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BENJAMIN REISER Sept. 2013
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Name: Benjamin Reiser
Place and Date of Birth: Bad Reichenhall, Germany February 16, 1947
Marital Status: Married + 3
Citizenship : Israeli and Canadian
Permanent Home Address: 238 Moriah, Moreshet, M.P. Misgav, 20186, Israel.
Home Telephone Number: 972-4 -9998829
Office Address and Phone: Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa,
Haifa, 31905, Israel.
972-4-8240177
Electronic Address: [email protected]
Fax Number: 972-4-8253849
Higher Education
Date of Period
Degree Field Institution of Study
1967 Mathematics B.Sc. (Honours Math.) 1963-67
McGill University
1968 Statistics M.Math., University of Waterloo 1967-68
1972 Statistics Ph.D. University of Waterloo 1968-72
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Academic Ranks and Visiting Positions
DATES NAMES OF INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT RANK
2012(May-June) Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Visiting Professor
York University
2001-2002 Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Visiting Professor
2000 -present Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Professor
2000 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1999 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1998 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1997 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1995-96 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Visiting Scientist
1994-2000 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Associate Professor
1994 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1993 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1992 summer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Academic Visitor
1991 summer Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University Visiting Professor
1989-1990 Dept. of Statistics, Temple University Visiting Associate
Professor
1987-1994 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Senior Lecturer
(tenured)
1984-1987 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Adjunct Senior
Lecturer
1983-1984 Dept. of Statistics, University of Toronto Visiting Associate
Professor
1980-1982 Dept. of Statistics, University of Haifa Adjunct Senior
Lecturer
1979-1983 Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering Adjunct Senior
Technion Lecturer
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1975-1979 Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering Lecturer
Technion
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Professional Experience
1979-1987 Senior Research Scientist, Rafael, Israel
Defense Department (statistical consulting
and research with emphasis on reliability and quality
control)
1985-1987 Leader of Reliability Group in Rafael.
1974-1975 Senior Statistician, Road and Motor
Vehicle Safety Branch, Canada Department
of Transport.
1972-1974 Research Scientist, Statistical Research
Service, Research Branch, Canada
Department of Agriculture.
Offices in University Academic Administration
Faculty of Social Sciences Research Committee (1987-1989)
Faculty of Social Sciences Education Committee (1998- 2001)
Faculty of Social Sciences Appointments Committee (2002-2004)
Managing Committee of the Statistical Consulting Unit
(1988-89), (1993-1999),(2006-present)
Elected member of University Senate (2002-2005, 2006-2010)
Member of the Steering Committee of the Senate (2002-2005)
University Tenure and Promotion Committee (2004- 2007, 2008-2011)
Various departmental committees
University representative on the Public Council for Statistics (1991-97).
Chairman, Managing Committee of the Statistical Consulting
Unit (1990-1992).
Committee for Fees Reductions (1996-2001)
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Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Member of the American Statistical Association, The Institute of Mathematical Statistics
The Israel Statistical Association and the International Biometrics Society
Secretary of the Israel Statistical Association
(1981-1983).
Controller of the Israel Statistical Association
(1987-1989).
Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Statistical Association
1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995.
Head, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Statistical Association,
1989, 1997.
Member, Professional Committee (Statistics), Israel Science Foundation, 1998, 1999.
Member, Executive Committee of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International
Biometric Society, 2001 –2005.
Co-organizer of the Inaugural Euroconference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of
the International Biometric Society, Athens, 2001
Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Third International Conference of the
Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society, Corfu, 2005
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee of the International Biometric Society, 2002 –
2005.
Member, International Biometric Society Ad Hoc Publications Review Committee,
2005-2007.
Member, International Biometric Society Ad Hoc Search Committee for a Co-Editor of
Biometrics, 2007.
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Sixth International Conference of the
Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society ,Crete,2011
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Seventh International Conference of the
Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society ,Tel-Aviv,2013
Member of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Biometric Conference
to be held in Florence, Italy, in 2014
Member, Representative Council of the International Biometric Society (2010-)
Member, Nominating Committee of the International Biometric Society (2013-)
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Associate Editor Biometrics (2005-present)
Editorial Advisory Board Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2007-present)
Referee for IEEE Transactions of Reliability, IAPQR Transactions, Communications in
Statistics, Biometrics, Biometrika, International Journal of Production Research,
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Statistical Papers, Australian Journal
of Statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters, Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, Technometrics, Lifetime Data Analysis, Applied Statistics, Statistics in
Medicine , Statistical Methods in Medical Research, American Journal of Epidemiology,
Statistics ,Biometrical Journal
Reviewer of Grant Proposals for the
National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada, the Israel Academy of
Science and Humanities, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
Conference Place and Date Title of Presentation
XIX International New Delhi, Cheddar Cheese made with
Dairy Congress India, 1974 Bovine Pepsin (with D.B.
