Assistant Professor

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Office: 329 Machray Hall

Telephone: 204-480-1060

Katherine joined the Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2008. Prior to coming to Winnipeg, she lived in Ontario. In June 2002 she completed an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Continuing her studies in McMaster, in June 2004 she completed a Master of Science degree in statistics under the supervision of Dr. N. Balakrishnan. Her project involved order statistics and progressive censoring. From McMaster, she moved to the University of Western Ontario. There she completed her Ph.D. thesis in June 2008. Her thesis investigated a spatial renewal process and was done under the supervision of Dr. W.J. Braun.

Katherine is currently accepting graduate students. You may browse her list of publications and if you are interested, please feel free to contact her.

Recent Publications

• Volterman, William, Davies, Katherine F. and Balakrishnan, N. (2013). Simultaneous Pitman Closeness of Progressively Type-II Right Censored Order Statistics to Population Quantiles. Statistics 47 (2), 439-452.
• Balakrishnan, N., Davies, Katherine F., Keating, Jerome P. and Robert L. Mason (2012). Pitman Closeness of Best Linear Unbiased and Invariant Predictors for Exponential Distribution in One- and Two-Sample Situations. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 1, 1-15.
• Balakrishnan, N., Davies, K., Keating, J.P. and R. L. Mason (2012). Computation of optimal plotting points based on Pitman closeness with an application to goodness-of-fit for location-scale families. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 56, 2637-2649.
• Davies, Katherine F. and B. Gail Ivanoff (2012). Nonparametric Estimation of a Two-Dimensional Renewal Process. Electronic Journal of Statistics 6, 1449-1476.
• Volterman, William, Davies, Katherine F. and N. Balakrishnan (2012). Pitman Closeness as a Criterion for the Determination of the Optimal Progressive Censoring Scheme. Statistical Methodology 9, 563-572.

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Conference Presentations

International

1. International Conference - Statistics, Science and Society: New Challenges and Opportunities, Chennai, India, 2013, Two-Sample Pitman Closeness Comparison Under Progressive Type-II Censoring (Invited)
2. Tenth International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data and Their Applications, Murcia Spain, 2013, Two-Sample Pitman Closeness Comparison Under Progressive Type-II Censoring (Contributed)
3. Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego USA, 2012, Pitman Closeness as a Criterion for the Determination of the Optimal Progressive Censoring Scheme* (Contributed)
4. International Conference on Advances in Probability and Statistics - Theory and Applications: A Celebration of N. Balakrishnan's 30 years of Contributions to Statistics, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, December 2011, Pitman Closeness as a Criterion for the Determination of the Optimal Progressive Censoring Scheme (Invited)
5. Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami FL USA, 2011, Correlation-type Goodness-of-fit Test for Extreme Value Distribution based on Simultaneous Closeness (Contributed)
6. 45^th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Padua Italy, 2010, Simultaneous Closeness of Order Statistics to Population Quantiles (Contributed)
7. Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC USA, 2009, Pitman Closeness of Estimators and Predictors for Exponential Distribution (Contributed)
8. St.Petersburg Workshop on Simulation, St. Petersburg Russia, 2009, Order Statistics and Pitman Closeness (Invited)
9. Mathematical Models in Reliability, Moscow Russia, 2009, Pitman Closeness of Order Statistics to Population Quantiles (Invited)
10. The 12th International Conference on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, Chania Greece, 2007, Statistical Behaviour of a Spatial Renewal Process (Contributed)

National

1. McMaster Mini-Conference, Hamilton ON, 2011, Pitman Closeness as a Criterion for the Determination of the Optimal Progressive Censoring Scheme (Invited)
2. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Wolfville NS, 2011, Optimal Plotting Points based on Simultaneous Closeness Probabilities (Contributed)
3. McMaster Mini-Conference, Hamilton ON, 2010, Simultaneous Closeness of Order Statistics to Population Quantiles (Invited)
4. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Quebec City QB, 2010, Simultaneous Closeness of Order Statistics to Population Quantiles (Contributed)
5. McMaster Mini-Conference, Hamilton ON, 2009, Pitman Closeness and Order Statistics (Invited)
6. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver BC, 2009, Pitman Closeness of Order Statistics to Population Quantiles (Contributed)
7. McMaster Mini-Conference, Hamilton ON, 2008, A Spatial Renewal Process (Invited)
8. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa ON, 2008, Extensions of a Multi-parameter Renewal Process (Contributed)
9. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, St. John's NF, 2007, Statistical Behaviour of a Spatial Renewal Process (Contributed)
10. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, London ON, 2006, Statistical Behaviour of a Spatial Renewal Process (Contributed)
11. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Montreal QB, 2004, Inference for Type II Right Progressively Censored Samples from the Generalized Extreme Value Distribution (Contributed)

Workshop Participation

1. Fields Workshop on Disturbances: Modelling Spread in Forests. University of Western Ontario. London ON, 2007
2. Forests, Fires & Stochastic Modelling. Banff International Research Station. Banff AB, 2006

Seminar Presentations

1. Department of Mathematics, Brock University, November 2012, Order Statistics and Pitman Closeness
2. Department of Statistics, University of Padua, May 2012, Some Results on Order Statistics and Pitman Closeness
3. Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, April 2012, Pitman Closeness for Progressively Type-II Right Censored Samples
4. Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, November 2011, The Pitman Closeness Criterion in Progressive Censoring
5. Department of Management Science & Statistics, College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio, November 2010, Order Statistics and Pitman Closeness
6. Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, October 2010, Order Statistics and Pitman Closeness
7. Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, 2010, A Two-Dimensional Renewal Process with Applications to Forest Fire Modelling
8. Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, 2009, A Two-Dimensional Renewal Process with Applications to Forest Fire Modelling
9. Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, 2007, Statistical Behaviour of a Spatial Renewal Process

Memberships

1. Statistical Society of Canada
2. American Statistical Association
3. International Indian Statistical Association (Lifetime Member)