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Robert L. Wolpert, Professor Emeritus
- Contact Info:
- 214 Old Chemistry, Durham, NC 27708-0251
- +1 919 812 3235
- rlw@duke.edu
- Personal Web Page:
- http://www.stat.duke.edu/~rlw/
- Office Hours:
- By appointment. Send an e-mail to find a convenient time for both of us.
- Education:
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1976
- B.A., Cornell University, 1972
- AB, Cornell University, 1972
- Research Interests: Nonparametric Bayesian Models, Stochastic Processes & Time Series, and Spatial Statistics
- Representative Publications
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- James O. Berger and Robert L. Wolpert. The Likelihood Principle: A Review, Generalizations, and Statistical Implications (with discussion). IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series6 Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1988.
- Wolpert, RL; Taqqu, MS. "Fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Lévy processes and the Telecom process: Upstairs and downstairs." Signal Processing 85.8 (August, 2005): 1523-1545. [doi] [abs]
- Wolpert, RL; Mengersen, KL. "Adjusted likelihoods for synthesizing empirical evidence from studies that differ in quality and design: Effects of environmental tobacco smoke." Statistical Science 19.3 (August, 2004): 450-471. [doi] [abs]
- Wolpert, RL; Ickstadt, K. "Reflecting uncertainty in inverse problems: A Bayesian solution using Lévy processes." Inverse Problems 20.6 (December, 2004): 1759-1771. [doi] [abs]
- Lavine, M; Wasserman, L; Wolpert, RL. "Bayesian inference with specified prior marginals." Journal of the American Statistical Association 86.416 (January, 1991): 964-971. [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Robert L. Wolpert and Katja Ickstadt. "Simulation of L\'evy Random Fields." Practical Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Statistics Lecture Notes in Statistics 133 (1998): 227--242.
- Wolpert, RL; Ickstadt, K. "Poisson/gamma random field models for spatial statistics." Biometrika 85.2 (January, 1998): 251-267. [doi] [abs]
- Best, NG; Ickstadt, K; Wolpert, RL. "Spatial Poisson Regression for Health and Exposure Data Measured at Disparate Resolutions." Journal of the American Statistical Association 95.452 (December, 2000): 1076-1088. [doi] [abs]
- Berger, JO; Brown, LD; Wolpert, RL. "A Unified Conditional Frequentist and Bayesian Test for Fixed and Sequential Simple Hypothesis Testing." The Annals of Statistics 22.4 (December, 1994): 1787-1807. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Berger, JO; Liseo, B; Wolpert, RL. "Integrated likelihood methods for eliminating nuisance parameters." Statistical Science 14.1 (January, 1999): 1-22. [doi] [abs]