Emmons, R.N. Giroux
and D.W. Stanley)
69th Annual Meeting Guelph, Canada Bovine Pepsin for Cheese-
of the American 1974 making (with D.B. Emmons,
Dairy Science R.N. Giroux and D.W.
Association Stanley)
70th Annual Meeting Wisconsin, Cheddar Cheese Trials
of the American USA, 1975 with Muro Miehei Enzyme
Dairy Science (with N. Dineson, D.B.
Association Emmons, D. Beckett, D.N.
Irvine)
Annual Meeting of Bar Ilan Another Look at Statisti-
the Israel University, cal Inference for
Statistical Israel, 1978 Stochastic Processes
Association (with P. Feigin)
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8th Conference on Canberra, Another Look at Statistical-
Stochastic Processes Australia, Inference for Stochastic
1978 Processes (with P. Feigin)
3rd International Tel Aviv, MIL STD 105Dvs.LQL
Conferences of the Israel, 1980 Indexed Acceptance Plans
Society for Quality (with A. Halevy)
Assurance
10th International Boston Modal Analysis of
Optical Computing U.S.A Randomly Vibrating
Conference 1983 Objects via Holographic
Spectroscopy (with J.
Politch and Z. Sherf)
5th International Tel Aviv, Statistical Inference for
Conferences of the Israel, 1984 Reliability from Stress
Israel Society for Strength Relationships
Quality Assurance (with I. Guttman)
Annual Meeting of Technion, Statistical Inference for
the Israel Israel, 1985 Reliability from Stress
Statistical Strength Models with
Association Covariates (with I.
Guttman)
1985 Joint Las Vegas, The Analysis of Stress
Statistical USA, 1985 Strength Relationships
Meetings from Discretized Data
(with J. Simonoff, Y.
Hochberg)
4th International Tel Aviv, Confidence Limits for
Conference of Israel, 1986 Reliability of Stress
Industrial Strength Relationships
Engineering and with Covariates (with I.
Management Guttman)
7th International Tel Aviv, Demonstrated Reliability
Conference of the Israel, 1988 for Complex Systems based
Israel Society for on Component Data (with
Quality Assurance M. Jaeger)
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Annual Meeting of University of A Comparison of Several
the Israel Haifa, Israel Methods for Sequential
Statistical 1989 Treatment Allocation with
Association Balancing for Prognostic
Factors in Clinical
Trials (with D. Farragi)
1990 Joint Anaheim Confidence Intervals for
Statistical USA, Pr(X<Y) with Censored
Meetings 1990 Observations (with D.F.
Moore)
International Tel Aviv, Inference for
Conference on Israel, Stress Strength Problems
Statistics in 1991 under the Gamma
Industry Distribution (with D.Rocke)
1992 Regional Tel Aviv Probabilistic Approach to
Symposium on Israel, the Problem of Crosstalk
Electromagnetic 1992 between Wires (with S.
Compatibility Shiran and H. Cory).
7th Annual Conf. Lisbon, Valuing a Natural Resource
of the European Portugal (with M. Shechter, N. Zaitzev
Assoc. of Environ- 1996 and S. Nevo)
mental and Resource
Economists
2nd World Congress Athens, Statistical Inference for Masked
of Nonlinear Greece Data (invited paper, with B.J.
Analysis 1996 Flehinger and E. Yashchin)
8th
Annual Conference Tilberg, Incorporating Zero Responses in
of the European Holland the Analysis of CVM Valuations
Assoc.of Environ- 1997 (with M. Shechter)
mental and Resource
Economists.
4th
National Jerusalem, Statistical Inference on Component
Conference of the Israel Reliability for Series Systems
Israel Assoc. for 1997 with Incomplete Cause of
Quality Failure Information
Joint CSNA/PS Urbana, Criticality of Predictors in Multiple
Annual Meeting USA Regression (with R. Azen and D.
