My Academic Family

My academic family as recorded on The Mathematics Genealogy Project

My Grandfather

• Solomon Kullback (1907-1994)

My Father

• Robert Shumway, Professor, Division of Statistics, University of California at Davis

My Kids (Ph.D.)

• Dr. Thomas Bengtsson, Research Statistician, Bell Laboratories

  • Dissertation: Time Series Discrimination, Signal Comparison Testing, and Model Selection in the State-Space Framework
  • Defense: April, 2000
  • Institution: University of Missouri - Columbia

  
  

  Dr. Hyun-Joo Kim, Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Truman State University

  • Dissertation: Model Selection Criteria Based on Kullback Information Measures for Weibull, Logistic, and Nonlinear Regression Frameworks
  • Defense: July, 2000
  • Institution: University of Missouri - Columbia

  
  

  Dr. Simon Davies, Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

  • Dissertation: Discrepancy-Based Model Selection Criteria Using Cross Validation
  • Defense: July, 2002
  • Institution: University of Missouri - Columbia

  
  

  Dr. J. Wade Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri - Columbia

  • Dissertation: Wavelet-Based Methods for Estimation and Discrimination
  • Defense: July, 2003
  • Institution: University of Missouri - Columbia

  
  

  Dr. Junfeng Shang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University

  • Dissertation: Problems in the Mixed Modeling Framework: Assessing Predictive Inference, Model Selection, and Bayesian Multiple Comparisons Under Order Restrictions
  • Defense: July, 2005
  • Institution: University of Missouri - Columbia

  
  

  Dr. Zugui Zhang, Senior Biostatistician, Christiana Care Health System

  • Dissertation: Linear Model Selection for Exactly and Nearly Replicated Data Based on Conceptual Predictive Statistics
  • Defense: June, 2007
  • Institution: University of Iowa

  
  

  Dr. JonDavid Sparks, Biostatistician, Eli Lilly and Company

  • Dissertation: Model Selection Criteria in the Presence of Missing Data Based on the Kullback-Leibler Discrepancy
  • Defense: October, 2009
  • Institution: University of Iowa