Field, Chris   Professor Emeritus   PhD - Northwestern University (1968)   MSc - Northwestern University (1966)   BSc - Dalhousie Universdity (1964)   Mail: Address   e-mail:field@mathstat.dal.ca   Office: Chase Room 108   Tel: (902)494-3339   Fax: (902)494-5130   Homepage:  Dr. Chris Field's Website

• Research Interests:

  • Robustness
  • Molecular Biology
  • Saddlepoint Approximations
    

• Selected Recent Publications:

  • " Testing a Clade in Phylogenetic Trees ", to appear in Mol. Biol. Evol., (with X Shi, H. Gu)
  
  
  • " Examining Protein Structure and Similarities by Spectral Analysis Techniques ", Molecular Biology 5 (2006), issue1/article23 (21 pages), (with K. Collins, H. Gu)
  
  
  • " The Comparison of Confidence Regions in Phylogeny ", Mol. Biol. Evol. 22 (2005) 2285-2296 (with X. Shi, H. Gu, E. Susko)
  
  
  • "Marginally Specified Generalized Linear Mixed Models: A Robust
    Approach" Biometrics 58 (2002) 727-734 (with J. Mills and D. Dupuis)
    
    
  • "Testing for differences in rates across sites distributions in phylogenetic
    subtree", Mol.Biol.Evol 19, 2002 1514-1523 (with E. Susko, Y. Inagaki,
    M. Holder)
    
    
  • "Saddlepoint density approximation for M-estimates" Ann.Stat. 28 (2000),
    275-297 (with A. Almudevar and John Robinson). Click here for postscript file.
    
    
  • "Estimation of single generation sibling relationships based on DNA
    markers", J.Agric.,Biol., Env.Stat, 4 (1999), 136-165 (with A. Almudevar).
    
    
  • "Robust estimation of extremes ", Canadian Journal of Statistics, (1998) 26, 199-216 (with Debbie Dupuis)
    
    



• Research Group: Statistical Evolutionary Bioinformatics
                                             Environmental Statistics

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