1998 Budescu)
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Joint Statistical Dallas, Survival Analysis with Partially
Meetings USA Resolved Failures (Invited Talk
1998 with B.J.Flehinger and E.Yashchin)
Inaugural Athens The effect of misclassification on
Euroconference of 2001 Parameter Estimates in Logistic
The Eastern Regression (with O.Davidov and
Mediterranean Region D.Faraggi)
Of the IBS
Joint Statistical New York, Reliability Models with Competing
Meetings USA Risks and Incompletely Identified
2002 Causes of Failure (with E. Yashchin
and B.J. Flehinger}
2nd
International Antalya, Parametric Modeling of ROC
Biometric Society Turkey Curves (Invited Talk with
Conference of the 2003 David Faraggi)
Eastern Mediterranean
Region
Third International Corfu, Estimation of the ROC Curve
Biometric Society Greece under Verification Bias (with R.Fluss,
Conference of the 2005 D.Faraggi and A. Rotnitzky)
Eastern Mediterranean
Region
Fourth International Eilat Regression Adjustment of ROC Curves
Biometric Society Israel in the presence of Verification Bias
Conference of the 2007 (with R.Fluss,D.Faraggi ,A.Rotnitzky)
Eastern Mediterranean
Region
Fifth Conference of the Istanbul, Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment
Eastern Mediterranean Turkey for Receiver Operating Characteristic
Region of the 2009 Curves (Invited Talk with R.V. Craiu,
International Biometrics F. Yao)
Society
The First Institute of Seoul, Nonparametric Covariate Adjustment
Mathematical Statistics South Korea for ROC curves (Invited Talk with R.V.
Asia Pacific Rim 2009 Craiu, F. Yao)
Meeting
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7th Conference of the Tel Aviv, Construction of Confidence Regions in
Eastern Mediterranean Israel the ROC Space After the Estimation of
Region of the 2013 the Optimal Youden Index-Based Cut-,
International Biometrics Off Point (with L. Bantis, C. Nakas)
Society
Scholarships, Awards , Research Grants, etc.
1964 Birks Medal, High School of Montreal
1964-1965 McGill University Entrance Scholarship
1967-1968 Province of Ontario Graduate Fellowship
1968-1971 National Research Council Bursary
1971-1972 University of Waterloo Graduate Bursary
1998-1999 Technion-University of Haifa Research Cooperation Grant (with
S.K. Bar-Lev and D. Bshouty) $5000
2000-2001 European Union Grant for organizing Euro-Conference entitled:
Inaugural Euroconference: Eastern Mediterranean Region of the
International Biometric Society (with David Faraggi) Euro 35000
2003-2006 United States Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant:
Performance of Diagnostic Markers in the Presence of Verification
Bias (with David Faraggi and Andrea Rotnitzky) $60,000.
2006-2012 NICHD Branch, NIH, Contract # HHSN-267200603426: The
Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction (EAGeR): Data
Coordinating Center (with Noya Galai and David Faraggi)
$2,171,238
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Teaching
A. Courses Taught in Recent years:
Title Level
Design of Experiments undergraduate
Project in Statistics undergraduate
Categorical Data Analysis undergraduate
Analysis of Variance undergraduate
Multivariate Analysis graduate
Survival Analysis graduate
Research Seminar graduate
M.A. Project graduate
Linear Models graduate
Generalized Linear Models graduate
Case Studies graduate
B. Supervision of graduate students
Student’s Name Title of Thesis/Dissertation Degree Date Place
S.K. Bar- Lev Likelihood Inference as MSc. 1977 Technion
Applied to Life Test
Problems
R. Ramras Ridge Regression: De- MSc. 1977 Technion
scription Evaluation and
Criticism (together with
A. Cohen)
S.K. Bar- Lev Conditional Inference for Ph.D. 1980 Technion
the Extended Exponential
Family of Distributions:
Asymptotic and Exact
Results
E. Alcoby Statistical Inference for MA 1990 U. of Haifa
Reliability from Stress,
Strength Models: The
Gamma Case
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S. Dror Design of Clinical Trials MA 1992 U. of Haifa
for many treatments with,
balancing for prognostic
factors (with D. Faraggi)
I. Lavi Statistical Inference for MA 1993 U. of Haifa
the Non Homogeneous,
Poisson Process (with
S.K. Bar Lev).
