Joe McKean, the Guy in the Red Shirt

Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ph.D. Statistics, Penn State University

Bio

Dr. McKean has published many papers on robust procedures for linear models. These include papers on the theory for robust estimation and testing, the geometry of robust inference, and the small sample properties of robust inference. He has worked with general robust estimates, bounded influence estimates, and high breakdown estimates. Recently he has co-authored a series of papers on diagnostic procedures for robust estimation. Besides robust procedures, Dr. McKean has published in the areas of generalized linear models, nonparametric statistics and time series analyses. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Dr. McKean has also written algorithms for robust estimation and test in general linear models, RGLM. He has developed software for these algorithms and has recently has been working on graphical interfaces for these methods in a Sun environment. He has performed numerous simulation studies to investigate small sample properties of robust estimation. Besides FORTRAN, he has used languages such as S-plus, SAS, and minitab to conduct these studies.

He has developed courses in the above areas and in statistical computing. He has conducted successful short courses in these areas.

Selected Publications

New Book, Robust Nonparametric Statistical Methods,with Thomas P. Hettmansperger.
Partial Residual Plots Based on Robust Fits, (2000), (with Simon J. Sheather), Technometrics To appear.
A Double Bootstrap Method to Analyze an Intervention Time Series Model with Autoregressive Error Terms, (2000), (with S. McKnight and B. Huitema), Psychological Methods, 5, 87-101.
High Breakdown Rank-Based Regression, (1999), (with W. H. Chang, J. D. Naranjo and Simon J. Sheather), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 205-219.
Diagnostics for Comparing Robust and Least Squares Fits, (1999), (with Joshua Naranjo and Simon J. Sheather), Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 11, 161-188.
A Comparison of Two Rank Based Methods for the Analysis of Linear Models, (with T. J. Vidmar), (1994), The American Statistician, 48, 220-229.
Robust and High Breakdown Fits of Polynomial Models, (with S. Sheather and T. P. Hettmansperger), (1994), Technometrics, 36, 409-415.
The Use and Interpretation of Residuals Based on Robust Estimation, (with S. Sheather and T. P. Hettmansperger), (1993), Journal of the American Statistical Association 88 1254-1263.

Address

Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Phone

(269) 387-4541

Fax

(269) 387-4530

E-mail

joseph.mckean@wmich.edu