Suzanne R. Dubnicka

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Associate Professor

On sabbatical for the 2010-2011 academic year.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: robust nonparametric statistics, nonparametric function estimation, Bayesian statistical analysis, incomplete data methods, methods correlated data, statistical computing.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998.
M.S., Applied Statistics, Western Michigan University, 1994.
B.S., Statistics, Western Michigan University, 1992.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

S.R. Dubnicka (2011). Kernel density estimation with missing data: misspecifying the missing data mechanism. In Nonparametric Statistics and Mixture Models: A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P. Hettmansperger, ed. D.R. Hunter, D.St.P. Richards, and J.L. Rosenberger, 114-135. World Scientific Publishing.
M.P. Anderson and S.R. Dubnicka (2010). A sequential naive Bayes classifier for DNA barcodes. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, in review.
A.H. Babcock, B.J. White, D.G. Renter, S.R. Dubnicka, and H.M. Scott (2010). Predicting cumulative risk of bovine respiratory disease complex using feedlot arrival data and daily morbidity and mortality counts. Journal of Animal Science, in review.
A.H. Babcock, D.G. Renter, B.J. White, S.R. Dubnicka, D.U. Thomson, S.E. Ives, and H.M. Scott (2010). Quantifying the effects of common risk factors for combined mortality and culling risk in feedlot cattle populations using a mixed effects count model. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, in revision.
A.H. Babcock, D.G. Renter, B.J. White, S.R. Dubnicka, and H.M. Scott (2010). Temporal distributions of respiratory disease events with cohorts of feedlot cattle and associations with cattle health and performance indices. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 97:198-219.
M.P. Anderson and S.R. Dubnicka (2009). Sequential Bayesian classification: DNA barcodes. Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture [CD-ROM], Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
S.R. Dubnicka (2009). Kernel density estimation with missing data and auxiliary variables. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 51:247-270.
S.R. Dubnicka (2007). A confidence interval for the median of a finite population under unequal probability sampling: a model-assisted approach. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137:2429-2438.
S.R. Dubnicka (2006). Confidence intervals for the median of a finite population based on the sign test. Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods, 35:551-569.
C.-Y.C. Cochrane, S.R. Dubnicka, and T.M. Loughin (2005). Comparison of methods for analyzing replicated preference tests. Journal of Sensory Studies, 20:484-502.
S.R. Dubnicka (2005). Rank-based regression with clustered data. Kansas State University Department of Statistics Technical Report II-05-1.
S.R. Dubnicka (2004). A rank-based estimation procedure for linear models with clustered data. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 3:39-48.
S.R. Dubnicka (2002). Testing against ordered alternatives for multivariate censored survival data. Statistics and Probability Letters, 56:207-216.
S.R. Dubnicka, R.C. Blair, and T.P. Hettmansperger (2002). Rank-based procedures for mixed paired and two-sample designs. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 1:32-41.

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WORKING PAPERS and CURRENT PROJECTS:

Bayesian analysis of replicated preference and difference tests
A Bayesian model for environmental exposure data with limit of detection (with Shane Reese).
Bayesian analysis of challenge model data (with Shane Reese).
Bovine respiratory disease complex (with Dave Renter and Brad White).
Compressive response of titanium square cell honeycomb (with Ryan Parsons, Elizabeth Frink, Kevin Lease, Greg Jones).
Shear response of titanium square cell honeycomb (Ryan Parsons, Elizabeth Frink, Kevin Lease, Greg Jones).
Analysis of single fiber fragmentation data (with Kevin Lease).

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COURSES TAUGHT AT K-STATE:

STAT 950 Bayesian Statistical Analysis (Spring 2008, Spring 2010)
STAT 950 Missing Data Methods (Fall 2005)
STAT 901 Rank and Robustness (Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008)
STAT 825 Numerical Methods for Statistics (Spring 2007, Spring 2009)
STAT 771 Theory of Statistics II (Spring 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010)
STAT 770 Theory of Statistics I (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2009)
STAT 726 Introduction to Splus/R Computing (Spring 2007)
STAT 725 Digital Statistical Analysis (Spring 2005, Spring 2006)
STAT 716 Nonparametric Statistics (Fall 2007, Fall 2009)
STAT 702 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2009)
STAT 510 Introduction to Probability and Statistics I (Fall 2006)
STAT 340 Biometrics I (Spring 2004)

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