E. Aronovich Improved Interval MA 1996 U. of Haifa
Estimation in Logistic
Regression
N. Barkan Statistical Inference for Ph.D. 2001 U. of Haifa
the ROC curve(with
D. Faraggi)
R. Elad-Yarom Statistical Inference for the MA 2001 U. of Haifa
turning point in quadratic
Poisson regression
(with D. Faraggi)
J. Atias-Vider Confidence Intervals for MA 2001 U. of Haifa
the Area under the ROC
curve
(with D. Faraggi)
Z. Porat Confidence Intervals for MA 2002 U. of Haifa
Reliability of Extreme Value
Stress-Strength Models
R.Fluss Estimation of the MA 2003 U. of Haifa
Youden Index and the
associated cut-off point
(with D. Faraggi)
K.Molodianovitch Comparing the Areas under MA 2005 U. of Haifa
Two Correlated ROC Curves
(with D. Faraggi)
R.Fluss Estimation of the ROC Ph.D. 2006 U. of Haifa
Curve and its associated
Indices under verification bias
(with D. Faraggi)
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O.Buberman Construction of pointwise MA 2007 U. of Haifa
Confidence regions for
ROC curves
(with D. Faraggi)
I. Dattner Nonparametric estimation Ph.D. 2012 U. of Haifa
of some smooth functionals
in measurement errors models
(with A. Goldenshluger)
V.Griskin Competing Risk Models Ph.D. in U. of Haifa
with Incomplete Information progress
on Failure Cause
II. PUBLICATIONS
Ph.D. DISSERTATION,
"Structural Inference in Multivariate Autoregressive Series." English, 144 pages,
July 1972, University of Waterloo. Supervisor: G.W. Bennett.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
Reiser, B., (1975), "Structural Inference for Linear
Regression with Autocorrelated Errors,"
Statistische Hefte, 16, 85-104.
Nass, H.G. and Reiser, B., (1975), "Grain Filling
Period and Grain Yield Relationships in Spring
Wheat," Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 55,
673-678.
Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.R. and Stanley, D.W.,
(1976), "Cheddar Cheese made with Bovine
Pepsin, I. Yield and Quality of Cheese," Canadian
Institute of Food Science and Technology, 9, 189-199.
Hunsaker, W.G., Reiser, B., and Wolynetz, M., (1976),
"Vaginal Temperature Rhythms in Sheep,"
International Journal of Chronobiology, 4, 151-162.
Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.N. and Stanley, D.W.,
(1978), "Experience with Bovine Pepsin in Canadian
Cheddar Cheese," Dairy Industries International, 43, 27-29.
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Sinha, R.N., Wallace, H.A.H., Reiser, B., Lefkovitch, L.P.,
(1979), "Interrelationships of Arthropods and
Microorganisms in Damp Bulk Stored Wheat A
Multivariate Study," Researches on Population
Ecology, 21, 40-67
Feigin, P.D., and Reiser, B., (1979), "On Asymptotic
Ancillarity and Inference for Yule and Regular
Non Ergodic Processes," Biometrika, 66, 279-283.
Reiser, B., and Bar -Lev, S.K., (1979), "Likelihood
Inference for Life Test Data," IEEE Transactions on
Reliability, R 28, 38-43.
Shechter, M., Enis, R., Reiser, B., and Tzamir, Y., (1981),
"Evaluation of Landscape Resources for Recreation
Planning," Regional Studies, 15, 373-390.
Bar -Lev, S.K., and Reiser, B., (1982), "An Exponential
subfamily which admits UMPUB Tests based on a
Single Test Statistic,” Annals of Statistics, 10, 979-989.
Bar Lev, S.K., and Reiser, B., (1983), "A Note on
Maximum Conditional Likelihood Estimation for the
Gamma Distribution," Sankhya, 45, 300-302.
Reiser, B., (1985), "A Remark on Ichikawa's Upper Bound of
Probability Failure," Reliability Engineering, 13, 181-183.
Reiser, B., (1985), "There is no such thing as a Free
Lunch: A Comment on a New Method for Reliability
Demonstration," Reliability Engineering, 13, 175-180.
Reiser, B., and Guttman, I., (1986), "Statistical Inference
for P(Y<X): The Normal Case," Technometrics,
28, 253- 258.
Simonoff, J., Hochberg, Y., and Reiser, B., (1986),
“Alternative Estimation Procedures for P(X<Y) in
Categorized Data”, Biometrics, 42, 895-907.
