive kernel density estimator for finite mixture models. Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, 211-220.

14. R.J. Karunamuni and T. Alberts (2006). A locally adaptive transformation method of boundary correction in kernel density estimation. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 2936-2960.

15. R.J. Karunamuni and T. Alberts (2005). A generalized reflection method of boundary correction in kernel density estimation. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 33, 497-509.

16. R.J. Karunamuni and T. Alberts (2005). On boundary correction in kernel density estimation. Statistical Methodology, 2, 191-212.

 

 

 

 

 

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