Reiser, B., and Guttman, I., (1987), “A comparison of
three point estimators for P(Y<X) in the Normal
Case”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
5, 59-66.
Guttman, I., Bhattacharyya, G.K., Johnson, R.A., and
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Reiser, B., (1988), “Confidence Limits for Stress-
Strength Models with Explanatory Variables”.
Technometrics, 30, 161-168.
Reiser, B. and Guttman, I. (1989), “Sample Size Choice for
Reliability Verification in Strength Stress Models”,
The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 17,253-259.
Guttman, I., Reiser, B., Bhattaharyya, G.K., and
Johnson, R.A. (1990), “Bayesian Inference for
Stress-Strength Models with Explanatory Variables”.
Gujarat Statistical Review, Professor C.G. Khatri
Memorial Volume, 53-67.
Reiser, B., and Jaeger M.(1991). “A comment on Buehler
Optimal Confidence Bounds for Series Systems Reliability."
Statistics and Probability Letters, 11 65-67.
Faraggi, D., and Reiser, B. (1991), "A General Scheme for
Sequential Treatment Allocation with Balancing for
Prognostic Factors in Clinical Trials”, Communications in
Statistics. Simulation and Computation, 20(1), 243-253.
Reiser, B., Guttman, I., and Faraggi, D. (1992), "Choice, of Sample Size
for Testing the P(x>y)", Communications in Statistics. Theory and
Methods, 21(3), 559-569.
Bar-Lev, S.K., Lavi, I., and Reiser, B. (1992), "Bayesian Inference
for the Power Law Process", Annals of the Institute of
Statistical Mathematics, 44, 623-639.
Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (1993), "Incorporating Prior Beliefs
in Treatment Allocation for Clinical Trials". Biometrical Journal,
35, 143-149.
Reiser,B and Rocke,D.(1993), "Inference for Stress Strength
problems under the Gamma Distribution", Journal of the Indian
Association for Productivity. Quality and Reliability, 18, 1-22.
Shiran, S., Reiser, B. and Cory, H. (1993), "A ' Probabilistic Model for the
Evaluation of Coupling between Transmission Lines", IEEE
Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 35, 387-393.
Reiser, B., and Faraggi, D., (1994), "Confidence Bounds for Pr(a'x>b'y)".
Statistics, 25, 107-111.
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Reiser, B., Guttman, I., Lin, D.K.J., Guess, F., and Usher, J.S., (1995).
"Bayesian Inference for Masked System Life Time Data",Journal of
the Royal Statistical Society (Series C), 44, 79-90.
Guttman, I., Lin, D.K.J., Reiser, B., and Usher, J.S., (1995). "Dependent
Masking and System Life Data Analysis: Two-Component Systems".
Lifetime Data Analysis, 1, 87-100.
Dror, S., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B., (1995)."Dynamic Treatment Allocation
Adjusting for Prognostic Factors for More than Two Treatments".
Biometrics, 51, 1338-1343.
Flehinger, B. J., Reiser, B., and Yashchin, E., (1996) "Inference about
Defects in the Presence of Masking". Technometrics, 38, 247-255.
Reiser, B., Flehinger, B.J. and Conn, A.R., (1996) "Estimating
Component Defect Probability from Masked System
Success/Failure Data". IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 45,
238-243.
Blumenfeld, A., Ben Abraham, R., Stein, M., Shapira, S., Reiner, A.,
Reiser, B., Rivkind, A. and Shemer, J., (1997). “The accumulated
experience of the Israel ATLS program”, Journal of the American
College of Surgeons, 185, 8-12.
Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (1997).“Confidence Intervals for the
Generalized ROC Criterion”. Biometrics, 53, 644-652.
Nevo, S., Zaitsev, N., Shechter, M. and Reiser, B. (1997), “Existence
Value of an Enviromental Asset”, (in Hebrew), The Economic
Quarterly, 44, 263-283.
Blumenfeld, A., Ben Abraham, R., Stein, M., Shapira, S., Reiner, A.,
Reiser, B., Rivkind, A., and Shemer, J. (1998), “Cognitive
knowledge decline after Advanced Trauma Life Support Courses”,
Journal of Trauma, 44, 513-516.
Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E., (1998). “Survival with
Competing Risks and Masked Causes of Failures”, Biometrika, 85,
151-164.
Shechter, M. , Reiser, B. and Zaitsev, N., (1998). “Measuring Passive Use
Value: Pledges, Donations and CV Responses in Connection with an
Important Natural Resource”, Environmental and Resource
Economics, 12,457-478.
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Bar-Lev, S.K. and Reiser, B.,(1999).“On Confidence Intervals for
Nonmonotone Parametric Functions and an Application to the
Squared Mean of the Normal Distribution”, Statistical Papers, 40,89-
98.
Reiser, B. and Shechter, M., (1999). “Incorporating Zero Values in the
Economic Evaluation of Environmental Program Benefits”,
Environmetrics, 10, 87-101.
Kramar, A. ,Faraggi, D. ,Ychou, M., Reiser, B. and Grenier, J. (1999) .
“Criteres ROC generalises pour l’evaluation de plusiers marqueurs
tumoraux”, Revue d’Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique, 47,376-383
Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (1999). “Confidence Intervals for the
Overlapping Coefficient: The Normal Equal Variance Case”, Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society (Series D), 48,413-418.
Reiser, B., (2000). “Measuring the effectiveness of diagnostic markers in
the presence of measurement error through the use of ROC curves”,
Statistics in Medicine, 19, 2115-2129.
Bar-Lev, S.K., Bshouty, D. and Reiser, B., (2000).“Upper bounds for
coverage probabilities of confidence intervals for nonmonotone
parametric functions”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,
89,109-118.
Bar-Lev, S.K, Langberg, N.A. and Reiser, B.,(2001) “Limiting
distributions for statistics based on different samples”, Advances and
Applications in Statistics, 1, 27-48.
Reiser, B., (2001) “Confidence Intervals for the Mahalanobis Distance”,
Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation, 30, 37-
45.
Kramar, A. ,Faraggi, D. ,Fortune , A. Reiser, B.,(2001) “mROC: a
computer program for combining tumour markers in predicting
disease rates”, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
66,199-207
Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M.,(2001).
“Statistical Inference for the Area Under the ROC Curve in the
Presence of Random Measurement Error”, American Journal of
Epidemiology , 154, 174-179
Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E.,(2001). “Statistical Analysis
for Masked Data” Handbook of Statistics, Vol 20: Advances in
Reliability Eds N. Balakrishnan and C.R. Rao, 499-522.
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Azen , R. , Budescu , D.V. and Reiser, B.(2001),”Criticality of predictors
in multiple regression” British Journal of Mathematical and
Statistical Psychology ,54, 201-225.
Schisterman E., Faraggi D, Browne R, Freudenheim J, Dorn J,
Muti, P.,Armstrong ,D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M., (2001) “TBARS
and Cardiovascular Disease in a Population-based Sample”.
European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation,
8 ,219-225
Flehinger, B.J., Reiser, B. and Yashchin, E.,(2002)“Parametric Modeling
for Survival with Competing Risks and Masked Failure Causes”
Lifetime Data Analysis,8,177-203.
Faraggi, D., and Reiser, B., (2002) ” Estimation of the area under the
ROC curve” Statistics in Medicine, 21, 3093-3106.
Schisterman E., Faraggi D, Browne R, Freudenheim J, Dorn J , Muti,
P.,Armstrong ,D., Reiser,B. and Trevisan, M.,(2002) “ Minimal
and Best Linear Combination of Oxidative Stress and
Antioxidants Biomarkers to Discriminate Cardiovascular
Disease” Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases,
12,259-266.
Faraggi, D., Izikson, P., and Reiser, B., (2003) “Confidence Intervals for
the 50% Response Dose” Statistics in Medicine, 22, 1977-1988.
Faraggi, D., Reiser, B. and Schisterman, E., (2003) “ROC curve analysis
for biomarkers based on pooled assessments” Statistics in Medicine,
22, 2515-2527.
Davidov, O., Faraggi D. and Reiser, B., (2003) “Misclassification in
logistic regression with discrete covariates” Biometrical Journal, 45,
541-553.
Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B.(2004) “Adjusting the
generalized ROC curve for covariates” Statistics in Medicine, 23,
3319-3331.
Fluss, R., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005) “Estimation of the Youden
Index and it’s associated cutoff point“, Biometrical Journal, 47,458-
472.
Schisterman, E., Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D., (2006) "ROC analysis for
markers with mass at zero”, Statistics in Medicine, 25, 623-638
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Craiu R.V. and Reiser, B., (2006). "Inference for the dependent competing
risks model with masked causes of failure" Lifetime Data Analysis,
12, 21-33
Molodianovitch, K., Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2006) “Comparing the
areas under two correlated ROC curves: parametric and non-
parametric approaches”, Biometrical Journal, 48,745-757
Schisterman, E., Faraggi, D., Reiser, B. and Hu, J. (2008) “Youden Index
and the optimal threshold for markers with mass at zero” Statistics in
Medicine, 27,297-315
Fluss R., Reiser, B., Faraggi, D., and Rotnitzky, A. (2009) “Estimation of
the ROC Curve under Verification Bias”, Biometrical Journal,
51,475-490.
Yao F., Craiu R.V. and Reiser, B.(2010) “Nonparametric Covariate
Adjustment for Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves”,
Canadian Journal of Statistics, 38,27-46.
Fluss R., Reiser, B. and Faraggi, D. (2012) “Adjusting ROC Curves for
covariates in the presence of verification bias” Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference 142,1-11.
Portnov ,B.A., Reiser, B. and Schwartz, M.(2012) “Does Gibrat's Law for
Cities Hold when Location Counts?” The Annals of Regional
Science ,48,151-178.
Portnov B.A., Reiser B., Karkabi K., Cohen-Kastel O. and Dubnov,J.
(2012) “High Prevalence of Childhood Asthma in Northern Israel
is Linked to Air Pollution by Particulate Matter:Evidence from
GIS Analysis and Bayesian Model Averaging” International
Journal of Environmental Health Research , 22,249-269.
Dattner, I. and Reiser, B.(2013) “Estimation of distribution functions in
measurement error models” Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference 143 , 479-493
Bantis ,L.E., Nakas,C.T. and Reiser,B.(2013) "Construction of confidence
regions in the ROC space after the estimation of the optimal
Youden index-based cut-off point," Biometrics to appear
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ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
PUBLISHED
Emmons, D.B., Reiser, B., Giroux, R.N. and Stanley, D.W., (1974), "Cheddar
Cheese made with Bovine Pepsin," Proceedings of the XIX
International Dairy Congress, IE, 721-2.
Politch, J. Reiser, B., and Sherf, Z., (1983), "Modal Analysis of Randomly
Vibrating Objects via Holo- graphic Spectroscopy," Proceedings of
the Tenth International Optical Computing Conference, 122-123.
Shiran S., Reiser, B. and Cory, H. (1992), "A Probabilistic Approach to the
Problem of Crosstalk between Wires, Proceedings of the 1992
Regional Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 6.1.4, 1-4.
Reiser, B., Yashchin, E. and Flehinger, B.J., “Statistical Inference for Masked
Data”, (1997), Proceedings of the 2nd
World Congress of NonLinear
Analysts, 4423-4432.
Reiser, B., Flehinger, B.J. and Yashchin, E., “Survival Analysis with Partially
Resolved Failures”, (1998), 1998 ASA Proceedings of the Section on
Physical and Engineering Sciences, 29-35.
OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Reiser, B. (1985), Letter to the Editor, Micro- electronics and Reliability, 26,
393
Simonoff, J., Hochberg, Y., and Reiser, B. (1988), Response to "Estimating
Pr(X<Y) in Categorized Data Using 'ROC' Analysis,” Biometrics, 44,
621.
Reiser, B. (1988), “Stress Strength Models” Encyclopedia of Statistical
Science.9.15-16
Reiser, B. (1994). Review of "Farnum, N.R., Modern Statistical Quality
Control and Improvement", The American Statistician, 48, 348.
Reiser, B. (1997), Letter to the Editor, Reliability Engineering and System
Safety, 56, 95.
Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Area under the Curve (AUC),"
Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics 12-13. Reprinted in
2nd
Edition, 2011, Wiley, 16-17.
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Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Competing Risks" Encyclopaedic
Companion to Medical Statistics 65- 66. Reprinted in 2nd
Edition,
2011, Wiley, 86-87.
Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Frailty" Encyclopaedic Companion to
Medical Statistics 140-141. Reprinted in 2nd
Edition, 2011, Wiley,
176.
Faraggi, D. and Reiser, B. (2005), "Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC)
Curve” Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics 295-296.
Reprinted in 2nd
Edition, 2011, Wiley, 389-391.